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#photoleap #ERII & #PrincessDiana (AI generated)

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Tudor Week 2023

Day 7 - Favourite Tudor Mentor/Mentee relationship

Catherine Parr & Elizabeth Tudor Though their relationship eventually became strained because of Catherine's fourth husband Thomas Seymour's predatory advances towards the teenaged Elizabeth, Catherine had been one of the most important female figures in Elizabeth life. Acting not only as a step-mother, Catherine inspired Elizabeth with her intellectual persuits and erudition.

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Six Wives of Henry VIII Collages using Lyrics from the Vault

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30th of August 1548 - Mary Seymour, only child of Catherine Parr, Queen Dowager of England and her husband Thomas Seymour, Baron Seymour of Sudeley is born at Sudeley Castle. 

Mary was to be Catherine’s first and only child out of her four marriages. She is assumed to be named after Catherine’s royal step daughter The Lady Mary. Mary was also born the step sister of  King Edward VI by her mother and the cousin of the King through her father. 

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Six Wives as Taylor Swift songs

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All Henry VIII Wives together

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CP: Henry. My lord. Please!!! HT: Close the door.

ALICIA VIKANDER and JUDE LAW as CATHERINE PARR and HENRY VIII Firebrand (2023) | dir. Karim Aïnouz

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Queen Katherine Parr: Not Important Enough?

I love how much people dismiss Queen Kateryn Parr. There may be evidence that she WAS supposed to be Regent for Edward VI. See her signature AFTER Henry died. Credit: Elizabeth Norton She was apparently signing as “Kateryn, the quene regente KP”. The theory goes that she was indeed made Regent for her stepson, King Edward VI. Which would make sense with the use of her signature. It is believed…

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7 September 1548: THE FUNERAL of the Dowager Queen

Evesham Journal 7 September 1548: THE FUNERAL of the Dowager Queen Katherine Parr. It was the first Protestant funeral held in English. Her chief mourner was Lady Jane Grey. She was buried in St Mary’s Chapel on the grounds of Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England. ‘A Breviate of the Internment of the lady Katherine Parr, Queen Dowager, late wife to King Henry VIII, and after, wife to Sir…

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25 August 1544: The ‘Quene Regente’ writes Henry VIII

[Endorsed] The queen’s Grace to the King’s majesty 25 August 1544 [Addressed] To the King’s most excellency majesty Pleaseth it your majesty to be advertised: albeit I had at this present none occurrences of importance to be signified unto your highness, your realm being, thanks to almighty God, in very good order and quiet: yet, foreasmuch as Richard Higham is at this time dispatched hence…

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T H E J E R S EY P O R T R A I T

Catherine Parr, Queen of England attributed to Master John c.1545

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7 July 1517: St. Thomas Day Banquet at Greenwich

Anonymous painting of Greenwich Palace during the reign of Henry VIII. [Wiki] On 7 July 1517, a lavish banquet was held for the Emperor’s Ambassadors at Greenwich. The tables above show where several of the notables, including the King and Queen, sat. The banquet seems to have been largely a Howard family event. The banquet was held on St Thomas’s day that is to say the summer feast the 7th of…

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Henry VIII’s 26 Knights of the Bath

The King has proclaimed that all who claim to do services on Coronation day shall be in the White Hall at Westminster Palace, 20 June next, and has authorised the Earl of Surrey, Treasurer of England, the Earl of Oxford, Sir John Fyneux, Chief Judge, Sir Thomas Englefeld, and others to determine claims. He has ordered 26 honorable persons to repair to the Tower of London on 22 June, to serve him…

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Jersey Portrait of Queen Katherine Parr: sold for £3.4 million

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25 JUNE 1548: Edward VI to the Dowager Queen

King Edward VI, c.1550, attributed to William Scrots. Hampton Court Palace. artist, after Holbein. RCT405751, Royal Collection Trust © tudorqueen6 (Meg McGath). To Queen Katherine Parr, the king’s letter congratulatory, upon her marriage with the Lord Admiral We thank you heartily, not only for the gentle acceptation of our suit moved unto you, but also for the loving accomplishing of the same,…

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“The love between the couple was reawakened after the King’s death and the couple were married by the end of May 1547 …  It is not known exactly when the couple became betrothed and even when they got married, due to the fact that the couple wanted to keep their relationship quiet because of the King’s recent death. It is clear, however, that they married in haste … Marriage to Seymour changed Catherine’s life. She was finally with the man she loved.” 

- Claire Ridgway, The Elizabeth Files

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Katherine Parr | Jane Seymour