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"I don't want your promise. I don't need it. Perhaps no one will understand my marriage to you. But I speak to you, and you answer. I ask you to do things. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't... but you do at least listen. To my thoughts, to my decisions. As if I were a person." CATHERINE PARR IN BECOMING ELIZABETH (2022)

#wah #becoming elizabeth #thomas seymour #katherine parr

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#Anne Boleyn

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—Reaching England before Edward turns the whole country against us is in everyone's interest. This is your cause now.

—Perhaps... but as you are so fond of reminding me, I have no choice, Warwick.

DAVID OAKES as GEORGE, DUKE OF CLARENCE in THE WHITE QUEEN (2013) | 1x04 " The Bad Queen"

#david oakes #the white queen

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Helen of Troy (detail) c. 1867. by Frederick Sandys

#catherine of aragon

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"I'm not sure I should like to be a fish! George does try to be so charming but he doesn't always get it right."

#i loved them #the white queen

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being attracted to blond men is a sign something is really wrong with your psyche

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#please

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all's fair in love and poetry.

#:( #taylor swift

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"[Elizabeth Woodville's] piety as queen seems to have been broadly conventional for a fifteenth-century royal, encompassing pilgrimages, membership of various fraternities, a particular devotion to her name saint, notable generosity to the Carthusians, and the foundation of a chantry at Westminster after her son was born there. ['On other occasions she supported planned religious foundations in London, […] made generous gifts to Eton College, and petitioned the pope to extend the circumstances in which indulgences could be acquired by observing the feast of the Visitation']. One possible indicator of a more personal, and more sophisticated, thread in her piety is a book of Hours of the Guardian Angel which Sutton and Visser-Fuchs have argued was commissioned for her, very possibly at her request."

-J.L. Laynesmith, "Elizabeth Woodville: The Knight's Widow", "Later Plantagenet and Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, Dynasty"

#elizabeth woodville

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mary i tudor [becoming elizabeth] + a clash of kings [asoiaf]

#oh ! #mary i

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Please 😭

#Richard iii #the lost king

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Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle Vincent van Gogh, Garden at Arles (1888)

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Matteo Martari as Francesco Pazzi S02E04 • Medici: The Magnificent

#matteo martari #francesco pazzi #medici

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get to know me: [8/10] female characters ♡ gloria pritchett

#modern family

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Leicester’s critics often focused on his paradoxical adoption of sexual subservience as a means to political elevation. Redirecting the accusations leveled against his Dudley ancestors, they portrayed the earl as an ambitious upstart, whose power over the queen resulted from an eroticized form of meritocracy. Leicester was a “speciall extortioner” just like his grandfather but allegedly the younger Dudley had obtained this status by his long service to the queen’s “filthy luste.” John Dudley had been prized by Henry VIII for his expertise at jousting. Robert practiced a different kind of swordsmanship altogether: “The common bull of the Courte,” he numbered among the “carped [carpet] knights,” and had been promoted because he “coulde doe beste & [is] best weaponed.”

Jaqueline Vanhoutte, "Itinerarium ad Windsor and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester" in Charles Beem, Dennis Moore, eds. The Name of a Queen: William Fleetwood's Itinerarium ad Windsor, pg. 88

#robert dudley #elizabeth i

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It's dishonest work and it's a lot. And nobody needs to do it

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"And now, his monarch's sweating face thrust into his, he remembers something his father told him: if you burn your hand, Tom, raise your hands and cross your wrists before you, and hold them so till you get to the water or the salve: I don't know how it works, but it confuses the pain, and then if you utter a prayer at the same time, you might get off not too bad. He raises his palms. He crosses his wrists. Back you go, Henry. As confused by the gesture — as if almost relieved to be stopped—the king face away and so relieving him, Cromwell, of that bloodshot stare, of the indecent closeness of the popping blue whites of the king's eyes. He says, softly, 'God preserve you, Majesty. And now, will you excuse me?' (Mantel, H. 2012. Bring up the Bodies. 276-277)

MARK RYLANCE and DAMIAN LEWIS as THOMAS CROMWELL and KING HENRY VIII in WOLF HALL (2015-) | 1x05 "Crows"

#wolf hall