Why is Powys (Powis) Castle in the story?

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The Herbert family lived there, in those days,

and they are linked by marriage to the other families in the story -
the Parrys, Vaughans, Whitneys and Williams.

The Herberts also have a close link to Shakespeare -

two of them are in the First Folio dedication as the "incomparable brothers".

There is also a link to Kit Marlowe - the Lord Pembroke's Men acting company
(the Lord
Pembroke of the day is of the Herbert family) acted Marlowe plays.

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Note - the "incomparable brothers" of the First Folio

are the nephews of the Lord Herbert of Powys Castle.

The Lord Pembroke of the acting company is the brother of the Lord Herbert of Powys Castle.

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First thoughts on the BBC ideas from Powys

First thoughts on the BBC ideas from Powys -

i. Parry

Blanche Parry is the queen's nurse and confidante

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Her aunt married a Whitney and also a Herbert

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In her will she left bequests to the Whitney family,

including to Eleanor Bull (nee Whitney).

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ii. Vaughan

The Vaughans are linked by marriage to the Herberts

(the "incomparable brothers" of the First Folio, also of the Lord Pembroke's Men actors, and Lords of Wilton House, and Powys Castle)

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iii. The Vaughans also linked by marriage to the Whitneys

(Eleanor Bull, Catherine Carey - Queen's great friend and (Admiral) Lord Howard's wife, and Blanche Parry close family link)

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and one (Vaughan) is the author of Golden Grove and seems to know more than you'd think about the Deptford happenings - Eleanor Bull, Kit Marlowe, etc.)

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Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?

(excerpt of poem, Gerard Manley Hopkins)

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(quote, excerpts)

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Millar Maclure prints the relevant passage from Vaughan's The Golden Grove (1600) in

Marlowe: the Critical Heritage 1588-1896 (London, 1979), pp. 46-47.

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On the Parrys and the Vaughans, see Mary Delorme,

"A Watery Paradise: Rowland Vaughan and Hereford's 'Golden Vale'," History Today, 39 (July, 1989), 38-43.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/muchado/fine/killing.html