Katharine's Last Letter To Henry

 

 Katharine's Last Letter To Henry 

"My eyes desire you above all things"


 It would seem that Katharine loved Henry till the end.
She writes that she loves him still, he needs to take care of his soul, and that she forgives him.
She pleads for him to look after their daughter Mary, and to pay her servants.

Her last words were "my eyes desire you above all things"

 Katharine's last letter to Henry reads ~

"My most dear lord, King and husband.

The hour of my death now drawing on, the tender
love I ouge (owe) thou forceth me, my case being
such, to commend myselv to thou.

To put thou in remembrance with a few words of
the healthe and safeguard of thine allm (soul)
which thou ougte to preferce before all worldley
matters, and before the care and pampering of thy
body, for the which thoust have cast me into many
calamities and thineselv into many troubles.

For my part, I pardon thou everything, and I desire
to devoutly pray God that He will pardon thou also.

For the rest, I commend unto thou our doughtere
Mary, beseeching thou to be a good father unto her,
as I have heretofore desired.

I entreat thou also, on behalve of my maides, to
give them marriage portions, which is not much,
they being but three.

For all mine other servants I solicit the wages due
them, and a year more, lest they be unprovided for.

Lastly, I makest this vouge (vow), that mine eyes
desire thou aboufe all things.

Katharine the Quene.

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 ‘Katharine the Quene’.......

Katharine, just as Anne Boleyn once said, always had the final word in her quarrels with Henry.

In this last letter, she does just that - this time asserting her God-given place as Henry’s true wife and consort.

 Anne Boleyn's witticism that Katharine of Aragon "is my death, and I am hers" would prove correct.

Four months after Katharine's death, Henry would exEcute his second wife, and move onto his third....

The Tudor Intruders (and more)

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 Source~Thirteen. Org
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 Maria Doyle Kennedy as Katharine of Aragon in 'The Tudors'