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Princess Mary Tudor

Princess Mary Tudor played by Sarah Bolger (Season 2) & Blathnaid McKeown (Season 1)
February 18, 1516 - November 17, 1558
Crowned: July 19, 1553

Princess Mary Tudor - The Tudors WikiCharacter's backstory:The only surviving child of Queen Katherine of Aragon & King Henry VIII. If she had been born a boy, history could have been so different. As it was, she started out as a much doted on child only to be relegated to illegitimacy when her father decided to annul the marriage with her mother.

Gentility: Royal Tudor Family, granddaughter of King Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabel of Castille

Position: Princess of Wales (later revoked and retitled as Lady Mary) and much later - Queen of England and Ireland, Queen Consort of Aragon, Castile and Naples, Queen Consort of the Spanish Netherlands

Personality type: A precocious child and doted on by her father who bragged that "this child never cries". Her parents divorce and the birth of her half sister & brother left her emotionally insecure for the rest of her life.

Signature look:
Red hair, blue eyes, light pale skin, although later because of her adversity, her skin would get paler and by the time she was a teen and young adult, she is described to have been thin. Although described by some as looking ill-tempered, the result of her "squinty" eyes was poor eyesight.

Endearing trait(s):
By her teens and young years she is said to have been kind, even as an adult she is said to have cared and loved her brother and sister, despite being from different mothers, She was intelligent, had a passion for music, loved to read & taught Latin, Spanish, English, French and other languages by her tutors.
She never gave up on religion or turned back on her beliefs.

Annoying trait(s):Very patient, never talked back or had the courage to go against her father, unlike her mother.

Scandal(s): Marian Persecutions

Nickname(s): Bloody Mary

Site of burial:
Westminster Abbey, buried alongside her half-sister Elizabeth I, The tomb topped by an effiigy of Elizabeth I bears the epitaph : "Consorts both in throne and grave, here rest we two sisters, Elizabeth and Mary in the hope of one resurrection".
Official Guidebook, Westminster Abbey, pg. 30

The will of Mary I

Sarah Bolger
Sarah Bolger as Mary
Season 2
Mary´s Signature


Princess Mary Tudor - The Tudors Wiki
Blathnaid McKeown
Season 1



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Comments:
Mary was isolated from her mother, and mostly friendless as well as being an English subject, which Katherine of Aragon was not. If Henry did harm to Katherine, the Emperor Charles V, her nephew might have used that as a pretext for making war on England. It was fear of this as well as the fact that Katherine was a princess of the royal family of Spain that stayed his hand against her. Mary did not have these advantages. So always lived in fear of her life while her father lived.

CHARACTER CONNECTIONS


Family members:
Father: King Henry VIII
Mother: Queen Katherine of Aragon
Paternal Grandfather: Henry VII Tudor
Paternal Grandmother: Elizabeth of York
Maternal Grandfather: Ferdinand II of Aragon
Maternal Grandmother: Isabella of Castile
Half-Sister: Elizabeth I
Half-Brother: Prince Edward Tudor
Half-Brother: Henry Fitzroy
Godfather: Cardinal Wolsey


Marriage(s):
King Phillip II of Spain

Friends:
Cardinal Pole, Margaret Pole- Countess of Salisbury- who was her governess before being taken away and had her title as Princess revoked.
After her mother's death, Ambassador Eustace Chapuys remained as close to her as he did her mother.
Jane Seymour, helped re-establish Mary's place at court and after she died acted as chief mourner during her funeral.

Enemies: All Reformers, allies of Elizabeth I, during her teen and young adult years it would be the whole Boleyn Faction &
Her father, Henry.

UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTER QUOTES



  • "Are you the dauphin? Then I want to kiss you!"


  • "I know of no Queen of England, safe my mother. And I will accept no other queen, accept my mother."






DEFINING EPISODES | MEMORABLE SCENES


  • Episode 2 where she proves to have her father's temper and mother's defiance to men. She walks up to the dauphin of France and after she asks if he is the Dauphin, he says "oui" then she says I want to kiss you, she approached him and kissed him on the cheek, to which he is revolted by it because she is a girl, and shows his revulsion, she grows mad and throws him hard on the table and leaves the "Brave" dauphin in shame of being beaten by a girl.





PHOTOS
Princess Mary Tudor - The Tudors Wiki
Left is a real portrait of Mary in her teen years during the
beginning of the 1530's, the artist is unknown,
to the right above is the actress Blathnaid McKeown who plays
Mary, Princess of Wales as a child.

Princess Mary Tudor - The Tudors Wiki



Lady Mary Tudor, Princess of Wales, Queen of England and Ireland. Sarah Bolger
(Lady Mary, went through various titles such as Princess of Wales, Queen of England, Queen consort of Aragon.)

The painting on the left is c. 1542
and Sarah Bolger on the right
Princess Mary Tudor - The Tudors Wiki

Princess Mary "Wants A Kiss"
Princess Mary Tudor - The Tudors Wiki
Here is the actress who portrays Mary I
in her childhood years, and here is Henry VIII,
in a time where he still cared.
Princess Mary Tudor - The Tudors Wiki
Princess Mary Tudor - The Tudors Wiki

Mary, Princess Mary and Emperor Charles V and King of Spain, cousin of Mary by her mother's side.
Princess Mary Tudor - The Tudors Wiki
Henry hugs Mary (before he meets Anne Boleyn) while her Mother (Katherine of Aragon) looks on.
Princess Mary Tudor - The Tudors Wiki
Princess Mary Tudor - The Tudors Wiki
Princess Mary Tudor - The Tudors Wiki
Princess Mary
Princess Mary Tudor - The Tudors Wiki
Princess Mary says goodbye to her mother
Sarah Bolger & Nick Dunning
Thomas Boleyn telling Mary she is no longer the legitimate child of the King & if she doesn't accept it,
she can no longer contact her mother.
Anne & Mary
Mary Defies Anne
Princess Mary
Mary
Henry & Mary



Ludlow Castle
LUDLOW Castle
This is the place where Mary grew up mostly in her childhood when she was made Princess of Wales.




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Ginalovestudors Mary and Elizabeth (page: 1 2 3) 42 Thursday, 9:29 AM EDT by lettice
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I was very moved by Mary's actions last night as she held her baby sister and sang to her it showed that she loved the child , even after all that has been done to this 17 yr old she still had it in her heart to not take it out on a child, I have read that Mary and Elizabeth where close and that Mary spoke well of her little sister saying she was a goodly child. I wondering how it will be on the show when they are both put into the same boat and lose there Father's love to there New step-mom and Edward
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Tudor_Obssessed Elizabeth and Mary 11 Mar 31 2008, 9:00 PM EDT by curlyrain
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I am currently reading Philippa Gregory's book, "The Queen's Fool" and although some of the book is VERY inaccurate, I can't help but wonder about her getting the relationship between both sisters as being dead on, in my opinion. I mean, u have Mary who is the center of her father's world until Anne Boleyn comes along, and then Mary is shipped off, not allowed to see her mother, even at her Katherine's death. Mary serves Elizabeth, and then Anne dies, and Mary takes care of her b/c she feels sorry for her and such.
Maybe the reason the two could not get along was b/c Mary could not forget the way Anne had treated her and her mother, and maybe all the remarks about how Elizabeth looked like Anne's lutist, Mark Smeaton stemmed from the fact that Mary looked more Spanish and more like her mother and Elizabeth looked more like her father?
I just thought this would be an interesting topic to discuss.
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