Royal Marriage Secrets

by John Ashdown-Hill

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  ODNB – see Websites

  Ormrod, W.M., ‘Alice Perrrers and John Salisbury’ – see http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/content/CXXIII/501/379.full

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  NEWSPAPERS

  The Sydney Morning Herald, NSW, Wednesday 13 June 1866

  The New York Times, 2 February 1911

  Evening Post, New Zealand, 14 Poutûterangi [March] 1911

  UNPUBLISHED SOURCES

  Matteoni, F., Blood Beliefs in Early Modern Europe, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Hertfordshire 2009

  WEBSITES

  Catholic Encyclopedia, http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04264a.htm (consulted February 2012)

  http://archive.catholicherald.co.uk/article/5th-july-1985/7/the-fitzherrerts-five (consulted June 2012) http://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/tribune/trib10031937/trib10031937009.pdf (consulted March 2012)

  http://australianpolitics.com/democracy-and-politics/act-of-settlement-1701 (consulted June 2012)

  http://blog.theukweddingshows.co.uk/wedding-industry/2008-uk-wedding-industry-statistics-43/ (consulted January 2012)

  http://chschaucer.wetpaint.com/page/The+Wife+of+Bath+Translation (consulted January 2012)

  http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/marriage (consulted January 2012).

  http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mistress (consulted February 2012)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_FitzRoy (consulted February 2012)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_I,_Duke_of_Brittany (consulted June 2012)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charmouth (consulted April 2012) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(servant) (consulted March 2012)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John,_King_of_England (consulted February 2012)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margery_Jourdemayne,_%22the_Witch_of_Eye%22 (consulted April 2012)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage (consulted January 2012)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Monsieur%27s_Departure (consulted June 2012)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria (consulted March 2012)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England (consulted January 2012)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert,_1st_Earl_of_Gloucester (consulted February 2012)

  http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/content/CXXIII/501/379.full (Ormrod W M, ‘Alice Perrrers and John Salisbury’, consulted February 2012)

  http://gypsymagicspells.blogspot.com/2011/06/medieval-fish-spell-for-love.html (consulted April 2012) http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/marriage?q=marriage (consulted January 2012).

  http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/mistress?q=mistress (consulted February 2012)

  http://regencyredingote.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/marriage-lines-really-are-lines/ (consulted June 2012)

  http://theroyaluniverse.com/royal-witches/ (consulted March 2012)

  http://thewriteplaceatthewritetime.org/explorationoftheme.html (consulted April 2012)

  http://website.lineone.net/~stephaniebidmead/ (consulted July 2012)

  http://www.abbotshouse.co.uk/index.php?id=11 (consulted April 2012)

  http://www.archive.org/stream/roxburgheballads05chapuoft/roxburgheballads05chapuoft_djvu.txt (consulted June 2012)

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12744146 (consulted January 2012)

  http://www.british-history.ac.uk/register.aspx (consulted May 2012)

  http://www.campin.me.uk/Dalkeith/Scotts/Scotts.htm (consulted June 2012)

  http://www.charmouth.com/History.htm (consulted April 2012)

  http://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getperson.php?personID=I8826&tree=CC (consulted May 2012)

  http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/suitors-of-queen-elizabeth-i.htm (consulted June 2012)

  http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/teenage-scandal-of-queen-elizabeth-i.htm (consulted June 2012)

  http://www.famouspeople.co.uk/q/queenvictoria.html (consulted March 2012)

  http://www.geni.com/people/Ranulf-de-Blundeville-4th-Earl-of-Chester/6000000002043244300 (consulted June 2012)

  https://www.history.ac.uk:443/resources/office/augusta-alpha (consulted May 2012) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-jousting-accident-that-turned-henry-viii-into-a-tyrant-1670421.html (consulted May 2012)

  http://www.lawpack.co.uk/cohabitation/articles/article1585.asp (consulted May 2012)

  http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apgb/Geo3/12/11/contents (consulted June 2012)

  http://www.maltagenealogy.com/libro%20d’oro/fiddien.html (consulted June 2012)

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1579006/Abbey-body-identified-as-gay-lover-of-Edward-II.html (consulted February 2012) http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Princess_Olive_and_the_Letters_of_Junius (consulted June 2012)

  Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online

  Clifton, R., ‘Lucy Walter’ (consulted June 2012)

  Douglas, H., ‘Walkinshaw, Clementine’ (consulted June 2012)

  Griffiths, R.A., ‘Tudor, Owen’ (consulted March 2012)

  Harris, T., Scott [formerly Crofts], James, Duke of Monmouth and first Duke of Buccleuch (1649–1685)’ (consulted May 2012)

  Hicks, M., ‘Elizabeth, née Woodville’ (consulted March 2012)

  Jones, M., ‘Catherine of Valois’ (consulted March 2012)

  Richmond, C., ‘Edmund Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset’ (consulted May 2012)

  FILMS & DOCUMENTARIES

  Le Retour de Martin Guerre

  Inside the Body of Henry VIII, The History Channel (consulted on the internet, April 2012)

  NOVELS, PLAYS, &C

  Christie, A., The Moving Finger, London 1943, 2002

  Shakespeare, W., Henry VI

  PLATE SECTION

  1 The marriage of Henry III and Eleanor of Provence, redrawn after Matthew Paris (ms Royal 14C. Vii, f. 124v). Copyright Muhammad Hanif

  2 Medieval witches brewing a potion, redrawn from a fifteenth-century woodcut. Copyright Muhammad Hanif

  3 Funeral effigy of Catherine of France. Copyright Dean and Chapter of Westminster

  4 Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, Beauchamp Chapel, St Mary’s, Warwick.

  5 The arms of Owen Tudor. Copyright Odejea/Wikimedia Commons

  6 The arms of Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset. Copyright Ipankonin/Wikimedia Commons

  7 The arms of Edmund ‘Tudor’. Copyright Ipankonin/Wikimedia Commons

  8 The arms of Jasper ‘Tudor’. Copyright Ipankonin/Wikimedia Commons

  9 Edward IV, after a miniature in Caxton’s Chronicles of England of 1480.

  10 Eleanor Talbot, reconstructed image, based on a skull from the Whitefriars site in Norwich, and on portraits of Eleanor’s sister and niece. Copyright Mark Satchwill

  11 Elizabeth Woodville, after the portrait at Queens’ College Cambridge.

  12 Henry VIII, after Holbein.

  13 Catherine of Aragon.

  14 Anne Boleyn.

  15 Elizabeth I, after the portrait by Zucchero at Hatfield House.

  16 Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, after the portrait of 1587–88 at Kenilworth Castle.

  17 Charles II, marriage medal by John Roettier, 1662.

  18 Lucy Walter, engraving by E. Scriven, 1810.

  1
9 James II.

  20 ‘Charles III’, eighteenth-century engraving after Anker Smith.

  21 Clementina Walkinshaw, Countess of Albestroff, from an anonymous English School portrait, around 1760.

  22 The young King George III.

  23 George IV as Prince of Wales, engraving by William Satchwell Leney, 1794.

  24 Maria Smythe (Fitzherbert), engraving by Conde, 1792, after a portrait by Richard Cosway.

  25 Caroline of Brunswick as Princess of Wales, engraving by Schiavonetti from The Lady’s Monthly Museum, 1800.

  26 Monument to Maria Smythe (Fitzherbert), St John the Baptist Catholic Church, Brighton. Although the tomb inscription records Maria’s surname as that of her second husband, Thomas Fitzherbert, her effigy is depicted wearing three wedding rings.

  27 Queen Victoria alias ‘Mrs Brown’.

  28 ‘Brown Study’ – a contemporary cartoon of John Brown with his tame lion.

  29 Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence.

  30 George V as a young prince.

  31 Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour.

  32 Grave of Laura Culme-Seymour, Ta’ Braxia Cemetery, Malta. Copyright Robert Galea-Naudi

  COPYRIGHT

  Front cover image: The solemnisation of the marriage of Prince James Francis Edward Stuart and Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska at Montefiascone, 1 September 1719, Agostino Masucci. National Galleries of Scotland

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