Rose, Tudor

N. Robinson, R.P. Evershed, W.J. Higgs, K. Jerman, Eglinton, G., Proof of a pine wood origin for pitch from Tudor (Mary Rose) and Etruscan shipwrecks application of analytical organic chemistry in archaeology, Analyst, 112, 637 643 (1987). 

Athena s helmet and Minerva s veil only conceal in order to reveal and thus are equivalent to the white dog rose Quite aware of this delicate hermetic drift, the Tudor Kings and Queens adopted the white rose as their symbol, as did the Calebites who adopted the white rose as the symbol of their heritage and their special land. Britain also adopted Michael directly as its patron protector in the same way as the Essenes had looked to Michael for protection of their land. 

From the union of the White Rose of York or Rosa alba semiplena and the Jacobite Rose, Rosa alba maxima, the Tudor Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII created the unique Tudor Rose. This was a five petal white rose placed in the centre of a five petal red rose, surmounted by a crown. 

The Tudor rose of Edward VI emerged from a pomegranate, the Israelite symbol of royalty and fertility. Queen Elizabeth I s Tudor rose bore the motto Rosa sine spina or rose without a thorn. It symbolized her identification with the Virgin Queen. 

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