Katherine Swynford (call her Kate, she likes it) managed to claw her way from being a servant to a Royal Duchess in the 1300s. She hasn’t gotten any less tough as a Royal Magician in the centuries since. And now she has to confront possibly the most sadistic magician in England. Meanwhile, Jacintha Lowell gets to play with her newest favorite toy. So they’re both happy in chapter 13, “Kate and Jackie have fun,” the newest installment of my serialized story, As the Wyrm Tyrns.
Royal magicians have been around for a while!
(Painting: “John Dee Performing an Experiment before Elizabeth I” by Henry Gillard Glindoni (1852-1913), image available under Creative Commons license from Wellcome Library.)
Sillyverse 
Ah, John Dee! Great grandfather of Sandra Dee. I remember him well.
Ha! And add the twist that one of Sandra’s later acting roles was victim of Dean Stockwell playing a magician with overtones of Aleister Crowley in 1970’s “The Dunwich Horror,” and the circle is sort of complete. 😉
But no mention of Simon Dee?
Him I had to look up, as his fame never spread across the pond.
No, I doubted it did.