Identifier: livesofqueensofe03stri (find matches)
Title: Lives of the queens of England : from the Norman conquest ; now first published from official records and other authentic documents, private as well as public
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Strickland, Agnes, 1796-1874
Subjects: Queens -- Great Britain
Publisher: London : H. Colburn
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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th veritable Tudor furniture and decorations, paintings, andcarvings. Some of the most interesting of the Strawberry- ^ Since the three previous editions of this work have been published, I am ableto boast myself of being the possessor of one of these golden ringlets of the royaldead, which Avas most courteously presented to me in a handsome locket byThomas Tm-ner, esq., of Gloucester, during my visit to that hospitable city, July 1848.—A. S. 300 KATHARINE PARR. hill relics of the Henrican era, Holbein portraits and minia-tures, and many other auld knick-knackets/ are assembledin those venerable walls as if by magic,—the magic whichperforms all wonders in the nineteenth centuiy. It is difficult to dismiss the subject of Katharine PaiTwithout repeating that some mark of consideration and grate-ful respect is due, in the shape of a national monument, to thememory of this illustrious English-born queen, to whom thechurch of England owes the preservation of the university ofCambridge,
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^ m^p^ ^TT-n-,-.^^-. iccn MARY, FIRST QUEEN-REGNANT OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND. CHAPTER I. Birth of Mary—Her state-governess—Baptism—Inftmcy—Nursery establisli-ment—Her court in infancy^—Her early musical attainments—Abode atDittou-park—Her presents^—Betrothed to Charles V,— Her tutors—Her be-trothment annulled—Establishment at Ludlow—Her person and mamiers—Attainments—Offered in marriage to Francis I.—Her com*t masques—Com-mencement of her mothers divorce—Reginald Poles defence of her—Maryseparated from her mother—Her dangerous illness—Her parents divorced—Anne Boleyn crowned queen—Katharme of Arragons letter to Mary—Marypresent at the birth of Elizabeth— Marys letters—Resistance to her degrada-tion—Her household at Beaulieu broken up—Calamitous reverses—Her lifethreatened—Death of her mother queen Katharine. Mary, our first queen-regnant, was the only child of HenryVIII. and Katharine of AiTagon who reached maturity; shefirst s

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