“A dispatch from Chapuys to Charles V, dated 28th January, mentions Anne being pregnant and is backed up by a letter from George Taylor to Lady Lisle, dated 7th April, in which Taylor writes ‘The Queen hath a goodly belly, praying our Lord to send us a prince.’
In July 1534, Anne’s brother George Boleyn, Lord Rochford, was sent on a diplomatic mission to France to ask for a postponement of a meeting between Henry VIII and Francis I because of Anne’s condition. Anne was described as being ‘so far gone with child she could not cross the sea with the King.’ “
“There is yet another mention of Anne’s pregnancy in a letter from Chapuys dated the 27th July. Also, Eric Ives writes of how there is evidence that Henry VIII ordered a silver cradle, decorated with precious stones and Tudor roses, from Cornelius Hayes, his goldsmith, in April 1534 and he would not have spent money on such a cradle if he was not sure that Anne was pregnant.
““It seems very likely that the proposed meeting was cancelled because sometime between 26 June and 2 July, disaster struck – Anne was delivered of a stillborn baby, after which the king[…] left her behind at Hampton Court and commenced his already delayed summer progress.
On 18 July we hear from John Husee that ‘The King is now at Oking [Woking Palace Surrey], and comes hither on Tuesday, and will tarry here and at Eltham till Friday, when he will meet with the Queen at Guildford. Southwark, 18 July.’
The king was planning to visit the Princess Elizabeth at Eltham Palace before joining the queen at Guildford, where they were reunited sometime toward the end of July or the beginning of August. The king and queen had been apart for more than a month, their longest period of separation since 1528, when Anne had retired from court in anticipation of the arrival of Cardinal Campeggio.”
“ The secret of the disaster was so well kept that it was only on 23 September that Chapuys reported that the queen — or “the lady” as he insisted on calling her — was not, after all, to have a child. We have to remember that the ambassador had been out of touch with the court while it was on summer progress. Away from the public eye, with a smaller number of attendants than at other times and with both Anne and Henry desperate to conceal it, total discretion was achieved.
“ – Eric Ives“At The Mercy Of The Queen (2012) has Anne experiencing a stillbirth in late June, and shows us afterwards crying over her son’s body.
“Perfect … he is perfect … see his little fingers, long and slender like my own. And his hair, the color of his father’s. So tiny he is, so frail and helpless … I cannot bear it ! I cannot bear that he never even drew a breath on this earth. Why send him? Why send him to me when he cannot draw one breath?”
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You think you’ve grown great. You think you no longer need me, but you’ve forgotten the most important thing, Cremuel. Those who’ve been made can be unmade.
château d’Anjony / Anjony castle
by OliBac
The fog vanishing at last
Dunno if bobbing the teabag actually helps the tea steep faster but it sure is fun to feel a part of something
She took you when you were just a child.
And I did as much to you.
“Despite the French king having verbally indicated his favour towards the divorce, the university theologians […] had thwarted his wishes and compiled a long list of signatures [against the divorce]. The bulk of Europe was under Imperial control, and the University of Paris was hard to win over.
George [Boleyn] had been sent to try to procure the direct intervention of the French king by means of a written missive. By then, the French court had left for Paris and gone to Dijon, so George set off […] accompanied by a train of courtiers who had been sent to France to accompany him. His aim was to persuade Francis to write to Pierre Lizet, the President of the Parliament of Paris, a man of great power and influence both in Paris and with the Sorbonne.
Stokesley surmised in his letter to Wiltshire that the mission would fail, as Charles V was holding Francis’s two eldest sons as hostages. He felt it highly unlikely Francis would make any direct move, which would, in the circumstances, have the effect of antagonizing Charles.
George was to use every method at his disposal to get Francis to provide direct support. And to the surprise of all, that was exactly what Francis did. George succeeded in obtaining from him a letter instructing President Lizet to dissuade the theologians from disobeying him, and threatening them with punishment if they did so. Francis’s letter is written in the strongest possible terms, saying he is much dissatisfied with those that gave an opinion [against] the King of England’s divorce, and insisting that the fault must be corrected. Francis also promised George that if Beda continued to oppose Henry VIII’s annulment, he would be banished from France.
Remarkably, George, an inexperienced diplomat, had been successful in persuading the King of France to put his full weight behind Henry’s cause, irrespective of the fact that Catherine of Aragon’s nephew was holding Francis’s sons hostage.”
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Do you ever think of how much Anne Brandon was her father’s daughter? Leaving her husband to be with her lover, doing shady/unethical stuff for money, wanting to be at the centre of attention (to the point of making a scene at her step-mothers funeral) etc. It’s as if she got all the the Brandon DNA, and left none for her siblings
Haven’t done much reading on Anne Brandon, but you’re right about the scandal:
Far as I know, Randal Haworth wasn’t her former ward she was guardian of and wasn’t fourteen years old at the time so…I would say I still like her more than Charles Brandon.
Tbh, Charles Brandon is one of those figures that like…the more I learned about him the less I liked him. And Tudors does so much to make him more palatable to viewers– they aged him down, to the point where it looked like Mary Tudor (his third wife) was older than he was (the opposite was definitely true). And while they wrote that he wasn’t faithful to her (idk if that was true, actually), they made it seem like there was a decent length of time between his third and fourth marriage. IRL, he married Willoughby less than three months after Mary’s death.
They also put in a line about Katherine Willoughby being seventeen when he married her (which confused me, at first– why not eighteen– until I remembered that the age of consent in the UK is lower)– in actuality, she was just fourteen, and Brandon was forty-nine years old.
Lol so I saw the Catherine Parr post and it reminded me. My (Catholic) grandma gets lowkey mad every time I say it, but I always call the Church of England Catholic Lite
It’s true and you should say it……
