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Letter of Queen Katharine Parr to the
Privy Council
25 July 1544
Background
This letter refers to the successful English siege
of Boulogne in July 1544. I have included it because it is an example -
along with a similar letter by Queen Anne Boleyn - of the typical letter of an
English queen consort.
Katharine the Queen.
Right trusty and well-beloved cousins,
we greet you well. Letting you wit that having received your letters
of the 23rd of this present, we have by the same had singular comfort, as
well to perceive thereby the state of health my lord the king's majesty was
in at that present, as also the good beginning of success of his grace's
affairs there; for your joyful news whereof we give unto you our right
hearty thanks. And forasmuch as, touching the other contents of your
said letters, we have presently written at length unto my said lord, the
king's majesty, we forbear to repeat the same unto you, not doubting but
that his highness will communicate the same unto you accordingly.
Given under our signet at my said lord the king's majesty's honor of Hampton
Court, the 25th day of July, the 36th year of his majesty's most noble
reign.
to Letters of the Six Wives
of Henry VIII
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Primary Sources
to Tudor England
to Katharine
Parr website
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