What Has Been Overlooked, However, Is That In The Same Conversation, Cromwell Claimed That It Was A Prophecy

What has been overlooked, however, is that in the same conversation, Cromwell claimed that it was a prophecy made in Flanders ‘threatening the king with a conspiracy of those who were nearest his person’, which had ‘roused his suspicion and made him enquire into the matter’. This suggests that Anne was not simply the victim of a pre-planned attack, but rather that Cromwell undertook an investigation into Anne’s circle based on a prophetic warning of danger to the king.

Andy Holroyde

Jane was also an expert needlewoman and well over a hundred years after her death, her embroidery work was still preserved in the royal collection. In 1647, during the reign of Charles I, the king passed a number of items connected to the Seymour family back to William Seymour, Marquis of Hertford, including 'a bed of needlework with a chair and cushions, said to be wrought by the queen, Lady Jane Seymour.'

Elizabeth Norton

Princess Alix and Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia preparing for a ball, 1888.

It was to Queen Elizabeth and Margaret Beaufort, rather than Henry VII, that the early Tudor court owed its reputation for splendour. Margaret penned a book that laid out the minutiae of royal etiquette and it was adhered to well into the next reign; Elizabeth, who as Edward IV’s daughter had grown up at a court praised for its luxury and pomp, helped add a sophisticated lustre to the royal household that it might otherwise have been lacking. And Henry needed these women to help him. What is often overlooked about Henry VII is that he spent the first fourteen years of his life in Wales and the next fourteen in Europe, so in 1485 he found himself king of ‘a country he neither knew nor understood.’ New palaces arose, with the many-towered riverside wonder at Richmond proving a particular high point of the Renaissance style in northern Europe; the court glittered, its behaviour monitored by the king’s mother and its style augmented by his wife. The queen’s cousin, the Duke of Buckingham, appeared at state events wearing a sumptuously bejewelled outfit, said to have cost £ 1,500, at a time when the average weekly wage for a skilled worker was about forty pence and in the period pre-decimalisation of the currency there were 240 pence in every pound. All of the glamour was designed to project an image of a monarchy sedate in its magnificent. Margaret Beaufort and Queen Elizabeth helped create a system which recast a man who had lived life in a kind of shadow as the leading figure in an elaborate political show. The decision to retain many of the advisers who served Henry VI or Edward IV was another reflection of the king’s conservatism as well as the necessity of having people at his side who actually understood England and the English.

— An Illustrated Introduction to the Tudors, Gareth Russell

“La Mothe Fénélon referred to Elizabeth’s “grandeur” in the very first report he sent to Charles IX in November 1568. The following year, he declared that “she [Elizabeth I] has shown that she is a true Queen, daughter of a King, sister of a King, and from all royal birth” and that God had always “differentiated the good and legitimate princes, legitimately blessed by God’s approbation, from the evil and iniquitous tyrants.””

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Estelle Paranque, Elizabeth I of England through Valois Eyes: Power, Representation, and Diplomacy in the Reign of the Queen, 1558–1588

The French ambassador Bertrand de Salignac de la Mothe Fénélon replying to the pretensions of the crazy stans of Mary Queen of Scots. You may freely quote him the next time you see some moron claiming that Mary Queen of Scots was the true queen of England.

Grenadier a fruit doux, from Traite des Arbres Fruitiers, after P. Jean Turpin, 1807-1835, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Prints and Drawings

No. 22 Size: 12 ½ x 9 ½ in. (31.75 x 24.13 cm) (plate) Medium: Hand-colored stipple engraving

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