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make me choose: anonymous asked - anne boleyn or mary tudor
I am afraid I was not born for happiness.
“Katherine and her mother ‘shared an intensity and rock-like obstinacy that some people, to their later chagrin, failed to spot behind an apparently sweet and calm façade.’”
— Giles Tremlett, Catherine of Aragon: Henry’s Spanish Queen. (via queenkatherineofaragon)










My beloved child, my angel, my world… Mary, mi preciosa.
katherine of aragon + mary – as requested by anon





mini-history meme : favourites of @leroichevalier → 5 WOMEN (chosen by me)
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“Through out her life she [Mary] inspired great affection among those close to her. At the height of her rejection from her father, even Anne Boleyn’s cousin, who was acting as her guardian, defended Mary by saying that even if “She was a bastard daughter of a poor gentlemen, her kindness, her modesty and her virtues called forth all respect and honour”. Judged as a private person, Mary was probably the most attractive member of the Tudor family. It is one of history’s great ironies that such a woman would have earned the name ‘Bloody Mary’.”
-Eric Ives









Elizabeth of York— 1466-1483 (Princess) | 1483-1485 (Bastard) | 1487-1503 (Queen) Mary I of England — 1516-1533 (Princess) | 1533-1559 (Bastard) | 1553-1558 (Queen) Elizabeth I of England — 1533-1536 (Princess) | 1536-1559 (Bastard) | 1559-1603 (Queen)
[requested by anonymous]

Sarah Bolger and Annabelle Wallis as Mary Tudor and Jane Seymour in The Tudors (2009)






She spoke no German and he no English but, as educated people, they were able to converse in Latin. An interpreter filled in any gaps when Latin did not suffice, and they seem to have communicated effectively. Philip gave her a magnificent diamond cross with a pendant pearl as a token of his affection and repeated that he wished to marry her. He was also bold enough to kiss her, something which no man who was a stranger had ever done. [x]






Mary was so sweet and affectionate. She’s everything I hoped she would be. It seems to be no wonder she’s so marvelously beloved for her virtue and goodness in the hearts of the people.










To me she’s the most beautiful creature on God’s earth








best tv/movie characters:
[42/??] Colin O’Donoghue as Duke Philip of Bavaria in The Tudors (2009)
↳ “I was told before that [Princess Mary] was charming, intelligent, well-read, gracious - a true heir of Katharine of Aragon, a true Princess. But nothing prepared me for her beauty - a beauty that comes from inside. To me she is the most beautiful creature on God’s earth.”




Today, 18 February, marks the anniversary of the birth of Queen Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon.
“When I am dead and opened, you shall find `Calais’ lying in my heart.”








I have received a letter from a cousin of mine. He is Duke Philip of Bavaria and he would like to come to England to pay court to you…
The Tudors | The Undoing of Cromwell








Mary was born on the 18th of February 1516 in the Palace of Placentia in Greenwhich. She was the only child of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII to live past infancy. Mary’s gender would continue to be an issue for Henry who would divorce her mother in 1533 thus declaring Mary illegitimate and barring her from the throne. Henry would marry four more times and finally produce his longed for son Edward in 1537. Her brother Edward would not reign long and die at only 15 in 1553 not before writing Mary and their sister Elizabeth out of his will in favour of their cousin Lady Jane Grey. However Jane would not be accepted as queen and was deposed on the July 19th 1553 after only nine days. Mary was finally crowned on October 1st 1553, she would be the very first queen regnant of England.