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ooc: Googled it - maaaan what a load of - well “propaganda” is a nice term. :-p

I know, that is putting it kindly.

Though I’ve been doing some reading up on the concept of “Tudor Propaganda,” and have come across some pretty convincing stuff that argues that the notion that the Tydder’s admin promoted an active agenda of propaganda blackening Richard III’s legacy is largely false. This really surprised me!

But even more interesting is the point that this author made that Henry’s policy was basically “we don’t talk about that shit” and was more devoted to obscuring the known facts rather than actively manipulating them. Which was its own kind of propaganda, I guess. So a good example is the fact that when Henry’s first parliament repealed the Titulus Regius act of 1484, not only did they not read the act aloud, or even refer specifically to the contents of it, but every copy of it was ordered to be destroyed, or turned in to the authorities for destruction, on pain of serious fines or forfeiture.

A lot of other interesting stuff in the article as well, especially wrt the complete non-treatment of the missing sons of Edward IV during Henry’s reign. The ref: C. S. L. Davies, “Information, Disinformation, and political knowledge under Henry VII and early Henry VIII” Historical Research 85:228 (2012), 228-53.

It’s really pretty fascinating, and makes the point that the Polydore Vergil and Thomas More versions of the events of 1483-85 didn’t gain wide circulation until the 1530s and 1540s.

My mind was pretty blown. I may even have done the dramatic forehead slap a couple of times.

She is a paradise

-Sebastian Giustinian, Venetian Ambassador to Henry VIII

John Jackson by Sir David Wilkie (Scottish: 1785-1841) circa 1815-20. Coloured chalk on paper

“Mary and her half sister Elizabeth had never been reconciled, and to the end Mary had cherished hopes of producing an heir to succeed her. For sometime though, she had known that ‘the eyes and hearts of the nation already fixed on this lady as successor to the crown’. Eventually, she had no choice but to accept the harsh reality -motherhood had evaded her-and with considerable reluctance, on 6 November she acknowledged Elizabeth as her heir, to the great joy of the people. The twenty five year old Elizabeth, now became Queen Elizabeth I of England, According to her admirer Camden, who always spoke favourbly of her she was ‘of beauty fair and worthy of a Crown/ On the day of her accession it was reported that 'the bells in all the churches in London rung out in a token of joy and at night bonfires were made and tables set out in the streets, where plentiful eating and drinking and making merry"”

— Elizabeth’s Rival: The Tumultuous Life of The Countess Of Leicester, Nicola Tallis (via glorianas)

The White Princess episode 6 | Perkin Warbeck and Cathy Gordon ✥

LILY LESSER as PRINCESS MARY in WOLF HALL