{"id":2429249,"date":"2026-05-23T12:43:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2429249"},"modified":"2026-05-23T12:43:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:43:57","slug":"mary-tudor-was-widowed-after-just-3-months-royal-viral-shorts-history-tudor-royalty-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/mary-tudor-was-widowed-after-just-3-months-royal-viral-shorts-history-tudor-royalty-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Tudor was widowed after just 3 months #royal #viral #shorts #history #tudor #royalty #queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rBdOCZY4bL8?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>On October 9, 1514, the beautiful, 18-year-old Princess Mary Tudor of England was married to the 52-year-old King Louis XII of France at Abbeville, in a union designed to forge peace between the two nations. Knowing the King&#8217;s advanced age and hoping to control her own destiny, Mary secured a promise from her brother, King Henry VIII, that she would be allowed to choose her own husband for her next marriage should Louis pass away.<\/p>\n<p>The marriage proved to be exceptionally brief. Less than three months after their wedding, King Louis XII died in the early hours of January 1, 1515, after a severe bout of gout. While contemporary rumors playfully claimed that the elderly King&#8217;s sudden passing was caused by his strenuous marital exertions to satisfy his young, nubile wife, the historical consensus points to his failing health and joint ailments.<\/p>\n<p>Following Louis&#8217;s death, a newly widowed Mary was placed into traditional seclusion for over a month to ensure she was not carrying a royal heir. Once it was confirmed she was not pregnant, Mary took matters into her own hands to avoid another arranged political marriage. Defying both court protocol and her brother&#8217;s authority, she secretly married her true love, Charles Brandon, the 1st Duke of Suffolk. After eventually paying a heavy fine to pacify an infuriated King Henry VIII, Mary secured her happily-ever-after with the man of her choice.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rBdOCZY4bL8\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 9, 1514, the beautiful, 18-year-old Princess Mary Tudor of England was married to the 52-year-old King Louis XII of France at Abbeville, in a union designed to forge peace between the two nations. Knowing the King&#8217;s advanced age and hoping to control her own destiny, Mary secured a promise from her brother, King [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2429250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2429249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779540235_maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2429249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2429251,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429249\/revisions\/2429251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2429250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2429249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2429249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2429249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}