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Food experimenters Bompas + Parr's recreations of famous last suppers was unfortunately only displayed in photographic form, when the real things would have been way more impactful though they did supply absinthe jellies for the occasion.

Richard MacKichan: Classic Works Get a Modern Makeover at London's Remastered Richard MacKichan 2011

Jenkins makes a good argument that Elizabeth's determination to remain unmarried stemmed not just from the abuse she suffered in her teens from her stepmother, Catherine Parr, and Parr's new husband Seymour, but also from the childhood echoes of her own mother's execution - an event she could barely remember, but which was echoed in the beheading of another stepmother when she was eight.

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Food experimenters Bompas + Parr's recreations of famous last suppers was unfortunately only displayed in photographic form, when the real things would have been way more impactful though they did supply absinthe jellies for the occasion.

Richard MacKichan: Classic Works Get a Modern Makeover at London's Remastered Richard MacKichan 2011

Susan James, Parr's most recent biographer, argues throughout that it was Mary who was Parr's client.

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

Mary left Parr's household around the time she obtained legal title to her estates and Elizabeth continued to visit Parr off and on throughout 1547 until mid-1548.

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

Among the charges was the allegation that he had tried to lure Elizabeth into a matrimonial alliance after Parr's death without first obtaining the permission of the Privy Council as stipulated in Henry VIII's will. 120 Shortly after his arrest, Sir Anthony Denny, now an Edwardian Privy Councillor, along with William Paulet, chief steward of the royal household, came to arrest Thomas Parry and Katherine Champernon-Ashley.

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

Indeed, during this period, when Parr was court, the Imperial ambassador reported that Henry VII took to calling on his daughter nearly three times a day. 68 Parr's husband died in March 1543 during her term of service in Mary's chamber and in July Katherine Parr married Henry VIII and became queen-consort of England.

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

Parr's show is a collection of over 1400 postcards that she has painted/drawn/illustrated/scribbled over the last 10 years.

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Because there are household lists for Mary's household in this period and Parr was not a permanent member of Mary's Privy Chamber, Parr's service as "extraordinary" member in the princess 'chamber at court must be inferred from two significant circumstances.

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

Katherine Parr's elevation to the consort's throne attests to Mary's ability as a political patron.

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008