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Mary Tudor Sails for France: Queen of France, Then the Husband She Chose
Henry had invaded France the year before. Now he was sending his 18-year-old sister to marry its 52-year-old king. She arrived soaking wet.
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Honor Grenville, Viscountess Lisle: Seven Years of Survival in Calais
She sent Anne Boleyn a monkey. She sent Jane Seymour quails. She housed Anne of Cleves for a fortnight. She put her own daughter in the path of the king. None of it was kindness. All of it was survival. For seven years it worked. Then it didn't.
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Claude of France, "the Good Queen": Death at Blois, 20 July 1524
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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The Sinking of the Mary Rose, 19 July 1545
Henry VIII was close enough to see it happen and too far away to do anything about it. The Mary Rose had survived thirty-four years, a rebuild, and a war. She was gone within minutes once the wind turned against her.
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Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham: The First Great Nobleman Henry VIII Destroyed
He was quite possibly richer than the king, older in blood than the king, and considerably more careful about saying so. He was not careful enough.
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Catherine de' Medici at the Deathbed of Henry II, July 1559
Catherine de' Medici watched her husband ride into a tournament wearing another woman's colours. He was carried out with a lance through his eye and called for his mistress from the bed where he was dying. Catherine refused to let Diane de Poitiers in. The queen had finally found a door she could close.
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Madeleine de Valois: Queen of Scots for Six Months, 1537
Two months before turning seventeen Madeleine de Valois wrote to her father that she was getting better. Twenty-nine days later she would be dead.
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Elizabeth Tudor, the Forgotten Daughter of Henry VII (1492–1495)
She was born Elizabeth Tudor. She was not England's greatest queen. Most people who know that name do not know that she ever existed.
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Mary Boleyn: The Boleyn Daughter Who Survived Everything
Mary Boleyn was born around 1499 or 1500, the eldest daughter of Thomas Boleyn and Elizabeth Howard, at the family estate of Blickling Hall in Norfolk, and history has spent five hundred years treating her as a footnote in her own sister's story.
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Mary Tudor, Queen of France: The Promise, Louis XII and Charles Brandon
She told her brother she would marry the old French king if he gave her one promise. He promised. She sailed. She kept her word. The question was whether he would keep his.
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Claude of France: Betrothed at Six, Dead at Twenty-Four
She was betrothed at six. Married at fourteen. Pregnant at fifteen. Dead at twenty-four. In the nine years between her wedding and her death she was pregnant for the majority of them. Nobody asked her about any of it.
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The Field of the Cloth of Gold, June 1520: Catherine of Aragon and Claude of France
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.