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On This Day In Royal History . 30 May 1536 . King Henry VIII married Jane Seymour . . ◼ King Henry VIII was betrothed to Jane on 20 May 1536, just one day after Anne Boleyn’s execution. . ◼ The couple married at the Palace of Whitehall, Whitehall, London, in the Queen’s closet by Bishop Gardiner on 30 May 1536. . ◼ As a wedding gift the King made her a grant of 104 manors in four counties as well as a number of forests & hunting chases for her jointure, the income to support her during their marriage. . ◼ She was publicly proclaimed as queen consort on 4 June. Jane’s well-publicized sympathy for the late Queen Katharine & the Lady Mary showed her to be compassionate & made her a popular figure with the common people & most of the courtiers. . ◼ She was never crowned because of plague in London, where the coronation was to take place. Henry may have been reluctant to crown Jane before she had fulfilled her duty as a queen consort by bearing him a son & a male heir. . 👑 As queen, Jane Seymour was said to be strict & formal. Jane would form a very close relationship with Mary Tudor (Henry’s sister). The lavish entertainments, gaiety, & extravagance of the Queen’s household, which had reached its peak during the time of Anne Boleyn, was replaced by a strict enforcement of decorum. . ◼ For example, she banned the French fashions that Anne Boleyn had introduced. Politically, Seymour appears to have been conservative. Her only reported involvement in national affairs, in 1536, was when she asked for pardons for participants in the Pilgrimage of Grace. Henry is said to have rejected this, reminding her of the fate her predecessor met with when she “meddled in his affairs”. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1536 #RoyalWedding #d30may #HenryVIII #HenryVIIIofEngland #KingHenryVIII #KingofEngland #QueenJaneSeymour #JaneSeymour #HouseofTudor #TheTudors #TudorDynasty #Tudor #History #RoyaltyinArt #EnglishMonarchy #Otd #OnThisDay #BritishMonarchy #RoyalHistory #kingandqueen #kingsandqueens #tudors #theking #thequeen #royalfamily #Weddingday #Royalweddings (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA0vfzQjJeS/?igshid=bkpzl5qrpu74

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ON THIS DAY IN Royal HISTORY . 30 May 1842 . John Francis tried to assassinate the Queen. . . ◼ On 29 May 1842, Queen Victoria was riding in a carriage along The Mall, London, when John Francis aimed a pistol at her but the gun did not fire; he escaped. . ◼ The following day 30 May, Victoria drove the same route, though faster & with a greater escort, in a deliberate attempt to provoke Francis to take a second aim and catch him in the act. . ◼ Standing on Constitution Hill with a flintlock pistol, Francis waited for Victoria & Prince Albert to return from a carriage ride through London’s parks. . ◼ As expected, Francis shot at her, but he was seized by plain clothes policemen, & convicted of high treason. On 3 July, two days after Francis’s death sentence was commuted to transportation for life. . ◼ The decision to ride was entirely down to the Queen, as was the decision to ride the next day among a crowd of thousands clamouring to congratulate her. . . ◼ There were at least seven recorded assassination attempts on Queen Victoria’s life. . . #OnThisDayInHistory #thisdayinhistory #History #AssasinationAttempt #QueenVictoria #houseofhanover #TheMall #JohnFrancis #ConstitutionHill #BritishMonarchy #PrinceAlbert #Victorian #NineteenthCentury #TheYear1842 #RoyalFamily #D30may (at The Mall, London) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA03UbFDrcz/?igshid=4o7885hdwrj

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On This Day In History . 30 May 1536 . King Henry VIII married Jane Seymour . . ◼ King Henry VIII was betrothed to Jane on 20 May 1536, just one day after Anne Boleyn's execution. . ◼ The couple married at the Palace of Whitehall, Whitehall, London, in the Queen's closet by Bishop Gardiner on 30 May 1536. . ◼ As a wedding gift the King made her a grant of 104 manors in four counties as well as a number of forests & hunting chases for her jointure, the income to support her during their marriage. . ◼ She was publicly proclaimed as queen consort on 4 June. Jane’s well-publicized sympathy for the late Queen Katharine & the Lady Mary showed her to be compassionate & made her a popular figure with the common people & most of the courtiers. . ◼ She was never crowned because of plague in London, where the coronation was to take place. Henry may have been reluctant to crown Jane before she had fulfilled her duty as a queen consort by bearing him a son & a male heir. . 👑 As queen, Jane Seymour was said to be strict & formal. Jane would form a very close relationship with Mary Tudor (Henry's sister). The lavish entertainments, gaiety, & extravagance of the Queen's household, which had reached its peak during the time of Anne Boleyn, was replaced by a strict enforcement of decorum. . ◼ For example, she banned the French fashions that Anne Boleyn had introduced. Politically, Seymour appears to have been conservative. Her only reported involvement in national affairs, in 1536, was when she asked for pardons for participants in the Pilgrimage of Grace. Henry is said to have rejected this, reminding her of the fate her predecessor met with when she "meddled in his affairs". . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1536 #RoyalWedding #d30may #HenryVIII #HenryVIIIofEngland #KingHenryVIII #KingofEngland #QueenJaneSeymour #JaneSeymour #HouseofTudor #TheTudors #TudorDynasty #Tudor #History #RoyaltyinArt #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #RoyalHistory (at Whitehall) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByGk1b-AsrH/?igshid=1mrlyo97o4hd1