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Princess Mary Tudor played by Sarah Bolger (Seasons 2,3 & 4) & Bláthnaid McKeown (Season 1)
Motto:"Veritas temporis filia" meaning Truth, the daughter of time

Princess Mary Tudor - The Tudors Wiki
born Feb 18, 1516 - died Nov 17, 1558
crowned: July 19, 1553 (aged 37)
Character'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. Despite health problems she was a precocious child who was well educated in Greek, science and music. Her mother consulted the advice of the humanist Juan Luis Vives and instructed her in latin herself. When she was just two years old she was betrothed to the Dauphin of France but this was repudiated 3 years later. At 6 years old she was promised to Charles V (22 years old) but that too was broken a few years later. When Mary was nine years old, her father gave her her own court at Ludlow Castle in Wales and she was titled ' the Princess of Wales'.
"Mary was a high-spirited girl, and undoubtedly popular. All Europe looked upon her at that time as the only legitimate child of her father, but her father himself compelled her to disown the title and pass an unjust stigma on her own birth and her mother's good name. Nevertheless Henry was now reconciled to her, and gave her a household in some degree suitable to her rank. During the rest of the reign we hear little about her except in connexion with a number of new marriage projects taken up and abandoned successively, one of which, to the count palatine, Duke Philip of Bavaria, was specially repugnant to her in the matter of religion. .... Although she was still treated as of illegitimate birth, it was believed that the king, having obtained from parliament the extraordinary power to dispose of the crown by will, would restore her to her place in the succession, and three years before his death she was so restored by statute, but still under conditions to be regulated by her father's will." ~luminarium encylcopedia

Gentility: Royal House of Tudor, granddaughter of King Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella 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 complexion. Later, because of her adversity, her skin became paler, and by the time she was a teen and young adult, she is described as thin. Although described by some as looking ill-tempered, her "squinty" eyes were due to poor eyesight.

Endearing trait(s): In her teens and younger years she is said to have been kind. Even as an adult she is said to have cared for and loved her brother and sister. Despite being from different mothers, she loved Edward as a son and full brother, and took care for Elizabeth and other children, substituting as their mother. She was intelligent, extremely bright, cunning, had a passion for music, loved to read and learned Latin, Spanish, English, French and other languages. She never gave up on religion or turned her back on her beliefs. Even when she was told she would be killed, she never cried, backed down, or screamed and she defied everybody until the bitter end.

Annoying trait(s): Mary never talked back or had the courage to go against her father, unlike her mother. Katherine knew him well enough not to defy him with a sharp tongue like Anne Boleyn, but by steady resistance. Some historians argue Mary's lack of rebelliousness could be because of her pious upbringing. While Katherine grew up in battle and in games of politics, Mary was sheltered from this until too late.

Scandal(s): Marian Persecutions, marriage to Prince Phillip of Spain, execution of Lady Jane Grey

Nickname(s): Bloody Mary, Mary the Catholic.

Site of burial: Westminster Abbey, buried alongside her half-sister Elizabeth I, The tomb, topped by an effigy 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". [source: Official Guidebook, Westminster Abbey, pg. 30] The will of Mary I

Mary Tudors as played by Sarah Bolger
Sarah Bolger as Mary
Season 2/3/4
Mary´s Signature
Princess Mary Tudor as played by Blathnaid McKeown
Bláthnaid McKeown
Season 1

"the greatest pearl in the kingdom."
- King Henry VIII


Later she would be called: "Bloody Mary"
[see : How Bloody was Mary?]


She was a king's daughter,she was a king's sister, she was a king's wife: she was a queen,and by the same title a king also...authorities of scripture she was able to allege...such was her knowledge as well as virtue: neither ever was there a prince on earth who had more of both.
(the Bishop of Winchester in his sermon for Mary's funeral)

Mary would “pass her time most seasons at her virginals or other instruments musical, so that the same be not too much and without fatigation or weariness […] at other seasons to
draw. (Queen Katherine of Aragon's quote about her daughter Princess Mary)

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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: Princess Elizabeth Tudor
Half-Brother: Prince Edward Tudor
Half-Brother: Henry Fitzroy
Godfather: Cardinal Wolsey



Relationship with her siblings:
At first she got along well with the king's other children. As Princess Elizabeth and Prince Edward grew up, however, their Protestant views put them at odds with her as she never swayed from her devout Catholicism. As King, Edward scolded and bullied her about her beliefs, and finally disinherited her in favor of their cousin Lady Jane Grey.		 Marriage(s):
King Phillip II of Spain(July 25,1554-November 17,1558)

Children: none
(2 phantom pregnancies)

Friends:
Gertrude Courtenay, Marchioness of Exeter
Susan Clarenciueux, widow of Thomas Tonge, Clarenceux King-of-arms, a servant to Mary from 1536
Cardinal Reginald Pole,
Margaret Pole, Lady Salisbury- who was her governess before being taken away and Mary's title of Princess was revoked.
After her mother's death, Ambassador Eustace Chapuys remained as close to Mary as he did her mother.
Jane Seymour, helped re-establish Mary's place at court. After Jane died Mary acted as chief mourner at her funeral.

Enemies: All Reformers in her time as Queen, allies of Elizabeth I, during her teen and young adult years it would be the whole Boleyn faction and her father, Henry.
QUOTES FROM HISTORY
  • "While my father lives I shall be only the Lady Mary, the most unhappy lady in Christendom."
  • "I doubt not that your grace does take me for your lawful daughter, born in true matrimony"
  • "In thee, O lord, is my trust, let me never be confounded: if God be for us, who can be against us?"
  • the punishment of heretics should be done without haste, should, meanwhile, to apply justice to those who, by intelligence, seeking to deceive simple souls.
  • "I'm Henry the VIII's daughter, she is not! I have his blood, she has not!"- Mary About Jane Grey sucession.

UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTER QUOTES from the series
  • "Are you the dauphin? Then I want to kiss you!"
  • "I know of no Queen of England, save my mother. And I will accept no other queen, except my mother."
  • "I am afraid I was not born for happiness"

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. He reacts with revulsion, she grows mad and throws him hard on the table and leaves the "brave" dauphin in shame of being beaten by a girl.
  • When she comes to her baby sister, Elizabeth's, craddle and sings to her

For more on Mary - Click on the Links


Elizabeth I - The Tudors Wiki


PHOTOS

Princess Mary Tudor as played by Sarah Bolger
Sarah Bolger as Princess Mary Tudor
(Season 3)

Princess Mary Tudor

Princess Mary Tudor Photo Gallery - Season 1 - The Tudors Wiki

Bláthnaid McKeown as Princess Mary Tudor
(Season 1)


Princess Mary Tudor as a child
Season 3
Season 4
Season 1
Season 2

Season 1
Princess Mary wants a kiss



Season 3
Lady Mary asserts herself and shows a side of what is to come of the future Queen.

Queen Catherine confronts Lady Mary about her "lack" of respect towards Her Majesty.
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charlucy Mary and her stepmothers 6 Yesterday, 7:27 AM EDT by luvprue2
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I just notice something strange ( well at least to me it's strange) but expect for Jane Seymour, most of Henry wives seem to have a more of a soft heart for Elizabeth, but just acknowledge Mary as Henry's daughter, so i wonder if this still play in her mind when she became Queen and took out all that anger on Elizabeth because of it
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Anne'sCurls Oh No 7 Monday, 8:23 PM EDT by Anne'sCurls
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To those who have seen the clips or the entire first two episodes; do you think the writers are going to have Mary take part in Catherine's downfall?
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Jes89 Princess Mary and her "affair" (page: 1 2) 32 Sep 15 2009, 9:59 AM EDT by Reggie19
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look what i found!

"Mary engaged again in 1539. The newcomer Philip of Bavaria, had courted her in Westmister without knowing the position of the king's daughter. Although opposed by religious ideas (Philip was Lutheran), they spoke in Latin, French and German by a translator. The ambassador wrote to Francis I, there was a kiss on the lips when he's gone. The king made him as Knight of the Garter. With the elevation, all court thought that there would be a marriage between Mary and Philip. How is not new, the marriage was never realized"..

Do you think that the series will show this "kiss"???
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