Where ghosts walk : the haunts of familiar characters in history and literature . sts Walk cion of tallow candles spent by ye workmenin ye nyght-tymes, carvings, and illumi-nated panels all ablaze with gold-leaf andcarmine, and matchless tapestries, broughtfrom the uttermost parts of the earth, thateven now glow with fadeless colours, werefinished before Jane Seymours death atHampton Court. Her initials are inter-twined with Henrys among the ornamentsof the ceilingr and in mosaics at the doorof the chapel in which he afterward marriedKatharine Howard. The large picture catalogued as HenryVni.
Where ghosts walk : the haunts of familiar characters in history and literature . sts Walk cion of tallow candles spent by ye workmenin ye nyght-tymes, carvings, and illumi-nated panels all ablaze with gold-leaf andcarmine, and matchless tapestries, broughtfrom the uttermost parts of the earth, thateven now glow with fadeless colours, werefinished before Jane Seymours death atHampton Court. Her initials are inter-twined with Henrys among the ornamentsof the ceilingr and in mosaics at the doorof the chapel in which he afterward marriedKatharine Howard. The large picture catalogued as HenryVni. and his Family, that hangs in theQueens Audience-Chamber, was paintedby an artist of the Holbein school. TheKing and his little son, who became Ed-ward VI., occupy the centre of the Seymour, who died at her boys birth,nevertheless appears seated at Henrys lefthand. Next to this posthumous portraitstands the Princess Elizabeth. Oppositeto her, and at the Kings right, is thePrincess Mary. We look vainly among the hundreds ofportraits in the immense collection of the. WOLSEYS HALL, HAMPTON COURT. Her Gloomy Honeymoon 33 Royal Palace for any other likeness ofMary Tudor, first Queen-regnant of Eng-land and Ireland, who became, in thefulness of time, the most sorrowful andmost unpopular sovereign who ever satupon the English throne. For the firsteleven years of her life she was the pre-cocious and petted darling of parents andpeople. After that, her story is made upof variations of tragedy. Her father de-clared her illegitimate and sought her life ;her idolised mother died, begging, withfutile tears, for a last glimpse of her onlychild ; Anne Boleyns flouts and insults toher worse than orphaned step-daughterwere like a weight about the step-mothersneck when she came to the scaffold ; thegirls dearest in heart and next of kin diedby the hand of the executioner for nocrime save their love and loyalty to wild and lasting grief for her mothersdeath undermined her hea
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