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Sunday, May 15, 2011

Question from Lauren - Catherine Parr quote

"They curse and ban my words everyday, and all their thoughts be set to do me harm....
I am so vexed that I am utterly weary."

Did Catherine Parr really say this? I thought she was popular.

4 comments:

  1. She said it on her deathbed about relationship her husbend Lord admiral Thomas Seymour with princess Elizabeth

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  2. It's not connected to the Thomas Seymour incident. It's from an English translation from the Latin that Katherine published in 1544: "Psalms or Prayers taken out of the Holy Scripture." Susan James quotes it on page 274 of Kateryn Parr: The Making of a Queen. James notes that there was a strong theme in the book about wanting to smite one's enemies, which might have appealed to Katherine against those who resented her new royal status.

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  3. I think this quote may have been in response to the rumors that she was Protestant, but I'm not sure.

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  4. I think that when she said "they", she was referring to those who started the rumors of her being a heretic.

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