#katherine grey

[tercessketchfield]

• the G R E Y sisters

[taniatas]

[thetudorslovers]

Tudor- Brandon branch

"Mary visited London for the last time to celebrate the wedding of her eldest daughter, Lady Frances Brandon to Henry Grey, Marquess of Dorset, who descended from Thomas Grey, the elder son of Elizabeth Woodville (Queen of Edward IV) by her first marriage to Sir John Grey. Frances and Henry were to become the parents of the nine-day queen of England, the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey, who was executed on the orders of Queen Mary I. Recent research suggests that Lady Jane, the eldest, was not born at Bradgate but at the Dorsets’ London residence, on a date somewhat earlier than the usually suggested date of October 1537. The few verifiable contemporary comments on her appearance note that she was slight, and pleasant-looking. The prevailing perception was certainly that she was formidably intelligent and well-educated. The Dorsets appear to have been determined that their girls should develop practical and intellectual skills.

That Jane was also spirited and had a mind of her own even at a young age is evident from the correspondence of her learned tutor, John Aylmer, of whom she spoke fondly, with the Swiss reformer Henry Bullinger, who had sent to Jane and her father ‘a little volume of pure and unsophisticated religion’, with a dedication. Aylmer wrote to Bullinger that young people’s minds needed the counsel of older people and serious influences, thanking Bullinger for his contribution to Jane’s ‘improvement’. Tellingly, he employed the metaphor of ‘bridles for restive horses’.

Katherine, the Dorsets’ second daughter, traditionally considered the beauty of the family, is shown in the miniatures by the Flemish-bornminiaturist to the English court, Levina Teerlinc, as a fair-complexioned, golden-haired young woman, almost the stereotypical English rose. The third daughter, although uncharitably depicted as ‘dwarfish in stature’ – Lady Mary was only four feet in height – was disparagingly described by the Spanish Ambassador Guzman da Silva, writing to King Philip, as ‘little, crook-backed, deformed, and very ugly’, freckled and red-haired, like her sisters. Mary was undoubtedly intelligent, yet her career followed the fateful pattern set by others in her family. She not only fell in love but was determined to marry her beloved, despite the awful example of the retribution which befell her sister Katherine.

After the failure of the Lady Jane Grey plot, it became clear that the Suffolk claims were doomed to failure. It was even questionable whether Henry VIII had had the right to bequeath the crown as he pleased, albeit with the authorisation of Parliament. Moreover, the Will had not been signed by his own hand, as required by statute, but merely by dry stamp. There was much quibbling over the phrase ‘and if it so happen that the said Lady Eleanor die without issue, then we will that the said Imperial Crown shall come to our next rightful heirs,’ not ‘right heirs’, as stated in the first Act of Succession. Under Elizabeth, the legality of Mary Rose’s marriage to Brandon and hence the legitimacy of their children was thrown into question. With each succeeding generation, their connection with the throne grew increasingly remote."

Source: The Tudor Rose: Princess Mary, Henry VIII's Sister by Kewley Draskau Jennifer

[elizabethan-memes]

Elizabeth I: potential heirs to the throne must not marry without permission

The Grey sisters:

[catherinesboleyn]

Tudor Week 2022 day 5/7: Most underrated Tudor family member/s

Margaret Douglas, Margaret Pole, Mary Howard, Katherine Grey

[raisamariannas]

Alright is no one gonna talk about little Edward Seymour showing up? 1st Earl of Hertford? Husband to Katherine GREY?

He was so cute, and also so scared. I love him already.

[lonelyqueenofhearts]

Posible fancasts for Edward Seymour and Katherine Grey? Maybe? It’s just so sad that we’ve never seen their love story depicted in film or TV series.

[historicconfessions]

[thefreelancehistorywriter]

Guildford Dudley, Husband of Lady Jane Grey

Guildford Dudley, Husband of Lady Jane Grey

19th C. image of Guildford Dudley from the (c) Palace of Westminster; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation “Your loving and obedient son wishes unto your grace long life in this world with as much joy and comfort, as did I wish to myself, and in the world to come joy everlasting. Your most humble son to his death, G. Duddley” – note in a prayerbook from Guildford to his father-in-law,…

[105nt]

Finished The Last Tudor which cheered me up no end. Easily consumed, flowing, first person prose, taking us from 1550 to 1573 through the eyes of Jane, Katherine and Mary Grey, three sisters who, one-by-one, fall from the grace of the monarch. I particularly liked ...

All around us like ghosts are the shadowy outlines of the paintings of the saints showing through the limewashed walls ...

But this small thing, this sensible, kindly, common-sense act of pardon, is beyond her.

Red is the colour of defiance, red is the colour of life, red is the colour of love, and so it is my colour. I shall wear my black embroidered gown and my red petticoat till the day that I die ...

It's not history but it's good fun.

[fatale-distraction]

I’m done watching Blown Away.

Every fucking season they get these great, diverse, amazing glass artists that get eliminated early on while people who absolutely fucking SUCK keep making it through because the pretentious-ass fucking judge is super goddamn biased and her entire basis of knowledge in glass blowing is white European “high art.” If she doesn’t “get” the inspiration behind a piece, she gives it a shitty review regardless of technical prowess and I’m sick of seeing queer and POC contestants with unique perspectives shoved aside in favor of the same fucking “avant-garde” status-quo bullshit.

[barbiekens]

Listen, I don’t know if you remember that I fought that speech so hard. That’s another really interesting thing about life — some things that I was so against, and I was like, “Why would I beg a man? I can’t beg a man on TV! This is so embarrassing.” And then it turns out to be, like, one of the most successful scenes, or the most famous scenes ever.

Ellen Pompeo & Katherine Heigl | Actors on Actors

[diioonysus]

history + women who were executed

[babyjapril]

♡Happy Izzie Stevens♡

[elizabethan-memes]

Elizabeth I: I forbid you to marry without permission

Katherine Grey:

[lopeirce]

@lgbtqcreators creator bingo: movie poster -> M.A.G.I.C. (Grey's Anatomy)