Chapter 24: Like a Queen Inter Me
jousted for her: Among the fighters, so John Younge, the Somerset Herald, who wrote the description, noted, “Charles Brandon had right well jousted.” A dozen or so years down the line, Brandon would be the husband of Mary Tudor’s unsanctioned second marriage.
confession . . . never published: Indeed, though both Vergil and the Great Chronicle (both postdating 1502) mention Tyrell’s guilt or at least the possibility thereof, mention of the confession, so dramatically utilized by Shakespeare, can be traced back only as far as Thomas More.
a Miles Forrest was listed: Audrey Williamson, The Mystery of the Princes: An Investigation into a Supposed Murder, 178.
velvet-clad effigy: The effigy is still there in the precincts museum, or part of it, anyway—a bald head, long stripped of its wig and crown, a wooden arm and hand. It looks like nothing so much as a monstrous doll—the broken toy of some giant child. The body of straw-stuffed leather fell victim to a World War II incendiary bomb. The flames took no hold in the vaulted stone room, but the damage was done by water from the firemen’s hoses. The planks of pear-tree wood around which the torso was built started to separate after their wartime saturation, and in 1950 they were “discarded,” as the restorer noted regretfully. But photographs survive and show the “ragged regiment” of the royal effigies in all their macabre glory. For more information, see A. Harvey and R. Mortimer, eds., The Funeral Effigies of Westminster Abbey (Boydell, 1994).
Chapter 25: “Our Noble Mother”
John Fisher: John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (ca. 1469–1535), was the first holder of the Cambridge Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity. Vice chancellor of that university, Fisher (like Sir Thomas More) would be best remembered, and indeed canonized, for his refusal to accept Henry VIII as head of the Church of England, a refusal that sent him to the headsman’s block. For the Mornynge Remembraunce sermon preached a month after Margaret Beaufort’s death, see The English Works of John Fisher.
her daughter Juana: See Julia Fox, Sister Queens: Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile.
Shakespeare never wrote a voice for Margaret Beaufort: He never wrote a Henry VII, of course, though the coauthored Henry VIII takes the story up until the christening of Elizabeth I.
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legacy of works: In Cambridge today, her image is among the parade of academic notables who gaze down over the modern setting of the Graduate Society’s café, the only other woman there besides Rosalind Franklin, the “dark lady” of DNA. Flick through the Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English, and there she is, “Beaufort, Lady Margaret, English translator of religious texts and literary patron,” sandwiched between Simone de Beauvoir and American satirist Ann Beattie.
toward mere domesticity: See the conclusion to Lisa Hilton’s Queens Consort: England’s Medieval Queens.
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