- As everyone tries to come to terms with Francis' death, new struggles arise for both Mary and queen Catherine for her to be voted regent. New relationships are born and some are starting to tare.
- Mary realizes she must help Catherine in her quest to become regent, even at the risk of hurting the alliance with Scotland. Claude is determined to help Leith marry while Elizabeth struggles with the prospect of losing Dudley.
- Late April, 1560. Three weeks after Francis's death, but Catherine has been unable to rally support from the Privy Council to be installed as regent for her minor son, king Charles. Lord Grenier attempts to bribe the council and become regent, but is blocked by Mary and Catherine who found out his illegal dealings as war profiteer. To inspire the support for Catherine she owes Francis's family, Mary dissolves the costly French-Scottish alliance in Catherine's name and prepares to return to Scotland. Charles gets Mary to stay in France until he has helped her forge a new alliance, proposing the Spanish heir Don Carlos marriage. Catherine rebukes sexually active lackey Christophe, only to commander his lusty service herself, while seducing and (even physically-intimately) forcing Narcisse back in her bed and regency campaign, also aiming to wreck his marriage with Lola, while he calculates to exact a high price for his possibly crucial vote for the regency. Elizabeth replaces 'disappointing' Nicholas as ambassador to France with Gideon Blackburn, whom Elizabeth releases from the Tower to seduce Mary and sabotage her marriage prospects. Elizabeth summons Robert and Amy back to court, but Amy fakes an illness so that she and Robert can move to Cornwall for her "health". Claude tempts Leith to become more intimate, waving Leith's wariness of their difference in status as she expects 'only fun' while her hand is dynastic policy.—KGF Vissers
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