Kenninghall

And rather than wait to be told officially, she flees to her lands in East Anglia.

She goes to Kenninghall and from there to Framlingham and she amasses death.

troops who are going to defend her title as queen and so she um she you know although jane has been declared as queen on the 10th of july 1553 within days mary's having herself declared as queen so it's immediately like uh sort of a position of war.

Now, it doesn't look like Mary can possibly win because John Dudley, one of the things you can say about him is he's a really good war leader.

And rather than wait to be told officially, she flees to her lands in East Anglia.

She goes to Kenninghall and from there to Framlingham.

and she amasses troops who are going to defend her title as queen and so she um she you know although jane has been declared as queen on the 10th of july 1553 within days mary's having herself declared as queen so it's immediately like uh sort of a position of war.

Now, it doesn't look like Mary can possibly win because John Dudley, one of the things you can say about him is he's a really good war leader.

Her only problem is that a lot of what she did, including the actions of the first few days of the crisis, is obscured by romantic myth and later embellishment.

I mean, for example, we do know for sure that when Edward VI died at Greenwich Palace at about 9pm on Thursday evening of July 6th, that by the 8th she was issuing letters from her Norfolk manor at Kenninghall calling for her support.

Now reports by one eyewitness said that Mary was secretly warned that Edward was near death that evening and she had to, quote, escape as soon as possible from the drawers of her enemies, unquote.

The story that was suggested was of a dramatic romantic moment where Mary left her house at Hudson by night and after spending some time in Sawston Hall near Cambridge and that's why Sawston Hall was destroyed by Northumberland's troops on the way up there.