I think Kat was as close to a mother as Elizabeth had ever had. Kat was devoted and most loyal and deserves the admiration many of us bear for her.
@evelinac2423
2 жыл бұрын
Elizabeth had what Mary did not have. Someone stable in her life to watch over her.
@schmetterlingxox3096
2 жыл бұрын
Mary had Margaret Pole the Countess of Salisbury for several years until Henry removed her as Mary's governess. Margaret’s son Reginald was the Archbishop of Canterbury during Mary's reign.
@aj.a1845
2 жыл бұрын
I guess Kat would have been the only constant presence in her life and seemed to want nothing but to have Elizabeth's best interest at heart.
@elainechubb971
2 жыл бұрын
Elizabeth was fortunate to have been by birth an intelligent woman, and fortunate to have had around her in childhood people devoted to her and to her education. Kat Ashley was probably the most important and influential of these. Elizabeth had brilliant male tutors who were able to encourage her love of learning and intellectual curiosity, but Kat first instilled in her both a love of learning and a dedication to the hard work needed to become accomplished. She gave her a sound moral education also, and, most important, steadfast love. It is interesting that Kat's husband was a Boleyn relative, and that Elizabeth had other attendants and adherents who were connected to the Boleyn family and also the important Howard family (the Duke of Norfolk being its head) who she was also related to Although Elizabeth is not known to have commented on her mother's fall from favor and execution on a trumped-up charge of adultery and treason, it is telling that she showed favor to her mother's relatives. Anne Boleyn was brilliant (if not always wise) and Elizabeth was fortunate in what she inherited from her mother--who probably appointed or approved Kat as "governess" to the infant princess. Thank you very much for giving Kat her due. She seems to have been a woman with a good heart and a good brain. (Jane Austen would have approved!)
@timefoolery
2 жыл бұрын
I’m curious as to whether she gathered her family about her out of feeling for her remaining family and how much was it out of a political knowledge that they’d support one of their own in exchange for favour at Court? 🤔 Not that being family always meant anything to some Tudors.
@elainechubb971
2 жыл бұрын
@@timefoolery That's a very good question. Elizabeth was certainly aware of the political implications of her every move (one of the reasons she never married Robert Dudley, probably). Every appointment at court undoubtedly was a signal to all the nobles and courtiers. But some of those around her from infancy had some family connection with her mother--perhaps Anne Boleyn chose them for familial support? And her daughter undoubtedly grew attached to those who'd been around her from infancy or from a young age, anyway. Her extreme loyalty to her servants when she was in danger during Edward VI's reign and even more under Mary's does show she had strong feelings for them personally and trusted them. (A lot of rulers might just have ditched them to save their own skins.) She did include dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk (relatives) among her advisers and what could be described as members of the inner ruling circle. But she showed favor to others of less nobility, or from the gentry, who had family connections or who had probably been appointed by or who had served her mother. There was probably nothing to be gained by favoring them when Anne Boleyn was still disliked or even hated by a lot of English people. She probably had a mixture of reasons. But she never showed that she thought Anne Boleyn deserved her fate; of course, that could have been a realization that if she condemned her own mother for adultery and treason, that could reflect on her! But her loyalty could sometimes hold risk. She kept Dudley in her favor partly because of affection but also because he'd supported her when they were both prisoners in the Tower and when supporting her was perilous. And she showed him favor when she must have known how unpopular he was! (But never gave him major responsibility in her government; smart lady.) Elizabeth's psychology must have been among the most complex of any English monarch, or any monarch I know about.
@diogenes5654
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for letting us see the true Kat Ashley, so often portrayed as an indulgent, uneducated, loving nurse maid
@zevkramer6154
2 жыл бұрын
I notice you kept referring to Elizabeth I as one of England's greatest Queens. I think it is more accurate to say that she is one of England's greatest Monarch's.
@annjohnson6193
2 жыл бұрын
I think Kat was Elizabeth’s mother figure; and a good one at that.
@SezFrancis1
2 жыл бұрын
I’ve been waiting for this! I am in the early process of writing a novel on Kat and Elizabeth. I never heard of some of the information before but how amazing those facts were. Truly, they were both like a mother and a daughter during Elizabeth's early life. Thank you so much for uploading this 🙂🫶
@dianetheisen8664
2 жыл бұрын
I am so obsessed with the Tudors but Anne Boleyn in particular. I would be very interested in your novel. I love British Royal History but in novel-form. Oh I'll read 📚 non-fiction books 📚 on the topic if there's no new novel available (and I am to that point now), but novels make history fun. Anyway, I look forward to your novel. 👑.
@sapphirepayne2138
2 жыл бұрын
I’m honestly obsessed with these videos. Your voice is very soothing to listen to. Thank you for regularly updating
@k.tinder8905
2 жыл бұрын
If this is true, then I'm happy that Queen Elizabeth 1 had such devotion and the most important to her, loyalty in Kat. This Queen was beloved by many in her day, but like most greats, she was loved and recognized for the greatest monarchy of all time after her death. The words that were recorded of her statements demonstrate a very astute and intelligent person, but her actions while Queen show a rare quality in her, and that is wisdom and yes sacrifice. She must have been amazing to know personally, but I get the feeling few people knew her inner self.
@dianetheisen8664
2 жыл бұрын
I agree. She kept those thoughts to herself for sure. By the time she became queen, she learned that life at Court was fraught with peril and to not trust anyone.
@heliotropezzz333
2 жыл бұрын
Co-incidentally, in her portrait, Kat Ashley looks a bit like Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth's mother.
@michellecrocker2485
2 жыл бұрын
A woman would have had an extensive education to be chosen as a governess for a royal
@plamenivanov92
2 жыл бұрын
I've been waiting for this (will you talk about Anne Askew)
@MLopez-fu8fd
2 жыл бұрын
Who was Anne Askew?
@plamenivanov92
2 жыл бұрын
@@MLopez-fu8fd a wrighter poet and anabaptist preacher ho was burned at the stake by Henry VIII
@asiriperera7735
2 жыл бұрын
I think there was a video on anne askew on this channel
@asiriperera7735
2 жыл бұрын
@@MLopez-fu8fda reformer and associate of Catherine Parr. The only woman who was tortured on the rack in the Tower of London. Later burnt as a heretic.
@plamenivanov92
2 жыл бұрын
@@asiriperera7735 I know there is but I can't seem to find it
@stefaniecosme4774
2 жыл бұрын
You had mentioned that Mary, Queen of Scots was arrested after being implicated in the (Babbington) plot- But, hadn’t she already been in custody at that point for around 18 years? Sorry for the question, I was just confused as I’ve immersed myself in All Things Tudor for Many Years and have heard and read So Many different accounts of So Many Different things during that Amazing time in English History- Anyways, Please Keep up the Great Work!
@dianetheisen8664
2 жыл бұрын
I wonder if Elizabeth 1️⃣ ever asked Kat about her mother, Anne Boleyn❓ Or did Kat ever offer to tell her about Amne❓ Personally, I would have all kinds of questions about my mother if I were in her position.
@moniquelucas5862
Жыл бұрын
She was smarter than that. Anne had been executed in disgrace and continued to be slandered even after her death and even before Elizabeth became Queen she knew it would be politically comprimising to even mention her mother. So in that respect her mother never existed, her father filled her world. More so I think Henry the viii made sure to spare the precosious toddler the details, and made sure others too.
@evelinac2423
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@sephmanatac8341
2 жыл бұрын
& why on earth was never given a noble title by Elizabeth I?
@ladythalia227
2 жыл бұрын
I didn’t think women were given titles in their own right back in the Tudor era, being feeble minded creatures compared to men 🤷🏻♀️
@sephmanatac8341
2 жыл бұрын
@@ladythalia227 maybe you're right...
@dianetheisen8664
2 жыл бұрын
@@ladythalia227 But Henry VIII gave Anne Boleyn a title, Marques, I think, or, Marchioness -- Very Unsure of spelling, as you can see. LOL
@annstillwell730
2 жыл бұрын
She was really more her mother.
@mrbushlied7742
2 жыл бұрын
Good Queen Mary should have burned them all. More's the pity!
@dianetheisen8664
2 жыл бұрын
Mary 1️⃣ was often referred to as Bloody Mary but Elizabeth 1️⃣ also sent many people to the Tower for execution. Why is that hardly ever mentioned ❓
@mrbushlied7742
2 жыл бұрын
@@dianetheisen8664 Because history is written by the winners.
@jehannedarc1429
2 жыл бұрын
@@dianetheisen8664 Mary executed a great many simply for their beliefs. Elizabeth’s government executed people for high treason. That’s the difference.
@andrewdancy2849
2 жыл бұрын
@@mrbushlied7742 And England is not a Catholic country, & in case they had leanings, they needed to be reminded of it's inherent evils, Edward had people burned as well , but not like Mary
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