Talk:Shadow of Night/@comment-39873772-20190620132601/@comment-35283817-20190624024916

Exactly whose care was Diana supposed to leave the children in?

If you think Matthew and Elizabeth Tudor are friends, I'm afraid you need to go look up the meaning of the word. Christopher Marlowe will be dead in a few short years. George Chapman is penniless, utterly dependent on the patronage of others. Thomas Harriot isn't as badly off as George, but that isn't saying much. Walter Raleigh will shortly be spending time in the Tower because of his unauthorized marriage. Henry Percy, despite his high rank, is not financially or politically secure, plus he's a single young man who knows nothing about what children need. Mary Sidney, notwithstanding her rank and relative freedom, is still a woman, and thus not capable of protecting anyone in 1591 England.

So, again, what "important" people were teeming around in 1591, eager for Diana to entrust them with the care of two penniless orphans?