22. Elizabeth Did Her Best to Thwart Seymour, But He Kept Creeping on Her
According to later testimony by princess Elizabeth’s household staff, including her governess, Kat Ashley, Thomas Seymour started subjecting the young girl to early morning visits in her bedroom as soon as he moved in. As the governess put it, he would: “make as though to come at her“, and she would shrink back from him. Elizabeth tried to thwart him by waking up earlier, so he wouldn’t catch her in bed when he stopped by, only for him to counter that by visiting her earlier still, to ensure that she was in bed when he dropped by.