Thank you so much for this long, wonderful comment! I grinned broadly after getting your prompt a second time in a row (though I admit there was this fleeting moment of dread that you'd open your gift and go: "Oh no, not her again!" *g*). I played around with all your awesome pairing options for a while, but the lesbian history geek in me couldn't possibly have passed up the opportunity to write Griselda and Bathilda. They only insisted quite firmly that Muriel be kept outside the bedroom. (I had insane fun imagining her as a girl; glad she came across plausible to your expert eyes *g*).
So happy you liked the characterisations and the history bits and all that, and thank you, thank you, thank you for all those lovely words!