“I used to dream a little girl like you would give me one of her old dresses,” the sentence is permanently seared in my heart. Unlike me, my mother did not grow up in thrift stores by choice. Life in the thrift store was one of necessity. From her first bra to her prom dress,...
Margaret Bryan had been a lady-in-waiting to Catherine of Aragon from the time she married Henry VIII in 1509; she also attended Catherine at her coronation and was later listed as a chamber woman (BrewerI82). Sir Thomas was a vice chamberlain to the Queen Catherine’s household until his...