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Speaker 1: Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio

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Speaker 1: and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Minkie. Listener discretion is advised.

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Speaker 1: When Mary Tudor was seventeen years old, she was summoned

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Speaker 1: back to court after years of exile. Her letters to

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Speaker 1: her father, the King, had been going unanswered or given

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Speaker 1: kurt reply by one of his courtiers. Mary was forbidden

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Speaker 1: to even write to her mother, Catherine, who had obediently

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Speaker 1: accepted exile at the hands of her husband, but who

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Speaker 1: still refused to accept that their marriage had not been

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Speaker 1: valid in the eyes of God. Young Mary, their teenage daughter,

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Speaker 1: had been sent to live in the dreary palace of

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Speaker 1: Hudson House in Hertfordshire, isolated her staff, and her connections

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Speaker 1: to the outside world slowly diminishing. Her mother, Catherine had

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Speaker 1: been sent even further to a drearier, colder and lonelier place.

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Speaker 1: They said her health was failing, and so while a

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Speaker 1: letter inviting Mary back to court might have seemed promising

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Speaker 1: a return to prominence for the young girl who had

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Speaker 1: that she was coming back only as an exercise in humiliation.

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Speaker 1: Even though the Pope had it dissolved Henry the Eighth's

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Speaker 1: first marriage, Henry had broken from Rome and declared himself

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Speaker 1: head of the Church of England. With that, he proclaimed

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Speaker 1: that his marriage to Catherine had never been valid, and

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Speaker 1: then he privately married the woman with whom he had

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Speaker 1: already been infatuated with for years, Anne Boleyn. The creation

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Speaker 1: of the Church of England is one of the major

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Speaker 1: seismic events of European history, with massive ramifications across the globe,

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Speaker 1: but one of its first victims was the young teenage

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Speaker 1: Mary Tudor. The princess was informed by her father's men

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Speaker 1: that she was retroactively a bastard, that she was no

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Speaker 1: to Hatfield, not to reconcile with her father, but to

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Speaker 1: serve as a maid for her new infant half sister, Elizabeth. King.

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Speaker 1: Henry believed that isolating and humiliating his former wife Katherine

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Speaker 1: and their daughter Mary would be the way to get

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Speaker 1: the proud Catholic women to renounce their positions. They were

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Speaker 1: and they were guilty reminders that his gambit with Anne

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Speaker 1: Boleyn was becoming a desperate one. Mary Tudor would outlast

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Speaker 1: Anne Boleyn and go on to become England's first female

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Speaker 1: of twelfth century Empress Matilda and the nine day attempted

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Speaker 1: coup that crowned Jane Gray. The conflict between Mary's mother

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Speaker 1: between Catholicism and Protestantism would define not only Mary's teenage

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Speaker 1: years but also her brief reign as queen. Today she's

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Speaker 1: most commonly known as Bloody Mary, but in her lifetime,

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Speaker 1: Princess Mary Tudor was a girl whose life was torn

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Speaker 1: noble blood. Princess Mary was born in fifteen sixteen beneath

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Speaker 1: arms for her father, King Henry the Eighth and her mother,

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Speaker 1: Queen Catherine of Arragon. Mary was christened with the name

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Speaker 1: of Henry's favorite sister and The chapel was lushly decorated

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Speaker 1: for her baptism with jewel incrusted tapestries. Mary was baptized

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Speaker 1: Catholic and a fond used exclusively for royalty. Her birth

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Speaker 1: was a source of joy, but it was also a

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Speaker 1: source of tension and disappointment. She wasn't the son her

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Speaker 1: been trying for seven years to produce an heir, ever

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Speaker 1: since Henry, then just eighteen years old, had chosen to

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Speaker 1: Catherine had originally been married to Henry's older brother, Arthur

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Speaker 1: Arthur was dead and Catherine was stranded in England, all

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Speaker 1: came in as her Knight in Shining Armor to marry her.

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Speaker 1: She was twenty three. Because she had been married to

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Speaker 1: The people and Henry rejoiced they had a beautiful, patient,

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Speaker 1: but the months continued and no baby appeared. She had miscarried,

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Speaker 1: though her belly had remained swollen with an infection, a

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Speaker 1: so the pregnancy and birth of the future Princess Mary

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Speaker 1: was an event of tremendous superstition and anxiety. The birthing

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Speaker 1: of course he was disappointed, well, Henry hit it well. Already.

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Speaker 1: The ambassadors were making snyde remarks about how we would

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Speaker 1: If it be a daughter this time, God willing sons

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Speaker 1: may follow. In the meantime, the young Princess Mary was

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Speaker 1: She had an everyday cradle and another cradle, a cradle

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Speaker 1: the two became so close that Mary came to see

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Speaker 1: He called her his pearl, and he frequently delighted in

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Speaker 1: her future marriage. When Mary was two, she was engaged

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Speaker 1: Charles five, an alliance against the French. The relationship between

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Speaker 1: England and the Holy Roman Empire was essential in Henry's

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Speaker 1: ambitions to reclaim his ancient birthright the French throne. Charles

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Speaker 1: agreed that with marrying Mary, he would back an English

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Speaker 1: not understand why she was so enthused. Charles has what

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Speaker 1: is generously referred to as a habsburg chin, But Charles

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Speaker 1: the Fifth shared the fondness for his young cousin. When

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Speaker 1: Rather than break up his engagement with Mary outright, Charles

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Speaker 1: and so the betrothal was broken. Almost immediately, Charles married

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Speaker 1: no longer destined to become her husband. Her mother, Catherine

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Speaker 1: was heartbroken as well. The end of the betrothal meant

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Speaker 1: loss of that engagement would be the least of their worries.

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Speaker 1: Henry was nervous. The War of the Roses the devastating

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Speaker 1: civil war between the Yorks and the Lancasters was still

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Speaker 1: within living memory. Some still suggested that Henry's father, Henry

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Speaker 1: the seventh, was a usurper. Without an air and a

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Speaker 1: there was no indication that the country would accept a

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Speaker 1: yet because he was being punished. In Leviticus, the Bible says,

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Speaker 1: And sure they weren't childless, but not having a son

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Speaker 1: was as good as being child lost for a king.

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Speaker 1: There were rumors that Queen Catherine had stopped menstruating. It

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Speaker 1: woman named Anne Boleyn had arrived at court, dazzling wit

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Speaker 1: got to say goodbye to her mother. Just four months later,

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Speaker 1: Anne Boleyn was beheaded. Their downfalls had coincided in the end.

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Speaker 1: Two weeks after Anne Boleyn's death, Mary had a new stepmom,

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Speaker 1: at least, she was given her own household and her

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Speaker 1: until she became queen in her own right. Her loyalty

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Speaker 1: to her mother, her fervent dedication to Catholicism, they were

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Speaker 1: the keys to protecting her title, but in the end

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Speaker 1: they might also have been the factors that contributed to

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Speaker 1: her downfall. Mary's younger half sister would also become queen,

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Speaker 1: of course, the future Elizabeth, the first. The two of them,

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Speaker 1: Mary and Elizabeth would be in their lifetimes both allies

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Speaker 1: and enemies, but that's a story for a later episode.

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Speaker 1: That was the story of young Princess Mary Tutor. But

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Speaker 1: keep listening after a brief sponsor break to hear a

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Speaker 1: little bit more about one of the main side characters

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Speaker 1: in this story. It's at this point in the show

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Speaker 1: that I usually offer a tidbit about where the story

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Speaker 1: went from there. But I'm so fascinated about Mary's life,

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Speaker 1: and there's so much to say about her after she

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Speaker 1: the wealthy Countess Salisbury, Margaret Pole, Well, she had her

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Speaker 1: After King Henry's death during the reign of his son

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Speaker 1: the Ape had fired a French swordsman to expertly remove

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Speaker 1: Anne Boleyn's head. The Countess of Salisbury, Margaret Pole, was

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Speaker 1: offered no such grace. She was given an inexperienced axemen

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Speaker 1: who required so many thrusts to cut through Salisbury spine

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Speaker 1: that her neck and shoulders were hacked to pieces before

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Speaker 1: she was dead. Sorry to leave you on such a

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Speaker 1: gruesome bummer of a note, but this is, after all,

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Speaker 1: a podcast called Noble Blood. Noble Blood is a production

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Speaker 1: of I Heart Radio and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Minky.

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Speaker 1: The show was written and hosted by Dana Schwartz and

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Speaker 1: produced by Aaron Mankey, Matt Frederick, Alex Williams, and Trevor Young.

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Speaker 1: Noble Blood is on social media at Noble Blood Tales,

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Speaker 1: and you can learn more about the show over at

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Speaker 1: Noble blood tails dot com. For more podcasts from I

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