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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"

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 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

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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Mary was isolated from her mother, and mostly friendless, as well as being an English subject, which Katherine of Aragon was not. If Henry were to harm 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 during her father's reign.

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.
UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTER QUOTES


  • "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."





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.


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PHOTOS
Princess Mary Tudor - The Tudors Wiki
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.

Princess Mary Tudor - The Tudors Wiki



Lady Mary Tudor, Princess of Wales, Queen of England and Ireland. Sarah Bolger
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 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

Princess Mary and Emperor Charles V, cousin of Mary on 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
Betrothal to Charles V
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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, and that if she doesn't accept it,
she can no longer contact her mother.
Anne & Mary
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 Defies Anne
Mary backs away as she refuses Anne's petition to recognize her as Queen by denying the marriage of her mother, Katherine of Aragon.



Princess Mary
Mary
Henry & Mary

Mary
Mary hears her half sister, Elizabeth, crying in the
background and eventually goes to her
Mary features in Anne's nightmare
In Anne Boleyn's nightmare
Princess Mary Tudor - The Tudors Wiki
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.
Princess Mary Tudor - The Tudors Wiki
Mary learns of Anne Bolyen's demise from Chapuys
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Ludlow Castle
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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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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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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