Sep 20, 2026 · 25 min · 9 segments
Mary is a smitten kitten with her hot young husband, Londoners play host to Prince Philip's Spanish entourage, and the elusive Cardinal Reginald Pole returns to England. Visit me at my Patreon page…
Kate TaylorHost
After much letter writing and gift exchanges and legal wrangling, the wedding was set to take place.
Philip rode about 12 miles through the rain to Winchester, where he and Mary met for the first time.
Philip looked dashing, evidently, in a suit of gold cloth with a feather in his hat, and Mary also looked very fine in a dress of black velvet with a silver underskirt.
According to one statesman, Philip was well-favored with a broad forehead, gray eyes, and manly countenance with yellow hair and a beard.
Philip had been married before to Maria, who died in childbirth after delivering the couple's only child, Don Carlos.
This was the first time that England saw Philip, and Mary was hoping, with the Catholic ceremony, to reset England from a Protestant country to a Catholic one.
The ceremony took place in Winchester Cathedral and was, as you would imagine, very magnificent.
The reception afterwards was, you know, lots of wine and food and dancing and singing and, you know, all kinds of merrymaking.
But in the wedding vows themselves, Mary pledged to obey her husband with her body and her mind, something she had promised Parliament she would not do.
The declaration of their married union also went against what had been decided previously.
Now the council had resisted him being named before her, but Philip, he insisted that no law nor the Highness's prestige would allow him to be named second.
Mary was served on gold plates, Philip on silver, denoting his somewhat subordinate status.
The evening ended, as did all royal marriages, with the blessing of the marriage bed.
After much letter writing and gift exchanges and legal wrangling, the wedding was set to take place.
Philip rode about 12 miles through the rain to Winchester, where he and Mary met for the first time.
Philip looked dashing, evidently, in a suit of gold cloth with a feather in his hat, and Mary also looked very fine in a dress of black velvet with a silver underskirt.
According to one statesman, Philip was well-favored with a broad forehead, gray eyes, and manly countenance with yellow hair and a beard.
Philip had been married before to Maria, who died in childbirth after delivering the couple's only child, Don Carlos.
This was the first time that England saw Philip, and Mary was hoping, with the Catholic ceremony, to reset England from a Protestant country to a Catholic one.
The ceremony took place in Winchester Cathedral and was, as you would imagine, very magnificent.
The reception afterwards was, you know, lots of wine and food and dancing and singing and, you know, all kinds of merrymaking.
But in the wedding vows themselves, Mary pledged to obey her husband with her body and her mind, something she had promised Parliament she would not do.
The declaration of their married union also went against what had been decided previously.
Now the council had resisted him being named before her, but Philip, he insisted that no law nor the Highness's prestige would allow him to be named second.
Mary was served on gold plates, Philip on silver, denoting his somewhat subordinate status.
The evening ended, as did all royal marriages, with the blessing of the marriage bed.
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