Mary Was So Sweet And Affectionate. Shes Everything I Hoped She Would Be. It Seems To Be No Wonder Shes

Mary was so sweet and affectionate. She’s everything I hoped she would be. It seems to be no wonder she’s so marvelously beloved for her virtue and goodness in the hearts of the people.

Catherine Beauclerk, Duchess of St Albans (14 October 1742 – 4 September 1789) was a British noblewoman. She was Duchess of St Albans through her marriage.

Virgin and Child, Andrea Mantegna, 1485-1491, Cleveland Museum of Art: Prints

Size: Sheet: 25.8 x 24 cm (10 3/16 x 9 7/16 in.) Medium: engraving

https://clevelandart.org/art/1956.741

Detail of Self Portrait by Arcangela Paladini. Oil on canvas, 1621.

And the Katherine who could sob that she had barely enough cash to clothe herself, and who professed that she had 'suffered martyrdom' for her country and her family, managed to secure sufficient resources to buy books for her beloved confessor. She also berated her chamberlain for trying to stop her from selling plate 'to satisfy the follies of the friar', as Fuensalida put it.

Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana of Castile

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[42/??] Colin O’Donoghue as Duke Philip of Bavaria in The Tudors (2009)

↳ “I was told before that [Princess Mary] was charming, intelligent, well-read, gracious - a true heir of Katharine of Aragon, a true Princess. But nothing prepared me for her beauty - a beauty that comes from inside. To me she is the most beautiful creature on God’s earth.”