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[catherinesvalois]

Henry VIII’s (Legitimate) Children + Their Mothers.

[maryboullan]

[katharinepar]

MARIA VALVERDE as CATHERINE OF ARAGON

[thetudorslovers]

"My mistress & friend, my heart and I surrender our- selves into your hands, beseeching you to hold us commended to your favour, and that by absence your af- feftion to us may not be lessened: for it were a great pity to increase our pain, of which absence produces enough and more than I could ever have thought could be felt, remind- ing us of a point in astronomy which is this: the longer the days are, the more distant is the sun, and never- theless the hotter; so is it with our love, for by absence we are kept a distance from one another, and yet it retains its fervour, at least on my side; I hope the like on yours, as- suring you that on my part the pain of absence is already too great for me; and when I think of the increase of that which I am forced to suffer, it would be almost intolerable, but for the firm hope I have of your un- changeable affedtion for me: and to remind you of this sometimes, and seeing that I cannot be personally present with you, I now send you the nearest thing I can to that, namely, my picture set in a bracelet, with the whole of the device, which you al- ready know, wishing myself in their place, if it should please you. This is from the hand of your loyal servant and friend, H.R."

[kathrynhoward]

[eternaleve]

Rounding up some of my Tudor vids!

Things are not great for me right now - I’ve lost my job, my partner has lost his job, and we’re trying to desperately move house because my neighbours keep threatening me and shouting homophobic and transphobic abuse at me.

But you can support me by sharing some of my videos around, tipping a coin to your Tudor historian, and just generally supporting/following/subscribing to give me a bit of a boost at the moment.

Did Tudor Women Like Sex? The Tudors and Sexuality

How Did Henry VIII Go To The Toilet?

 How Many Times Did Elizabeth I Have A Bath?

How Did Elizabeth I Have Her Period?

A Tudor Funeral

I have a Ko-Fi too and I also did a children’s book that you can find here.

[catherinesvalois]

✨Robert and Elizabeth reconcile✨ BECOMING ELIZABETH 1.04 LIGHTEN OUR DARKNESS REQUESTED BY @aethelreds​ ​

[catherinesvalois]

Maybe I’m more like you than you realize. MARY & ELIZABETH IN BECOMING ELIZABETH 1.04 LIGHTEN OUR DARKNESS

[katharinepar]

CHARLOTTE SPENCER as KATHERINE PARR

[thetudorslovers]

"At the end of January, the queen made her way from Richmond to the Tower of London so that she could spend Candlemas with her husband before entering her confinement. Reclining heavily on cushions and carpets in her barge, and kept warm by burning braziers filled with sweet herbs, she was conveyed along the freezing Thames with the utmost care. Upon reaching the Tower, she attended a ceremonial mass in the chapel of St John the Evangelist, after which wine and sweetmeats were served. Then, accompanied by an entourage of ladies headed by her mother-in-law Lady Margaret Beaufort, Elizabeth entered the chambers that had been appointed for her in the medieval Queen’s Lodgings. However, either the royal physicians had miscalculated the date of conception or the baby was premature, because just a few days later, on 2 February 1503, the queen was delivered ‘suddenly’ of a girl. This was in marked contrast to most of her other labours and adds weight to the theory that all was not well. Even though her favourite midwife, Alice Massy, had been present, it seems the labour was badly handled.

The baby was named Katherine, perhaps as a compliment to her parents’ grieving daughter-in-law. But neither mother nor daughter thrived. Soon after the birth, a messenger was dispatched to Kent to find a doctor named ‘Aylsworth’ or ‘Hallysworth’. The queen’s symptoms are not clear, but it is possible that she had succumbed to a post-partum infection such as puerperal fever, or that she was suffering the consequences of iron- deficiency anaemia. The more babies a woman bore, the greater the risk of sickness or death due to the increased physical toll on her body, coupled with her advancing age. The infant princess also began to wane, and on 10 February she died. Elizabeth followed her to the grave the following day, her thirty-seventh birthday. Her husband was prostrate with grief.

According to one account, he ‘privily departed to a solitary place and would no man should resort unto him.’ His last act before retreating to the seclusion of his privy chamber at Richmond Palace was to send Sir Richard Guildford and Sir Charles Somerset to the household of his late wife the day after her death. They were to convey his assurances to the staff that he would find them places elsewhere. - The private lives of the Tudors

[kathrynhoward]

ANNABELLE WALLIS as JANE SEYMOUR

The Tudors (2007-2010)

[kathrynhoward]

Merle Oberon as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)

requested by anonymous

[kathrynhoward]

mary tudor + one gif per outfit (the spanish princess 2.03)

[thetudorslovers]

Anne Parr was born around 1514 to Sir Thomas Parr and his wife, Maud Green. She was the youngest child of Thomas and Maud.

Sir Thomas died of the sweating sickness in 1517, leaving Maud, only twenty-two years old, to fend for her three very young children. Maud decided to not remarry, so that she might retain her wealth left to her from her husband, and decided to devote her attention to her children. Maud Parr was a lady in waiting to Catalina of Aragon.

As the Parr children came of age, their mother made designs for them to marry well. William was the first, when he married Anne Bourchier in 1526. Anne was placed in Catalina of Aragon's household two years later as a lady-in-waiting. Anne's sister, Catherine, was married off to Baron Borough in 1529. That same year, their mother, Maud, died, and Anne became a ward of King Henry VIII.

After Henry's divorce from Catalina of Aragon and subsequent marriage to Anne Boleyn, the teenage Anne Parr remained in the King's household as a lady-in-waiting to the new Queen. Anne Parr remained as a lady-in-waiting to each of Henry VIII's wives, and is one of the few people to have been lady-in-waiting to all six.

By 1537, as 'Mrs Parr', Anne had become one of Jane Seymour's maidens. She was barely sixteen, sweet and, thanks to her mother's foresight, eminently marriageable. As we have seen, her father had left her a substantial marriage portion, to which her mother's will added 400 marks in plate and a third share of her jewels. The whole fortune, Lady Parr had directed, was to be securely chested up 'in coffers locked with divers locks, whereof every one of them my executors and my ... daughter Anne to have every of them a key'. 'And there', Lady Parr's will continued, 'it to remain till it ought to be delivered unto her' on her marriage.As Lady Herbert, she was keeper of the Queen’s jewels to Catherine Howard, although she left court briefly to give birth to her first child, Henry, ABT 1540. She was back at court in time to attend the disgraced Queen at Syon House and in the Tower. When her sister Catherine became Henry VIII’s sixth Queen in 1543, Anne returned to court. John Dudley, who was now Lord Admiral and Viscount Lisle, wrote to William Parr from Greenwich on 20 Jun: 'but that my Lady Latimer, your sister, and Mrs Herbert be both here at Court with my Lady Mary's Grace and my Lady Elizabeth'.Anne, along with Catherine Willoughby and Anne Stanhope were part of the Queen Catherine's inner circle, and they were all Protestants. After Anne Askew, a Protestant was arrested, those who opposed Queen Catherine tried to gain a confession from Askew that the Queen, her sister, and the other women were Protestants. Askew refused to name any names, even under the pain of torture; still, warrants for the arrest of the Parr sisters and the other two were sent out. Gardiner and his new ally Wriothesley got Henry's agreement to a coup against the Queen. Her leading women, Ladies Herbert, Lane and Tyrwhitt, would be arrested; their illegal books seized as evidence; and the Queen herself sent 'by barge' to the Tower. The Queen, however, warned of what awaited him, apologized to Henry. Quickly reconciled, and when Wriothesley arrived with forty yeomen of the guard at his back and an arrest warrant from the Queen in her pocket, was greeted with a barrage of real abuse and sent packing with his tail between his legs.Anne and her husband used Baynard’s Castle as their London residence. For the birth of her second son Edward, Anne's sister loaned her the manor of Hanworth in Middlesex for her lying in. After the birth, Anne visited Lady Hertford, who had also just given birth, at Syon House near Richmond. In Aug, the Queen sent a barge to bring Anne by river from Syon to Westminster. A girl was the hird child of William and Anne, named Anne. After Henry VIII's death, when the Queen dowager's household was at Chelsea, both Anne and her son Edward were part of the household there. At the time of her death, Anne Parr was one of Princess Mary’s ladies. 

In 1551, William Herbert was created Earl of Pembroke. Anne died quite unexpectedly at Baynard's Castle and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral next to the tomb of John of Gaunt. Her memorial there reads: "a most faithful wife, a woman of the greatest piety and discretion".

Source: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/AnneParr.htm

[thetudorslovers]

" My mistress & friend , my heart and I surrender our- selves into your hands, beseeching you to hold us commended to your favour, and that by absence your af- feftion to us may not be lessened: for it were a great pity to increase our pain, of which absence produces enough and more than I could ever have thought could be felt, remind- ing us of a point in astronomy which is this: the longer the days are, the more distant is the sun, and never- theless the hotter; so is it with our love, for by absence we are kept a distance from one another, and yet it retains its fervour, at least on my side; I hope the like on yours, as- suring you that on my part the pain of absence is already too great for me; and when I think of the increase of that which I am forced to suffer, it would be almost intolerable, but for the firm hope I have of your un- changeable affedtion for me: and to remind you of this sometimes, and seeing that I cannot be personally present with you, I now send you the nearest thing I can to that, namely, my picture set in a bracelet, with the whole of the device, which you al- ready know, wishing myself in their place, if it should please you. This is from the hand of your loyal servant and friend,

H.R. "

[thetudorslovers]

"Flags and bunting overall, hung with gold foil that glistened in the sun and with little bells that tinkled; the vessels were packed with musicians of every kind, and more cannon than seems safe on such a crowded waterway. The fleet was led by a light wherry in which had been constructed a mechanical dragon that could be made to move and belch out flames, and with it were other models of monsters and huge wild men, who threw blazing fireworks and uttered hideous cries."

Anne travelled in a litter of white satin with white cloth of gold inside and out. Her beautiful dark hair was worn loose to her waist and she dressed in “filmy white, with a coronet of gold”. Ives describes the scene in great detail:

Over her was a canopy of cloth of gold held up by the barons of the Cinque Ports. Then came her own palfrey, also trapped in white. Twelve ladies in crimson velvet rode behind, then two carriages- one white, one red- and thirty gentlewomen on horseback, this time in black velvet. These were followed by the king’s guard in two files, one on each side of the street…and last all the servants in the livery of their masters or mistresses.

Sources pertaining to the reaction of the populace vary greatly and so it’s difficult to say with any certainty how the new queen was received. But undoubtedly Anne, with her child stirring deep in her belly and the adoration of her husband enveloping her every move would have felt untouchable.

And on the 1st June 1533 after what must have seemed a lifetime of waiting, Anne Boleyn entered Westminster Hall ready to be crowned Queen of England. She was dressed in “coronation robes of purple velvet, furred with ermine, with the gold coronet on her head which she had worn the day before” . The procession then walked the 640 m to the high altar of the abbey where Anne Boleyn took her place on St. Edward’s Chair and cemented her spot in history.

Source: Eric Ives: "The life and death of Anne Boleyn ", p.173-177