#caterine parr

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This Purple Dress with silver flower and leafs on is worn on Rebekah Wainwright as Catherine Brooke in The Tudors Season 1 deleted scene (2007) and worn on an ekstra in The Tudors Behind scenes in Season 3 (2009) and worn again on Charlotte Salt as Ursula Missledon from The Tudors Season 3 (2009) and years later worn on Emma Bunton as Catherine Parr from Drunk History: UK Battle of Hastings/Catherine Parr (2016)

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Anne: On a scale from “damn Daniel” to “fre sha vaca do”, how are you feeling?

Kitty: In between “it’s an avocado, thanks” and “how did you defeat Captain America”, but as a solid answer I would say “I don’t need no degree to be a clothing hanger”. How about you, Parr?

Parr: Probably “road work ahead”

Cleves: I speak many languages, and this is none of them

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Historical References in What Are You Going to Do With Your Life? Chapters 1-3

Because I can’t not do that. Small warning for a mention of animal death.

Chapter 1

The others are familiar, and she can guess who they are – but there shouldn't be any pictures of them left. After Anne’s and Katherine’s executions, all portraits of them were removed or destroyed. There are no surviving portraits of Anne Boleyn from when she was alive;  the picture we normally associate with her was made during the reign of her daughter (though it may be a copy of a lost original portrait). There is no conclusive evidence that any of the portraits meant to depict Katherine Howard are actually her.

The woodcut referenced. I just like it.

 Anne of Cleves was referred to as “The King’s Beloved Sister” after the annulment. This granted her a status at court just below the king’s children.

Catherine Parr’s previous marriages were to Sir Edward Burgh (pronounced and sometimes spelled as Borough), and to John Neville, the third Baron Latimer. She does not introduce herself as Lady Seymour/Sudeley for reasons.

Katherine Howard and Anne of Cleves were reported to have danced with one another during 1541’s New Years’ celebrations, after a politeness duel where each was overly gracious to the other. They both won.

Lamentation of a Sinner’s original title page reads Lamentacion of a synner, made by the moſte vertuous Lady quene Caterine, bewailyng the ignoraunce of her blynd life: ſet fourth + put in print at the inſtant deſire of the right gracious lady Caterine ducheſſe of Suffolke, and the erneſt requeſt of the right honourable Lord William Parre, Marqueſſe of Northhampton. With that capitalisation. Not sure how to feel about the fact we got rid of the long ‘s’ (ſ).

Leading on from the above, how do you spell any of the Catherines’ names? Who knows? Catherine of Aragon (christened Catalina) was known to spell her own English name as Katherine, Katherina, Katharine and Katharina, and her first husband and daughter spelt it Katerine and Kateryn respectively.

Chapter 2

The only thing of note to interpret is Catherine’s weird dream.

A council of lords surrounds a young boy in a crown. She knows this boy. He dips his fingers in ink, runs them over parchment. A robed man – her brother-in-law, Edward – takes it, and weeps. Edward VI signs Thomas Seymour’s execution warrant.

She sees her husband, Thomas, Elizabeth close by. Watches as the order whips in the wind, flies straight and true through her once-beloved’s neck. The execution of Thomas Seymour.

Her ward, Jane Grey, pats the ground in front of her, blindfolded and lost. Mary, her stepdaughter, grey and stern, looms above, clutching a crucifix to the point of drawing blood, dripping down on Jane. Behind them, England burns on a pyre. The execution of Lady Jane Grey, and the reign of Mary I. More on the latter at another time.

Elizabeth, resplendent in pearls and gems, but so much older. Looking forward. The reign of Elizabeth I.

A rose withers and dies, its remains left in an old, dusty tome. She blinks, and all are gone. Nothing more than blood and ash. End of the Tudor dynasty.

But she is iron, and feels nothing./But she is marble, and feels nothing/But she is a memory, and feels nothing. All references to Catherine Parr’s memorial, which was commissioned at some point during the 1850s (the marble effigy was unfinished in 1859).

Chapter 3

Jane’s cough is a reference to both Edward VI’s death of suspected tuberculosis, and a possible cause of death for herself; a pulmonary embolism.

“He’s… at school. Christ’s Hospital School! In Sussex!” He isn’t. Edward VI is buried in Westminster Abbey, along with his grandparents and half-sisters. If the truth was told, and Edward spent his time in the place where all the kings are buried, the worst would be assumed. Christ’s Hospital was founded by Edward, and the school left a stone to mark his grave in 1966. He does spend all his days in the chapel, though.

Dr. Gray and Dr. Carter, whoever they may be… They wrote Gray’s Anatomy – the book. A slightly damaged first edition went for $4800, which ties into chapter 4.

Lamentation of a Sinner was written in the autumn of 1546 at the latest, then published in 1547.

Thomas Seymour attempted to kidnap his nephew in a laughably incompetent coup, where the only casualty was one of King Edward’s dogs (it barked, so Thomas shot it). Thomas was convicted of treason and executed.

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Anne: what you're doing is illegal.

Kitty: i'm not taking advice from you, you pronounce the 'g' in lasagna.

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Jane: The floor is lava!

The Queens: [All flop into the floor]

Jane:

Jane: Okay listen here you depressing little --

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Kitty: Anne, where do babies come from?

Jane, to Anne: She's too young, just tell her it was the storks

Anne:

Anne, to Kitty: Your mom did a stork, my dude

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Anne: CAN I GET A HELL YEAH!

Jane: I don’t know, can you?

Anne: (sighs) May I get a hell yeah?

Jane: You should’ve gotten a hell yeah during break before the meeting started.

Anne: (frustrated groan) But I didn’t need a hell yeah during break

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Parr: [Looks at Anne] one taught me love.

Parr: [Looks at Jane] one taught me patience.

Parr: [Looks at Kitty, being egged on by Cathy into eating a tide pod] one taught me that kids are STUPID KITTY PUT THAT DOWN RIGHT NOW OR SO HELP ME GOD-

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Kitty: I spy with my little eye something beginning with an ’S’.

Jane: [looks over at Anne and Parr talking] Is it ‘sexual tension’?

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Jane: *pats Parr and Anne on the back*

Jane: Good job, gays!

Parr: *nervously laughing* You meant gu-

Jane: Did I stutter

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Henry: *dies*

Anne: this is so sad alexa play despacito

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Jane: Hello?

Anne: It's Anne.

Jane: What did she do this time?

Anne: No, it's me, Anne. It's actually me.

Jane: What did you do this time?

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Parr: Is something burning?

Anne: Just my passion for you.

Parr: Anne the toaster is on fire

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Parr: ugh, i hardly slept last night.

Jane: When you can’t sleep it means someone is thinking about you.

Parr: Who would be thinking about me at 3am?

Anne: *gay panic*

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Jane: looks like it’s going to be another hot day

Anne: yes good practice for hell

Jane: honey no

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" I would like to apologize to anyone I have not yet offended. Please be patient and I will get to you shortly."

Anna of Cleaves, probably