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fideidefenswhore · 3 years ago

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"while anne might not have kept elizabeth beside her on a pillow under the royal canopy as a baby" ?? sorry, im lost here.

oh, sorry, that was just me referencing something else that was in the spanish chronicle that we don't have exact contemporary corroboration for.

day and night she would not let this daughter of her out of her sight. whenever the queen came out in the royal palace where the canopy was, she had a cushion placed underneath for the child [....]

so...i mean, a few issues with that, primarily that elizabeth, as was typical of royal infants, did not reside in palaces with her parents but rather in her own establishments. which they did visit frequently, but surely not with the frequency that one could claim 'day and night [anne] did not let her out of her sight'.

however, the comment they were 'very particular in rearing her', suggests overly-doting parents, perhaps publically affectionate, and that much is corroborated by chapuys, at least in regards to henry "carrying her in his arms" several days in a row. i was just making the point that we don't have a contemporary corroborating such public affection between jane seymour & mary in the same way from the SC.

#ive talked about the spanish chroncile before; it gets too many things wrong -- not just 'well who can really NEVER be sure' things like #this-- but extremely basic facts that any even palace servant would know-- that anne of cleves was the fourth wife not the fifth.#that george boleyn was a duke. that katherine parr's brother was 'lord rochford #for me to believe it was by an actual tudor courtier #more likely a merchant with a connection to the tudor court #and also that there was enough distance from these events for a mix up #i believe it was written during the reign of edward vi #anon

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