Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England, episode 264B, Rebel Queen, number

three, Rival. Yesterday we followed Jane's tempestuous day and her proclamation as the

rightful Queen of England on the 10th of July 1553. But, what if her rival, the princess

Mary, eldest daughter of Henry VIII? Mary for some time had been made aware of Edward's

pain and illness. She received constant, purchase and respectful correspondence from the Duke

of Northumberland about progress. She was utterly convinced that the Duke's goodwill,

and why would she not be? She was air, under her father's will. Not just that, but everybody

recognised it as a universally accepted fact and the rightful way of the world. There were

some discordant notes about her trust in Northumberland, and the principal source was from

the Imperial Ambassador Shiver who worried that Northumberland was pursuing power, that

he would loathe the princess into a kind of warm and fuzzy feeling that you get after

a few pints of breaks based ordinary or rebellion ale and a couple of bags of nuts, and that

she would fall, like a plum, into Northumberland's evil lap. Shiver and Andranar were also pathologically

gloomy about Mary's prospects. Northumberland held the sinews of due to power once he pulled

them, Mary would be doomed. So, you know, not necessarily the most positive kind of people

he went around in the crisis, especially as Charles VIII had specified no military support.

Mary's household officers, though, appeared to be a good deal less hysterical than Shiver,

though just as worried. Robert Rochester was the controller of her household. He had remained

calm and realistic during the crisis of 1550 and Mary's aborted flight. He was described

as a man of few equals in steadfastness, loyalty and wise counsel. It seems like he

that Rochester made preparations in case of a disaster, together with three other of Mary's

officers, Germanum, Waldegrave and Engelfield. Together they appeared to have created a local

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