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HENRY VII AND ELIZABETH OF YORK, As portrayed by Jacob Collins-Levy and Jodie Comer

The White Princess, Episode Six - English Blood on English Soil (AKA the best episode of the couple)

What if our armies battled on Bosworth Field against each other hahaha jk… UNLESS

Was gonna save this for August 22nd but i’m an impatient little lass

JACOB COLLINS-LEVY as King Henry VII The White Princess | In Bed with the Enemy

Jacob Collins-Levy as Henry VII in The White Princess | 'English Blood on English Soil'

@inky-duchess being chased through the afterlife by Henry Tudor after she destroys centuries worth Of propaganda by spreading the idea of a ship between him and Richard.

@inky-duchess being chased through the afterlife by Henry Tudor after she destroys centuries worth Of propaganda by spreading the idea of a ship between him and Richard.

Yet another Daenerys and Elizabeth I parallel is that they both fulfilled prophecies. Dany clearly has prophecies coming at her from every direction in the novel series. With Elizabeth I, the one she supposedly fulfilled is less known since she has become iconic in countless other areas but this is still interesting:

I had already known that her grandfather Henry VII was believed to fulfill the Son of Destiny prophecy -- one of the ways he was clearly an inspiration for Dany as well.

Basically, when creating Daenerys, GRRM clearly blended Elizabeth I with Henry VII and added a few cups of Galla Placidia.

In a letter to her father in March [of 1509], Catherine broke down and told him she could no longer combat the petty persecutions of Henry VII. Only recently he had told her he was under no obligation to feed either her or her attendants; he added spitefully that her food was being given to her as alms.

Antonia Fraser

Reginald Pole, a cousin of Prince Henry, later asserted that Henry VII despised his son, 'having no affection or fancy unto him'. Admittedly, Pole was only a child at the time and was closeted away at Sheen Priory, so it is unlikely that he was speaking from first-hand experience of the relationship.

Tracy Borman

“Henry VII has been likened to a man who, starting from virtually nothing, built up a flourishing family business.  John Stow thought him ‘a prince of marvelous wisdom. policy, justice, temperance and gravity’. In private life he was a devoted son, an affectionate husband and conscientious father. He was fond of music, a keen sportsman and generous to those in trouble. In spite of his early disadvantages, he was a cultured man, a patron of literature and the arts with a taste and talent for royal magnificence. His public abilities as king and statesman are beyond dispute, but he remains essentially a lonely figure-cold, secret and remote. His precarious youth had taught him to trust no one completely, to keep his own counsel and, above all, the importance of holding on to what he had won. He was admired, feared and respected by his contemporaries, but not loved.  When he died the country was at peace, the crown was solvent. Despite some determined challenges, his dynasty was established and accepted. Reputable foreign monarchs were prepared to marry their children into it. There was a healthy male heir full of age ready to take over. Few men could have done more.”

— Alison Plowden

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ooc: Googled it - maaaan what a load of - well “propaganda” is a nice term. :-p

I know, that is putting it kindly.

Though I’ve been doing some reading up on the concept of “Tudor Propaganda,” and have come across some pretty convincing stuff that argues that the notion that the Tydder’s admin promoted an active agenda of propaganda blackening Richard III’s legacy is largely false. This really surprised me!

But even more interesting is the point that this author made that Henry’s policy was basically “we don’t talk about that shit” and was more devoted to obscuring the known facts rather than actively manipulating them. Which was its own kind of propaganda, I guess. So a good example is the fact that when Henry’s first parliament repealed the Titulus Regius act of 1484, not only did they not read the act aloud, or even refer specifically to the contents of it, but every copy of it was ordered to be destroyed, or turned in to the authorities for destruction, on pain of serious fines or forfeiture.

A lot of other interesting stuff in the article as well, especially wrt the complete non-treatment of the missing sons of Edward IV during Henry’s reign. The ref: C. S. L. Davies, “Information, Disinformation, and political knowledge under Henry VII and early Henry VIII” Historical Research 85:228 (2012), 228-53.

It’s really pretty fascinating, and makes the point that the Polydore Vergil and Thomas More versions of the events of 1483-85 didn’t gain wide circulation until the 1530s and 1540s.

My mind was pretty blown. I may even have done the dramatic forehead slap a couple of times.

“Henry [VIII] earliest encounter with the solemnity of death, occurred when was nine when Prince Edmund died. The warrant shows the household at Eltham was plunged into. Black clothes were ordered even for Jane Poppincourt and ‘The Lady Mary’s scolemaster’. Twelve months later the whole gloomy procedure was repeated at Arthur’s death, but Elizabeth of York was there to comfort and pray with her reamaining children. What Henry never forgot was his mother’s death. Four years after the event, on a January day in 1507, the adolescent prince was replying to a letter telling him the Holy Roman Emperor’s son, Philip of Castile, had died. Henry explained that he had already 'with great unhappiness the report about the death of the King of Castile, my deeply, deeply regretted brother…no less welcome news welcome news has ever come here since the death of my very dear mother’. He wrote from Richmond Palace, where the previous year Elizabeth’s apartments, closed since her death, had opened up for the visit of Philip and his wife Queen Joanna. Briefly Henry VII’s court, dreary since his wife’s passing, had sprung to life again. Prince Henry’s mind slipped back to the dreadful scenes where his mother had died in childbirth and his father’s grief was unrestrained. 'I was less enchanted with that part of your letter’ he wrote tersely 'it seemed to open a wound which time had healed’ Then the schoolboy prince remembered he was addressing the great Erasmus, mended his manners and praised his corespondent elegant Latin.”

— The Sisters of Henry VIII: The Tumultuous Lives of Margaret of Scotland and Mary of France, Maria Perry