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Jonathan Rhys Meyers and James Frain as Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell The Tudors | Season three, episode one

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Kate Phillips as Jane Seymour and Damian Lewis as King Henry VIII in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light

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“Her family, the Seymours, had served as caretakers for Savernake Forest in Wiltshire for centuries”

woodland forest nymph stolen away by the King, actual creature from a fairytale, Jane Seymour 💚

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This was a joke, but y’all really should look at some of the photography from this area, because it is beautiful

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Autistic Jane whose hyperfixation is trees and woodland management WHEN

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Jane seeing Henry for the first time as a grown woman and fantasizing about all the mushroom facts she’s gonna torture him with while this song plays in the background #canonconfirmed.

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New Pictures!!! 📸 [BBC | Playground Entertainment| Nick Briggs]

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Carlos Rey Emperador

Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

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Eleanor of Austria’s name had been linked to Francis I’s for several years prior to their engagement. If we are to believe what Henry VIII wrote in the instructions for his ambassadors to Charles’s court, the French King entertained hopes of marrying Eleanor as early as February 1518, when his wife, Claude, was pregnant and it was believed she might die during childbirth. The following excerpt is interesting and worth quoting at some length:

“When the ambassadors have an opportunity of speaking to the King [Charles of Spain] alone, they shall tell him that Francis is not much attached to his Queen [Claude], who is of small stature and not beautiful, and as she is now with child there may be some danger in her delivery; on which account Francis, hearing of the singular beauty of the Lady Eleanor, Charles’s eldest sister, and considering her prospects in relation to the succession of Spain, is endeavouring to prevent her being married into Portugal, that if his own Queen die he may marry her . . . The King [Henry VIII] therefore urges Charles to give up the French marriage, and ally himself without loss of time with the house of Portugal, or elsewhere, so that he may shortly have an heir.”

This report seems to have been Henry VIII’s cunning way of dissuading Charles from the French alliance he was contemplating at the time. Death in childbirth was always a possibility, especially considering Queen Claude’s ill health, and rumours about the risk of her death during labour circulated before she gave birth to her first child in 1515. In 1518, however, Claude was pregnant for the third time and had successfully undergone two labours in the past; for Henry to claim that Francis was hoping for his wife’s death in childbirth was merely a tactic to rush Charles into concluding the alliance with Portugal. Henry also cunningly exploited Francis’s extramarital affairs to claim that he was not very devoted to his wife, but this was not the case. Francis had mistresses, but he treated Claude with utmost respect and knew that marriage to her was politically very important as she was the former King’s daughter. Had there been no Salic law in France, Claude could have been Queen in her own right.

Sylvia Barbara Soberton, Golden Age Ladies: Women Who Shaped the Courts of Henry VIII and Francis I

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Tudor’s Week, Day Six: Favorite Couple - Jane Seymour and King Henry VIII

“Just like Anne before her, Jane refused to become the king’s mistress but, unlike her, did so sweetly and self-effacingly. Probably even the Boleyns did not know exactly when Henry became besotted with the woman who was such a contrast to the spirited Anne, but Jane was on the scene by the end of February, when the king made her brother, Edward, a gentleman of the privy chamber. […] ***It was a performance worthy of Katherine in her youth.*** On hearing of it, Henry declared how Jane ‘had behaved most virtuously’, and from now on he would visit her only in the presence of her relatives. Naturally, the carefully tutored Jane declined this too. And, equally naturally, Henry admired her virtue even more.” - Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe

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KINGS & QUEENS REGNANT OF ENGLAND ACCORDING TO STARZ

Henry VI (1 September 1422 - 4 March 1461, 3 October 1470 - 11 April 1471 second reign) as portrayed by David Shelley in The White Queen Edward IV (4 March 1461 - 3 October 1470, 11 April 1471 - 9 April 1483 second reign) as portrayed by Max Irons in The White Queen Edward V (9 April 1483 - 25 June 1483) as portrayed by Sonny Ashbourne Serkis in The White Queen Richard III (26 June 1483 - 22 August 1485) as portrayed by Aneurin Barnard in The White Queen Henry VII ( 22 August 1485 - 21 April 1509) as portrayed by Jacob Collins-Levy in The White Princess Henry VIII (22 April 1509 - 28 January 1547) as portrayed by Ruairi O'Connor in The Spanish Princess Edward VI (28 January 1547 - 6 July 1553) as portrayed by Oliver Zetterstrom in Becoming Elizabeth Jane Grey (10 July 1553 - 19 July 1553) as portrayed by Bella Ramsey in Becoming Elizabeth Mary I (19 July 1553 - 17 November 1558) as portrayed by Romola Garai in Becoming Elizabeth Elizabeth I (17 November 1558 - 24 March 1603) as portrayed by Alicia Von Rittberg in Becoming Elizabeth James I and VI of Scotland (24 March 1603 - 27 March 1625) as portrayed by Tony Curran in Mary & George Charles I (27 March 1625 - 30 January 1649) as portrayed by Samuel Blenkin in Mary & George

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📅TUDORWEEK2024 by @dailytudors Day 2: Favourite Tudor contemporary quote about or said by the Tudor family.

⋅˚₊‧ 𐙚 ‧₊˚ ⋅ "Am I not a man like others?"⋅˚₊‧ 𐙚 ‧₊˚ ⋅

"At last, wishing to turn the conversation, the King said that he wished to ensure the succession to his kingdom by having children, which he had not at present, and upon my remarking to him that he had one daughter, the most virtuous and accomplished that could be thought of, just of suitable age to be married and get children, and that it seemed as if Nature had decided that the succession to the English throne should be through the female line, as he himself had obtained it, and therefore, that he could by marrying the Princess to some one secure the succession he was so anxious for, he replied that he knew better than that; and would marry again in order to have children himself. And upon my observing to him that he could not be sure of that he asked me three times running: "Am I not a man like others?" and he afterwards added: "I need not give proofs of the contrary, or let you into my secrets," no doubt implying thereby that his beloved Lady is already in the family way."

—Eustace Chapuys to the Emperor, written on 15 April 1533 (x)

TV Show: The Tudors (2007-2010) [ season two, episode eight] Jonathan Rhys Meyers as King Henry VIII

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Kate Phillips as Queen Jane Seymour, Damien Lewis as Henry VIII and Lily Lesser as Princess Mary in season two of Wolf Hall

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The Tudors | Thomas Cromwell, Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII

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The Tudors 4.05

“Bottom of the Pot”

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James Frain and Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Thomas Cromwell and King Henry VIII in The Tudors | S01E10 'The Death of Wolsey'

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KINGS & QUEENS REGNANT OF ENGLAND ACCORDING TO STARZ

Henry VI (1 September 1422 - 4 March 1461, 3 October 1470 - 11 April 1471 second reign) as portrayed by David Shelley in The White Queen Edward IV (4 March 1461 - 3 October 1470, 11 April 1471 - 9 April 1483 second reign) as portrayed by Max Irons in The White Queen Edward V (9 April 1483 - 25 June 1483) as portrayed by Sonny Ashbourne Serkis in The White Queen Richard III (26 June 1483 - 22 August 1485) as portrayed by Aneurin Barnard in The White Queen Henry VII ( 22 August 1485 - 21 April 1509) as portrayed by Jacob Collins-Levy in The White Princess Henry VIII (22 April 1509 - 28 January 1547) as portrayed by Ruairi O'Connor in The Spanish Princess Edward VI (28 January 1547 - 6 July 1553) as portrayed by Oliver Zetterstrom in Becoming Elizabeth Jane Grey (10 July 1553 - 19 July 1553) as portrayed by Bella Ramsey in Becoming Elizabeth Mary I (19 July 1553 - 17 November 1558) as portrayed by Romola Garai in Becoming Elizabeth Elizabeth I (17 November 1558 - 24 March 1603) as portrayed by Alicia Von Rittberg in Becoming Elizabeth James I and VI of Scotland (24 March 1603 - 27 March 1625) as portrayed by Tony Curran in Mary & George Charles I (27 March 1625 - 30 January 1649) as portrayed by Samuel Blenkin in Mary & George