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40 Facts About the Tudor Era’s Awful Courtier, Thomas Seymour

Khalid Elhassan March 22, 2019 24 min

26. Rejected by Both Princesses, Seymour Settled For Marrying Their Stepmother

When Seymour’s marriage proposal was rejected by princesses Elizabeth and Mary, he simply moved down the ladder to the next closest royal marital link, and made his moves on their stepmother and the late king’s widow: his former lover, Katherine Parr. The dust had hardly settled on Henry VIII’s grave before Thomas set about the rekindling the romance that had been interrupted when the late king swooped in and snatched Katherine Parr from Seymour. The former lovers were married within six months of the king’s death – a scandalously brief period of mourning, that set tongues wagging.

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Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.