CHAPTER XIV. THE FORSAKEN QUEEN. 394 CHAPTER XV. WAR. 1556-1558 430 CHAPTER XVI. AT EVENTIDE. 1558 459 CHAPTER XVII. _VERITAS TEMPORIS FILIA._ 476 APPENDIX 493 INDEX 525 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 1. THE PRINCESS MARY. From the original portrait in the Gallery of the University, Oxford _Frontispiece_ 2. KATHARINE OF ARRAGON. From a fine original in miniature by Holbein, formerly in Horace Walpole’s Collection at Strawberry Hill _To face page_ 46 3. SIR THOMAS MORE, LORD CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND. From the original portrait by Holbein " 74 4. THE PRINCESS MARY. From the original drawing by Holbein, in the possession of the Marquis of Exeter " 136 5. THE PRINCESS MARY AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-EIGHT. From the original painting in the National Portrait Gallery " 186 6. FACSIMILE OF A LETTER WRITTEN IN THE PRINCESS MARY’S OWN HAND " 192 7. THE PRINCESS MARY. From the original portrait in the possession of the Marquis of Exeter " 212 8. QUEEN MARY. From the portrait by Sir Antonio More, at Madrid " 262 9. PHILIP II. From the original portrait by Adrian van der Werff " 320 10. CARDINAL REGINALD POLE, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. From an engraving of a portrait painted by Sebastiano del Piombo " 408 CHAPTER I. BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD—EARLY MARRIAGE PROJECTS. 1516-1525. It was characteristic of the times in which the Princess Mary was born, that she should be ushered into the world with a pageant. England had but lately been roused from the lethargy to which the penuriousness of Henry VII. had condemned it, and good-fellowship, display and revelry were the order of the day. Music and masquerades delighted the young King, and were a fitting background to his florid beauty, brilliant talents and sanguine temperament. The country, in its recoil from the asceticism of parsimony, no less than from the asceticism of mediæval piety, was well content to amuse itself, and Christmas revels, April jollities and May-day masques were supplemented by tilting at the ring, feasting and tournaments, that made the whole year round a “playing holiday”.