𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓼 ; closed to @philippaed . 𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 ; the great hall of hampton court palace . 𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓷 ; the beginning of the pageant , early evening .
the youngest lady grey had been blessed to live most of her life in ignorance. she knew very little of what vexed her older sisters, only that they were often vexed. claude, for her part, was not often vexed. after all, what was there in her life to vex her? claude thought of herself as, for the most part, inconsequential to the goings-on of the english crown, just another lady in a sea of people fathoms more important than she was.
one of those people happened to be her beloved older sister, the duchess of suffolk. sure, claude knew of the power struggles that surrounded pippa's... well, everything. claude cared deeply for her sister, she truly did. it was just that pippa's world felt so different than claude's, even though they were in the exact same place.
but at least at the pageant they were on the same, well, relative footing. claude slipped her arm through pippa's, grinning. "the pageant is just so lovely, isn't it, sister? oh, but i wish i could just- well, just have lady richmond's dress!" she gazed at elinor fitzroy in jealousy, her fingers curling around her sister's wrist.