Historical portraits (1909) (14764108174)

Identifier: historicalportra00walk (find matches)
Title: Historical portraits ..
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Walker, Emery, Sir, 1851-1933 Fletcher, C. R. L. (Charles Robert Leslie), 1857-1934 Butler, H. B. (Harold Beresford), 1883-1951
Subjects: Portrait painting
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon press
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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later life. Her earliest friends appear to have been the aged Lady Salisbury, niece of King Edward IV, and that lady's son, Reginald Pole: both these, as well as her saintly mother, would nourish her in hatred of everything savouring of heresy or of the breach with Rome. Endless marriages—French, Spanish, Portu-guese, German-Protestant of several varieties—were proposed for the Princess, who, until her mothers divorce began to be mooted, was recognized as unquestioned heir to the Crown and often spoken of as Princess of Wales; indeed at one time she kept a little Court at Ludlow, as former Princes of Wales had done. The person to whom she was affianced for the longest time was her future husbands father, the Emperor Charles V: the most revolting suggestion made, when Henry was pushing on the divorce, was that a Papal dispensation should be procured to marry her to his own natural son, the Duke of Richmond. The divorce entailed her banishment from Court, and at last, in 1531, her final separation
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MARY IFrom the porlrait by Joannes Corvus in the National Portrait Gallery Faic 6. 60 MARY I 6i from her mother. Henceforth, until the fall of Anne Boleyn, shewas subject to endless humiliations, and even for long afterthat continued to be styled The Lady Mary, the Kings naturaldaughter. Both Queen Anne and Cromwell were said to havedesigns upon her life; but Queen Jane and Queen Katharine IIItreated her with warm kindness, and, in the summer of 1536, shebowed to the inevitable, begged pardon of her father for offencesshe had never committed, and, at the end of the year, was restoredto his favour. Danger came for her again when the northern rebelsin 1537 demanded her recognition as heiress; and in the next fewyears she saw her dearest friends, of the families of Pole andCourtenay, perishing on the scaffold or driven into exile. But in1544, perhaps owing to the influence of good Katharine Parr, shewas named in Henrys will as next to Edward in the succession,though no formal recognition