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On This Day In Royal History . 11 June 1509 . King Henry VIII married Katharine of Aragon . . .The history ; . 👑 Henry VII died on 21 April 1509, & the young Henry succeeded him as king Henry VIII. Soon after his father’s burial on 10 May, Henry suddenly declared that he would marry Katharine, leaving unresolved issues concerning the papal dispensation & a missing part of the marriage portion. . 👑 The new king maintained that it had been his father’s dying wish that he marry Katharine. Whether or not this was true, it was certainly convenient. Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I had been attempting to marry his granddaughter (& Katharine’s niece) Eleanor to Henry; she had now been jilted. . 👑 Henry’s wedding to Katharine was kept low-key & was held at the friar’s church in Greenwich on 11 June 1509. The king was just days short of his 18th birthday, Katharine was 23 years of age. . 👑 On 23 June 1509, Henry led Katharine from the Tower of London to Westminster Abbey for their coronation, which took place the following day. It was a grand affair: the king’s passage was lined with tapestries & laid with fine cloth. Following the ceremony, there was a grand banquet in Westminster Hall. As Katharine wrote to her father, “our time is spent in continuous festival”. . Both (Photo 1) portraits from 1509 . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1509 #d11jun #RoyalWedding #HenryVIII #KingHenryVIII #HenryVIIIofEngland #HouseofTudor #TheTudors #Royalty #Monarch #Monarchy #England #History #TudorDynasty #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #Royalhistory #Catherineofaragon #historyinpictures #RoyalHistory #otd #KatharineofAragon #Royalweddings #Greenwich (at Greenwich) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBT8z_lDgjF/?igshid=1wezj9wku8bdr

On This Day In History . 11 June 1509 . King Henry VIII married Katharine of Aragon . . .The history ; . 👑 Henry VII died on 21 April 1509, & the young Henry succeeded him as king Henry VIII. Soon after his father's burial on 10 May, Henry suddenly declared that he would marry Katharine, leaving unresolved issues concerning the papal dispensation & a missing part of the marriage portion. . 👑 The new king maintained that it had been his father's dying wish that he marry Katharine. Whether or not this was true, it was certainly convenient. Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I had been attempting to marry his granddaughter (& Katharine's niece) Eleanor to Henry; she had now been jilted. . 👑 Henry's wedding to Katharine was kept low-key & was held at the friar's church in Greenwich on 11 June 1509. The king was just days short of his 18th birthday, Katharine was 23 years of age. . 👑 On 23 June 1509, Henry led Katharine from the Tower of London to Westminster Abbey for their coronation, which took place the following day. It was a grand affair: the king's passage was lined with tapestries & laid with fine cloth. Following the ceremony, there was a grand banquet in Westminster Hall. As Katharine wrote to her father, "our time is spent in continuous festival". . Both (Photo 1) portraits from 1509 . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1509 #d11jun #RoyalWedding #HenryVIII #KingHenryVIII #HenryVIIIofEngland #HouseofTudor #TheTudors #Royalty #Monarch #Monarchy #England #History #TudorDynasty #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #Royalhistory #Catherineofaragon #KatharineofAragon #Royalweddings #Greenwich (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BylZ940gcte/?igshid=1b9a6v3cz0n7b

On This Day In History . 29 June 1509 . Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby died . . ◼ The Countess died in the Deanery of Westminster Abbey on 29 June 1509. This was the day after her grandson's (Henry VIII) 18th birthday. . ◼ She is buried in the Henry VII Lady Chapel of the Abbey, in a black marble tomb topped with a bronze gilded effigy and canopy. She is now situated between the later graves of William and Mary & the tomb of Mary, Queen of Scots. . About Margaret ; . ◼ Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (born.31 May 14, at Bletsoe Castle, Bedfordshire), was the mother of King Henry VII & paternal grandmother of King Henry VIII of England. . ◼ She was the daughter of Margaret Beauchamp of Bletsoe and John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset. Margaret's father was a great-grandson of King Edward III through his third surviving son, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. . ◼ She was a key figure in the Wars of the Roses & an influential matriarch of the House of Tudor. . ◼ She is credited with the establishment of two prominent Cambridge colleges, founding Christ's College in 1505 & beginning the development of St John's College, which was completed posthumously by her executors in 1511. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1509 #d29jun #LadyMargaretBeaufort #MargaretBeaufort #CountessofRichmondandDerby #History #EnglishMonarchy #HouseofTudor #BritishMonarchy #RoyalHistory #instahistory #onthisday #HenryVII #HenryVIII #Tudors (at Westminster Abbey) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzS5f0ngqtx/?igshid=107s31drrdv3m