Queen Mary I died when Mary Grey was 12, and Elizabeth I took over. In 1573 Mary left the Gresham household for good, 'with all her books and rubbish', as Sir Thomas put it. She was also a dwarf, had one of the greatest love stories ever told, and continued to thrive even after being sent to jail. Her short stature is often commented upon, and given that due to nutrition most people of this time period were under five feet, Mary would have had to be quite a bit shorter than that for her size to be so significant to others.
The too frequent usage of “like” is unnecessary and diminishes the text’s integrity and substance, as do the vulgar slang terms. Please respect your own vast knowledge of history and writing talent enough not to rely on vulgarities or slang to make your work appealing (which is, I assume, why you do it). This was all theoretical, though, as when Henry died, his teen son Edward became King and if anything happened to him, Henry’s own daughters Mary and Elizabeth would come next in the line of succession. Mary unfortunately fell ill, and passed away on April 20th, aged 33. Elizabeth saw both Katherine and her two sons as threats to her rule, and so she declared the boys illegitimate and sent Katherine to jail as a fornicator (which was a crime back then). According to De Lisle, the records of Mary's funeral had lain in obscurity since her death until they were rediscovered by De Lisle in connection with research for her book on the Grey sisters. Seeing what had become of her sisters, it certainly may have been wise to pretend not to understand the scheming constantly going on around her. By February 1573 she was established in a house of her own in London in St Botolph's Without Aldgate, and by the end of 1577 she had been rehabilitated to the extent that she was appointed one of the Queen's Maids of Honour. When Jane's accession failed due to a lack of popular support, she, her young husband Guildford Dudley and her father, the Duke of Suffolk were executed by Edward's elder sister and successor Mary I, in February 1554. [6], Since Queen Elizabeth was childless, the two surviving Grey sisters were next in the line of succession under King Henry VIII's will, and were not permitted to marry without the Queen's permission. If Lady Mary Grey is recalled today, it is as a historical footnote. Her father Henry Grey was the son of Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset and Margaret Wotton, her grandfather Thomas Grey was the grandson of Queen Elizabeth Woodville, by her first marriage to Sir John Grey of Groby. In spite of the intrigues involving her sisters, it does not appear that Mary Grey ever made a serious claim to the throne. And these two were, for sure, because why else would they specifically go behind the Queen’s back to get married? All three girls were raised to the highest standards of their time, with lessons both in the humanities as well as instruction on how to run a household. Found your blog a couple week ago and have been devouring the historical essays whenever I get the chance. To my thinking, she was a fighter, smart, determined and courageous, and used these qualities to her advantage as much as possible, but all in all, she was dealt a bad hand and her life story panned out as tragedy. She died three days later on 20 April 1578, aged 33. The offence is very great'. But her younger sisters, Katherine and Mary, were still alive and, for family tree reasons, were still heirs to the throne. RIP, Lady Mary Grey. As long as she was alive and Elizabeth didn’t have any children, Katherine was — even in jail — heir to the throne. The room she was kept in is now known as The Prison Room, and you can still see some drawings and writing she left on the walls while she was in there, going out of her mind with boredom and terror. In August 1567 Mary was sent, still under house arrest, to live with her step-grandmother, Katherine, Duchess of Suffolk, whom Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, had married after the death of Mary's grandmother, Mary Tudor. With Katherine Grey's death Mary was brought to relative prominence as the last surviving grandchild of Mary Tudor. Yet, like both her sisters, Mary’s proximity to power affected the course of her life. I wonder how Mary’s life can be summed up as lovely. Moreover Mary was described by the Spanish ambassador as 'little, crook-backed and very ugly', Mary was so small it has been conjectured she was a dwarf, while Keyes stood 6 feet 8 inches tall.
According to De Lisle, it is possible that she had starved herself to death. Mary Grey took tea with everybody? The nonfiction book The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The tragedy of Mary, Katherine and Lady Jane Grey by Leanda de Lisle also offers a great in-depth exploration of the lives of all three sisters. After her death, according to the terms of Henry VIII's will, the chief claimant became Margaret Stanley, Countess of Derby, the only surviving child of Eleanor Brandon, second daughter of Henry VIII's younger sister, Mary Tudor. And? However, Queen Elizabeth, who had acceded to the throne in November 1558, appointed Mary Grey as one of her Maids of Honour and granted her a pension of £80. Mary Grey hung out with her friends and family, riding her carriage around, just being a glamorous and independent single lady. The newly crowned Queen Elizabeth I was 25 years old and unmarried, and again, everyone was mostly relieved because obviously she’d have a bunch of kids soon and all these crises of inheritance could be avoided. However, King Henry VIII's will had excluded the Stuart line from the English succession, placing the Grey sisters next-in-line after his own children, Edward, Mary and Elizabeth. Similar to the ancient Roman Emperor Claudius (of I, Claudius fame), those around her likely underestimated her intelligence due to their preconceptions of what her physical features meant. [4] After Queen Mary's accession Mary Grey's betrothal to Arthur Grey was dissolved. Her life was short but lovely, and I wish she could have lived so much longer, but it does seem like she truly made the most of what life threw at her and never stopped striving for something better. Keyes was from a minor gentry family in Kent, was more than twice Mary's age, and was a widower with six or seven children. What a shitty situation. Her stay with the Greshams was an unhappy one, however, as Sir Thomas was now half blind and in constant physical pain, and his wife, Anne, bitterly resented Mary's presence in the household. As the ceremony had been performed by a priest who was never subsequently identified, and the only witness was Seymour's sister, Lady Jane Seymour, who died shortly after the marriage, the Queen was able to treat the marriage as though it had never taken place, and eventually obtained a declaration on 12 March 1563 that the marriage was invalid, and that Katherine's eldest son by Seymour was illegitimate. Like no way, tea was like introduced to England like nearly 90 years later. The Queen confined Mary to house arrest with William Hawtrey (d. 1597) at Chequers in Buckinghamshire, where she remained for two years,[16] while Keyes was committed to the Fleet. But until Elizabeth had a child, her official heirs were… Katherine, and then Mary Grey. Queen Mary I was 37 years old when she took over, with plenty of time to have heirs of her own. In 1571, six years after the wedding, Thomas Keyes died from imprisonment-related health problems. When King Edward VI died on 6 July 1553, he left a Will (approved by John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland) naming Mary's eldest sister, Jane, recently married to Northumberland's son Guildford Dudley, to succeed to the throne.
In April 1578, while plague was raging in London, Mary became ill, and drew up her will. Having learned from her sister's experience, Mary took the precaution of having three of her cousins attend as witnesses, her childhood friend, Mary Willoughby,[11] now the wife of Sir Matthew Arundell, and two of the daughters of Lady Stafford. In 1577, Mary Grey got her goal when Elizabeth I appointed her Maid of Honor to the Queen — the same gig Mary’d had back in the day for Queen Mary I. Elizabeth was like, “Thing is, you have to use your maiden name and can’t ever mention anything about ever being married because you weren’t ever married, were you?” And Mary was like, “Married? I can’t remember anything like that happening,” and things were great. Mary Grey was described as the smallest person at court, crooked backed and 'very ugly'. Lady Mary Grey: Dwarf, Youngest Sister, Star-Crossed Lover, Tudor Heiress, The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The tragedy of Mary, Katherine and Lady Jane Grey, Isabella of Castile: Part One: The Exiled Madwoman's Daughter | Ann Foster, Mary Tudor: Little Sister, Reluctant Queen, Love Warrior – Ann Foster, Tudor Heiress Lady Anne Stanley and the Castlehaven Rape Trial – Ann Foster, Lady Katherine Grey: The Epic Love Story Of A Forgotten Tudor Heiress – Ann Foster.
Catherine was the younger sister of the ill fated Lady Jane Grey 'the nine days Queen of England'. She also likely had scoliosis, giving her a crooked or hunched back. After her death, according to the terms of Henry VIII's will, the chief claimant became Margaret Stanley, Countess of Derby, the only surviving child of Eleanor Brandon, second daughter of Henry VIII's younger sister, Mary Tudor.[25]. The news was delivered to Mary Grey in person, and she was inconsolable. Mary's mother, Frances Brandon, took a second husband, on 1st March 1555 she married , Adrian Stokes, her master of the horse. I love reading your take on it as it makes their stories (history) come to life.
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