Mary Tudor + Smiling (requested By Anonymous)

mary tudor + smiling (requested by anonymous)

Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I by Nicholas Hilliard, the so called “Ermine portrait” 1585

But you can speak with him! He once was very high of Tyndale. He cannot so easily alter his opinion! Oona Kirsch as Anne Boleyn in God’s Outlaw (1986)

The Tudors vs. History:  20/?

William Peto, along with being the confessor of the Princess Mary, was “a friend of Thomas More”; in the future he would become a “one-time member of Reginald Pole’s Italian circle”. More about his sermon, here.

– source for “” quotes: Fires of Faith, Eamon Duffy

Two years after this sermon (which heavily implied Anne deserved the end of ‘Jezebel’, whom, in the parable, was murdered by a mob; by being pushed out of a high-storied window), Henry VIII passed an act that made the slander of his marriage to Anne Boleyn punishable by high treason.  Parliament the same year, also passed a decree that “in the event of the King dying before [Anne Boleyn], the latter is to be regent and absolute governess of her children and kingdom.” By November 1534, the Treasons Act was passed, which made it high treason to “maliciously wish, will or desire by words or writing, or by craft imagine, invent, practise, or attempt any bodily harm to be done or committed to […] the queen’s [person], or to deprive them of any of their dignity, title or name of their royal estates.”

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Reading Woman with Child - Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin

♔ The Children of Henry VIII | Mary I, Elizabeth I & Edward VI.

“Although King Henry VIII of England married six times, only his first three wives bore him children, and of a probable total of eleven pregnancies between them, produced only three surviving children. The fact that these royal heirs were born to different mothers would have a direct bearing on the history of England for several decades, for old grudges and jealousies and disagreements over religion remained lively in the hearts of these siblings until death divided them.”