Selective accounts of Queen Elizabeth’s payments.[April 1502]

It is [Katherine of Valois]'s refusal to submit to male authority, as much as her wish to remarry, that lays her open to the accusation that she was governed by her lust, because her behaviour, from the lords’ perspective, was unwise, ill-advised, and reckless. In addition to Katherine’s disobedience they likely also felt disappointed in her. She had been married to a revered king, around whose memory an intense culture of commemoration flourished. Even without the potential problem of an influential stepfather for Henry VI, Katherine’s wish to marry any man, let alone a mere Welsh squire, was a profound betrayal of Henry V’s memory.

Katherine J. Lewis, “Katherine of Valois: The Vicissitudes of Reputation” | Later Plantagenet and the Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty (2023)

It is conceivable that Katherine’s actions were viewed by those lords as proof of her wrongheadedness and expressed by them in the misogynistic terms conveyed by the chronicler. While this may have been how Katherine was regarded by some at court, there is no evidence that this was how she was viewed more widely. As noted above, her marriage was not publicly known, and she was not in disgrace.

♕ Queens who served as Regent of Scotland (during part of their child’s minority)

Headcanons for Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Katherine Parr in OT3 and OT4 verse?

The one thing I know about Katherine Howard right now is that Henry Mannox and Francis Dereham both fall into a ditch or something + partly due to her relative remaining Queen she has a much much better upbringing and education.

Katherine Parr shows up briefly in the first version of the OT3 verse as a governess to Owen, Edmund and Pippa but I’m slowly expanding her role - I borrowed the idea of her marrying the Duke of Norfolk’s son from @eidetictelekinetic - Kate Parr comes to court to be Mary Tudors lady in waiting, because their mothers were friends and they do in fact also become friends here. In theory she was supposed to be betrothed to a much older man but falling for and marrying the Earl of Surrey trumped that.

Anne of Cleves is currently a big mystery - I was toying with the idea of her marrying someone in England but I genuinely do not know who it might be. I will work something out though.

For OT4 verse:

Katherine Howard getting to have a loving husband and wife. It’s actually not entirely impossible that in this world, she marries the son of Charles Brandon and Mary Rose Tudor.

Katherine Parr ending up with Dorothy Seymour instead of Thomas Seymour is in fact my dream now I have thought of it.

Anne of Cleves I genuinely have no idea what she is doing in OT4 verse.

Elizabeth of York, wife of King Henry VII, mother of King Henry VIII

Between the Sylki Arranged Marriage AU and the Sylki Adultery AU and the thing I wrote for Sifki Week I feel like you and I are seeing into the parallel timeline where I am a successful yet reclusive author of filthy historical novels where the words "manhood" and "seed" get used more than they should (i.e. more than never) BUT the underwear that's being cast off in a lust-filled frenzy would be mostly accurate, and I'd be avoiding Goodreads in case I found out that this was not the secret behind the sales of what the supermarket book aisles advertise as "like Alison Weir but the characters fuck at least once every three chapters."

In the Source Link, you will find a complete gif pack of Amy James-Kelly in Blood, Sex and Royalty: Anne Boleyn Part 1. Amy plays the role of Anne Boleyn over the course of her late teens to the end of her life.

Anne Boleyn was the mother of Queen Elizabeth I in Tudor history, she was also part of the reason for the creation of The Church of England by King Henry VIII. Anne Boleyn was the second of six wives to Henry VIII. Her older sister had been one of many mistresses of Henry and Anne refused to allow herself to become another throwaway mistress. As such Henry began to pursue an annulment from his first wife, which was declined and so, Henry and his advisors began to breakdown the rule of the Catholic Church in England, and Henry took control of the Church of England. Anne was later charged with incest, treason and adultery and was beheaded on Tower Hill, London Tower on Friday 19th May 1536, a little under the 3rd anniversary of her crowning. Anne was also the maternal cousin of Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII, and coincidently, Catherine was also found guilty of adultery and was beheaded like her cousin.

Source - FabledEnigma

Who do you think is the most successful of Henry’s wives child bearing aside??

I don't know how to measure success? 'Survived' is obviously Parr and to a greater extent Anne of Cleves, so that's sort of the Game of Thrones answer.

Anne Boleyn was, however, a greater landowner than her predecessor, and, actually, a greater landowner than any other Tudor consort. So, if we measure success by that, ie power held during the reign, not necessarily over time or the length of reign, I suppose it would be her?

“I would not have you to think that this mine honest goodwill towards you to proceed of any sudden motion or passion.” For her mind “had been fully bent the other time I was at liberty to marry you before any man I know.”

—Katheryn Parr, Dowager Queen of England, in a letter to Thomas Seymour, Lord Admiral of England and Baron Sudeley.

This excerpt is found in “Edward VI: The Lost King of England”.

the guys are very much enjoying the world cup

International Queens/Empress Consorts (1/?)

Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland (28 November 1489-18 October 1541)

Daughter of King Herny VII and Elizabeth of York

Mother of James Stewart (Duke of Rothesay), Arthur Stewart (Duke of Rothesay), James V or Scotland, Alexander Stewart (Duke of Ross), Margaret Stewart (Countess of Lennox) and Dorothea Stewart

Wife of James IV of Scotland (m. 1503; died 1513), Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (m. 1514; div 1527), and Henry Stewart, 1st Lord Methven (m. 1527)

Mother-in-law of Madeleine of France, Mary of Guise, and Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox

Grandmother of James (Duke of Rothesay), Athur or Robert (Duke of Albany), Mary Stuart (Queen of Scots), James Stewart (Commander of Kelso and Melrose), James Stewart (1st Earl of Moray), Adam Stewart (Prior of Perth), James Stewart, John Stewart (Commander of Coldingham), Jean Stewart, Robert Stewart (1st Earl of Orkney; Commander of Holyrood), Henry Stewart (Lord Darnley), and Charles Stuart (1st Earl of Lennox)

Please specify, I’d love to see your pick!

Therefore, while the marriage only became public knowledge after Katherine’s death (the earliest chronicle reference comes from the early 1440s), it was certainly known to the council before that. The idea that the marriage was entirely secret until 1436, that on its discovery Katherine was forcibly separated from Owen and her children then sent to Bermondsey Abbey, where she died in misery and disgrace, is a later invention. Katherine was ill and likely went to Bermondsey to receive medical treatment. Days before she died, Henry sent his mother a New Year’s gift of a gold bejewelled tablet engraved with a crucifix.

— Katherine J. Lewis, “Katherine of Valois: The Vicissitudes of Reputation” | Later Plantagenet and the Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty (2023)

“In death, Jane became the ultimate consort; unblemished (especially in the eyes of her capricious and tyrannical husband), ever young, and the mother of a surviving son. Instead of merely being the wife who ‘died’ and in recognition of her saint-like life — which went beyond the medieval ideal of saintly queenship — Jane should actually be remembered as the wife who was (effectively) canonised.”

Aidan Norrie, ‘Jane Seymour: Saintly Queen’, Tudor and Stuart Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty (Queenship and Power)

Dutiful and demure, Catherine Parr was Henry VIII's sixth & last wife

“The lowest born woman ever to become queen of England, she was a quiet success in the role. Jane took direct control of her household and lands, secured her stepdaughter’s rehabilitation and, crucially, bore a son. Although only queen for eighteen months, she remains the model of the perfect Tudor queen consort.” (Elizabeth Norton, Six Queens: Passion and Peril at the Court of Henry VIII)