izabelferreiramelo

[izabelferreiramelo]

Mary I's Coronation, portrayed in Lucy Worsley Investigates: Bloody Mary, Season Episode 4

[izabelferreiramelo]

Queen Mary and her subjects

"This queen seldom went in progress except it were to the Cardinal's house at Croydon (for Cardinal Pole her kinsman was Archbishop of Canterbury) avoiding by all means to trouble and grieve her subjects in time of hay and corn harvest, when they had use of their horses and carts. And being at Croydon, for her recreation, with two or three of her ladies, she would visit the poor neighbours, they all seeming to be the maids of the Court: for then she would have no difference, and ever one of these was Jane (Dormer). She would sit down very familiarly in their poor houses, talk with the man and the wife, ask them of their manner of living, how they passed, if the officers of the Court did deal with them, as such whose carts and labours were pressed for the queen's carriages and provisions. And among others, being once in a collier's house, the queen sitting by while he did eat his supper, on her demanding the like of him, he answered, that they had pressed his cart from London, and had not paid him. The queen asked if he had called for his money. He said, yea, to them that set him awork, but they gave him neither his money nor good answer. She demanded ; "Friend," is this true, that you tell me ? "He said," Yea," and prayed her to be a mean to the comptroller, that he and other poor men might be paid. The queen told him she would, and willed that the next morning about nine or ten o'clock, he should come for his money. She came no sooner to the Court, but she called the comptroller, and gave him such a reproof for not satisfying poor men, as the ladies who were with her, when they heard it, much grieved. The queen said that he had ill officers who gave neither money nor good words to poor men, and that hereafter he should see it amended, for if she understood it again, he should hear it to his displeasure; and that the next morning the poor men would come for their money, and that they should be paid every penny. Mr. Comptroller wondered how this came to the queen, and the ladies told him what had passed that evening.

In the visiting of these poor neighbours, if she found them charged with children, she gave them good alms, comforted them, advising them to live thriftily and in the fear of God, and with that care to bring up their children; and if there were many children she took order they should be provided for, placing both boys and girls to be apprentices in London, where they might learn some honest trade, and be able to get their living. This did she in a poor carpenter's house, and the house of the widow of a husbandman. And in this sort did she pass some hours with the poor neighbours, with much plainness and affability; they supposing them all to be the queen's maids, for there seemed no differnce. And if any com plaints were made she commended the remem brance very particularly to Jane Dormer."

Source:

https://archive.org/details/lifejanedormerd00stevgoog/page/n91/mode/2up

The life of Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria

by Clifford, Henry, fl. 1610; Estcourt, Edgar Edmund, 1816-1884; Stevenson, Joseph, 1806-1895

Internet Archives pages 92-93 (or 64-66 in the printed book)

@queenmarytudor @marytudorqueenofengland @marianrevisionist

[izabelferreiramelo]

Elvi Hale as Anne of Cleves in The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970)

[izabelferreiramelo]

Ángela Cremonte as Mary I of England in Carlos, Rey Emperador

[izabelferreiramelo]

Love seeing period drama costumes that are based on real-life clothes from portraits ❤️

[izabelferreiramelo]

I noticed something while looking at the side-by-side comparisons of the Wolf Hall costumes with the portraits that inspired them. Check out this one of Jane from the Whitehall Mural:

Gorgeous and exact! But for one very small thing:

Check out that necklace! Not a cross as you'd expect: a T! A very similar one turns up on this portrait of Catherine of Aragon:

T for Tudor! Wouldn't you say?

[izabelferreiramelo]

Catherine Parr in Art* vs Catherine Parr in Firebrand [Costumes designed by Michael O'Connor]

*Catherine sat for the Family of Henry VIII portrait in lieu of Jane Seymour who appeared in the portrait.

[izabelferreiramelo]

 Portrayals of English Queens Regnant on Film and TV

Continuar lendo

[izabelferreiramelo]

Queen Mary I of England (Coronation)

"[...] Mary was brought to the altar where she received the ornaments, her symbols of power: the sword, the sceptre and the orbs. She was crowned with the crown of Edward the Confessor, the imperial crown of the realm and with another, specially made for her, a vast yet simply designed crown with two arches, a large fleur-de-lis and prominent crosses. The choir then burst into a Te Deum.

Mary was crowned in a similar fashion to her male predecessors: ‘girt with a sword as when one is armed a knight, and a King’s sceptre was placed in one hand.’ But there were changes too. In the other hand was placed ‘a sceptre wont to be given to queens, which is surmounted by doves’. Also, in deference to her gender, she just touched the ceremonial spurs rather than having them placed upon her as they were put on Kings. Finally, the crimson mantle furred with ermine was fastened on her shoulders. Arrayed in her regalia, Mary was seated in St Edward’s Chair where she received the nobles, led by Gardiner, who paid homage to her as Queen.

At four o’clock that afternoon Mary emerged from the abbey as a crowned Queen of England.."

—

—

Mary Tudor: England's First Queen by Anna Whitelock

Chapter 41 - God save the Queen Mary

ART by: Izabel de Melo