The White Princess Episode 6| Perkin Warbeck And Cathy Gordon

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

“During the first year of her marriage, Anne perceived no diminution in Henry’s attachment. The birth of a daughter, however contrary to his anticipations, [did not reduce] his tenderness [towards her]; and he received, with becoming gratitude, the infant Elizabeth, who was universally acknowledged his presumptive heiress.”

— Memoirs of the Life of Anne Boleyn, Vol II. Elizabeth Benger (1821)

‘Comparing Anne Boleyn and Katherine of Aragon in a way that is unfavorable to the latter is evil and sexist’ yeah, well, Katherine of Aragon partisans do this all the time with her elder sister so :)

Jane Seymour: portrayals in period dramas (requested by @belledearie)

Mary was born on the 18th of February 1516 in the Palace of Placentia in Greenwhich. She was the only child of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII to live past infancy. Mary’s gender would continue to be an issue for Henry who would divorce her mother in 1533 thus declaring Mary illegitimate and barring her from the throne. Henry would marry four more times and finally produce his longed for son Edward in 1537. Her brother Edward would not reign long and die at only 15 in 1553 not before writing Mary and their sister Elizabeth out of his will in favour of their cousin Lady Jane Grey. However Jane would not be accepted as queen and was deposed on the July 19th 1553 after only nine days. Mary was finally crowned on October 1st 1553, she would be the very first queen regnant of England.