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What is she hiding??

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Does anyone else feel such a level of guilt when they take a break from their school work that they have to make their hobby somehow related to whatever they need to revise with the result being illustrations based around historical figures or is this a fairly niche problem?

I had fun with the historical fashion, but will not claim it to be 100% accurate, I am but a mere mortal

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How I imagine Mary I of England would have looked like

I performed a facial reconstruction of Mary I of England, using Mark Satchwill's "Portrait of a Tudor Lady" as the reference. I then digitally enhanced the artwork by drawing over it, refining the final image with adjustments in Lightroom Photoshop app to enhance highlights and hues. All my credits go to Mark Satchwill !

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Lilit Lesser as Princess Mary Tudor (Behind the scenes of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light )

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In a strange way, the reason I converted back to Roman Catholicism was because of researching Mary I of England… so yeah, her Counter Reformation worked on me.

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My digital illustration for the month of March was inspired by the painting “Maternal Affection” by French artist Hugues Merle. The piece was originally intended to depict Catherine of Aragon and Princess Mary.

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Mass was celebrated daily in her bedchamber, and she derived her greatest comfort from it during these final days of her life. A mile or so away, at Lambeth Palace, Cardinal Pole was also dying, and he and Mary consoled each other with loving messages.

Even so, the Queen spent many of her waking hours in tears, impervious to the attempts of her ladies to comfort her. Some visiting councillors asked the Queen why she was so sad, thinking 'that she took some thought for the King's Majesty, her husband, which was gone from her'.

'Indeed, that may be one cause,' she answered, 'but that is not the greatest wound that pierceth mine oppressed mind.' Despite their entreaties, she would not tell them what so grieved her, but later, when just Clarencieux and an attendant called Mrs Rise were with her, she returned to the subject.

'Is it for King Philip's departing from you?' asked Mrs Fuse.

'Not only that,' said the Queen, sighing, 'but when I am dead, you will find Calais lying in my heart.' Years later, Mrs Rise reported the Queen's words to the chronicler Raphael Holinshed, who recorded them for posterity.

-The Children of Henry VIII

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This ! The fact that Mary disobeyed and delayed trial proceedings when Pope Paul IV demanded Cardinal Pole to return back to Rome to be trial for heresy for his liberal writings.

as you probably have realized- i am currently reading mary tudor by judith m richards. i'm in the latest chapters and mary's (also reginald pole's) beef with the pope is discussed. i've known that paul iv was glad with their deaths and rest but there had been apparently something i missed!

i'm leaving the paragraph here.

Rumour has it that Paul IV rejoiced when he heard of the almost simultaneous deaths of the heretical cardinal and Mary, whom he called the ‘Hapsburg’ queen, in November 1558.

and to me, it's just so ironic that while people still calling mary a religious bigot, pope himself didn't like her because of her (and again, pole too) "liberal" opinions on religion.

it's really funny when you think about it.

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Thinking about how she could’ve been a fashion icon ahead of her time ! Eye glasses while wearing a French hood ..oh that’s so avant-garde !

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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The phrase "Truth, the daughter of time" is a pretty poetic one, especially when you consider how Mary I of England is being looked at today. For centuries, she’s mostly been remembered as "Bloody Mary," painted as a cruel and cold-hearted figure. But now, scholars are revisiting her story and giving her a more accurate and positive review.

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Mary Tudor used a marmalade made of quinces, orange peel, sugar, almonds, rosewater, musk, ambergris, cinnamon, cloves, ginger and mace to help her get pregnant.

– Paul Vallely, Marmalade: Why it isn't yet toast (The Independent, 2008)

'Marmelada/marmellata' [derived from 'marmelo', Portuguese for 'quince'] was a generic term for jam in this period, as it is in most of Europe now. In England, it had a much more specific meaning, and was a rich, sweet, and luxurious confection, often made of quinces, which had 'a special venereal connotation' (prostitutes in the later seventeenth century being known as 'marmalade madams') and which was often consumed as an aid to pregnancy, a strategy adopted by Mary Tudor.

– Andrew Hadfield, Lying in Early Modern English Culture, 2017

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

Requested by @itwasyummy

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hi. so a while back i was reading when philip heard mary was dying he got guilty so sent her what they called a loving letter but mary probably never saw it and it was too late. so i was wondering if this is real and if you know the letter it might even mean. thanks

Hello anon !

Yes, Philip sent a letter to Mary via Count Feria, which was delivered to her during his visit on November 10. At the time, Philip was in Brussels and had learned of Mary’s illness in early October. Unfortunately, Mary was unable to read the letter due to the severity of her condition, as she was near death.

I was unable to locate the letter, as Philip had instructed Count Feria to collect all the correspondence he had sent to Mary following her death, including this particular letter, to ensure that it would not "fall into the wrong hands." This suggests that the letters they sent to each since the beginning of their marriage were of a highly personal nature. However, the ship carrying these letters and portraits sank, resulting in their loss.

Although not directly relevant, I found it noteworthy that Philip was not entirely indifferent to Mary’s condition. On October 22, he wrote in Latin to Mary’s English doctors, expressing gratitude for their dedicated care and urging them to continue their efforts. Around the same time, he also sent a letter in Spanish to Cardinal Pole, requesting that he "serve the Queen in her illness, because I cannot go in person."

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“The 20th day of March was taken up to Westminster again with a hundred knights King Edward the Confessor, in the same place where his shrine was, and it shall be set up again as fast as my lord abbott can have it done, for it was a godly sight to have seen it, how reverently he was carried from the place that he was taken up, where he was laid when that abbey was spoiled and robbed; and so he was carried, and goodly singing has been seen, and mass song.”

— Diary of Henry Machyn, 20th March 1557

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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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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.