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Everytime someone mentions Mary Tudor and Philip, Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg ‘s relationship, an angel loses its wings 🪽

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https://www.tumblr.com/marytudorqueenofengland/773523668463681536?source=share stupid question, what language did she use here? i'm sorry i can't read her handwriting😭

Not a stupid question at all ! The handwriting is quite hard to read but it is written in the English language. The letter starts with “most reverend father in God” .

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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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John Foxe records a speech in which the queen [Mary] stated that her primary motivation for marriage was the desire for a child who could succeed her:

And as touching my selfe, I assure you, I am not so bente to my will, neither so precise, nor affectionate, that either for mine own pleasure, I wold chuse where I lust, or that I am so desirous, as needes I would haue one. For God I thanke him, to whome bee the praise therefore, I haue hetherto liued a Virgin, and doubt nothing, but with Gods grace am able so to liue stil. But if as my progenitors haue done before, it might please God that I might leaue some fruit of my body behinde me, to be your Gouernor, I trust you would not onely reioyce therat, but also I know it would be to your great comforte.

- The Daughter of Time : The afterlife of Mary Tudor, 1558-1625 By Carolyn Colbert

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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.

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This raises the question of how close was Mary to Henry Jerningham ? She also gifted him a copy of her Antonis Mor portrait (which is now at the Isabella Gardiner Museum).

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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Elizabeth I: Welcome to the “Fuck Philip II Club.” Where we all go and say a collective “fuck you�� to Philip II.

Mary I:…It appears I’ve greatly misinterpreted the purpose of this club.

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Letter from Mary I of England to Cardinal Reginald Pole, 1555, with blank spaces for the day and month , announcing the expected birth of an heir. Yet, despite her deep longing, the child was never born.

( Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts Existing in the Archives and Collections of Venice, 1534-1554, ed Rawdon Brown (London: Longman, 1873),. May 21st 1555.)

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Gardiner has always been an intriguing figure to analyze, particularly for his involvement in Mary’s personal and political life. It’s amusing to consider how strongly he pushed for Mary to marry Edward Courtenay . On a lighter note, it’s somewhat comical that Mary’s enemies went so far as to spread the outlandish rumor that Gardiner was the “baby daddy” of her supposed child.

Watching Becoming Elizabeth, and remembering in Mirror and the Light one of Gardiner's gripes was that some teachings allowed women power, which is so ironic because he becomes the Lord Chancellor to the first Queen of England in her own right, and ironically ends up despising her husband, the king.

TBH toward the end of his life, he doesn't just become more tolerant but kinder in general. One thing that always stuck out to me is how he indirectly protected people who were condemned of heresy in Winchester and saved them from torture/execution. I can only imagine their fear when he died.

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Lilit Lesser as Mary Tudor (Mary I) Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light | Episode one 'Wreckage'

"I often think, why did I not die in the cradle or the womb, like my brothers and sisters? It must be that God has a design for me. Soon I, too, may be elevated beyond what seems possible now."

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I know this is unlikely to happen, but I really hope that someday Mary I of England gets a tomb of her own—especially one near her mother, Catherine of Aragon, as she wished in her will.

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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