#also Tom Cromwell the commoner being like yes Robin the Dramatic Flourishes are great but also let us discuss Actual Battle

[mihrsuri]

“I know that you will tell me it is up to Elizabeth whether to accept my suit but, I would ask for your blessing, as her father for I know it would mean the world to Bess. She loves you so very dearly.”

Robert had been nervous coming to find The Duke of Essex but now, looking into Thomas Cromwells glad eyes he has never been gladder that he did so. The Duke had had to live in the shadows, to never be a father to the world to all of his children (it could still drive Elizabeth to great anger, this need for secrecy and the insults one of her fathers must endure)

“You have it, Lord Dudley, for whatever it means. I know you will make her happy and that is what matters - you will make each other happy.”

“It means the world Your Grace. And if I might be permitted, as we will soon be family in truth, I would call you my father in law.”

It makes Robert sick to think that the Duke had been prepared to bear yet more disapproval. He has been determined not to give it to him, ever since Elizabeth had told him when they were children - perhaps it had taken him time to fully understand, but now he cannot imagine doing so.

“I would be honoured. Though please, Lord Dudley, let me teach you somewhat more of the sword - perhaps less showy than you favour!”

-So @theladyelizabeth I kept thinking about how in my OT3 Verse Robert totally went to ask all three of Elizabeth’s parents for their blessing and this happened!

(An alternate history in which Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII and Thomas (Frain) Cromwell are in a secret triad marriage from 1536, have eight children, Anne is always a beloved Queen and their oldest son marries Mihrimah Sultan and they bring in a truly progressive by modern standards golden world, minus colonialism and empire because it’s my wish fulfilment au)

#fic #au: golden world #ot3: political power trio #also Tom Cromwell the commoner being like yes Robin the Dramatic Flourishes are great but also let us discuss Actual Battle