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periwimkle	unknown or little known facts Mar 5 2010, 1:27 PM EST \| Post edited: Mar 5 2010, 1:27 PM EST I would like to start a thread of interesting, but little known facts about the Tudor era. I`ll start:According to the book; "Kings and Queens of England, A dark history" by Brenda Ralph Lewis, concerning the execution of Mary Queen of Scots......................She endured two strokes of the axe...........Her lips stirred up and down a quarter of an hour after her head was cut off. One of the executioners espied her little dog which had crept under her clothes....which could not be gotten forth with force, yet afterward would not depart from the dead corpse........but came and lay between her head and shoulders which were soaked with her blood. Post reply 6 out of 6 found this valuable. Do you find this valuable? Do you? Keyword tags: Mary Queen of Scots Tudor pets Tudor trivia
MsSquirrly	1. RE: unknown or little known facts Mar 5 2010, 1:41 PM EST \| Post edited: Mar 5 2010, 1:41 PM EST "I would like to start a thread of interesting, but little known facts about the Tudor era. I`ll start:According to the book; "Kings and Queens of England, A dark history" by Brenda Ralph Lewis, concerning the execution of Mary Queen of Scots......................She endured two strokes of the axe...........Her lips stirred up and down a quarter of an hour after her head was cut off. One of the executioners espied her little dog which had crept under her clothes....which could not be gotten forth with force, yet afterward would not depart from the dead corpse........but came and lay between her head and shoulders which were soaked with her blood." The little dog was a skye terrier and it had to be dragged away and washed. It is said that it refused to eat and pined away and died soon after. Check out the Pets page here on the wiki : http://tudorswiki.sho.com/page/PETS+of+the+Tudors Post reply 2 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you find this valuable? Do you?
henry's7thwife	2. RE: unknown or little known facts Mar 5 2010, 2:05 PM EST \| Post edited: Mar 5 2010, 2:05 PM EST shudder A more cheerful doggy story. Catherine Willoughby had a dog called Gardiner. The lady must have hated him some! Post reply 4 out of 4 found this valuable. Do you find this valuable? Do you?
TheLadyTudor	3. RE: unknown or little known facts Mar 5 2010, 2:09 PM EST \| Post edited: Mar 5 2010, 2:09 PM EST "shudder A more cheerful doggy story. Catherine Willoughby had a dog called Gardiner. The lady must have hated him some! " Okay, my little known fact is: Catherine of Aragon posed as both Mary Magdalene and the Virgin Mary for two portraits during her teenage years: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3020/3111671150_fda9497a44.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3653/3650913983_b689a9a018.jpg Post reply 9 out of 9 found this valuable. Do you find this valuable? Do you?
MsSquirrly	4. RE: unknown or little known facts Mar 5 2010, 3:03 PM EST \| Post edited: Mar 5 2010, 3:03 PM EST "shudder A more cheerful doggy story. Catherine Willoughby had a dog called Gardiner. The lady must have hated him some! " Thanks! I had forgotten about that ...and added Catherine's dog to the Pets page. Post reply Do you find this valuable?
periwimkle	5. RE: unknown or little known facts Mar 5 2010, 4:50 PM EST \| Post edited: Mar 5 2010, 4:50 PM EST The Queen forgives.... The Earl of Oxford (Edward de Vere) making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a fart at which he was so abashed that he went to travel for seven years. At his returne the queen welcomed him home and sayd, "My Lord, I had forgot the fart". source The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes edited by Elizabeth Longford. Post reply 6 out of 6 found this valuable. Do you find this valuable? Do you?
Kittywake09	6. RE: unknown or little known facts Mar 5 2010, 5:37 PM EST \| Post edited: Mar 5 2010, 5:37 PM EST "The Queen forgives.... The Earl of Oxford (Edward de Vere) making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a fart at which he was so abashed that he went to travel for seven years. At his returne the queen welcomed him home and sayd, "My Lord, I had forgot the fart". source The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes edited by Elizabeth Longford. " LMAO .......thanks periwimkle Post reply 3 out of 3 found this valuable. Do you find this valuable? Do you?
MsSquirrly	7. RE: unknown or little known facts Mar 5 2010, 5:52 PM EST \| Post edited: Mar 5 2010, 5:52 PM EST "The Queen forgives.... The Earl of Oxford (Edward de Vere) making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a fart at which he was so abashed that he went to travel for seven years. At his returne the queen welcomed him home and sayd, "My Lord, I had forgot the fart". source The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes edited by Elizabeth Longford. " hahaha 7 years? Now thats what I call embarassment. And then the queen mentions it! Too funny. Post reply Do you find this valuable?
periwimkle	8. RE: unknown or little known facts Mar 5 2010, 5:53 PM EST \| Post edited: Mar 5 2010, 5:53 PM EST "LMAO .......thanks periwimkle" awwww thanks......I have many more. Post reply Do you find this valuable?
Kittywake09	9. RE: unknown or little known facts Mar 5 2010, 5:58 PM EST \| Post edited: Mar 5 2010, 5:58 PM EST "awwww thanks......I have many more." tell us please...... Post reply Do you find this valuable?
periwimkle	10. RE: unknown or little known facts Mar 5 2010, 8:30 PM EST \| Post edited: Mar 5 2010, 8:30 PM EST "awwww thanks......I have many more." Pope Sixtus V on Elizabeth`s excecution of Mary......... "What a valiant woman. She braves the two greatest kings by land and sea...........It`s a pity that Elizabeth and I cannot marry: our children would have ruled the whole world" Post reply 4 out of 4 found this valuable. Do you find this valuable? Do you?
neemarita	11. RE: unknown or little known facts Mar 5 2010, 8:51 PM EST \| Post edited: Mar 5 2010, 8:51 PM EST "shudder A more cheerful doggy story. Catherine Willoughby had a dog called Gardiner. The lady must have hated him some! " She dressed him up in doggie Bishop's robes. I'm sure it pissed him off, LOL. Post reply 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you find this valuable? Do you?
periwimkle	12. RE: unknown or little known facts Mar 5 2010, 9:05 PM EST \| Post edited: Mar 5 2010, 9:05 PM EST "tell us please...... " Mary`s ignoranceof the world. One day Mary overheard her Lord Chamberlain say to her lady-in-waiting, Francis Neville, as he tickled her under her chin.."My pretty ***, how dost thou?" A few minutes later Mary called for Francis to fix her farthigale and as the girl knelt to do so , Mary said "God-a Mercy, my pretty *. When Mary explained to the deeply embarrassed Francis that she had only used the expression because she had heard the Lord Chamberlain use it, Francis replied.." My Lord Chamberlain is an idle gentleman, and we respect not that he saith or doth; but Your Majesty.........doth amaze me either in jest or earnest to be called so by you. A *** is a wicked, misliving woman". Post reply 2 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you find this valuable? Do you?
periwimkle	13. RE: unknown or little known facts Mar 5 2010, 9:06 PM EST \| Post edited: Mar 5 2010, 9:06 PM EST "She dressed him up in doggie Bishop's robes. I'm sure it pissed him off, LOL. " I`m sure it did. lol Post reply Do you find this valuable?
henry's7thwife	14. RE: unknown or little known facts Mar 5 2010, 11:55 PM EST "The Queen forgives.... The Earl of Oxford (Edward de Vere) making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a fart at which he was so abashed that he went to travel for seven years. At his returne the queen welcomed him home and sayd, "My Lord, I had forgot the fart". source The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes edited by Elizabeth Longford. " I love this!! Poor Earl! Elizabeth was WICKED, lmao! Post reply Do you find this valuable?
Elliemental	15. RE: unknown or little known facts Mar 7 2010, 8:19 PM EST \| Post edited: Mar 7 2010, 8:19 PM EST Another little known fact is that the tomb that was commissioned by Henry VIII which was built, but never used, was instead given to legendary British naval commander, Horatio Nelson. Post reply 2 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you find this valuable? Do you?
angelosdaughter	16. RE: unknown or little known facts Mar 7 2010, 11:55 PM EST "She dressed him up in doggie Bishop's robes. I'm sure it pissed him off, LOL. " Catherine Willoughby, although the daughter of KOA's dear friend and confidant Maria de Salinas became one of the leading lights of Protestantism in England. Post reply 3 out of 3 found this valuable. Do you find this valuable? Do you?
LNor19	17. RE: unknown or little known facts Mar 8 2010, 8:51 AM EST \| Post edited: Mar 8 2010, 8:52 AM EST Fashion facts: (Next to Jane Seymour, my other passion is the history of fashion, lol) -Black was traditionally a reserved color, Anne Boleyn made it a fashionable color. -Katharine of Aragon is claimed to be responsible for the Spanish Fartingale apperance in England. -Of the fews records that exist when Jane Seymour was Queen, most involve fabrics, furs, and jewels. In her two years she had over 24 monogram rings made (How many 'J' or loveknot rings can you have?) -Mary I was a tiny woman, when she became Queen she began to wear the early version of 'high heels', they would become popular in England from there on out. -Elizabeth I loved unique jewels, she had a spider brooch that looked so much like a real spider that her courtiers would try to bat it off her. Post reply 8 out of 8 found this valuable. Do you find this valuable? Do you?
TheLadyTudor	18. RE: unknown or little known facts Mar 8 2010, 11:20 AM EST "Another little known fact is that the tomb that was commissioned by Henry VIII which was built, but never used, was instead given to legendary British naval commander, Horatio Nelson." Was this part of the set of tombs he was planning for him and COA before the Great Matter? Post reply Do you find this valuable?
Nofretete	19. RE: unknown or little known facts Mar 8 2010, 11:36 AM EST "Mary`s ignoranceof the world. One day Mary overheard her Lord Chamberlain say to her lady-in-waiting, Francis Neville, as he tickled her under her chin.."My pretty ***, how dost thou?" A few minutes later Mary called for Francis to fix her farthigale and as the girl knelt to do so , Mary said "God-a Mercy, my pretty *. When Mary explained to the deeply embarrassed Francis that she had only used the expression because she had heard the Lord Chamberlain use it, Francis replied.." My Lord Chamberlain is an idle gentleman, and we respect not that he saith or doth; but Your Majesty.........doth amaze me either in jest or earnest to be called so by you. A *** is a wicked, misliving woman"." Really hard to believe she was actually that naive! lol BTW: I think you mean Frances? Francis is a guy's name. Post reply Do you find this valuable?

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