Draft:Lady Mabel Of Castile

Lady Mabel (Mabel of Castile)

Joanna Of Castile, Juanna the Mad, gave birth to a daughter, Mabel Of Castile. in 1497-1501 allegedly, an older man, (unknown) Was going to arrange a deal with Joanna for one of her daughters to be married off to him in exchange for some power over another land and a new house being created when they have children. Joanna must have foolishly said yes to this offer, and she promised him a female and a future wife despite him saying he was going to engage her the day he meets her (which would be when mabel was an infant) When the time came for mabel to be born, Joanna realized she made a mistake. mabel was a healthy girl, and she was afraid of whatever this mysterious man was going to do to her, so she made a plan. she was going to fake mabels death to the public and secretly raise her outside of the kingdom, and claim that mabel had died due to birth complications. she wrote a letter to this mysterious man and we couldnt find records of his response to it but all we know is that she wasnt married off to him. but mabel was a secret to everyone. as she grew up she was lied to and told she didnt have a father, and her mother worked all day and night and only visited her when she could. When mabel came of age, her mother started teaching her English, and english mannerisms, and sent her away to england. mabel never knew her last name or that she way royal at all. She was welcomed to court by kind henry VIII and she became one of jane seymours ladies in waiting, and she started to have affairs with the king. after about a month, she felt guilty, and told him he couldnt see her unless they got married. as henry loved jane, he didnt leave jane, but a month after jane passes, he wrote to mabel, and mabel was welcomed back to the court. the two saw eachother for a week or two after they started to see eachother again, they got married november 29, 1537. mabel had a 2 year reign until she was accused or treason, witchcraft, and attempting to unalive the king. her execution was a wealthy people only event, and after mabel was beheaded on june 8th, 1539, henry made sure everyone that knew her, forgot her in an instant, and he destroyed everything she owned, her portraits, and acted like she never existed. this was easy since nobody liked mabel from the start, not even her own ladies in waiting liked her, as she reminded theme of anne boylen, and everyone would spread rumors about her since she didnt know where she was from, her mothers real name, where her dad was, what her last name was, if she had siblings, or anything family or background oriented. everyone was suspicious of her but henry loved her. she was an older woman, but so was CoA. she was in her late thirties to early forties. same as henry. he wasnt worried about if she could bare children, since jane had already given him an heir, and he only made time for him, no others besides mabel. he welcomed her into the court thinking she was kuch younger then she really was, because her complexion was so young, and thats where the first case of witchcraft came from. mabel met mary and elizabeth once at the wedding, and never saw them after that. she did grow fond of edward though. she had seem him alot since henrys eyes were always on him. other then these minor background things that were only written about her from her ladies in waiting and commoners, we dont know much about this mysterious queen of england. the one thing we know is that there were 3 beheaded wives. and since CoA never knew mabel, since she was hidden, mabel would have bever guessed she would marry, and be beheaded by her aunts ex husband.

Even after her death, six portraits survived. On one of them, there is a writing in the corner that says, Lilith the 4th. We have been digging deep down to find out who this ominous “lilith” is, but all we know is that she was one of the ladies in waiting to Mabel. She could have possibly been the one and only surviving peice of evidence that mabel existed. most of the writings and portraits and all of these things about mabel that we found, were either from people that visited england during her reign, commoners, people that saw her execution, but the most important of them all, lilith, one of her ladies in waiting, who mabel grew quite fond of. we are unsure of her origins, her family, or anything about her besides her relationship to mabel. that is all we have about englands most mysterious queens.