Edward VI
Lady Mary and Philip of Palatinate Neuburg in the Tudors
Mary Tudor’s realization
On 1542, Mary Tudor would notice that Edward is strong and healthy himself when she saw him and decided herself that she would not stay in England and it is no longer worth trying, she would decide to marry the Duke of Palatinate Neuburg and informed her father that she would give up her own ambitions to the throne in order to marry for love, the man she loved and cared about.
Lady Mary would realize herself that the legacy of mother is not important but rather her own happiness, Mary Tudor would make her last visit to her father and notified her own father of her plans to marry the Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg.
She was once quoted to have said:
“I recognise no Queen but my mother. But if the King's Mistress would intercede with the King on my behalf, then I would be grateful.”
But after she had decided to marry the Duke of Palatinate she said that:
“I would concede and bow down to my own brother as my brother is the legitimate claimant to the throne.”
Lady Mary would sign a document signing out her own claims to the English throne in order to marry the Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg, that was the last time she saw her father and she would ride a the first ship that would carry her to Calais and afterwards, she would meet with Charles V who she would visit once and then she would arrive to Palatinate where she marries Philip, the Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg on the latter part of 1543 even if she went to Palatinate, she would write letters continuously to Anne of Cleves about her own father.
Lady Mary’s arrival to Palatinate would be warm as her husband had wanted to marry her for a long time and the two would have two daughters named Catherine (November 10, 1544) and Maria (January 2, 1551), she would still be considered by the Catholic faction as their savior but she will refuse to take arms as she has already signed a treaty with her father and her two daughters are raised as Protestants in order to show her own father that she is no longer interested in the throne.