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10 articles matching “Charles V”
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Henry VIII had built a court to end his marriage. Catherine refused to recognise it and appealed over his head to Rome. The Pope took the matter out of Henry's hands.
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She was two years old. He was seven months old. Their marriage was meant to help keep Europe at peace.
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He was born heir to the throne and died at forty-five, still waiting. The day before, he planned his own funeral. A nine-year-old boy took his place.
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For three hundred years, Habsburg royals were painted with the same unmistakable jaw. Legend blames one woman for it. Her own statue doesn't have it.
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She died at the Château de Blois on 20 July 1524. Her frail body finally broken by the physical toll of delivering seven children in less than eight years. She was twenty-four years old.
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He had been her first love. He sentenced her to death. Then his wife claimed he had confessed they were never truly married, because Anne had been his all along.
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Hungary had no provision for a female ruler. They crowned her King instead. She rode up the coronation hill three months after giving birth, holding herself with such superb military precision that from a distance she looked like a man, and swung a sword at the four corners of the earth.
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Thomas Cromwell wrote the document that called her a bastard. Mary Tudor signed it without reading a word.
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In June 1520 Henry VIII built a palace out of wood and canvas, filled a fountain with wine, and invited the King of France to watch him joust. It cost England nearly half the crown's annual revenue. The fountain ran dry. The cloth of gold was packed away and sold.
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She was not yet two years old when they promised her to her three-year-old cousin. The pope gave his blessing.