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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
Motto:"Veritas temporis filia" or "Truth, the daughter of time"
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 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.Gentility: Royal Tudor family, 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 Nickname(s): Bloody Mary 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 |
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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: Elizabeth I Half-Brother: Edward VI 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 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. |
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PHOTOS
 Left: a period portrait of Mary in her teen years during the beginning of the 1530s, by an unknown artist. Right: Actress Blathnaid McKeown playing Mary, Princess of Wales as a child.  |   Left: c 1542 portrait of Mary, who went through various titles such as Lady Mary, Princess of Wales, Queen of England, Queen consort of Aragon, etc. Right: Actress Sarah Bolger as a teenage or young adult Mary. |
 | Princess Mary "Wants a Kiss" |
 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 and Emperor Charles V, cousin of Mary on her mother's side. |  Henry hugs Mary (before he meets Anne Boleyn) while her Mother (Katherine of Aragon) looks on. |
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 Princess Mary says goodbye to her mother |  Thomas Boleyn telling Mary she is no longer the legitimate child of the King, and that if she doesn't accept it, she can no longer contact her mother. |
 Anne asks Mary to recognize her as queen, which would indirectly declare herself illegitimate. In return, Anne would return Mary to her father's favor. |  Mary backs away as she refuses Anne's petition to recognize her as Queen by denying the marriage of her mother, Katherine of Aragon. |
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 Mary hears her half sister, Elizabeth, crying in the background and eventually goes to her | |
 Mary learns of her mother's death, while Henry and the court celebrate. Mary cries, for she has lost the only person in the world that truly cared for her. |  Mary learns of Anne Bolyen's demise from Chapuys |
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| |  LUDLOW Castle This is where Mary lived during much of her childhood, when she was made Princess of Wales. |
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| Jes89 | the most evil women in history : mary tudor (page: 1 2) | 20 | Yesterday, 3:32 PM EDT by Boudica | |
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Thread started: Wednesday, 1:03 PM EDT
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Somebody beyond me saw this program?
It was made by discovery channel and approaches the women cruelest of history. if you saw, tell me your opinion about it. here's my: Here in my city, when they teach about English absolutism, they speak only of henry and elizabeth, they only mention mary. I started to study mary and tried understand why it acted as she acted in her reign. I'm not catholic, in the reality i nor have religion,.What she calls me the attention is her “tudor” personality and for that she passed through, of the princess loved until the bastard, and later the queen of England.
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| Ginalovestudors | Mary and Elizabeth (page: 1 2 3) | 42 | May 8 2008, 9:29 AM EDT by lettice | |
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Thread started: May 5 2008, 8:24 PM EDT
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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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Thread started: Jan 27 2008, 10:43 PM EST
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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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