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3x04. Elizabeth Warleggan.

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No one knows when or how their deep and personal attachment developed, or when the King decided to marry her. The traditional story is that Elizabeth heard that Edward was hunting in Whittlewood Forest and waited under the tree later known as the ‘Queen’s Oak’ holding her two sons tightly by the hand. When the King rode by she threw herself at his feet begging him to endorse her arrangement with Hastings, and Edward was so struck by her ‘mournful beauty’ that he at once fell in love with her. He assumed that, like other ladies who had attracted him, she would be content to become his mistress; but she virtuously refused to give herself unless and until he agreed to marry her, ‘and so increased his passion by her refusals that he came to realise that he could not live without her’. The story that Elizabeth resisted even when a dagger was put to her throat was long assumed to be a late, peculiarly Italianate, detail invented by Dominic Mancini; but Antonio Cornazzano’s reference to a similar incident in his De mulieribus admirandis, probably written in the closing months of 1468 (in which Elizabeth is said to have produced the dagger) shows that it was then circulating in Europe and may indicate how surprised foreign observers received the news. The King stopped at Stony Stratford on 30 April while he was on his way northwards to meet a renewed threat from the Lancastrians, and next morning, Mayday, slipped away from his entourage and rode to Grafton where he secretly wed Elizabeth in the presence of Jacquetta, a priest, perhaps two others and ‘a young man who helped the priest sing’. The couple consummated their marriage, and the King then returned to his camp and told his followers that he had been hunting. He found excuses to visit Grafton on several other occasions while he remained in the vicinity (the arrangements were stage-managed by Jacquetta, who secretly brought Elizabeth to him when the house had retired for the night and, if Polydore Vergil may be believed, kept the whole matter from her husband); and this cat-and-mouse game presumably continued until the Council, meeting at Reading in September, pressed him to marry Bona of Savoy, the French King’s sister-in-law, when Edward was forced to admit the truth. The reality may be rather different, however. The idea of a young, handsome king marrying for love on Mayday may have been borrowed from romantic tradition and Edward, who was constantly attended by courtiers and had virtually no privacy, would have found it difficult to meet his bride secretly over a period of almost five months. The fact that Elizabeth was crowned in May 1465 may have added to the confusion, and it is perhaps more likely that they were married when the King again stopped at Stony Stratford on his return journey, or when he was at his manor of Penley, halfway between London and Grafton, in the late summer. But if some of the details of the tradition are speculative, it is clear that there was little time between the proposal and the marriage, and that Elizabeth was surprised by the speed of events. She would not have sought the assistance of Lord Hastings, or for that matter, any other nobleman, if she had expected to marry the King in the near future, and many contemporaries would probably have agreed with Charles Ross that it was ‘the impulsive love match of an impetuous young man’.

- David Baldwin, Elizabeth Woodville: Mother of the Princes in the Tower

for @edwardslovelyelizabeth

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“We started our life on the Ridge in this cabin— and now it’s just you and me again. We’re not alone, Sassenach.”

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The future’s answer to journey cake - peanut butter and jelly sandwiches

Very tasty, but, um … are you sure it’s to be eaten?  Ye could seal letters or mend your boots wi’ it as well.

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PEAKY BLINDERS CHALLENGE // seven scenes [1/7]: 

“Go on, Tom. Go on, cut me. Like the good ol’ days. Or, see this for what it is; a natural succession.”

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“A year seems very long to wait before I see them, but remind them that while we wait we may all work, so these hard days need not be wasted. I know they will remember all I said to them, that they will be loving children to you, will do their duty faithfully, fight their bosom enemies bravely, and conquer themselves so beautifully that when I come back to them I may be fonder and prouder than ever of my little women.”

Little Women (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig

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All we need. All we want. James and Claire Fraser.

Source: STARZ

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“But you’ll ruin yourself.”

“I don’t care if I ruin myself. I want to ruin myself. The sooner, the better.”

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Atonement (2007) dir. Joe Wright

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If you didn’t think I’d save EVERY SINGLE VERSION of this poster I can get my hands on – THINK AGAIN!

JE SUIS PREST FOR SEASON 4!

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You may soon find you’ve an announcement of your own.

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Gabriella Wilde as Caroline Enys and Luke Norris as Dwight Enys in tv series “Poldark” (season 4) x

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“May I escort you to church, Miss Penvenen? Finally we may end our pretence of courtship.”

Dwight & Caroline in every episode: 3x07

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film meme - [1/10 musicals] - The Greatest Showman (2017) dir Michael Gracey “Every one of us is special, and nobody is like anyone else. That’s the point of my show. No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.