Known as “Crookback Mary,” she was still Maid of Honour to Elizabeth I. She and Thomas were secretly married, and guilt and fear made Mary confess to the Queen, who threw Keyes in the Fleet prison for three years and put Mary under house arrest. After Keyes died, Mary was allowed to come to court occasionally, though she rarely took advantage of the privilege. While she and Keyes had not married to endanger ER (Mary was in the line of succession), Elizabeth’s “draconian punishments…were an indication of how sensitive the Queen had become regarding the succession.”545