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after Princess The Mary Rose is said to have been named after Princess Mary, Henry VIII's youngest sister. Born in 1496, she was the fifth child of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York and was five years younger than her brother- the future Henry VIII. In 1508 Mary was married by proxy to Charles, son of Philip of Austria and Joan of Castile. But her brother called off the proxy marriage in 1513 and decided to marry her to the King of France, Louis XII, for his own political gain.
Louis was in his 50s and in bad health. Mary only agreed on condition that when she was inevitably widowed, she could marry whoever she wanted- Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. Their only son Henry died of the `sweating sickness' in 1527. Mary's health deteriorated and she died on June 25, 1533. After lying in state, she was buried in the Abbey of St Edmund. Two centuries later, her tomb was moved to St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Mary had one last tenuous
connection with the Mary Rose, by proxy. Both
Prince Charles, the president of the Mary Rose
Trust, and the late Diana, Princess of Wales,
have direct descendancy from Mary. |
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