#Anne Stanhope

[sixaus-meaa]

SIX THE MUSICAL - BOARDINGSCHOOL!AU: illustration

Cathy's best frenemy (Cathy vs Hope)

[fideidefenswhore]

henry viii, william shakespeare /  'henry viii: may 1538, 10-15', in letters and papers, foreign and domestic, henry viii, volume 13 part 1, january-july 1538, (london, 1892) / a chronicle of the archbishops of canterbury / chronicle of king henry viii of england, written in spanish by an unknown hand

[wonder-worker]

"Anne Stanhope was a devoted and loyal wife and mother. She was also a politician, a committed religious reformer, and a survivor of Tudor intrigue. It was her actions and her connections at court that saved the Seymour family from ruin throughout the reigns of Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I. Her activities as a patroness of religious literature distinguished her from many of her contemporaries. Anne also worked with both of her husbands – but with Edward Seymour in particular – to form influential political partnerships. [...] The Duke and Duchess of Somerset’s struggle with Thomas Seymour in the late 1540s, however, set the groundwork for Anne’s unfortunate historical image. Almost immediately, writers and historians slandered her reputation. She became a stereotypical “bad wife” – proud, nagging, vengeful. By looking beyond this image, however, scholars may now view Anne Stanhope’s story in a more balanced light."

-Caroline Elizabeth Armbruster, '"A woman for many imperfections intolerable": Anne Stanhope, the Seymour family, and the Tudor court', (MA thesis, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 2013)

[alilyamongroses]

The Six Wives of Henry VIII + Penguin Classics: Jane Seymour

Candles, catalogue no 066, Andrew Hemingway / Kasteel Doorwerth in De Sneeuw, Apol Louis / Catherine Brass Yates, Gilbert Stuart / The Birth of Venus, Sandro Boticelli / On Winter Walks, Ben Bauer / Sarah Campbell, Sir Joshua Reynolds / Eve, Solomon Joseph Solomon / Death of the Veiled King, Charlotte Major Wyllie

[marythequeen]

No one else seems to have looked so kindly on Anne Somerset, who was depicted as a scheming, overbearing harridan. Paget, in discussion with Van der Delft, would later sum up the troubles of the duke in the memorably pithy phrase: ‘He has a bad wife.’ That was, indeed, a contemporary comment, though it may say as much about views of strong women in a male-dominated world as it does about the lady herself. Certainly, she was not popular, but Mary never forsook her. After her husband’s final fall from grace, in 1551, the duchess remained in the Tower of London as a prisoner until released by Mary when she became queen.

-Mary Tudor: The First Queen by Linda Porter

[edwardseymour]

welcome back challengers (genderswap au)

[thedudleywomen]

ON THIS DAY - 12 October 1537

On This Day (12 Oct) in 1537, the future King Edward VI was born at Hampton Court Palace, the only child of Jane Seymour, and her husband Henry VIII.

Henry VIII had yearned for a legitimate son to continue his father's 'Tudor' legacy throughout his reign, and had gone to extreme lengths in his pursuit: his break from Rome and the creation of the 'Church of England', his subsequent annulment of his 20+ year marriage to Catherine of Aragon, his marriage to Anne Boleyn (which was later deemed invalid prior to her execution), and courtship of one of Anne's ladies-in-waiting, Jane Seymour.

Henry VIII had proposed to Jane on 20 May 1536, the day after Anne's execution, with the couple swiftly married at Whitehall Palace 10 days later on 30 May 1536. Within the year, Jane was pregnant, with the news being announced to the Privy Council in Apr 1537. News of the pregnancy was positively greeted by many, with Te Deums being sang and bonfires being lit, and a special mass being held in celebration at St Paul's Cathedral. However, original plans for a summer coronation were delayed until after Oct, after the birth of her child.

Plague was prevalent in London during the late summer of 1537, and concerned regarding the safety of his Queen and unborn child, Henry restricted the amount of people visiting Hampton Court Palace, where Jane had chosen to enter her confinement on 16 Sep, himself moving to Esher Palace, Surrey.

On the afternoon 09 Oct 1537, Jane entered into labour; once pains began, Henry VIII sent royal heralds into London to announce the news. However, the labour process was long and arduous, and by 11 Oct, there was no sign of the child. Due to concerns regarding this prolonged childbirth process, and the risks to mother and baby, a solemn procession with prayers was held in London - a 2 mile march west from St Paul's Cathedral to Westminster Abbey - headed by the Lord Mayor.

The labour process would last for a total of 30 hours, and ended at 2 in the morning, when she delivered her baby: a boy. He was named Edward, born on St Edward's Eve, and automatically appointed as 'Duke of Cornwall' on his birth. On hearing the news of Edward's birth, Henry immediately rode from Esher to Hampton Court, from where he sent out instructions to spread out his good news throughout the country.

Prince Edward was not the only baby born at Hampton Court Palace that day: Jane's sister-in-law, Anne Stanhope, the wife of her brother Edward, Viscount Beauchamp, also gave birth to their first child, a son also called Edward. This Seymour cousin was known by the honorary title 'Viscount Beauchamp of Hache' on his father's elevation to Earldom of Hertford on 15 Sep 1537; however, he did not survive infancy, dying in 1539.

[elizabethan-memes]

Katherine Parr: give me my jewels back!

Anne Stanhope:

[janesemel]

Modern AU Anne Stanhope gets coffee with Mary and takes her to the gym where Edward boxes afterwards and they go ‘hey u wanna get in the ring I bet that would be fun :D’ and Edward siiiiiiighs like oh great now I have to walk my wife’s undergrad study buddy through the lead foot/rear foot & basic punches and Mary promptly chips one of his molars with her heel

[tudorscostumesreused]

This Purple Cloak is worn two times in The Tudors, First worn on Catherine of Aragon in Season 1 (2007) and later worn on Anne Stanhope in Season 4 (2010) and later is altred worn by Catherine of Aragon in The Spanish Princess: The Other Woman (2020)

[historicconfessions]

[sixaus-meaa]

SIX THE MUSICAL - MODERN!AU: illustration

Jane's family tree 2/2

(The Seymour family has Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA), an Inherited Retinal Disorder (IRD). It's a family of congenital retinal dystrophies that results in severe vision loss at an early age. Patients usually present with nystagmus, sluggish or near-absent pupillary responses, severely decreased visual acuity, photophobia, and high hyperopia. It is the most severe retinal dystrophy causing blindness by the age of 1 year in most cases. The white pupil represents who inherited the disorder)

[kingedwardvi]

Curiously enough, I’ve only recently watched “Becoming Elizabeth” as I’ve concomitantly read Edward VI’s biography.

It is hardly a surprise to observe there were great differences between the show and the book, specially concerning Katheryn Parr and Thomas Seymour’s own relationship.

Admittedly, though I know little of this matter myself, came across the excerpt below which gave me a lot to think about. For those who are little familiar with the first Dowager Queen of England in an almost a century (the last being Queen Elizabeth Wideville), the following content might actually come a surprise—or not.

What matters here is to promote not only a healthy discussion about their union, but showing that whereas Katheryn did love the man, she was not his first option to marry and she was not a “fool” completely blinded by her affection for him: she hesitated at first, unwilling to remarry in at least two years before becoming Lady Seymour out of respect for the king of England. However, Lord Thomas was a persuasive man, writing as far as a poem to claim the dowager queen’s heart—and he eventually succeeded it, as we are seeing next.

“Katherine moved into her dower house at Chelsea - away from the eyes at court, it was the ideal setting for Seymour to pay secret visits by night. Letters were sent and received, their contents, upon Katherine's urging, were quickly burnt: 'Your letter being finished ... I remembered your commandment to me’, Seymour wrote, ‘wherewith I threw it into the fire, be minding to keep your requests and desires’, yet the survival of both their letters suggest that neither was quite so willing to part with these tokens of love and affection.

Katherine confided her feelings to her friend Lady Paget, who urged marriage. But Katherine was hesitant. She wished 'it had been her fate to have him for a husband' but she was mindful of her position as queen. She had even kept the affair secret from her sister Anne who, when Katherine finally revealed the news, 'did not a little rejoice'.

As a growing number of friends discovered the secret of the affair, it became increasingly difficult to keep it hidden and rumours soon abounded. Meeting Seymour in St James's Park, Princess Elizabeth's servant Katherine Ashley challenged him over his marriage plans. Seymour boasted 'he would prove to have the queen', to which Ashley retorted that she thought this 'was past proof as I had heard he was already married to her'.

Ashley was right, for sometime between mid May and the beginning of June the couple had wed in secret, with one commentator believing the marriage had taken place as early as thirty-four days after Henry's death.

If this was true, then Katherine was playing a dangerous game - if she had become pregnant, there would have been no certainty that the child was Seymour's or Henry's. Katherine remained unwilling to commit herself, having doubts to the last.

She claimed she was his 'loving wife in her heart' but was determined 'never to marry, and break it when I have done, if I live two years'. Nevertheless, Seymour got his way. News of their marriage could not stay secret for long.

'I wish the world was as well pleased with our meaning as lam well assured [of ] the goodness of God's’, Katherine had lamented, 'but the world is so wicked that it cannot be contented with good things’. Instead she suggested that they find support for their union amongst the most powerful members of the council and court.

Seymour tested Princess Mary's reaction. It was not good. Mary considered it 'strange news', writing that if Katherine was keen, there was little she could do. In any case, 'being a maid' she was 'nothing cunning' about 'wooing matters'.

Instead, Mary appealed to her dead father's memory: if Katherine was not willing, certainly she would not 'persuade her to forget the loss of him, who is as yet very ripe in mine own remembrance’. Privately Mary was horrified at the prospect, and blamed Katherine for the affair. She possibly even appealed to Elizabeth to discourage the queen, but her half-sister, not wishing to stir up trouble, told her that they lacked any influence at court and should suffer with patience what was impossible to prevent.

Seymour would have to look elsewhere for support and he knew precisely whom to turn to. His confidence rested in the fact that he had managed to remain in regular contact with Edward through John Fowler, a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, whom Seymour gave a bribe of £10 (£3,000) shortly after the coronation and before long was in his regular pay. Despite being almost continually in the presence of other gentlemen of the chamber, Fowler was soon able to converse with Edward and soon struck up a close friendship with the king, speaking to him alone.

It was not long before Seymour was calling in the favours. At the end of February he had met with Fowler over a drink and asked whether Edward had mentioned him - and in particular whether the king had ever wondered why he had remained unmarried. Would Edward be happy for him to marry? And who should he take as his bride?

Without asking too many questions, Fowler approached Edward a few days later, somewhat unsubtly repeating Seymour's queries. Edward's first reply was to suggest Anne of Cleves, but then, giving the matter more serious attention, answered that he thought Mary to be the best choice, if only 'to change her opinions'.

When Seymour heard, he laughed. 'I pray you, Mr Fowler, if you may soon, ask his Grace if he could be contented I should marry the Queen.’ He also wanted to know if Edward would write a letter on his behalf in support of the marriage.

It was at this time that Seymour, without Fowler's knowledge, began to visit Edward in private. It was not long before he had persuaded him to write a letter to Katherine, dated 25 June. Despite Edward writing to Katherine at the end of May urging her to 'continue to love my father', now the king seemingly endorsed her relationship with Seymour, since the letter ingeniously made their marriage appear as Edward's personal request to Katherine.

Moreover, it gave specific assurance that Edward would safeguard Katherine against any reaction from Somerset, who the couple knew would be furious at their secret union: 'Wherefore ye shall not need to fear any grief to come, or to suspect lack of aid in need; seeing that he, being mine uncle, is so good in nature that he will not be troublesome ... if any grief shall befall, I shall be a sufficient succour.'

The entire letter was no doubt composed by Seymour, who probably dictated it to the king.(…) When news of his brother's marriage leaked out, Somerset was furious. Edward's blessing made Somerset all the more enraged, and the king was not immune from the brunt of his anger, noting in his journal that 'the Lord Protector was much offended’.

But it was his wife Anne, the Duchess of Somerset, who took the greatest offence to the union. Described as 'a woman for many imperfections intolerable, and for pride monstrous, subtle and violent' who held Somerset under her sway 'by persuasions cunningly intermixed with tears', she detested Katherine.”

SKIDMORE, C. “Edward VI: The Lost King of England”.

[period-dramallama]

Nice to see Anne Stanhope portrayed sympathetically for a change.

You can really see logic stretching to allow for Evil!Jane Boleyn. Like Jane and George hate each other and yet Anne Stanhope says "she is still the queen's sister in law and her intimate."

Which is it? Is she an intimate or does she openly hate them? You can't really have both!

(Also cross eyed cromwell is kind of cute)

[yxxxxxx1]

Am I the only one who had a huge crush on Lord Seymour, besides Lord Brandon, in the Tudor show?

Max Brown and Emma Hamilton as Edward Seymour and Anne Stanhope in The Tudors

[marythequeen]

My Mary I of England fanfictions [mind you, most of them are historically inaccurate]

After being poisoned by that woman, a mysterious person turns the Princess of England into a vampire in order to save her life. It's basically a Twilight au with Mary as the main character. Don't look for logic in this, it's just for fun.

During her brother's reign, Mary goes to his court and chats with old friends. We could call it historically accurate. Nothing happens here, she's just wandering around and they talk about Anne Stanhope and Catherine Parr drama 👀

Everyone loves a sapphic Mary Tudor, right? During Wyatt's Rebellion, she is comforted by her Lady Susan 💞 Their whole romantic relationship is historically inaccurate by the way, don't forget that.

In case you haven't noticed, I love writing Mary x Susan.

It's exactly what the caption says.

A confrontation between the Tudor siblings during the rebellion. Elizabeth fans might hate it.