Catherine Parr: Wife, widow, mother, survivor, the story of the last queen of Henry VIII | 
A pair of extremely ominous sentences:
“In the autumn of 1547, Elizabeth turned fourteen, an age considered mature enough for marriage in the sixteenth century. If Catherine did not notice that her stepdaughter was growing up, Thomas Seymour certainly did on his visits home from court.“
Sophronisba OF COURSE: “At fourteen, she knew that it was wrong to entertain a flirtation with her stepmother‘s husband. When the events became common knowledge she received a large proportion of the blame.“ 1y
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