Thanks again Claire for a great reading. After I get my 92 year old Mom to bed, your TH-cam post is the first thing I go to. I am so enjoying this! Have a great day!
I often wonder how Elizabeth felt being in the tower....it must have been a frightening experience for her. Thanks, Claire! Thanks also for the book recommendations.
I grew up a few miles from Ashridge Forest and spent many hours as a child walking and playing there with my family. As I grew up I frequently rode in the forest and for a short while my horse was stabled a stone’s throw from the stunning woodland. I have many happy memories of the forest but I had no idea that the estate used to belong to Elizabeth I. I feel a little cheated that I was never taught this in history at school and thoroughly ashamed that I didn’t know this, although I guess I can plead a little ignorance; my interest in history as a child and young adult is nothing like it is now. I have always loved that forest and I know that I’m by no means the only person to have walked, played, rode and driven among the Queen’s grounds but this is something I found out about just a few short minutes ago so forgive me if I’m childishly chuffed to bits :D
Why do you say that? When she dragged her feet and Mary had to actually send guards to get her, she didn’t immediately put her in the tower. I believe that if Elizabeth went immediately and flung herself at her sisters mercy she may never have gone into the tower. Elizabeth made the error here
I wanted to thank you for these wonderful videos! I'm a huge fan of your books and your work! I'm a massive nerd around this time period and I find your work to be such a glorious collection of source materials, history, and, (for me personally) joy.
Hi! January 26 is my grandmother's birthday. What a nice way to spend some time celebrating it. She passed in 1982, but she's still huge part of my life. Thank you for the book suggestions. They look very interesting. I will have to hunt them down! I think you are a day ahead of us here in the states. So I hope you are enjoying your weekend. Here in Wisconsin, we have -30 Fahrenheit wind chills. So watching your Tudor videos are a nice way to spend the weekend. Take care, sending peace & love. ✌💙🙋🏰🎪👸👑
Today is also the birthday of my sister (my very best friend) and my Aunt. And it's also the birthday of my Grandmother (who also has passed away). It seems as if today is a birthday for very dear people! I am in Maine, so I understand the joy of a Tudor video when the temperatures outside are frigid! I hope you are also cuddled under soft blankets. Well wishes, Tammy.
Thank you for doing these videos! My first school project was on “Bloody Mary” and I did a drawing of her. The more I learn, the more I feel like history has been hard on her. Unlike her father and sister she wasn’t executing close friends and family (Anne Boleyn, Thomas More, Cromwell, Mary Queen of Scots....), but doing what she thought was right according to her faith (not to say that excuses those deaths, which were horrific). And Elizabeth was a very smart girl who managed to escape harm from a sister who probably had mixed feelings about her.
Mary did have her cousin, Lady Jane Grey executed, even though she was reluctant to do so. She realized that Jane was a pawn of her unscrupulous father and father in law, but Mary was eager to marry Philip of Spain and had to eliminate any threats to her position before the Spaniards would agree to the marriage. So Jane got the axe. Years later, Elizabeth was just as reluctant to have Mary Stuart executed, but Mary had plotted against Elizabeth and Elizabeth's advisers pressured her to sign the death warrant. Also, even though Mary Stuart was a cousin, Elizabeth had never met her in person (the movie got that part wrong) while Mary Tudor knew her young cousin Jane Grey very well.
@@ladyv5655 Jane Grey's death was too harsh as was the murder of her husband and Dad. I think if Mary had truly pardoned her, and left the non-Catholics alone, she would be better remembered and respected. But unfortunately, Mary chose to kill her cousin and those people who chose not to be Catholics. Those people are true martyrs and I hope that they are at peace in Paradise, and that their suffering is over. Mary has earned her title of Bloody Mary.
What I find ironic is that mary tudor literally saved her sister’s ass when she could’ve easily set up a court, got her convicted and executed (just like daddy would do), but she didn’t. she released her and she became the next queen. But then what did Elizabeth do? I know she struggled mightily, Oh God she struggled, but ultimately she executed Catholic Mary Queen of Scots for really the same reasons who was the heir.she did not show their cousin mercy the way her half sister showed her and you’re going on about Lady Jane Grey?
hello , thank you for the recommendations.........I have read starkeys book . I always thought elizabeth's begging off going to court , at mary's behest , was a stroke of guts and genius . she obviously suspected something not good , to come of it . it was a good thing that mary did not execute her , just because............dudley ended up there too with her , interesting.............thank you for the share...............
I find the rivalry between Mary and Elizabeth to be extremely tragic. Mary being mistreated by her father and Elizabeth meanwhile only was neglected but then favorited (though not anywhere near as close as thier brother Edward)must have really drove a wedge between the two half sisters. Queen Mary's paranoia and her catholic supporters wanting her sister Princess Elizabeth dead only made matters worse. I can only hope that the two half sisters are finally at peace now.
Hi Claire, hoping you see this comment even though it is on an older video. I was wondering if there are any biographies of Mary I that you particularly recommend? I have been eyeing the one by Anna Whitelock in particular.
🇭🇲🦘 Although Elizabeth did write to her sister Queen Mary asking to be excused due to ill health, and given Elizabeth was later taken to the Tower for interrogation, I don't believe that she was involved in planning the said plot (although may have known of it). Elizabeth was no fool, but I'm sure quite terrified for her life whilst in the Tower before being released into House arrest. I believe it to be NO coincidence that Elizabeth's release happened on the very same date that her mother (Anne Boleyn) had been executed. Mary would have been aware of this, and most likely had it arranged to have her sister released on that very day, as a warning to her, that unless she 'towed the line' as Mary's subject, that she may face a similar fate to that of her late mother. If so, a cruel double warning to her sister. Elizabeth would have continued to live in fear of her life (I believe). Thank you Claire. 🔔👑👍
On another note and subject.......during the 1550's in, other videos you mention that England was always trying for an alliance with France. Why? Why is that? Why was England trying so hard for an alliance with France?
@@reneenayfabnaynay5679 It was a good read, & as a lifelong Anne Boleyn fan, it made me see Katharine in a whole new (& very sympathetic) light. Enjoy! 📘
It's hard to say how they felt about each other. Their letters are always polite but I'm not sure that they were very close. There was a large age gap.
@@anneboleynfiles Personally, I believe that the only thing which stood between Elizabeth & death throughout her half-sister's reign was the fact that Mary loved her. Cut off from her father & mother, denied a marriage & children of her own, she turned to Elizabeth whenever she could after Anne Boleyn's execution to have someone on whom to lavish the ample love she had to give. When Jane Seymour & later Katherine Parr encouraged a real family life for the king & his children at court, she was happy to be united to her similarly motherless half siblings, Elizabeth & Edward. The poor woman was desperate to have someone to love. And, one by one, all of them were taken away or abandoned her - - - except Elizabeth, who survived her. Why? Because Mary must have loved her. I cannot believe otherwise. Only love could have stood fast against enlightened self-interest & the badgering of her advisors, all constantly advocating the necessity of eliminating a potential rival for the throne. A heretic. A focus of dissent. The daughter of the wicked woman who bewitched Mary's father, tortured her mother, & humiliated Mary herself. An ever-present danger to the true faith & to Mary's crown. And yet, Elizabeth lived. Why other, than because Mary had no one else left to love. 💔
@@h.calvert3165 I think it would also have affected Mary's popularity and standing at home and in Europe if she had executed Elizabeth. It may well have provoked rebellion from the Protestants in the country too.
@@anneboleynfiles so heart breaking. Of course Elizabeth is hailed as a great queen and me and my daughter certainly agree with that, but we always had a soft spot for Mary and wished things would have turned out better for her, considering her past treatment and how her mother was treated.
In those days. Marriage interest between a couple. Would have been seen as the actual marriage. Elizabeth was a unmarried maid. And. It would have been unseemly for her to to go to court. Until the matronly part of the marriage had been reached.
@@anneboleynfiles I think the wording of Elizabeth's letter was wise, but if you read between the lines, Elizabeth was saying, "Sister, if you think I'm going to visit you, think again." Mary wasn't buying it, since she sent her doctors to check on Elizabeth. I don't doubt that E. was ill, probably due to stress and I have read she likely suffered from migraines. The ladies had good reason to mistrust each other.
I have mixed feelings about Mary I. While I agree that her childhood was a terrible tragedy dealing with the situation that she was born into, and then I do empathize with her during the time her Dad and half-siblings were alive. However, once she rightly and justly corrected the false information her Dad and brother had said of her saying that she was illegitimate, she made a fatal mistake in continuing in the false Christian religion of Catholicism and marrying Philip. For her, it was a terrible disaster to do both of those and yes, she IS responsible for the murders of not only those innocent people who were not Catholics, even if some of them were justified like Thomas Cramer - who was a false teacher at the end of the day, she also murdered her cousin Jane Grey and her husband, knowing that Jane had not intended to be the queen and had said that Mary was the rightful heir to the throne. Nonetheless, she accused and condemned her cousin Jane and her Dad, and Jane's husband. My heart goes out to those poor people who were beheaded, burned alive and murdered cruelly by Mary, though Mary refused to realize this - so the reality is that yes, she did earn that title of Bloody Mary. However, I do feel sorry for her that she never got the true romantic stable love she sought for and that Philip abandoned her and cheated on her in the same way that her Dad to her mother. She died learning that she was wrong to murder and marry Philip far too late.
That was an excellent account of a very dodgy event that snowballed Into a very dangerous and personal crisis between the two sisters from a different mother, one fraught with traumatic history and terrible loss, resentment, humiliation and mistrust, but one, I would assert, Queen Mary actually took pains to handle with care and fairness, and as we will see going forward, continued to handle her relationship with Elizabeth with care, thoughtfulness and fairness because of her duty and obligation as queen. I don’t think mary liked Elizabeth at all. She could’ve even hated her. But you must remember mary was a very pious woman and that’s why she is called “bloody Mary” because in her deep faith she did murder many English people who were leaders and protestants because in her mind she needed to save her people from heresy. her subjects were as much her subjects as they were Elizabeth’s subjects; she felt protective of and responsible to them, just as her mother, the suppose it “Spanish queen“ Catherine who had left Spain in her childhood and never returned, was extremely devoted as queen to her people, even when her husband humiliated her and exiled her she never left England and she never would say that she was not the queen. She was well loved as was Mary and there was no conflict of interest here in terms of their loyalties. Mary cared about being a good and righteous queen; and always showed that except in matters of love, desperate love, where she made errors in her judgment which cost her dearly, even though she took great efforts to reassure the people he would never become their king because it was in their contract as he was Spanish. But you can see why, given this rebellion, it confirmed that the protestants wanted her dead and they were going to cause an insurrection against a legitimate queen. The main question here, like Donald Trump, is what did Elizabeth know and when did she know it? Because we must assume she knew absolutely nothing about the plan for the insurrection to depose her sister, imprison her, and likely try, convictand execute her, just (as Elizabeth ultimately did to their cousin, Mary Queen of Scots. Almost the same situation and she got rid of her). Mary Tudor did not extinguish her rival, and I’m even wondering if she figured out if she had executed Elizabeth and even died childless, the crown would’ve gone to marry queen of Scots a Catholic! And she still did not execute her protestant sister.. And I believe after this event and certainly as the years went on at some level decided that she wasn’t going to get rid of her because she was next in line for the throne and her sense of duty impropriety would’ve been unless Elizabeth did something really stupid, she would assume the crown After Mary died, despite knowing that her dream to return the people of England to the true faith according to her would not stand. Mary really wasn’t that revengeful she wasn’t full of rage she was thoughtful and what she did in the situation. And here’s why. Mary wasn’t screwing around when she heard that some allies of her sisters we’re going to try to overthrow her. She didn’t accuse her of anything she told her “come to the palace. I need to talk to you.“ And Elizabeth either in her immaturity or her guilt Donald and try to get out of it that does not make her look good. It probably would’ve been better for her to immediately leave go to her sister plead for her life on her knees below her. But she didn’t do that Mary how do you send guards to get her. And even then, she put her in Whitehall first which I think sounds pretty comfortable and then ultimately the tower and she was only in there for 2 months. Mary her the evidence, and she rendered her judgment based on the evidence she had. I’m sure she had her doubts grave doubts but it wasn’t enough to kill her sister even though a more political or ruthless sister might certainly do that to get rid of her “problem.“ But in her wisdom, and in her sense of duty, she released her and I think it is quite poignant that she released her on the day of her mothers death by beheading by their father. Somehow I see that as a prayer. As forgiveness and as a recognition that they were both terribly traumatized by their own father and it was a good thing for her to be released from that prison because that was the day thatElizabeths prison of trauma, mistrust, terrible loss began so many years ago. I think there was another side to Elizabeth who recognized her younger sisters trauma knew what it was about and had some degree of compassion for her. Again she did not like her at all and she hated her mother. But she knew she was the kings daughter, she might’ve thought she was an illegitimate daughter but nevertheless she was it and to keep that line going I believe she kept Elizabeth alive.
Mary was, at one time, betrothed to Philip's father, so Henry did not care about consanguinity...I suspect that Mary was not an interesting proposition for ANYONE once her mother was deposed/divorced/rendered unwed. Henry was not always her supporter either. He would not have bothered marrying her off. Her questionable legitimacy meant that she could not marry anyone...and she wanted a Catholic bridegroom.
I thought Henry VIII did try (perhaps reluctantly) to find a several husbands for Mary but many “appropriate” candidates did not respond favorably to the suggestion because of the question of her illegitimacy & also her age.
Thanks again Claire for a great reading. After I get my 92 year old Mom to bed, your TH-cam post is the first thing I go to. I am so enjoying this! Have a great day!
I often wonder how Elizabeth felt being in the tower....it must have been a frightening experience for her. Thanks, Claire! Thanks also for the book recommendations.
I grew up a few miles from Ashridge Forest and spent many hours as a child walking and playing there with my family. As I grew up I frequently rode in the forest and for a short while my horse was stabled a stone’s throw from the stunning woodland. I have many happy memories of the forest but I had no idea that the estate used to belong to Elizabeth I. I feel a little cheated that I was never taught this in history at school and thoroughly ashamed that I didn’t know this, although I guess I can plead a little ignorance; my interest in history as a child and young adult is nothing like it is now. I have always loved that forest and I know that I’m by no means the only person to have walked, played, rode and driven among the Queen’s grounds but this is something I found out about just a few short minutes ago so forgive me if I’m childishly chuffed to bits :D
Elizabeth would have been located in the tower for her own protection😕 I'm glad she feined illness at that time.😔
Why do you say that? When she dragged her feet and Mary had to actually send guards to get her, she didn’t immediately put her in the tower. I believe that if Elizabeth went immediately and flung herself at her sisters mercy she may never have gone into the tower. Elizabeth made the error here
So glad u decided to do the videos everyday!
I wanted to thank you for these wonderful videos! I'm a huge fan of your books and your work! I'm a massive nerd around this time period and I find your work to be such a glorious collection of source materials, history, and, (for me personally) joy.
Thank you so much for your kind words, they made my day!
Thank you so much for presenting Tudor history in such a delightful way. It's become one of my "daily routines" watching a few episodes.
Still loving these videos....Tudor passion ever since I was 9 or 10 years on...40 years on still one of my passions 😀...Keep it coming Claire XX
I have read David Starkey's book. Thanks for the other recommendations.
Your background is so calming to me, not too much but just enough to not look empty! Great videos can’t wait to watch all year😃
Hi! January 26 is my grandmother's birthday. What a nice way to spend some time celebrating it. She passed in 1982, but she's still huge part of my life. Thank you for the book suggestions. They look very interesting. I will have to hunt them down! I think you are a day ahead of us here in the states. So I hope you are enjoying your weekend. Here in Wisconsin, we have -30 Fahrenheit wind chills. So watching your Tudor videos are a nice way to spend the weekend. Take care, sending peace & love. ✌💙🙋🏰🎪👸👑
Today is also the birthday of my sister (my very best friend) and my Aunt. And it's also the birthday of my Grandmother (who also has passed away). It seems as if today is a birthday for very dear people! I am in Maine, so I understand the joy of a Tudor video when the temperatures outside are frigid! I hope you are also cuddled under soft blankets. Well wishes, Tammy.
That's ok, I'm glad that you enjoyed finding out about what happened on this anniversary for you.
Thank you so much for the recommendations of other reads. Look forward to getting my daily dose of Claire 👸 Queen of Tudor History.
You are aN endless resource OF EDUCATION AND illumination . THANK YOu!
Thank you so much!
Intrigue between royals continue. Elizabeth was lucky to escape or dodge the bullet as we say in America. Another information packed video.
As always another great story!!!
Thank you for the book recommendations!
Thank you for doing these videos! My first school project was on “Bloody Mary” and I did a drawing of her. The more I learn, the more I feel like history has been hard on her. Unlike her father and sister she wasn’t executing close friends and family (Anne Boleyn, Thomas More, Cromwell, Mary Queen of Scots....), but doing what she thought was right according to her faith (not to say that excuses those deaths, which were horrific). And Elizabeth was a very smart girl who managed to escape harm from a sister who probably had mixed feelings about her.
Mary did have her cousin, Lady Jane Grey executed, even though she was reluctant to do so. She realized that Jane was a pawn of her unscrupulous father and father in law, but Mary was eager to marry Philip of Spain and had to eliminate any threats to her position before the Spaniards would agree to the marriage. So Jane got the axe. Years later, Elizabeth was just as reluctant to have Mary Stuart executed, but Mary had plotted against Elizabeth and Elizabeth's advisers pressured her to sign the death warrant. Also, even though Mary Stuart was a cousin, Elizabeth had never met her in person (the movie got that part wrong) while Mary Tudor knew her young cousin Jane Grey very well.
@@ladyv5655 Jane Grey's death was too harsh as was the murder of her husband and Dad. I think if Mary had truly pardoned her, and left the non-Catholics alone, she would be better remembered and respected. But unfortunately, Mary chose to kill her cousin and those people who chose not to be Catholics. Those people are true martyrs and I hope that they are at peace in Paradise, and that their suffering is over. Mary has earned her title of Bloody Mary.
Elizabeth was sly and political like her mother. Mary was pious and serious minded like her mother.
What I find ironic is that mary tudor literally saved her sister’s ass when she could’ve easily set up a court, got her convicted and executed (just like daddy would do), but she didn’t. she released her and she became the next queen. But then what did Elizabeth do? I know she struggled mightily,
Oh God she struggled, but ultimately she executed Catholic Mary Queen of Scots for really the same reasons who was the heir.she did not show their cousin mercy the way her half sister showed her and you’re going on about Lady Jane Grey?
@@pbohearn You do realize Mary was influenced by Philip to spare Elizabeth, even though Mary wanted Elizabeth dead.
hello , thank you for the recommendations.........I have read starkeys book . I always thought elizabeth's begging off going to court , at mary's behest , was a stroke of guts and genius . she obviously suspected something not good , to come of it . it was a good thing that mary did not execute her , just because............dudley ended up there too with her , interesting.............thank you for the share...............
Thank you Claire!!
I find the rivalry between Mary and Elizabeth to be extremely tragic. Mary being mistreated by her father and Elizabeth meanwhile only was neglected but then favorited (though not anywhere near as close as thier brother Edward)must have really drove a wedge between the two half sisters. Queen Mary's paranoia and her catholic supporters wanting her sister Princess Elizabeth dead only made matters worse. I can only hope that the two half sisters are finally at peace now.
Hi Claire, hoping you see this comment even though it is on an older video. I was wondering if there are any biographies of Mary I that you particularly recommend? I have been eyeing the one by Anna Whitelock in particular.
I enjoyed those by Anna Whitelock, Linda Porter and David Loades. All very good.
🇭🇲🦘 Although Elizabeth did write to her sister Queen Mary asking to be excused due to ill health, and given Elizabeth was later taken to the Tower for interrogation, I don't believe that she was involved in planning the said plot (although may have known of it). Elizabeth was no fool, but I'm sure quite terrified for her life whilst in the Tower before being released into House arrest.
I believe it to be NO coincidence that Elizabeth's release happened on the very same date that her mother (Anne Boleyn) had been executed. Mary would have been aware of this, and most likely had it arranged to have her sister released on that very day, as a warning to her, that unless she 'towed the line' as Mary's subject, that she may face a similar fate to that of her late mother. If so, a cruel double warning to her sister. Elizabeth would have continued to live in fear of her life (I believe).
Thank you Claire. 🔔👑👍
On another note and subject.......during the 1550's in, other videos you mention that England was always trying for an alliance with France. Why? Why is that? Why was England trying so hard for an alliance with France?
Claire, have you read, A Crown for Elizabeth by, Mary M Luke?
No, is it good?
@@anneboleynfiles oh yes! I've read it twice!
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I loved her biography of Katharine of Aragon, Katharine, the Queen. 👑
@@h.calvert3165 I will have to check it out. 😊
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It was a good read, & as a lifelong Anne Boleyn fan, it made me see Katharine in a whole new (& very sympathetic) light. Enjoy! 📘
Is there any evidence, either before or after Henry's death that Mary and Elizabeth cared for one another?
It's hard to say how they felt about each other. Their letters are always polite but I'm not sure that they were very close. There was a large age gap.
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Personally, I believe that the only thing which stood between Elizabeth & death throughout her half-sister's reign was the fact that Mary loved her. Cut off from her father & mother, denied a marriage & children of her own, she turned to Elizabeth whenever she could after Anne Boleyn's execution to have someone on whom to lavish the ample love she had to give. When Jane Seymour & later Katherine Parr encouraged a real family life for the king & his children at court, she was happy to be united to her similarly motherless half siblings, Elizabeth & Edward. The poor woman was desperate to have someone to love. And, one by one, all of them were taken away or abandoned her - - - except Elizabeth, who survived her. Why? Because Mary must have loved her. I cannot believe otherwise. Only love could have stood fast against enlightened self-interest & the badgering of her advisors, all constantly advocating the necessity of eliminating a potential rival for the throne. A heretic. A focus of dissent. The daughter of the wicked woman who bewitched Mary's father, tortured her mother, & humiliated Mary herself. An ever-present danger to the true faith & to Mary's crown. And yet, Elizabeth lived. Why other, than because Mary had no one else left to love. 💔
@@h.calvert3165 I think it would also have affected Mary's popularity and standing at home and in Europe if she had executed Elizabeth. It may well have provoked rebellion from the Protestants in the country too.
@@anneboleynfiles so heart breaking. Of course Elizabeth is hailed as a great queen and me and my daughter certainly agree with that, but we always had a soft spot for Mary and wished things would have turned out better for her, considering her past treatment and how her mother was treated.
In those days. Marriage interest between a couple. Would have been seen as the actual marriage. Elizabeth was a unmarried maid. And. It would have been unseemly for her to to go to court. Until the matronly part of the marriage had been reached.
Do you think Elizabeth’s reply to Queen Mary was wise or do you think that the wording made Queen Mary distrust her more? To Anne Boleyn Files.
I think her wording was wise. What do you think?
@@anneboleynfiles I think the wording of Elizabeth's letter was wise, but if you read between the lines, Elizabeth was saying, "Sister, if you think I'm going to visit you, think again." Mary wasn't buying it, since she sent her doctors to check on Elizabeth. I don't doubt that E. was ill, probably due to stress and I have read she likely suffered from migraines. The ladies had good reason to mistrust each other.
@@6falconsue Yes, I think Elizabeth did all she could, a diplomatic letter.
When the queen calls, you don’t say no, 😂you have a headache
Good morning!
Its a horrible thing to say but it's a good thing for Elizabeth her sister was a sickly thing
I have mixed feelings about Mary I. While I agree that her childhood was a terrible tragedy dealing with the situation that she was born into, and then I do empathize with her during the time her Dad and half-siblings were alive. However, once she rightly and justly corrected the false information her Dad and brother had said of her saying that she was illegitimate, she made a fatal mistake in continuing in the false Christian religion of Catholicism and marrying Philip. For her, it was a terrible disaster to do both of those and yes, she IS responsible for the murders of not only those innocent people who were not Catholics, even if some of them were justified like Thomas Cramer - who was a false teacher at the end of the day, she also murdered her cousin Jane Grey and her husband, knowing that Jane had not intended to be the queen and had said that Mary was the rightful heir to the throne. Nonetheless, she accused and condemned her cousin Jane and her Dad, and Jane's husband. My heart goes out to those poor people who were beheaded, burned alive and murdered cruelly by Mary, though Mary refused to realize this - so the reality is that yes, she did earn that title of Bloody Mary. However, I do feel sorry for her that she never got the true romantic stable love she sought for and that Philip abandoned her and cheated on her in the same way that her Dad to her mother. She died learning that she was wrong to murder and marry Philip far too late.
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Do you believe that Elizabeth was implicated in the Wyatt rebellion?
One enjoys your videos!
Sibling rivalry run amok!
What castle did Queen Mary grow up in when she was in France? Would love to visit the castle.
Phillip was a lousy choice. Mary was a Spaniard and Catholic, both awful attributes for England. Was Mary right in the head?
That was an excellent account of a very dodgy event that snowballed Into a very dangerous and personal crisis between the two sisters from a different mother, one fraught with traumatic history and terrible loss, resentment, humiliation and mistrust, but one, I would assert, Queen Mary actually took pains to handle with care and fairness, and as we will see going forward, continued to handle her relationship with Elizabeth with care, thoughtfulness and fairness because of her duty and obligation as queen. I don’t think mary liked Elizabeth at all. She could’ve even hated her. But you must remember mary was a very pious woman and that’s why she is called “bloody Mary” because in her deep faith she did murder many English people who were leaders and protestants because in her mind she needed to save her people from heresy. her subjects were as much her subjects as they were Elizabeth’s subjects; she felt protective of and responsible to them, just as her mother, the suppose it “Spanish queen“ Catherine who had left Spain in her childhood and never returned, was extremely devoted as queen to her people, even when her husband humiliated her and exiled her she never left England and she never would say that she was not the queen. She was well loved as was Mary and there was no conflict of interest here in terms of their loyalties. Mary cared about being a good and righteous queen; and always showed that except in matters of love, desperate love, where she made errors in her judgment which cost her dearly, even though she took great efforts to reassure the people he would never become their king because it was in their contract as he was Spanish.
But you can see why, given this rebellion, it confirmed that the protestants wanted her dead and they were going to cause an insurrection against a legitimate queen.
The main question here, like Donald Trump, is what did Elizabeth know and when did she know it? Because we must assume she knew absolutely nothing about the plan for the insurrection to depose her sister, imprison her, and likely try, convictand execute her, just (as Elizabeth ultimately did to their cousin, Mary Queen of Scots. Almost the same situation and she got rid of her). Mary Tudor did not extinguish her rival, and I’m even wondering if she figured out if she had executed Elizabeth and even died childless, the crown would’ve gone to marry queen of Scots a Catholic! And she still did not execute her protestant sister.. And I believe after this event and certainly as the years went on at some level decided that she wasn’t going to get rid of her because she was next in line for the throne and her sense of duty impropriety would’ve been unless Elizabeth did something really stupid, she would assume the crown
After Mary died, despite knowing that her dream to return the people of England to the true faith according to her would not stand. Mary really wasn’t that revengeful she wasn’t full of rage she was thoughtful and what she did in the situation. And here’s why. Mary wasn’t screwing around when she heard that some allies of her sisters we’re going to try to overthrow her. She didn’t accuse her of anything she told her “come to the palace. I need to talk to you.“ And Elizabeth either in her immaturity or her guilt Donald and try to get out of it that does not make her look good. It probably would’ve been better for her to immediately leave go to her sister plead for her life on her knees below her. But she didn’t do that Mary how do you send guards to get her. And even then, she put her in Whitehall first which I think sounds pretty comfortable and then ultimately the tower and she was only in there for 2 months. Mary her the evidence, and she rendered her judgment based on the evidence she had. I’m sure she had her doubts grave doubts but it wasn’t enough to kill her sister even though a more political or ruthless sister might certainly do that to get rid of her “problem.“ But in her wisdom, and in her sense of duty, she released her and I think it is quite poignant that she released her on the day of her mothers death by beheading by their father. Somehow I see that as a prayer. As forgiveness and as a recognition that they were both terribly traumatized by their own father and it was a good thing for her to be released from that prison because that was the day thatElizabeths prison of trauma, mistrust, terrible loss began so many years ago. I think there was another side to Elizabeth who recognized her younger sisters trauma knew what it was about and had some degree of compassion for her. Again she did not like her at all and she hated her mother. But she knew she was the kings daughter, she might’ve thought she was an illegitimate daughter but nevertheless she was it and to keep that line going I believe she kept Elizabeth alive.
Id never realised Mary and Philip were cousins. Also wondered why her father Henry V111 never arranged a marriage for her
Mary was, at one time, betrothed to Philip's father, so Henry did not care about consanguinity...I suspect that Mary was not an interesting proposition for ANYONE once her mother was deposed/divorced/rendered unwed. Henry was not always her supporter either. He would not have bothered marrying her off. Her questionable legitimacy meant that she could not marry anyone...and she wanted a Catholic bridegroom.
I thought Henry VIII did try (perhaps reluctantly) to find a several husbands for Mary but many “appropriate” candidates did not respond favorably to the suggestion because of the question of her illegitimacy & also her age.
I disliked this because it's my homework in the half term