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Probably Anne Parr, Sister of Queen Katherine Parr

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Anne Parr was the daughter of Sir Thomas Parr (1478-1517) and Maud Green (1492-1531). She was the sister and confidant of Henry VIII’s sixth queen, Katherine Parr. This is a portrait prep sketch by Holbein

Anne was born about 1514 to Sir Thomas Parr and Maud Green. She was the youngest child of three, having an older sister Catherine and brother William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton. In 1517, when she was about three years of age, her father died of the sweating sickness leaving her mother a widow at twenty-two and with the grave responsibility of guarding the inheritance of the Parr children. Maud, Lady Parr was a maid-of-honour to Catherine of Aragon. She was also head of the Royal school at court where Anne was educated alongside her sister Catherine and other daughters of the nobility. They were taught by the brilliant Humanist scholar Joan Lluís Vives who was the principal tutor at the Royal school. Anne would have been taught French, Latin, philosophy, theology, and the Classics. Lady Parr had already taught her children to read and write when they were small.

Sometime in 1528, Lady Parr secured her daughter, Anne, a post at Court as maid-of-honour to Catherine of Aragon. Anne was then made a ward of King Henry. When Anne Boleyn was crowned queen in 1533, Anne Parr continued in the same capacity as maid-of-honour . She quickly succumbed to the spell of Queen Anne’s charismatic personality and following the Queen’s example, she became an ardent supporter of the New Faith. After Anne Boleyn’s fall from power and subsequent execution, Anne remained at Court in the service of the new queen, Jane Seymour. She was one of the few present at the baptism of Prince Edward on 15 October 1537.

In February 1538, Anne married William Herbert (c.1501-17 March 1570), Esquire of the King’s Body. The Herberts appeared to be in the King’s favour, as for the next few years Anne and her husband received a succession of Royal grants which included the Abbey of Wilton in Wiltshire, and lands in the West Country. Anne had three children by her husband: Henry, Edward, and Anne. When King Henry took as his fourth wife Anne of Cleves, Anne returned to her role as maid-of-honour, which she remained in when Queen Anne was supplanted by Catherine Howard. Following Queen Catherine’s arrest for adultery, Anne Parr was entrusted with the Queen’s jewels.

Anne Parr was a witness to the wedding ceremony performed at Hampton Court Palace on 12 July, 1543, when King Henry married her sister Catherine. In September 1544, William Herbert was knighted on the battlefield at the Siege of Boulogne during the King’s campaign against the French. Anne, now Lady Herbert, was her sister’s principal lady-in-waiting and the sisters were close. Anne was also part of the circle of Protestants who surrounded the new Queen. In 1546, when Anne Askew was arrested for heresy. Queen Catherine and some of her closest friends had previously shown favour to the arrested woman. Bishop Stephen Gardiner, Thomas Wriothesley and Richard Rich were involved in torturing Anne Askew and interrogating her about her connections to the ladies at court who were suspected to be Protestants, in particular, Anne Parr, the Queen, Katherine Willoughby and Anne Stanhope. They obtained the King’s permission to arrest and question the Queen about her religious beliefs.

Catherine visited the King in his bedchamber and adroitly managed to persuade the King that her interest in the new religion had been undertaken solely as a means to provide stimulating conversation to distract the King from the pain caused by his ulcerous leg. Henry was appeased, and before the arrests were due to take place, he was reconciled to Catherine. On 28 January, 1547, the King died. William Herbert was appointed guardian to the new king, Edward VI. Catherine shortly afterwards married Thomas Seymour, Lord Sudeley, Lord High Admiral of England, who was an uncle of King Edward. In September 1548, following the birth of a daughter, Mary, Catherine Parr died of puerperal fever. On 11 October 1551, William Herbert was created 1st Earl of Pembroke. Anne died in 1552. William married as his second wife, Anne Talbot, but the marriage produced no children. Through her sons, Anne has many descendants, including the earls of Pembroke.

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Reading alone, as the downtown train arrives

Image by Ed Yourdon
This photo was published as an illustration in an undated (Apr 2010) Squidoo blog titled "Hunter Wellies."

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You might think that these subway photos are entirely "accidental" and unplanned — and to some extent you would be correct, as I never known, in advance, exactly what I’ll find or what kind of photos I’ll end up with. But it’s not entirely random, as you’ll come to understand when I describe some of the details associated with this collection of 10 "keepers" that I selected out of 102 photos taken on Mar 30, 2010.

First of all, the idea of taking some subway photos usually only occurs to me on rainy days. If it’s bright and sunny outside, who would want to spend his time down underground, where it’s dark and noisy and claustrophobic? Also, people who venture outside on rainy days normally have bright, colorful umbrellas (as well as the boring, black ones), and the women often wear equally bright, colorful Welly boots. Once they get down into a subway station, safely away from the rain, they go through various rituals of stamping their feet to shake off the water, folding their umbrellas to put them away, and generally unbuckling/unsnapping/unzipping their restrictive rain gear.

As it turns out, there had been heavy rain all morning on Tues, Mar 30th — and since that made it impractical to sit outside and take my usual "peeps in the ‘hood" photos, I thought it would be a good time to return to the subways once again. Unfortunately, the rain slacked off in the middle of the day, so the umbrella/boot outfits turned out to be much less interesting than I would have expected.

Aside from that, I had no idea — and never do have any idea — of what to expect. Having taken subway photos on roughly half a dozen occasions, I do know that I’m likely to see a different crowd of subway-riders in the middle of the week than on the weekend; and there will be different people in the middle of the day than during rush-hour, or during the period right after public schools release all their kids. But aside from that, it’s an unpredictable potpourri of workers (some blue-collar, some white-collar), students, tourists, young children, parents and grandparents, homeless people, cops, and utterly mysterious strangers. On this particular occasion, I decided to sit on the uptown side of the 96th Street station, because I figured (rightly or wrong, who knows?) that there would probably be more people heading downtown towards Times Square than uptown toward Morningside Heights and Harlem.

Some people are photographically interesting simply because of the way they look, or the way they dress; others are interesting because of what they are doing — e.g., running, walking briskly, tossing their hair around, or interacting with a friend or family member, or (as is so often the case in my subway-photography experiences) reading, listening to music, or just daydreaming about their own private world. Thus, one photo may be enough; but with the slow shutter speeds that I typically have to use in the dimly lit subway station, I’ll normally take two or three just to be safe. And if the subject(s) is/are "doing" something, then I’ll often take half a dozen photos, in the hope that one or two of them will turn out to be interesting. And that helps explain why I typically only keep about 10% of the photos I take; the rest are blurred, out-of-focus, redundant, or merely ordinary…

There’s another consequence of this approach: inevitably, I know much more about the "context" of the subject(s) I photograph than does anyone who views the resulting photograph that I publish/upload to Flickr — because I’ve spent at least a few seconds watching what they’re doing, and I’ve taken several other photos in which they sometimes look (or act) quite differently. I don’t think about it very much, but I realize that I subconsciously just assume that viewers have the same context in mind that I do … but over and over again, it becomes evident that it just ain’t so. An example: I once photographed a woman sitting at an outside cafe on Broadway, a few blocks from where these subway photos were taken; and a few months later, I was startled to see the photo published in a Turkish blog about how to select tour guides in Istanbul.

Ultimately, I have to admit that even I don’t know what the "real" context is, i.e., what the subject of my photos are actually thinking or doing — except in the very rare circumstances when I introduce myself to the subject and speak to him/her. But most of the time, I just try to imagine what’s going on in their lives; and I use that imagination to come up with the title/caption that I put on most of the photos. In most cases, the title/captions represent a feeble, but deliberate, attempt at humor; but in any case, it’s important that I admit that in most cases, I have no idea whether those caption/titles are accurate or realistic.

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This is a continuation of a series of subway photos that I began in the spring of 2009, and which you can find here. Thus far in 2010, my photographic efforts have included the IRT subway stations at 96th Street, 42nd Street (Times Square), and Christopher Street/Sheridan Square (in Greenwich Village).

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Over the years, I’ve seen various photos of the NYC subway "scene," usually in black-and-white format. But during a spring 2009 class on street photography at the NYC International Center of Photography (ICP), I saw lots and lots of terrific subway shots taken by my fellow classmates … so I was inspired to start taking some myself.

One of the reasons I rarely, if ever, took subway photos before 2009 is that virtually every such photo I ever saw was in black-and-white. I know that some people are fanatics about B/W photography as a medium; and I respect their choice. And I took quite a lot of B/W photographs in the 1970s, especially when I had my own little makeshift darkroom for printing my own photos.

But for the past 30 years, I’ve focused mostly on color photography. As for photos of subways, I don’t feel any need to make the scene look darker and grimier than it already is, by restricting it to B/W. Indeed, one of the things I find quite intriguing is that there is a lot of color in this environment, and it’s not too hard to give some warmth and liveliness to the scene…

To avoid disruption, and to avoid drawing attention to myself, I’m not using flash shots; but because of the relatively low level of lighting, I’m generally using an ISO setting of 3200 or 6400, depending on which camera I’m using. As a result, some of the shots are a little grainy – but it’s a compromise that I’m willing to make.

I may eventually use a small "pocket" digital camera, but the initial photos have been taken with my somewhat large, bulky Nikon D300 and D700 DSLRs. If I’m photographing people on the other side of the tracks in a subway station, there’s no problem holding up the camera, composing the shot, and taking it in full view of everyone. But if I’m taking photos inside a subway car, I normally set the camera lens to a wide angle (18mm or 24mm) setting, point it in the general direction of the subject(s), and shoot without framing or composing.

If I can find some situations where people hold still for a few seconds, I think I might try some HDR scenes, just to see what it looks like. But so far, no such occasions have presented themselves. We’ll see how it goes…

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After the storm, the sunlight pours through the window…still, Athena shows signs of anxiety. This summer, she developed a fear of thunder/lightning/rain (it is an especially tough reaction given our daily afternoon summer thunderstorms) and is pretty inconsolable. With incessant panting and pacing, she sometimes finds refuge in the bathtub, but she doesn’t appear to relax until the storm is well off the radar.

Animals, like young children, are fairly easily ‘read’ – they’ve not yet learned to mask their true emotions…they’ve not found a reason to do so. Revealing one’s emotions can be a risky venture – there’s the potential for not meeting ‘politically correct’ standards, the loss of privacy with disclosure of true feelings, and the inference of the loss of control. Of course, there are always ‘trade-offs’ – but the animals and young children typically have not learned the value of manipulating the expression of feelings…and maybe that’s a good thing! Naples, FL

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Q&A–: Tell me your opinions about younger children reading adult novels?
Okay I’ve had different answers to this question so I want your opinions, What do you think about children 12-14 year olds reading novels with detailed sex in them. Now add the factors that the child is EXTREMELY mature for her age and she thinks like an adult. Whats your opinion?
When I say younger children I mean younger teens. sorry about that.

The following is the answer: (Hint: The answer is not necessarily.)

Answer by is spelnilg ralely imrtoapnt?
that sounds like me. i’m only twelve, but i can handle adult novels. (i looove jodi picoult) most of her books do have sex scenes in them, though they aren’t too detailed. everyone matures at a different rate, and if it doesnt affect her actions then i think it would be fine under supervision. i would tell her to skip intense scenes. i’m probably slightly biased though(:

Answer by Apple Frost
I’m thirteen and I read adult books. I usually skip over the sex scenes, though. I understand what’s going on, but I don’t really need to know the details.

Answer by Ze Dork Lord
i thinkz itz good lurning experience. i laks sex.

i am zee dork lord and i ate harry pottah.

Answer by Music of the Night
I was reading adult novels from about 11. Children’s books rarely held my attention so I had to find new and interesting novels. When I was under 13 sex scenes pretty much went over my head. I knew what was going on, the details just didn’t mean much to me. I usually read books that my mam or dad had finished, so if they were very unsuitable they sometimes took them off me. But I generally found them and read them anyway.

Answer by Isabella
I’m 14, and my mom doesn’t let me read those books e.e And I think it really depends on her, and the way she acts. If she’s mature than maybe she can handle it, but just because she’s mature it doesn’t mean she should be reading that stuff because her brain isn’t fully developed yet. So, really she can’t be that mature, no matter how she acts. I just have to say, people can change, you wouldn’t want her doing the stuff she reads in the books e.e I am rather mature for my age, and really I’m turning out great, and sometimes I don’t see the point in those sex scenes.

Answer by Abby
I’m twelve and I feel totally comfortable reading novels with sex scenes and profanity… I’m currently reading ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King.

Answer by jonaslover(:
I started reading young adult and adult books when I was 12. I love Jodi Picult and James Patterson. I’m currently reading The Time Travelers Wife which is very detailed and graphic. I think that if someone of that age is mature enough then theres nothing wrong with it. Just make sure its only regular sex, gay sex would be way to extreme for a young teen to read. Just make sure your teen doesn’t want to have sex before you give her the permission to read it. lol.

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