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TAMZIN MERCHANT as KATHERYN HOWARD THE TUDORS (2007 - 2010)

ALICIA VIKANDER as Queen Catherine Parr Firebrand (2023) | dir. Karim Aïnouz

okayyyy we gettttt it

#you really have to suspend belief when reading a narrator that predicts everything that will ever historically happen…#he doesn’t really slip from this. From the Future Character until TMATL #‘he trusts eliza will live to thank him’ 🧐

Just realized, when reading the Jonathan Gray quote where Chapuys was trying to re-frame the context of Mary's missives for her...was he doing all of that after she had already fallen out with him?

Idk if I would describe it that way? More like a gradual rift...if it's Chapuys you mean, that is. If you mean Henry then yah, after their estrangement and then (nominal...as quote indicates) reconciliation and her (nominal) restoration.

#the act iii of which was #a veritable blackladder sketch moment (she room by room keeps leaving the rooms he's entering and tells him she doesn't want to talk to him #but i think it was closer to 1538? if memory serves #and which ended in she wasn't willing to talk to him alone but said a farewell alongside kparr #redxluna #anyways i have this pdf if anyone is interested. i am a font <3

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ANNE BOLEYN and HENRY VIII in Blood, sex & Royalty | Episode two

Chapuys also maintained that Mary's servile missives of the summer and autumn of 1536 were a sham designed to maintain her favour with the king. On 7 and 8 October, Chapuys wrote that Henry, concerned about imperial or papal support of the new rebellion in Lincolnshire, was now forcing Mary to write letters to Charles, Mary of Hungary, and the Pope that 'she had of her own free will, without compulsion or fear [...] acknowledged, confirmed, and approved the statutes' made against Henry's first marriage [...]

Oaths and the English Reformation, Jonathan Gray

#henricianquotes

ok… it’s actually very funny she has two different versions of this novel opening scene. how many versions of this novel exist 😭

#a lesson in perspective i suppose …#sooo rewrites aren’t NEW to pgreg… ig 😅#maybe so.#god what if she made a boring version of tobg… sacrilege (lowkey. The new Sequel/prequel …)#I’m guessing that was an editors note tho bcus it’s Elizabeth in final version (?…)

Once reinstated to the court in 1536, Mary and her ladies sought her father’s approval for the colours she purchased and, more significantly, wore when in his presence. Mary’s requests for Henry’s opinion on her wardrobe choices suggest a strong desire on her part to appear conciliatory and interested in her father’s attention and approval. A letter dated from the spring of 1538 indicates that such overtures were not entirely welcome; despite an initial rebuff, Lady Kingston made a second attempt on Mary’s behalf to wring an opinion out of the king […]

Duncan, Sarah, and Valerie Schutte, eds. 2016. The Birth of a Queen : Essays on the Quincentenary of Mary I. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

#god he sucks so bad #i feel like as far as fictional portrayals tmatl is the one closest to getting this 'restoration dynamic' right #henricianquotes