All pictures today are from Hannibal Square:  http://www.hannibalsquareheritagecenter.org/  and all quotes from Henry VIII.   While I never met Henry I hope to visit his home town in June next year—and if I do my daily renditions and lots of pictures—will be on this Blog…not on my facebook just this blog.  I watched Mrs. Miniver  last night and you got to see it.  It’s in black and white and deals with a small town during World War II (the director who later visited war time England said that it was much worse than the movie depicted) and its a great movie   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8NInYPgofI.  Honorable mention today:  AMY SELLERS ART GALLERY  Mt. Dora www.amysellersart.com

for all the prelates at their consecration make an oath to the Pope clean contrary to the oath that they make to us, so that they seem to be his subjects, and not ours”.

MR HUEGAN OR

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MR FRASER—WHICH one is just a matter of stones

“…although you be permitted to read Holy Scripture and to have the Word of God in your mother-tongue, you must understand that it is licensed you so to do only to inform your own conscience and to instruct your children and family

The plaster head of the funeral effigy of Queen Mary I.

It is currently displayed in the museum

of Westminster Abbey.

MARY I:  A QUEEN ALWAYS IN THE SHADOWS

1516-1558

Mary spent most of her life in the shadow of others.   Whether it was the fact she was born a woman and thus was under the shadow of her sexual inadequacies, then the shadow of her mother’s divorce and being put aside as a bastard, then finally the vaulted heir being born and of course the shadow of her faith in the Catholic church, which would not allow her father to divorce and the ogre that her brother found the church to be  and then the young, tragic girl that was thrust before her when that brother died so young.  Even when she finally triumphed and took the throne from the Protestant movement to keep her from it, her days in the sun were limited and she began to be over shadowed again by marriage and subsequent falling in love with Phillip of Spain, who ten years her junior, merely tolerated her.  He did manage to impregnate her, or so it seemed but this was the final shadow of her life, when the growth in her abdomen  proved to not to mean new life but the destruction of her own.  But the final shadow is that that the grave paid for her by her sister Elizabeth who over shadowed her by her reign and popularity also would overshadow her death as Mary is now buried in a grave that bares her sister’s likeness.

ELIZABETH:  WHO HID HER LIGHT SO LONG

ANNE BOLEYN Mother of the queen who outshined the promise             Queen of England from 1533 to 1536  Mother of Elizabeth    Accused of Adultery with several men including her brother.  Beheaded at the Tower.  “She was then buried in an unmarked grave in the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula. Her skeleton was identified during renovations of the chapel in 1876, in the reign of Queen Victoria, and Anne’s resting place is now marked in the marble floor.”  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Boleyn

“…to wish myself (specially an evening) in my sweetheart’s arms,
whose pretty ducks [breasts] I trust shortly to kiss.” 

JANE SEYMOUR:  ? – 1537                                                                                 Queen of England from 1536 to 1537                                                     Mother of Edward VI, died shortly after his birth of complications.  Was buried at St. George’s Chapel at Winsor where Henry was later interred.

“My Dear friend and mistress,

Anne of Cleves.  1515 – 1557–was never actually crowned queen         Henry married sight unseen and had the marriage annulled shortly after he  met her saying he did not consummate.  She remained in England as her “brother’s guest and Anne died at Chelsea Old Manor on 16 July 1557, eight weeks before her forty-second birthday. The cause of her death was most likely to have been cancer.  Her Westminster Abbey tomb was marked only with her initials “AC” until a small plaque was installed during the 1970s. Today, Anna’s tomb is often obscured by rows of chairs.  http://onthetudortrail.com/Blog/resources/tudor-tombs-and-burials/

“You have sent me a Flanders mare!”

Katherine Howard:  Henry’s last love                                                                     She was probably about 16 or 17 when she was beheaded for adultery along with several of her lovers, unlike Anne she was probably guilty.  She was buried under the same Tower Chapel floor as Anne.

“Rose without a thorn”

Catherine Parr was Queen of England and of Ireland as the last of the six wives of King Henry VIII. She married him on 12 July 1543, and outlived him by one year.  1412-1548.  ” She remarried (for the third time and gave birth to her only child — a daughter, Mary Seymour, named after Catherine’s stepdaughter Mary – on 30 August 1548, and died only six days later, on 5 September 1548, at Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire, from what is thought to be puerperal fever or puerperal sepsis, also called childbed fever.  A theory exists that Catherine’s husband, Sir Thomas Seymour, may have poisoned her to carry out his plan to marry Lady Elizabeth Tudor.  She was buried at Sudley Castle Chapel which fell to ruins and her tomb was oft disturbed before it was saved and restored in the 17th century and placed eventually in a re-built chapel.    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Parr

“most dearly and most entirely beloved wife”

so is it with our
love, for by absence we are kept a
distance from one another, and yet
it retains its fervour, at least on my
side; I hope the like on yours, as-
suring you that on my part the pain
of absence is already too great for
me; and when I think of the increase
of that which I am forced to suffer,
it would be almost intolerable, but
for the firm hope I have of your un-
changeable affedtion for me: and to
remind you of this sometimes, and
seeing that I cannot be personally
present with you, I now send you the
nearest thing I can to that, namely,
my picture set in a bracelet

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THE DEATH OF KINGS BY Clifford Brewer