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Mary Tudor in The Tudors, 2.03- Checkmate.

Sharpe quotes an unjustly celebrated text purporting to be Archbishop Cranmer’s address to King Edward VI at his Coronation in Westminster Abbey in 1547, in which the young king is duly styled a second Josiah – and many historians have cited it before him, including myself. But alas, we must all subtract this supposed sermon from our databases on the Edwardian regime; it is an unscrupulous ultra-Protestant forgery from the 1670s and it has beguiled us for too long.

Diarmaid Macculloch, All Things Made New

#quotes #edward vi

When Henry wrote his love letters to Anne and she turned the tables on him by demanding marriage, she envisaged a mould-breaking role for herself. Unlike Katherine, she never intended to sit quietly in her own apartments sewing her husband’s shirts. As early as December 1530, she hired a shirt maker. She was not prepared to while away her time in her privy chamber, to be paraded on state occasions or to be a gentle feminine presence, a foil to her husband’s masculinity. She it was who, with the help of her family, had destroyed Wolsey and propelled Henry into breaking with the pope. Now she wanted to set herself apart from her predecessors, to associate herself with everything new and to exercise power on her own account. Passionate about religion, education and poor relief, she wanted to change England.

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and The Marriage That Shook Europe, John and Julia Fox

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SARAH BOLGER and LAOISE MURRAY as Mary Tudor (Mary I) and Elizabeth Tudor (Elizabeth I) The Tudors (2007-2010) — Season four, episode six

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The Tudors Tamzin Merchant as Queen Katherine Howard

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It was once thought that Elizabeth aimed at a moderate settlement which echoed that of her father and was curiously suggestive of a particular brand of modern Anglicanism; but this idea is highly anachronistic and ignores the tensions of the late 1550s, when it was evident that there could be no compromise between Catholic and Protestant viewpoints. It was also once thought that Elizabeth was pressured into a more openly Protestant settlement by her MPs and the views of those Protestants returning from exile who had experienced a truly reformed church order and were enthusiastic to see it duplicated in England. In reality, it seems that Elizabeth was clear-sighted in her pursuit of a Protestant settlement, albeit one with some cautious features, but that she faced considerable opposition from the Catholic episcopacy and nobility. It is also evident that once she had achieved her settlement, she authorized the systematic evaluation, and where necessary, expulsion of parish priests resistant to the changes. Whilst the Marian bishops were swiftly removed from office, however, the parish clergy were weeded out more gradually. The much-vaunted Elizabethan via media was not a theological compromise, so much as a piece of Protestant pragmatism. The settlement was quite clear in its rejection of Catholicism, but it was also empathetic in its attempts to stir up as little popular disruption and dismay as possible.

Lucy Wooding, Tudor England: A History

#quotes #elizabeth I #reformation

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"Now, there are many here today who feared that this day would never come. I mean, my rascal son, the Grey's unpopular daughter. But as my darling departed wife used to say, there is a key for every lock." EDWARD BLUEMEL as GUILDFORD DUDLEY and EMILY BADER as JANE GREY My Lady Jane (2024) 1.02 - Wild Thing

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