Where Queen Catharine was concerned her obvious piety gave him plenty of opportunity to placate her.
The Queen had such a passion for religious relics that she had brought with her great coffers of them. They were all covered in red velvet embroidered with the Royal Arms of England.
King Charles added to her relics with a number of crosses and other pious ornaments.
Barbara Castlemaine had very different ideas and was far more difficult to appease.
She raged at the King, demanding that he should make her Lady of the Bedchamber to the new Queen and eventually, worn out by the endless arguments, he agreed.
He explained lamely he had ruined her reputation which had been ‘untainted’ until Barbara became ‘friends’ with him.
It was an extraordinary way to behave and at the same time a cons
