#'she has said her conscience will not permit her to execute lady jane grey' and then what happened. and then what?

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The Venetians could not hide their perplexity. Why, if Henry and Katherine were involved in a dispute that was rocking Christendom, did they still continue to attend functions together, to dine together in public and to behave, with their daughter present, as if nothing was going at all? In June 1530, the Signory in Venice were told [...] 'this most virtuous Queen maintains strenuously that all her king and lord does, is done by him for true and pure conscience' sake[...]' Maybe this is the line that Katharine took with Mary, absolving her husband of blame, emphasising that conscience was the key to the difficulties that Henry faced. It would certainly explain Mary's otherwise misguided confidence in her father, whose conscience was actually one of the most self-serving and self-pitying in history. At an impressionable age, Mary learned that conscience was the most important justification for behaviour that anyone could make. It became her guiding principle— a clear conscience was what you owed yourself and God—and the cause of much of her unhappiness.

The myth of "Bloody Mary" : a biography of Queen Mary I of England. by: Porter, Linda. Publication date: 2009