#Wolf hall: The Mirror and the Light

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Lady Mary Fitzroy née Howard, Duchess of Richmond and Somerset as portrayed by Viola Prettejohn

Mary was the daughter of Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk and Elizabeth Stafford. Through her mother, she was the granddaughter of Edward The Duke of Buckingham who fell from grace in 1521 as part of an unveiled plot to kill the King and overthrow him. Mary's paternal great-grandmother was Katherine Woodville making her a distant cousin to the King whose grandmother Elizabeth Woodville was the sister of. Through her father Thomas, she was the first cousin of Anne Boleyn and Kathryn Howard, second and fifth wives of Henry VIII, making her a second cousin to Anne's daughter Elizabeth the future Elizabeth I. Mary was the wife of Henry Fitzroy, the only acknowledged child of Henry VIII outside of his marriages. Through her marriage, she became the Duchess of Richmond and Somerset and the daughter-in-law of the King. In July 1536 her husband died. Mary did not marry a second time, however, it is claimed that after Kathryn Howard's execution, her elder brother Henry, Earl of Surrey suggested that she should seduce the King with the aim to become his sixth consort which she vehemently opposed and did not go along with. Later, the King approved a possible marriage to Thomas Seymour, the brother of his late wife Jane and the uncle of Edward, The Prince of Wales; this was strongly opposed by herself and her brother Henry, the Earl of Surrey (her proposed groom later married the King's widow). Her brother Henry was to be known as the last victim of her once father-in-law's reign. Mary survived Henry VIII's reign and lived into the reign of Mary I, her once sister-in-law.

(BBC’s Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light)

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QUEEN JANE & THE LADY MARY

As portrayed by Kate Phillips and Lilit Lesser

[BBC’s Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light Promotional Material]

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First Look Pictures from Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light

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'There is an abbey, Launde...in the heart of England.

The air is always sweet there. And it's quiet. A little heaven here on earth.

And I'd think to myself...I'll live here one day, when all my work is done.'

Yes, his work is done. He passes through the gate. The air still sweet, the birds in song, new white brick glittering in the sun: here, his little heaven.

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Dana Herfurth as Anne of Cleves, Damian Lewis as Henry VIII and Summer Richards as Katherine Howard in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light. ✧

[hellomadamebutterfly]

I swear Damien Lewis's version of Henry VIII scares the HELL out of me. It's like if the game of Russian roulette was a person

[mann-walter]

I’m A Decade Late to the Party, I Know

I just finished watching clips from Wolf Hall and Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, and I can say I’ve fallen in love with them. Well, with Mark Rylance’s Thomas Cromwell to be more specific.

What charms me most (oh yes, I’m charmed) so far about these shows is their humanity and surprising familiarity. None is portrayed comically in it as far as I know, especially Henry VIII. I think it’s beautiful how they strike that subtle balance to make him still very much human, though a quite detestable one at that, and not a comic book villain. An articulate, sound-seeming, yet callous and at times childish individual.

Despite the cast and their audience living five hundred years apart, despite all the trappings of a bygone age, all of them deep down have this mental face that we all can quickly recognize in our own contemporaries. And that is I think what good writing does, or maybe that is what I really like about the writing: making the people in it people. Too often I see period dramas make the characters distant and artificial, as if people from a couple centuries ago are fundamentally different creatures from us. That is not an issue with Wolf Hall, I think.

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This white dress with embroidery on is worn on Claire Foy as Anne Boleyn in Wolf Hall: Anna Regina (2015) and years later altred worn as dress on Kate Phillips as Jane Seymour in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light in Season 2 Episode 1 Wreckage (2024) and later altred worn on Summer Richards as Lady Catherine Howard in Season 2 (2024) in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light.

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Mark Rylance, the actor that you are!

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ANNA LA MARCK OF CLEVES, Queen Consort of England

↳ As portrayed by Dana Herfurth in BBC's Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light

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HENRY VIII, KING OF ENGLAND

As portrayed by Damian Lewis

[BBC’s Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light Promotional Material]

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fr my stomach like ⬆️↩️↪️🔁➡️⬇️🔄⬅️

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Emergency Rylanceland!: So I guess MatL is on iplayer now with almost no fanfare edition

When negotiation and compromise fail, and your only course is to destroy your enemy, before they wake in the morning, Rafe, have the ax in your hand.

Thanks to @muined for the heads up this morning that the trailer was out

Sooooo apparently if you have BBC iplayer (or a VPN) you can watch it right this minute. (I'm off to try to do that as soon as I post this...)

I have spent an entire flight refreshing the trailer and omg: A DOG MADAME, AND ON YOUR SCENT has killed me dead.

Oh. also for those of you unable to cope with waiting or doing the VPN thingie here is a taste of the first few minutes of the series...

If you are in the U.S. it will be coming to PBS Masterpiece on March 23, 2024.