![]() They praise his intellectual abilities and they wish, somewhat nostalgically, that he was able to come home.”Ĭromwell glanced up from his plate of larks, a quizzical smile on his face. “Exeter and his adherents, Carew and Neville mainly, do sometimes talk of him. “Cardinal Pole?” Sir Richard perked up at the name. “Indeed not, as such niceties as being a cardinal can be so easily overlooked these days,” Sir William Kingston commented quietly, earning him a sharp look from Wriothesley. Then the two of them would take the crown.” I wager that such a nicety as his holy orders would not stand in their way for long. They still entertain designs upon the throne, why they would like nothing better than to marry their man Reginald Pole to the Lady Mary, ‘cardinal’ or not. ![]() “They are the last of the Plantagenets and they wear the badge of their ancestry with conspicuous pride. ![]() “But we should fear him, sir, and all those of the White Rose,” Sir Ralph Sadler said gravely. ![]()
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