In which our heroine entertains, discovers smut, and survives multiple assassination attempts. Presumably.

In which Jane goes full action girl and then almost gets some action, and Margaret graduates to murder. If at first you don't succ-steed Jane's thrown herself into researching a cure for Guildford, sitting on a bed strewn with books, making notes. Guildford himself shows up and is surprised to see her still awake so late. Guil: if you thought she was asleep, why were you knocking on her door and bursting into her room, hmmm?). Oh, it's because it's almost dawn and it's time t

In which our heroine explores the 'for better or for worse' part of the marriage vows and Edward discovers rude hand gestures.

In which our heroine discovers the realities of the Tudor era and we discover the existence of human-animal shapeshifters.

A couple of months ago, I stumbled across the news that the Petit Palais museum in Paris was hosting a retrospective of the House of Worth, which was THE place to go for glorious gownery in the Gilded Age. It's the largest gathering of Worth's work ever, and since the pieces are so delicate, it's unlikely to ever happen again. Did I swoon a bit? Yes, I did. And when I came to, my marvellous husband said: 'Well, why don't you go?'