25. Seymour’s Marriage to Katherine Parr Gave Him an Opportunity to Seduce Princess Elizabeth
13 year old princess Elizabeth, who had rejected Thomas Seymour indecent marriage proposal, found herself faced with a serious problem when the baron married her stepmother. Elizabeth’s father had chopped off the head of her mother, Anne Boleyn, and now that he was dead himself, the princess was a double orphan. Katherine Parr had filled the role of mother when she married Henry VIII, and Elizabeth was raised in her stepmother’s house, Chelsea Manor. Parr’s marriage to Thomas Seymour brought into that house as a stepfather the man who had sought to marry Elizabeth just a few months earlier. He would prove to be an exceptionally creepy stepfather.