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"Your Loving Mother"

Catherine of Aragon writing to her daughter, Princess Mary c.1533/4.

from Catherine of Aragon: Infanta of Spain, Queen of England, Theresa Earenfight, 2021, page 179

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"In celebration of Mary’s birth, Henry’s coat of arms depicted a little Tudor Rose (Mary) emerging from a Pomegranate, (the symbol of the house of Aragon, Mary’s mother). The stone feature originally adorned the gatehouse of Beaulieu Palace, now residing in the Chapel at New Hall School."

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What I'm getting from this is that Mary absolutely did not want to embarrass herself by wearing glasses.

Which has made me think of the male monarchs appearing physically weaker. Henry and Edward were both male, so a defect of their eyesight didn't matter much when they were expert jousters, virile and learned, kings and father of future kings etc. Whereas Mary, being a woman was naturally seen as part of the weaker, submissive sex. She had to pick and choose gender divides to utilise or ignore while presenting herself as the first queen regent. Did the perception of women being inherently weak impact her decision to not use physical aids in public and in private?

Or did she just think glasses were ugly lol

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Mary Tudor and Katherine Howard could have actually been friends? 🏵️

All of us Tudor fans have been persuaded at some point to believe that Mary and Katherine were enemies and couldn't stand each other. If we were to read separate biographies of katherine and Mary, we would indeed get that impression, especially when it comes to the narratives of certain authors who didn't see much need to delve into the relationship between the two.

🧐 What do we know about Mary and Katherine's relationship besides common belief? That Katherine wanted to dismiss two of Mary's ladies because Katherine was a spoiled and childish young lady, or that Mary found Katherine vain because she liked to dress francy clothes and dance. But what if I told you that Katherine acted as a merciful queen in many instances, such as when she sent her tailor to Margaret Pole in the Tower of London or when she helped free Thomas Wyatt, the poet, from the Tower? And what about Mary liking fancy clothes and dance too? But well, we will not try to understand Katherine's qualities hidden in the shadow of the stereotype this time. In order not to develop a giant text, I will just make a timeline of the relationship between the two from 1540 to 1542.

🏵️1540 — DECEMBER — Katherine try to dismiss two of Mary's ladies because Mary was showing her little respect as she had shown Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves. (In my opinion, this only happened because Mary was witnessing what happened to her mother repeat itself. *Let's not forget that Katherine was a lady-in-waiting to Anne of Cleves, as Anne Boleyn was to Katherine of Aragon*).

🏵️ 1541 — JANUARY — (New Year) Mary tries to reconcile with Katherine and sends gifts, trying to maintain a good relationship with her father and stepmother.

🏵️ 1541 — 2 of FEBRUARY — Henry banishes one of Mary's ladies. Chapuys was the one who reported this, and unlike the first occasion when Katherine tried to dismiss two of Mary's ladies, on this occasion Chapuys mentions only the king. I believe that if it had been an appeal from Katherine to the king, Chapuys would have mentioned it, as before.

(It would not be the first time Henry had expelled ladies-in-waiting. He did the same to Katherine of Aragon when the two argued over the attention the king was giving to Henry Fitzroy. That time he expelled three of Katherine's ladies-in-waiting).

🏵️ 1541— 22 of FEBRUARY — Mary and Katherine baptise Jane Seymour daughter of Edward Seymour (Edward VI uncle). Why did they both were godparent of the same child if they were not in good terms? This makes me believe that Mary's problem 20 days before this was indeed with the king.

🏵️ 1541 — Spring — Katherine is said to have sent Margaret Pole clothes according to Alison Weir, she didn't mention an exact month, but Conor Byrne points to 'spring' (so, March, April or early May). I know Katherine had a good heart and Margaret's situation touched her, but I think she may have had some consideration for Mary when she did this.

🏵️ 1541 — MAY — Margaret Pole is executed, the same time Katherine aproves Mary staying at court. (This is why I believe she had some regard for Mary's pain of losing her second mother.)

🏵️ 1541 — In the summer Katherine, Mary and Henry traveled together to visit Prince Edward, and Katherine gave Mary a gold pomander containing a clock while they were on a progress at Pontefract Castle. (Again, why would she if they were not in good terms?)

🏵️ 1542 — FEBRUARY — Katherine is executed. "Following Katherine Howard’s execution, Mary enjoyed far greater favour and presided over court feasts as if Queen. As a New Year’s gift Henry presented her ‘with rings, silver plate, and other jewels’ among which were ‘two rubies of inestimable value’. However, during these months, the princess suffered repeatedly from chronic ill-health, linked to anxiety, depression and irregular menstruation, although the symptoms varied widely from one episode to the next. In March and April, she had a ‘strange fever’ that brought on heart palpitations and so afflicted her that at times ‘she remained as though dead’."

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We know that Katherine died in February, but by December Culpeper had been executed, and the queen's jewels had certainly returned to the king who had given them to Mary. If Mary had developed any feelings of friendship with Katherine, it was very cruel of him to make her go through this, and I am not surprised that Mary fell strangely ill afterwards. 😪💔

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Art by: https://www.instagram.com/heqijin_illustration?igsh=MTRjZTN4bzJqcXJseA==

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Sources:

https://tudortreasures.net/mary-catherine-howard/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewels_of_Mary_I_of_England

Katherine Howard: A New History by Conor Byrne.

Mary Tudor: England' First Queen by Anna Whitelock.

Baatard Prince: Henry VIII'S lost son by Beverley A. Murphy.

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Mary I+Costumes in Lady Bess (2017) (Flower Cast)

Requested by @itwasyummy

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Annalise Basso could be a good pick to play Princess Mary in a future show or film, don't you think? ❤️👀

@marytudorqueenofengland @queenmarytudor @kirby-de-aragon @marianrevisionist

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Here is my new young Mary Tudor piece, commissioned for @branloaf.  It’s inspired by the Holbein sketch of “the Lady Mary,” and her gown features the brand new paint YInMin blue, the first new blue pigment discovered in 200 years. 

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Mary's gowns by colour and year of purchase, from Of Crymsen Tissue: The Construction of a Queen: Identity, Legitimacy and the Wardrobe of Mary Tudor by Hilary Doda, 2011

Mary's kirtle and sleeves by colour and year of purchase, from Of Crymsen Tissue: The Construction of a Queen: Identity, Legitimacy and the Wardrobe of Mary Tudor by Hilary Doda, 2011

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A small family tree depicting Henry VIII, his six wives and his children. Dates to the reign of Edward VI who is depicted at the bottom of the page. His line is connected to his father, Henry VIII at the top center and his mother Jane Seymour. To Henry’s left is Katherine of Aragon and underneath Katherine to the left is her daughter Mary Tudor. To Henry’s right is Anne Boleyn and she is connected to Elizabeth, her daughter.

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O túmulo de Mary e Elizabeth Tudor

"Na Abadia de Westminster, no meio da grandeza caótica dos túmulos reais, encontra-se a efígie de mármore de uma resplandecente Rainha Tudor. É uma imagem marcante e icónica de Elizabeth I, os seus êxitos inscritos para a "memória eterna" em versos latinos panegíricos. Todas as semanas, centenas de pessoas passam pelo corredor norte da capela de Henrique VII, passando por este monumento dedicado à grande "Gloriana". Muitos talvez não reparem na inscrição em latim na base deste imponente edifício:

ℜ𝔢𝔤𝔫𝔬 𝔠𝔬𝔫𝔰𝔬𝔯𝔱𝔢𝔰 𝔢𝔱 𝔲𝔯𝔫𝔞, 𝔥𝔦𝔠 𝔬𝔟𝔡𝔬𝔯𝔪 𝔦𝔪𝔲𝔰 𝔈𝔩𝔦𝔷𝔞𝔟𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔞 𝔢𝔱 𝔐𝔞𝔯𝔦𝔞 𝔰𝔬𝔯𝔬𝔯𝔢𝔰, 𝔦 𝔫 𝔰𝔭𝔢 𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔲𝔯𝔯𝔢𝔠𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔰. [𝔓𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔫𝔢𝔯𝔰 𝔟𝔬𝔱𝔥 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔯𝔬𝔫𝔢 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔤𝔯𝔞𝔳𝔢, 𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔱 𝔴𝔢 𝔱𝔴𝔬 𝔰𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰, 𝔐𝔞𝔯𝔶 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔈𝔩𝔦𝔷𝔞𝔟𝔢𝔱𝔥, 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔥𝔬𝔭𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔬𝔫𝔢 𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔲𝔯𝔯𝔢𝔠𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫.]

Elizabeth não está sozinha; habita o túmulo da sua irmã mais velha. A Rainha Mary I foi ali sepultada em 14 de dezembro de 1558, apenas com as pedras dos altares demolidos assinalando o local onde foi sepultada. Quando Elizabeth morreu, em 1603, o seu corpo foi colocado na abóbada central da capela junto dos restos mortais dos seus avós, Henrique VII e Isabel de York. Mas em 1606, Jaime I ordenou que a falecida rainha fosse retirada. Quarenta e oito anos após a morte de Mary, as pedras foram retiradas do seu túmulo, o jazigo foi reaberto e o caixão de Isabel foi colocado no seu interior. Procurando legitimar uma nova dinastia e preservar o seu estatuto na posteridade, Jaime queria o lugar de Elizabeth no cofre de Henrique VII para si. Tendo movido o seu corpo, encomendou então um monumento, celebrando a vida da Rainha Virgem da Inglaterra, para ficar sobre o túmulo das duas rainhas mortas. Ao fazê-lo, James moldou a forma como estas rainhas seriam lembradas: Elizabeth, a magnífica, e Mary, o seu corpo, como a sua memória, enterrado em baixo."

Fonte:

Mary England's First Queen de Anna Whitelock

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driving me insane right now that I can't find the specific inventory of Mary's things after her death that included some dolls (called babies) that were given to Henry Jerningham. I want to add them as an easter egg in my book so badly!

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She was made for lesbians tbh.

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in the honor of england's first queen regnant's coronation anniversary, enjoy her and her mastermind mother<3

Mary’s relationship with her mother is key, and Katherine must be understood not as a weak, rejected wife but as a strong, highly accomplished, and defiant woman who withstood the attempts of her husband, Henry VIII, to browbeat her into submission and was determined to defend the legitimacy of her marriage and of her daughter’s birth.

-Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen by Anna Whitelock

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"Mary and her mother stayed at Windsor, hunting and moving between adjacent royal residences. When Henry and Anne were ready to return, the King sent orders that his daughter should go to Richmond and the Queen, banished from court, to Wolsey’s former residence, The More in Hertfordshire. It would be the last time mother and daughter would see each other, though at the time neither realised it. Their separation would, it was hoped, force Katherine to accept a repatriation of the trial back to England. But as Chapuys predicted, Katherine would never agree ‘whatever stratagems may be used for the purpose’. Now, without her mother’s comfort and support, the fifteen-year-old Mary would have to grow up alone. Shortly after parting from her mother, Mary became unwell with sickness and stomach pains. She wrote to the King that ‘no medicine could do her so much good as seeing him and the Queen, and desired his licence to visit them both at Greenwich’. Chapuys reported that ‘this has been refused her, to gratify the lady, who hates her as much as the Queen, or more so, chiefly because she sees the King has some affection for her’. It is likely that Mary’s illness was the onset of menstruation, with recurrent pains and melancholy exacerbated by distress and anxiety. It was a condition from which Mary would repeatedly suffer."

Mary Tudor: England's First Queen by Anna Whitelock

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Happy Birthday Henry VII in/sp → The Original T-T-T-Tudor - Horrible Histories

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Cardinal Campeggio has implored Katherine to bow to the king’s will, accept that her marriage is invalid and retire to a convent. Certainly, she says sweetly, she will become a nun: if the king will become a monk. x

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England’s Pearl and Their Beloved Queen

Mary I and Katherine of Aragon by @francy-sketches

Guys. I have not been so excited for a commission in my life. I know it’s not ASOIAF so definitely not as anticipated among my friends, but it’s just so well done. I adore Katherine and Mary and this turned out so beautifully. I cannot sing Francy’s praises high enough; after the initial reference pictures I sent her, I did not need to correct anything at all, she completely got the vision.

As anyone who has ever encountered me before will have known, I am incredibly particular about commissions and therefore very involved. I usually like to give pieces I pay for extra thought and historical authenticity. For this piece, I went and looked for available quotes and contemporary accounts of Katherine’s fashion choices. I wanted to make sure from the base of the dress (the farthingale underneath) to the jewelry were all as accurate as was reasonably possible. I did even learn a thing or two, despite my initial intention of just checking to make sure everything I had previously believed was true. For example, I learned that Katherine sometimes wore a flemish hood, which I wouldn’t have thought that would align with her fashion sense; I was proven wrong. I have seen practically all the artworks available to the public that have been confirmed to be Katherine, so I had already guessed black was her favorite color to wear. But I did learn that her other favorites were purple and red. I decided to keep it simple with the black. It’s elegant and regal, black was an expensive color but still is not obnoxiously ostentatious. The jewels around her neckline as taken directly from portraits of her. The pearls seem a mainstay for her, but I did learn that her dresses had many other colored jewels tied into them. I just thought black looked the best. Her dresses were fur-lined, although I would definitely say we took some liberties on what the fur looked. The fur she wore was pretty much exclusively ermine. The sleeves also have true gold, which Spanish royalty traditionally loved (for hundreds of years, by this point, at least). Katherine’s Spanish outfits, of which she had many, definitely collected dust in favor of more traditional English outfits. There’s no indication that she was forced into this, as she did sometimes dress in the Spanish style when it struck her fancy, but it was important for her to present herself as English with English loyalties and priorities in mind. That being said, something as innocuous as gold embroidery, which was not completely foreign to the English court, was definitely something she could implement from back home without seeming like a foreigner. I have pomegranate embroidery on her sleeves, which is more of symbolism rather than something accurate. There’s no proof she ever wore pomegranate embroidery on her sleeve, but her official symbol was of a pomegranate, so I figure that was something important to her.

Katherine’s necklace is obviously a direct copy of the necklace she wears in several of the contemporary artworks depicting. This is pure speculation, but I personally believe that this necklace could have come from old English jewels that had been melted down and repurposed for her. Generally, people weren’t as sentimental in the same way we are today, nor worried about these aspects of preservation, so jewels were melted down and used for other purposes all the time. She also usually wore many strings of pearls, but it just would have looked like too much and would take away from the piece overall, so we decided just to do the necklace. Her gabled hood is also directly taken from her contemporary portraits, the gold and black with the red jewels was what she usually wore. She has a girdle belt with a long string of pearls. Sometimes she would wear a cross at the end or some black jewels that matched her necklace. What’s depicted in this is actually a pomander that turns into a rudimentary clock when it is opened. Katherine is recorded as having one of these; I thought that was very cool. I also asked for her to have some rings. She did have a wedding ring, but I found no description of it, so the artist just did basic gold. She’s wearing two which I think is pretty funny considering she was married twice, of course she wouldn’t have worn two wedding rings, but imagine if she did have the audacity to. Katherine had so much jewelry, more than any of Henry VIII’s wives. She had the royal collection available to her, pieces from Spain, and gifts from Henry specifically made for her. She usually decked herself out as expensively as possible.

Unfortunately, there is basically no information on how Mary dressed as a child. We know her mother dressed her and was having the clothes ordered herself, but beyond that, there’s really nothing available that I could find. I felt that Mary would be dressed similarly to her mother, but I wanted to give her a purple dress because purple fabric was generally the most expensive thing you could buy. I wanted to illustrate how loved and well taken care of she was. She has matching rings with her mother, but no girdle belt or necklace because I’m envisioning her as being 6-9 in this, so I wanted to give her something she could play in. She’s wearing a French hood. Katherine ordered her one in 1520, when she was four. My references on how hers should look is from portraits of her aunts Mary and Juana. I felt that Katherine would probably want to buy a style she was familiar with. Mary’s embroidery is of the Tudor rose. It turned out so beautifully. Similarly to Katherine, there’s no evidence that she actually wore that embroidery, but I wanted some symbolism in there.

My intention with this piece was to show the closeness between Katherine and Mary. Katherine loved Mary with all her heart and showed no outward indication of disappointment that Mary was a girl. She spent more time with Mary than any other highborn individual in this time period that I know of. I wanted to show that Katherine is someone that Mary deeply and completely trusted, even when court could be over the top and crowded, frightening for a child. I feel as if people other themselves from people in the past. People often feel as if people 500 years ago did not care as deeply about their children or weren’t attached to them. I believe this is true in some instances, but generally we are more like the people of the past than we like the believe. As far as any research I’ve done has shown, Katherine loved Mary as much as any mother of our time loves her children.

I believe Francy did a beautiful job, so all compliments go to her, I hope everyone checks out her page to see her amazing work. The caliber of this is unlike the commissions I’ve done in the past. I cannot thank her enough.

I hope this ended up being relatively historically accurate, I’m sure someone will let me know if it’s not haha.