Sophie Bone was a French Tudor Catholic noblewoman and the wife of Humphrey.
Biography[]
Sophie was born to an aristocratic French family in the Tudor era. She appears to have mainly been raised by a Nanny, who travelled to England with her when she was twelve. According to Humphrey, he and Sophie were arranged to marry by their respective families for their combined wealth. She was twelve when she married a fourteen year old Humphrey. Their marriage was not entirely a happy one - being French, Sophie hardly understood Humphrey's jokes and they spent little time together. When Sophie was somewhere in her thirties, her Nanny died, devastating her and leaving her lonely.
In The Bone Plot, it is shown that Sophie spoke French most of the time when interacting with her husband. Humphrey made an effort to understand what she was trying to tell him, and tried to encourage her to learn English, much to her chagrin. One evening, he permitted her to invite her friends over to their house for what he believed was a "book club". Unbeknownst to Humphrey, Sophie was leading a group of Catholics who were conspiring to assassinate Protestant Queen Elizabeth I and have her replaced by her Catholic cousin, Mary Queen of Scots. She was also perfectly fluent in English.
When one of the conspirators made a snarky comment about Humphrey, Sophie defended her husband, claiming that he is a good man. The same evening, while Sophie saw her conspirators out, Humphrey eventually discovered her plot to assassinate Elizabeth I and confronted her. It was then when Elizabeth's guards appeared to capture the conspirators. Sophie urged Humphrey to escape with her, but Humphrey insisted for her to escape without him. Thus, he ended up getting blamed for the plot, and people believed that she was just part of it.
After Humphrey accidentally decapitated himself, and the Catholic plotters were assassinated, it is likely Sophie herself was executed by Queen Elizabeth.