#like if you're going to be that judgey you better be witty. and mr desmond...is not

[fideidefenswhore]

Although Buckingham had lacked the common touch, he had been on good terms with Margaret [Pole] and her children, and this connection was to prove costly. On 7 May [1521], Sir William Fitzwater reported that Henry Pole, Lord Montague, had been arrested, along with his father-in-law, Lord Bergavenny. As for Arthur Pole, he was expelled from court, having reportedly asked Lord Leonard Grey to 'write concerning the imprisonment of the duke'; although exactly what Grey was supposed to write, much less to whom, went unreported by the source for this information, a Richard Pace. Pace also added that 'concerning the Lady Salisbury, the matter is under debate because of her nobility and goodness.' Whatever the meaning of this murky statement, Margaret was clearly tainted by her connection with the doomed duke, for she lost her position in [Princess] Mary's household.

Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower, Susan Higginbotham