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[allriannecetts]

Costume Details + The Hollow Crown

[elizabethboleyn]

♚ @dailytudors: TUDOR WEEK 2025 ♚

day three | a Tudor event or topic related to the family or family members that you want to see more of in popular media

We view the start of the prominence of the Tudor family of popular imagination as the marriage of Catherine of Valois, Queen Dowager of England and Princess of France, mother to a very young Henry VI, King of England to her supposed keeper of her household or wardrobe, the Welsh Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur commonly known as Owen Tudor. Folklore tells us two tales that started their courtship at Windsor. One being that Owen was dancing and then fell into Catherine's lap; the second being that Catherine caught Owen bathing naked. Their marriage prompted a trend of noble women marrying for love and below their station. Their marriage is said to have produced six children, however, only two Edmund and Jasper are supported by the sources, with a further disputed two living to adulthood. Catherine died nine years into their marriage. After the death of his wife, Owen was treated kindly by his stepson the Lancastrian King Henry VI and his children acknowledged, granted peerages and welcomed at court as the Kings brothers. During the height of the Wars of the Roses Owen was a senior casualty and was executed by the future Edward IV's forces, moments before his death Owen was said to have said "that head shall lie on the stock that was wont to lie on Queen Catherine's lap".

1/4: OWEN TUDOR'S AND CATHERINE OF VALOIS COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE

[calisverse]

𝐋𝐔𝐊𝐄 𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐖𝐀𝐘 as 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐇𝐄𝐍𝐑𝐘 𝐕𝐈𝐈 𝐎𝐅 𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃

The Hollow Crown. Henry Tudor before the Battle of Bosworth.

[aneurins-barnard]

TOM HIDDLESTON as PRINCE HAL & DAVID DAWSON as POINS THE HOLLOW CROWN: Henry IV Part II | For @kingslionheart & @bouncehousedemons

[perioddramasource]

TOM HIDDLESTON as HENRY V THE HOLLOW CROWN: Henry V Dir. Thea Sharrock

[aneurins-barnard]

TOM HIDDLESTON as HENRY V THE HOLLOW CROWN: Henry V Dir. Thea Sharrock

[borgialucrezia]

“I think his perceived flaws as a king are to do with his great genius, which is that he can hold these two conflicting ideas in his head and have love, essentially, for both parties. That was considered weak at the time, because it means he can’t make decisions in the aggressive-minded way that is required in medieval England. Despite wearing the crown, Henry’s place is not to be a king. His primary evolution is through that realisation. He says at the end that all he wants to do is spend his last days in devotion.”

[kathrynhoward]