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Perioddrama Appreciation Week

Day 1: Favorite Tv Show: The Tudors

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"Lady Mary, I am here in kindness. I would welcome you back to court and reconcile you with your father…if you will only accept me as queen."

THE TUDORS - 2.04 The Act of Succession

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Sarah Bolger as Mary Tudor (Mary I) in The Tudors (2007-2010) — S04E02 'Sister'

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THE LAZARUS EFFECT (2015) + dir. David Gelb

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Sarah Bolger as Mary Tudor

The Tudors 2.10

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SARAH BOLGER via instagram

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Sarah Bolger

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SARAH BOLGER as MARY TUDOR in THE TUDORS (2010)

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Mary Tudor : The death of her mother

The year 1536 was hardly begun when Mary lost her mother. Katherine of Aragon, who had fought so unflinchingly for herself and her daughter, died at Kimbolton Castle on 7 January. She was fifty years old. Katherine told Ambassador Chapuys wanted to bequeath to Mary her furs and the gold cross she had brought with her from Spain in 1501. Few other possessions remained to her. She had suffered with “pain in her stomach” for several months and had begged Henry to allow Mary to visit her. Yet mother and daughter, separated for four years, were not to be granted the solace of a final meeting.

Four days after Katherine’s death, Lady Shelton went to Mary and “most unceremoniously without the least preparation” told her that her mother was dead. That evening Mary requested that Katherine’s physician and apothecary be allowed to visit her so she might hear of her mother’s final hours and of the manner of her death. Charles V wrote to his wife, the Empress Isabella, that Mary was “inconsolable at the loss she has sustained, especially when she thinks of her father’s past behaviour towards herself, and the little favour she can expect for the future.” Chapuys encouraged Princess Mary to show ‘good heart and constancy … great sense and incomparable virtue and patience’ to bear the loss of ‘such a mother to whom she bore as much love as any daughter ever did to her mother, who was her chief refuge in her troubles’.

In the final inventory of Katherine’s possessions taken after her death, the scribe noted that she bequeathed four small, frayed quilts to her daughter, Mary. These quilts were used by Katherine during the lying-in period of Mary’s birth and were willed to Mary as swaddling for her own children. Katherine does not say why she kept these quilts or what they meant to her. She doesn’t need to. These quilts are deeply emotional objects that convey love and affection and ultimately, sadness, because we know, from our vantage point centuries later, that Mary never had a chance to use them because she never gave birth to a child.

Sources:

Catherine of Aragon: Infanta of Spain, Queen of England by Theresa Earenfight

Mary Tudor: The First Queen by Linda Porter

Mary Tudor: England's First Queen by Anna Whitelock

Catherine of Aragon: An Intimate Life of Henry VIII's True Wife by Amy Licence,

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You bested me. I can count the amount of people who’ve done that on one hand.

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Vikings Oc

Evangeline, Princess of Wessex

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Alexandra of Northumbria

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SARAH BOLGER in THE TUDORS s03e08

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Sarah Bolger as Mary Tudor (Mary I) in The Tudors (2007-2010) — S04E01 'Moment of Nostalgia'

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SARAH BOLGER photographed by Emily Sandifer, 2023