🐒 If the monkey in the Catherine of Aragon portrait was native to the New World I wonder if it could also have been a subtle reminder of her birth family's influence and power, especially when compared to Anne's more modest one!
This is DEFINITELY a topic I could watch MULTIPLE videos on. I think the video on diplomatic animals would be especially interesting! And also, Tudor doggy dress sounds ADORABLE. Mary QoS’ dog is SO SAD though!!!😭🐶🐵🐕
Yes... about that... it was standard procedure for executioners to keep the clothes of their victims (at least the outer layers) as payment (so in addition to the money they got from the person about to be executed). So... yeah... imagine that the executed queens were then undressed by the executioners and maybe, just left there for a while. They were also horrible at burying their victims. They put Anne Boleyn in an arrows' chest, Jane Grey was left for hours on the scaffold until permission was obtained to bury her. I get that in Anne Boleyn's case a pardon was expected, as everyone thought executing a queen was insane, but didn't they plan beyond that? And I know we're told not to judge the past by the standards of the present, but IDK... some things are just disgustingly barbaric and cruel. It wasn't enough they killed innocent people, they also had to humiliate their victims afterwards. They don't show you this stuff in films.
I wouldn't be surprised if the 'bread' fed to the lap dogs was mixed with large amounts of meat drippings, sauces (gravy) or milk. I don't think they could have survived on bread alone.
I really enjoyed this one and definitely would be interested in learning more about the working animals, especially horses . There were destriers & hunters & palfreys, that I know exist or existed. Poor little terrier of Mary, Queen of Scots. 🐒😺
Me too. Been asking that..about Henry’s horses. Did he keep a stud. Did he have a favourite. About the courtiers, did they have favourites. Lap dogs, who bred them. What breeds were started then.
I would love a video on Henry VIII’s horses. Did he have a favorite hunting horse? Jousting horse? Did he ride whatever was available while traveling? Who pulled the royal carriages?
Carriages weren't really so much of a big thing for royalty then. They weren't sprung like 18th and 19th century carriages and so were really jolting and uncomfortable to ride in, especially over a long distance. They were more like wagons. While traveling, most people in the court rode horses or rode in litters, a sort of chair slung on poles between two horses.
As babies spider monkey's are cute and alot of fun but that doesn't last once they go through puberty. My friend lived with the owner of a wild life sanctuary and a wee spider monkey was rejected by it's mother and the other spider monkeys so they hand raised him. He was adorable and would ride on the dogs back between the sanctuary and their house up the hill. One he was old enough he would be reintroduce with other spider monkeys. I can see why people think they would be wonderful pets because at the start they are if you understand how to care for them but few people think about the future and how unpredictable a monkey can be. As much as I loved the times I spent with little tooku I'm glad the goal was always reunion and not domestication as a pet.
I have always wanted to learn about Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard's pet dogs and I was reading The Other Boleyn Girl and The Boleyn Inheritance yesterday which reminded me of them. The books themselves don't make much mention of them, Purkoy's only appearance in The Other Boleyn Girl is a brief mention from one of the 1536 chapters where a character states that "they would have interrogated Purkou the dog if he was still alive!". Reading that really reignited my interest in this subject, so this video is perfectly timed!
I would also be interested in working animals. Basically, I'm interested in any video you release - they are always wonderful. Many thanks. 😺🐕🐹 Oh, and I've also found your weekly emails to be much more reliable at notifying me about your videos than TH-cam has been.
Hi Dr. Kat. I hope that you are well. With Spring in the air, I was wondering if you could do a video on Royal gardens. I think it would be a fun topic, and appropriate as the flowers are starting to bloom. Thank you again for all your videos.
I love the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel breed and I have one. Hope to see Charles I and Charles II mentioned sometime about their love of the breed; I believe this spaniel is the only one allowed in Parliament. Love your content!🐕
Would be stoked to see a follow up, with the 'working animals' & the Royal menagerie -- the Tudors & Stuarts were crazy-fond of hawking & hunting; I read that Elizabeth hunted every other day - also, that while aristocrats & royalty could hunt ahorse, the middling affluent merchant folks & 'new-money'-types, like Shakespeare (son of a prosperous glover) could only hunt on foot...
Fascinating, especially hearing about the way animals (like Purkoy) were used as a form of currency amongst courtiers. Thanks for this; I'd love a video on the royal managerie.
Very cool video, Dr.Kat!! I am absolute huge animal lover. My family is American Midwestern Irish Catholic and my confirmation name when I was a practicing Catholic is Francis Lucille after Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Lucille respectively. Francis is the patron Saint of animals and those who care for them. I myself have adopted many dogs and cats throughout my lifetime. They're very special little beings whom I love very much and provided me with much joy, comfort, companionship and the deepest love. ❤ Where I reside now in my beachy town in Florida, I am apart of an organization that helps to feed, provide medical care and hopefully a loving and happy home to many of our feral cat population. There are so many colonies of cats on the island. 🌴🐈⬛🐱🐈❤ This was such a fascinating video on a topic near and dear to my heart. I would love hear another video on more animals in history. ❤🦜🐒🐈🐕👑🐕🐈🐒🦜❤
The idea of a video on working animals is an exciting one. The video on the royal menagerie would be interesting too, though I expect it might get a little depressing.
I always get a chuckle out of the fact that the Duchess of Suffolk named her dog after Gardiner. The Duchess could get real sassy couldn't she? I would love videos on both the royal menagerie and working animals. 🐶
What a lovely video! Thank you for sharing this! Is there any record of older royal houses having (named) pets? Would you mind making a video of the working animals and the menagerie? I watched this video with my own dog snoring in the background so I had to turn up the volume up😅
Other than outrage that any canine should be denied meat for its diet, I've found this to be a really interesting video on early modern pets. I also love that Queen Victoria had a little spaniel named Dash who died soon after she became Queen. She buried him herself at Adelaide Cottage, Windsor and his epitaph reads: Here lies DASH, the favourite spaniel of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, in his 10th year. His attachment was without selfishness, His playfulness without malice, His fidelity without deceit. READER, if you would live beloved and die regretted, profit by the example of DASH. We should all be so lucky to have a companion so beloved. My best beloved pet was a service dog named Jack who died in my arms in his 17th year. It is my belief, not shared by all, that pets and service animals, especially dogs, are essential to living a full life. They remind us to care for others as they care for us, that love is transitory and that being such must be held precious and without guile. So was Jack.🐶🐕
Very interesting video. Although I have been an active fan of the Tudor period much of my life, I did not know very much about the situation with companion animals. Or animals at court, in general. I did understand that there were multiple roaming dogs kept in palaces to eat certain leftovers, and to keep the area clean of food that had been thrown on the ground.
Enjoying your videos so much! I think we take our modern relationships with animals for granted, and often forget that animals played different roles over the centuries. My favorites are the 🐳and 🦍
I would absolutely love to learn more about the royal menagerie! And as a cat lover, it would be supremely intriguing to know more about cats in the royal household -- we know Cardinal Wolsey had one, but my understanding is that they weren't a common pet. Oh, and please research foxes, too. Particularly those named Robin. 😊🐈🦊🦄
Thank you for yet another illuminating video, Dr. Kat. I would love to see a video on favourite Tudor hunting horses and falcons. Edward VI behaved *shamefully* toward one falcon (which horrified his courtiers), but were Tudors generally more attentive to their non-human hunting companions?
Yes, that would be great to have a video on the Royal Menagerie. As far as pet Monkeys go, they can be quite smelly & can have some disturbing bathroom habits, seems a little prejudicial with respect to larger dogs.
Recently came across your TH-cam channel and absolutely love your videos!! They really give more insight into the intrigues and intricacies of court life in past times and are a joy as a fellow history lover. Instant subscribe! 😊
🐒 If the monkey in the Catherine of Aragon portrait was native to the New World I wonder if it could also have been a subtle reminder of her birth family's influence and power, especially when compared to Anne's more modest one!
Can't wait for the royal menagerie. Who wouldn't want to be given an elephant as a present!!! 🐘🐘🐘
Same! 🦒🦓🐅
This is DEFINITELY a topic I could watch MULTIPLE videos on. I think the video on diplomatic animals would be especially interesting! And also, Tudor doggy dress sounds ADORABLE. Mary QoS’ dog is SO SAD though!!!😭🐶🐵🐕
Sad that Cardinal Wolsey was the only one who had a cat. 🐈
The royals have always been dog people
Though I seem to remember there were a lot of cats at the court of Louis xv in Versailles.
Cats were not really kept as pets back then. They were more considered working animals used to keep house and stores free of mice.
"NO FARTING GREYHOUNDS!!!" lol
I have two farting greyhounds, a Spanish hound with three legs, and a cockerpoo .... all rescued
Pets and Tudors!! What's not to love? 💕
Poor Mary, Queen of Scots and her 🐶dog. 😢 Sidebar, wasn’t disrespectful to be removing her garters? 🦁🐯🐱
Yes... about that... it was standard procedure for executioners to keep the clothes of their victims (at least the outer layers) as payment (so in addition to the money they got from the person about to be executed). So... yeah... imagine that the executed queens were then undressed by the executioners and maybe, just left there for a while. They were also horrible at burying their victims. They put Anne Boleyn in an arrows' chest, Jane Grey was left for hours on the scaffold until permission was obtained to bury her. I get that in Anne Boleyn's case a pardon was expected, as everyone thought executing a queen was insane, but didn't they plan beyond that? And I know we're told not to judge the past by the standards of the present, but IDK... some things are just disgustingly barbaric and cruel. It wasn't enough they killed innocent people, they also had to humiliate their victims afterwards. They don't show you this stuff in films.
I was wondering the same!
Oh please. Both working and the exotic beasts!
I wouldn't be surprised if the 'bread' fed to the lap dogs was mixed with large amounts of meat drippings, sauces (gravy) or milk. I don't think they could have survived on bread alone.
That was another good one. Now I'm very much looking forward to the video on the royal menagerie.
So do I
@@renater.540 As do I. 🐕
I really enjoyed this one and definitely would be interested in learning more about the working animals, especially horses . There were destriers & hunters & palfreys, that I know exist or existed. Poor little terrier of Mary, Queen of Scots. 🐒😺
Me too. Been asking that..about Henry’s horses. Did he keep a stud. Did he have a favourite. About the courtiers, did they have favourites. Lap dogs, who bred them. What breeds were started then.
18:11 "Beautiful Plumage"
"Plumage don't enter into it!"
It warms the heart to know that Tudor royalty loved their pets as much as we do.
That's definitely a guinea pig! I love piggies, they're my favourite! 🐹🧡
I would love a video on Henry VIII’s horses. Did he have a favorite hunting horse? Jousting horse? Did he ride whatever was available while traveling? Who pulled the royal carriages?
Yes, I am intrigued too
Carriages weren't really so much of a big thing for royalty then. They weren't sprung like 18th and 19th century carriages and so were really jolting and uncomfortable to ride in, especially over a long distance. They were more like wagons. While traveling, most people in the court rode horses or rode in litters, a sort of chair slung on poles between two horses.
I would love a video on the menagerie! 😻
More Tudor pets are always welcome ❤
I like the ferrets in paintings...but I do not want one for my own.
Thank you, very interesting. Looking forward to the Royal Menagerie.🐎🐎
Awww, poor Mary and her little dog 😢 also, the idea of owning a monkey as a pet terrifies me😨
They had small monkeys, not chimpanzees. But you’re right - they make terrible pets. They don’t need or want domestication.
Why were they pulling off her garters? A bit weird.
There is a really funny video on TH-cam called "My Grandpa made Monkeys Illegal in Sweden". In a nutshell why monkeys are not meant to be pets...
As babies spider monkey's are cute and alot of fun but that doesn't last once they go through puberty.
My friend lived with the owner of a wild life sanctuary and a wee spider monkey was rejected by it's mother and the other spider monkeys so they hand raised him.
He was adorable and would ride on the dogs back between the sanctuary and their house up the hill.
One he was old enough he would be reintroduce with other spider monkeys.
I can see why people think they would be wonderful pets because at the start they are if you understand how to care for them but few people think about the future and how unpredictable a monkey can be.
As much as I loved the times I spent with little tooku I'm glad the goal was always reunion and not domestication as a pet.
I had one. It's like having a toddler but one that can literally climb the walls, furniture and curtains
Dogs for me ..🐩🐈⬛.. Thanks Dr Kat .
I am glad that they loved their animals
I have always wanted to learn about Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard's pet dogs and I was reading The Other Boleyn Girl and The Boleyn Inheritance yesterday which reminded me of them. The books themselves don't make much mention of them, Purkoy's only appearance in The Other Boleyn Girl is a brief mention from one of the 1536 chapters where a character states that "they would have interrogated Purkou the dog if he was still alive!". Reading that really reignited my interest in this subject, so this video is perfectly timed!
🐒🐈🐶🦁🐘 a video on the Royal Menagerie would be much appreciated. 😊
🐶 I would love to learn about the working animals please...I really enjoyed this video thank you 🐾
🐶 Miss my old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, love the pupper history!
I would also be interested in working animals. Basically, I'm interested in any video you release - they are always wonderful. Many thanks. 😺🐕🐹 Oh, and I've also found your weekly emails to be much more reliable at notifying me about your videos than TH-cam has been.
Hi Dr. Kat. I hope that you are well. With Spring in the air, I was wondering if you could do a video on Royal gardens. I think it would be a fun topic, and appropriate as the flowers are starting to bloom. Thank you again for all your videos.
You make the Tudors come alive. Thank you 😊 ❤
I would love videos on working animals and the royal menagerie!!
It has been a long time since I've been really excited for a video to come out. This, ma'am, is that long-awaited video! ❤❤❤
I love the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel breed and I have one. Hope to see Charles I and Charles II mentioned sometime about their love of the breed; I believe this spaniel is the only one allowed in Parliament. Love your content!🐕
Yes a video on their working beasts, horses oxen etc would be great!🐈⬛🦌🐐🦙🐿
🐕🐈⬛🐇🐦🐒 Goodness, those Tudor-era courts must have been much noisier & smellier even than I've been imagining!
I would love to see a video on the royal menagerie. Thanks!
Yay fur babies! 🐈⬛🧡
Yes, more animals! I love how Catherine of Aragon's monkey reminds me of Frida Kahlo's self portraits w/ her spider monkey. 🐒🐶🐱
Man they knew how to throw shade so much better back then, than we do today a dog name Gardener dressed in ecclesiastical attire 😅😂 ouch
Very interesting! More animal tales would be also very interesting! 🎉❤👍🐕
🐩 thoroughly loved this video. Please do bring on the further videos of the working animals and beasts (and birds) of the royal menagerie!
🐈
Love your work Dr Kat. I'd be excited to hear what was in the royal menagerie over its time!
Would be stoked to see a follow up, with the 'working animals' & the Royal menagerie -- the Tudors & Stuarts were crazy-fond of hawking & hunting; I read that Elizabeth hunted every other day - also, that while aristocrats & royalty could hunt ahorse, the middling affluent merchant folks & 'new-money'-types, like Shakespeare (son of a prosperous glover) could only hunt on foot...
Fascinating, especially hearing about the way animals (like Purkoy) were used as a form of currency amongst courtiers. Thanks for this; I'd love a video on the royal managerie.
Wonderful video today! 🐶🐱🐒
Very interesting! Love the “everyday” history! 😻😻
Interesting video! Thanks Dr Kat !
The Royal Menagerie sounds like it would be enjoyable. Even the working animals would be of interest. 😺😻😸
Great video on the pets at court. 🐕🦺
I love your videos can you do one on Mary Queen of Scots
please
She's got several, but it NEVER gets old. I could ALSO watch and learn things about her all. Day. Long.
Brava! Fascinating as always. I would love to see a video about the working animals. 🦮
🐈🐕 and. 👑 A perfect combination!
Love this look at Tudor pets 🐕 🙈 🦢
Very cool video, Dr.Kat!! I am absolute huge animal lover. My family is American Midwestern Irish Catholic and my confirmation name when I was a practicing Catholic is Francis Lucille after Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Lucille respectively. Francis is the patron Saint of animals and those who care for them.
I myself have adopted many dogs and cats throughout my lifetime. They're very special little beings whom I love very much and provided me with much joy, comfort, companionship and the deepest love. ❤
Where I reside now in my beachy town in Florida, I am apart of an organization that helps to feed, provide medical care and hopefully a loving and happy home to many of our feral cat population. There are so many colonies of cats on the island. 🌴🐈⬛🐱🐈❤
This was such a fascinating video on a topic near and dear to my heart. I would love hear another video on more animals in history.
❤🦜🐒🐈🐕👑🐕🐈🐒🦜❤
🐮🐖🐴🦌🐈🐫🐍🦕I would love to hear more about working animals, as well as other types of work people did.
The idea of a video on working animals is an exciting one. The video on the royal menagerie would be interesting too, though I expect it might get a little depressing.
I always get a chuckle out of the fact that the Duchess of Suffolk named her dog after Gardiner. The Duchess could get real sassy couldn't she? I would love videos on both the royal menagerie and working animals. 🐶
Love your content! Can't wait ❤❤❤❤❤
What a lovely video! Thank you for sharing this! Is there any record of older royal houses having (named) pets? Would you mind making a video of the working animals and the menagerie? I watched this video with my own dog snoring in the background so I had to turn up the volume up😅
I would definitely enjoy a video on the royal menagerie. 🐱🐒🦮
Would love to see the two "potential future videos". Anything about the history of animals living with/working for/farmed by humans is fascinating.
Other than outrage that any canine should be denied meat for its diet, I've found this to be a really interesting video on early modern pets. I also love that Queen Victoria had a little spaniel named Dash who died soon after she became Queen. She buried him herself at Adelaide Cottage, Windsor and his epitaph reads: Here lies DASH, the favourite spaniel of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, in his 10th year. His attachment was without selfishness, His playfulness without malice, His fidelity without deceit. READER, if you would live beloved and die regretted, profit by the example of DASH. We should all be so lucky to have a companion so beloved. My best beloved pet was a service dog named Jack who died in my arms in his 17th year. It is my belief, not shared by all, that pets and service animals, especially dogs, are essential to living a full life. They remind us to care for others as they care for us, that love is transitory and that being such must be held precious and without guile. So was Jack.🐶🐕
I really enjoyed this! I never considered the possible symbolism in the portraits .
Very interesting video. Although I have been an active fan of the Tudor period much of my life, I did not know very much about the situation with companion animals. Or animals at court, in general. I did understand that there were multiple roaming dogs kept in palaces to eat certain leftovers, and to keep the area clean of food that had been thrown on the ground.
I would enjoy watching videos on the working animals and the menagerie of exotic animals kept in a zoo during the Tudor dynasty. Thank you.
🐈 Lovely video and as always very well told! I vote for both videos, the menagerie of the royals and working animals.💕
Guinea pigs!! That's what I have! Interesting to see what other pets people have. 🐒🐦
Would love to learn more about working animals at the Tudor court!! 🐑 🐴
An Elizabethan rrrrruff.
My dog is a Chihuahua, Mary would have loved her. Thank you for your wonderful presentation!🎉❤
I’m always excited for Friday & my “Dr. Kat time” to find what interesting subject or person you have to tell us about. I learn from you each week!
😺🐶 Pets make royals seem more human and if only in this one instance like us.
Thanks for the great content! 🐶
Enjoying your videos so much! I think we take our modern relationships with animals for granted, and often forget that animals played different roles over the centuries. My favorites are the 🐳and 🦍
Would love videos on both the menagerie and working animals! 🐶🐯🐴
I am also interested in the Royal Menagerie !
Loved this! Thank you Dr Kat 😺. Royal Menagerie please🦁🐯🦓🐻😃
I would absolutely love to learn more about the royal menagerie! And as a cat lover, it would be supremely intriguing to know more about cats in the royal household -- we know Cardinal Wolsey had one, but my understanding is that they weren't a common pet. Oh, and please research foxes, too. Particularly those named Robin. 😊🐈🦊🦄
Actually, Katherine looks beautiful.Look at velvet.
It’s fascinating to me that celebrities and their little lapdogs have been a thing for 500 years. 😂
I would love a video on working animals! Thank you for this video!
Thank you for yet another illuminating video, Dr. Kat. I would love to see a video on favourite Tudor hunting horses and falcons. Edward VI behaved *shamefully* toward one falcon (which horrified his courtiers), but were Tudors generally more attentive to their non-human hunting companions?
I would love to see a video on the Royal Menagerie!
🐕This is not my actual fave - I am a Hound fan! Great session. I have always been curious about people's pets in the Way Back machine.
Hmmm, did that dog really fall out of the window? 🤔
I'd love to hear about the royal menegerie, please 😊
The royal menagerie would be wonderful to hear about.
Your take on working animals would be great
Always have a look see when Dr. Kat makes a new video. 👍🏼
Yes, that would be great to have a video on the Royal Menagerie. As far as pet Monkeys go, they can be quite smelly & can have some disturbing bathroom habits, seems a little prejudicial with respect to larger dogs.
I always think pet names are fascinating. Thanks for sharing this! 🐕
Great video, thanks. I would love to hear about working animals and / or the royal menagerie.
Slightly OT, that portrait of Catherine Howard kind of reminds me of Scarlett Johansson. :)
Honestly, I'm down for any historical animals. I feel like that often gets missed. 🦁🐎
I love to hear more about the animals!🐒🐕
Would love to see more videos on animals of the period!
Recently came across your TH-cam channel and absolutely love your videos!! They really give more insight into the intrigues and intricacies of court life in past times and are a joy as a fellow history lover. Instant subscribe! 😊
I'm fascinated by the menagerie and would love a video on this! 🦁
Thanks that was very interesting.💕💕💕
Yes I would also be interested in the other Animals.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
A goldfinch may have lovely plumage, but not as beautiful as a Norwegian Blue 😎 🐈⬛
Thanks Dr Kat for your educational content!
I would love both of those videos!