I Want To Tell You That In This Slippery World, You Represent For Me All That Is Innocent, Everything

I want to tell you that in this slippery world, you represent for me all that is innocent, everything that is good, unsullied, uncorrupted.

In discussion of the bill, members of Parliament raised no objection to this dual status of Elizabeth as illegitimate heir, and the result, as Commendone reported, was that Mary was proclaimed 'the legitimate and true successor...and consequently all other women of Henry concubines and not wives, and their offspring bastards.' In her Queen's Title Act, Mary [...] [took] advantage of a public opportunity to settle old scores against those who had harmed her family.

The Birth of a Queen: Essays on the Quincentenary of Mary I

Princess Amelia (1783-1810)

Josiah Slater

Jane Seymour (c. 1508 – 24 October 1537) was Queen of England from 1536 to 1537 as the third wife of King Henry VIII. She succeeded Anne Boleyn as queen consort following the latter’s execution for high treason, incest and adultery in May 1536. She died of postnatal complications less than two weeks after the birth of her only child, a son who reigned as Edward VI. She was the only one of Henry’s wives to receive a queen’s funeral, and his only consort to be buried beside him in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, as she was the only consort to have a male heir to survive infancy.

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It’s oddly reminiscent of how some historians speak about Anne Boleyn, and like, not in a good way-- I’m thinking here of how Starkey wrote about how she “wheedled, pleaded, and cried” to effectively berate~ Henry into exiling Katherine from court/his presence.

I find it weird when Katherine of Aragon biographers try to shoehorn in her being ‘Machiavellian’, like…I think she was politically gifted, I think she used her networks well, I think she knew how to utilize her public moments for public sympathy/approval (famously, like Blackfriars) but sometimes I feel like biographers apply this…weirdly, to private moments?

Sorry but the ‘without her arrogance’ kills me , Juana was REGNANT! 📢 📢 📢 Regnant.

‘Comparing Anne Boleyn and Katherine of Aragon in a way that is unfavorable to the latter is evil and sexist’ yeah, well, Katherine of Aragon partisans do this all the time with her elder sister so :)