Oh Lol; I Literally Missed This Part Tho:

Oh lol; I literally missed this part tho:

restored to her rightful dignity of princess; this was in pleasant contrast to the harsh treatment she received from Anne on the few doleful occasions that she was summoned to the Concubine’s court....

‘Restored to her dignity as princess’ by .... having to sign her rights to the throne away and being addressed as Lady Mary?

“When Jane was Queen her persistent entreaties on behalf of Mary were the eventual cause of being allowed to return to court from Hunsdon, the latest of her many country-house retreats. On her return she was treated with much kindness, given costly jewels and in due course restored to her rightful dignity of princess; this was in pleasant contrast to the harsh treatment she received from Anne on the few doleful occasions that she was summoned to the Concubine’s court. Jane would have met Mary when she in Catherine’s service, for mother and daughter were not finally separated until the summer of 1531, and obviously she came to like, or certainly feel sorry for, this, small, rather plain and myopic girl, with something of a man’s voice and more moral courage than most men. She may have also been influenced by Mary’s devotion to the old religion, and secretly admired that unshakeable integrity, which burked all attempts to effect a full reconciliation with a father whom Mary never properly understood.”

— Ordeal by Ambition: An English family in the shadows of the Tudors by William Seymour

“With the exception of Mary I, as far as the Tudor monarchy was concerned the Howards were very much a house of treason.” -- Robert Hutchinson

“  But what disquiets [Mary I] most of all is to see the eyes and hearts of the nation already fixed on this lady (sopra costei) as successor to the Crown, from despair of descent from the Queen, to whom the demonstration and the thought are by so much the more bitter and odious as it would be most grievous, not only to her but to any one to see the illegitimate child of a criminal who was punished as a public strumpet ...”

“ But yet worse treatment awaited her, for with very great indignity she had to serve as her mistress (come a patrona) a public strumpet (una publica meretrice), her father's concubine, that famous Anne Boleyn ...”

Unless Hutchinson thinks the “criminal punished as a public strumpet” is referring to Henry VIII.... lol.

Detail of Sleeping Girl, 1620, by Domenico Fetti (1589-1623)

hand of henry viii

itaglio facsimile of a letter written by king henry viii. plate between pages 60 & 61 of the 1945, houghton mifflin edition of The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey; book designed by bruce rogers & printed at the riverside press, cambridge, mass.

1530:

“ ‘That matters not, for it is foretold in ancient prophecies that at this time a Queen shall be burnt: but even if I were to suffer a thousand deaths, my love for you will not abate one jot.’ ” -- Anne Boleyn (alleged, by Chapuys)

1536:

“[...] begged the royal messenger to entreat the King in her name to consider that she was a well-born damsel, the daughter of good and honourable parents without blame or reproach of any kind; there was no treasure in this world that she valued as much as her honour, and on no account would she lose it, even if she were to die a thousand deaths.” -- Jane Seymour (alleged, by Chapuys)

St Cecilia, 1606, Guido Reni

Medium: oil,canvas