Comments by "RenShiWu" (@renshiwu305) on "Rethinking Royal Consorts" video.

  1. One of the reasons Mary leaned on her Hapsburg relations is because she had so few domestic allies. Her native champions within the kingdom were executed: John Fisher, Thomas More, Nicholas Carew, Margaret Pole and her descendants. Thus her chief defenders were the Hapsburgs and their agents: Eustache Chapuys, François van der Delft, Jean Scheyfve, and Simon Renard. Besides Stephen Gardiner, Simon Renard was essentially Mary's primary advisor. As the remnant of her Privy Council initially supported Jane Grey's claim to the throne, Mary had no one of whom to rely except yet another of her cousin's representatives.
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  2. Charles is deeply clueless about certain things. His hypocrisy over his lifestyle and his green advocacy, for example. His interference and antidemocratic maneuvering. The public mood and its rejection of Camilla. Or perhaps he's just unconcerned about these numerous PR disasters.
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  3. He wanted a male, full stop. Edward's provisional "Devise for the Succession" originally allowed for any male child born to one of the Grey Sisters, or even their mother, to succeed to the throne. It's why the Grey Sisters were lined up to be married immediately in 1553. Shortly afterward, Edward was swiftly dying so he had to allow for Jane Grey and her "heirs male" to succeed after him.
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