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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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Mary Tudor's Coronation, 1 October 1553: Crowning a Woman Who Ruled in Her Own Right
Two illegitimate daughters and an ex-wife arrived at the abbey to do something that had never been done before: crown a woman who would rule in her own right.
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Mary Tudor Signs Her Submission Unread, 22 June 1536
Thomas Cromwell wrote the document that called her a bastard. Mary Tudor signed it without reading a word.
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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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Mary Tudor: From Bastard to Queen of England
She was born a princess, declared a bastard, stripped of her title, separated from her mother, and told for twenty years that she was nothing. Then she became Queen of England. The story of Blood Mary is not a story about a monster. It is a story about what happens when you break a person slowly, carefully, and then hand them a crown.
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Mary Tudor: The Promise She Extracted from Henry VIII
Henry VIII's favourite sister made him a promise before she agreed to anything. He kept it. She collected on it the moment the old king of France was cold. Mary Tudor was born on 18 March 1496 at Sheen Palace, the fifth child of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, the youngest of their children to survive infancy, and by the time she was a teenager the Venetian ambassador had described her as a paradise.
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The Death of Edward VI and the Three Women It Set on a Collision Course, 1553
A fifteen year old boy died at Greenwich on the sixth of July 1553. His death put three women on a collision course none of them had chosen. Two would soon become queens. The third would watch and wait.
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Catherine Willoughby: Sold at Seven, Married at Fourteen, Exiled for Her Faith
She was seven when her father died and the king sold her wardship to a man who would eventually decide to marry her himself. She was fourteen when that happened. She had no say in it.
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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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Edward VI's Letters Patent of June 1553: His Sisters "Disabled" from the Crown
His father had declared his sisters illegitimate. His father's will had restored them. As he lay dying he removed them again. A hundred men signed the document.
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Frances Brandon: The Mother of the Nine-Days Queen
Her daughter was queen for nine days and beheaded at sixteen or seventeen. Frances Brandon attended to the consequences, settled the estate, and remarried within months. She lived for another decade. History has never quite known what to do with her. Neither, probably, did she.
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Edward VI: The Answer to Henry VIII's Question
He was the answer to a question that had cost Henry VIII a church, two marriages, and several lives. He was fifteen years old when tuberculosis made the question relevant again.