[2] From her mother's will it appears that she was still under 12 years of age in January 1555,[2] and a clause regarding her marriage implies that the match could still be dissolved: "if it so chance that my Lord Hastings do refuse her or she him".
[1] For many years she lived with her husband in the English Midlands and Yorkshire, where she dedicated herself to the education of young women of the nobility and gentry.
[1] Among her pupils were the diarist Margaret Hoby, memoirist Dionys Fitzherbert,[3] and her brother Robert's stepdaughters, the sisters Penelope and Dorothy Devereux.
[1] After the Earl of Huntingdon died at York in December 1595,[5] she lived at court and became one of the closest friends of the old Queen.
[1] When young, she had suffered from Elizabeth's distrust of her husband's loyalty, which was nourished by his descent from the House of Plantagenet.