#Frances Villiers

[venicepearl]

Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey (née Twysden; 25 February 1753 – 23 July 1821) was a British Lady of the Bedchamber, one of the more notorious of the many mistresses of King George IV when he was Prince of Wales, "a scintillating society woman, a heady mix of charm, beauty, and sarcasm".

#Frances Villiers #royal mistress #xviii century #xix century #people #portrait #paintings #art #arte

[lilypoppy05]

Mary & George - First Look (2023)

Nicholas Galitzine - Julianne Moore - Tom Victor - Frances Coke - Sean Gilder - Jacob McCarthy - Alice Grant - Niamh Algar

Credit: Sky

Mary & George is inspired by the unbelievable true story of Mary Villiers, who moulded her beautiful and charismatic son, George, to seduce King James VI of Scotland and I of England and become his all-powerful lover. Through outrageous scheming, the pair rose from humble beginnings to become the richest, most titled and influential players the English court had ever seen, and the King’s most trusted advisors. And with England’s place on the world stage under threat from a Spanish invasion and rioters taking to the streets to denounce the King, the stakes could not have been higher.

Prepared to stop at nothing and armed with her ruthless political steel, Mary married her way up the ranks, bribed politicians, colluded with criminals and clawed her way into the heart of the Establishment, making it her own. 

Mary & George is a dangerously daring historical psychodrama about an outrageous mother and son who schemed, seduced, and killed to conquer the court of England and the bed of King James.

#Mary & George #Nicholas Galitzine #Julianne Moore #Tom Victor #Frances Coke #Sean Gilder #Jacob McCarthy #Alice Grant #Niamh Algar #George Villiers #Mary Villiers #John Villiers #Amelia Gething #Sir Thomas Compton #Christopher 'Kit' Villiers #Susan Villiers #Sandie #Sky

[diana9241livejournalcom]

Kit Villiers, Susan Villiers, Sandie the whore, sir Thomas Compton, Francis Bacon, Frances Coke, baby Charles& Edward Coke after George&Kate's wedding

Trnaslation: we want not create embarrassment but the groom likes cock

#mary & george #mary and george #george villiers #katherine villiers #italian meme #i said what i said #baby charles's cameo #bacon is always there #edward coke decide to come tu sopport frances

[niemernuet]

"I'm Jean. How was your journey?"

#he should have just stayed in france #mary & george #george villiers #jean #tv #mine

[georgevilliers]

…

#look I know this is a silly hill to die on but as a history nerd I feel I must die on it #George Villiers was not a prince or royalty and barely even nobility #his father died when George was young and they were on the edge of povert but his mum sent him to France to learn to be a courtier #he was also used as a pawn by some court members to oust the kings old favourite that they did not like #so he was essentially sponsored to stay in court and seduce the king #like I said I get it it’s probably not worth my breath #but I think it’s important to know George and his mother worked to pull their family out of obscurity and near poverty #to George receiving dukedom #ANYWAY. #mary & george #nicholas galitzine

[theworldatwar]

A German grenadier blends in to the foliage. He is carrying two Panzerfaust anti-tank weapons which were deadly at short range and highly effective in the Bocage countryside - Villiers-Bocage June 1944

#world war two #1940s #worldwar2photos #history #ww2 #wwii #ww2 history #wwii era #world war 2 #ww2history #wehrmacht #france #normandy landings #normandy #villiers bocage #bocage #grenadier #panzer grenadier #panzerfaust

[postcard-from-the-past]

"Les Charmettes" neighbourhood of Villiers-le-Bel, Parisis region of France

French vintage postcard

#neighbourhood #tarjeta #postkaart #les #sepia #historic #france #photo #postal #briefkaart #photography #vintage #ephemera #bel #ansichtskarte #old #postcard #french #le #region #villiers-le-bel #charmettes #postkarte #parisis #villiers #carte postale

[rosaluxembae]

I wonder if Quentyn's arc is inspired by The Spanish Match. For those who don't know, Prince Charles (later the First™) and his dad's boyfriend Buckingham (the guy from Three Musketeers) travelled to Spain in secret to try and win the Spanish Infanta (princess) with some big romantic gesture and then basically TL;DR the Spanish told them to fuck off lol

#then 2 years later now King Charles and Buckingham tried invading Spain (partly) because they were pissed about being rejected #then they lost #then they attacked France #and also lost #eventually Charles also lost multiple civil wars and got executed #asoiaf #adwd #quentyn #quentyn martell #charles I #duke of buckingham #george villiers

[walker-diaries]

#fluorescence #villiers sur marne #france

[wordacrosstime]

A Diamond In The Dust

["A Diamond in the Dust - The Stuarts: Love, Art, War" by Michael Dean. 24 November 2022. Holland Park Press Ltd. Paperback. 225 pages. ISBN: 9781907320965]

The brutal murder of King Charles I was followed by the establishment of the Commonwealth of England, a brief republic. Reinstatement of the monarchy with his son Charles ll was accompanied by the execution of the judges - the Regicide Judges - who had condemned Charles I to death. Ten of them were hanged, nine of whom were hanged, drawn and quartered. The ringmaster Oliver Cromwell died naturally. His corpse was exhumed, hanged at Tyburn (in London, now Marble Arch), beheaded, and its head mounted above the building where Charles I had been tried.

They knew how to do things in those days.

Michael Dean's A Diamond in the Dust starts and ends with the show trial and execution of Charles I, with a second book - The King's Art - scheduled to take the story forward.

Shortly before his death, Charles I wrote a (very long and frankly dreadful, but yes, execution was going too far) poem titled (with capitals as written) Majesty in Misery, Or an Imploration to the KING OF KINGS. It's not known if God has read it yet, it could take a while. Mercifully Michael Dean only quotes three lines and then solely to explain the title of the book:

With my own Power my Majesty they wound, In the King's name the King himself's uncrown'd, So doth the dust destroy the Diamond.

Watch those capitals Charles. Upper Class OK, Upper Case seldom.

Michael Dean's delightful A Diamond In The Dust is a very exact account of many of the painters artists soldiers and male prostitutes who flourished around the courts of Europe. Charles emerges as worried about what he felt was his mis-shapen body until he finds he is good at something. That something, in what was perhaps his own language was f__king. And to give it context, music, sculpture, f__king, religious wars, wars, f__king, spending money he didn't have, f__king, and when at a loss for something to while away his sybaritic hours, not-surprisingly, more f__king.

This should not suggest that Charles I was promiscuous. On the contrary he and his wife Henrietta Maria seem, after a difficult start (there was a lot of religion, catholic and protestant, involved - all across Europe and all across their lives) to have been not simply in love, but profoundly in love. Charles I does emerge at times as a bit of a pr__k, but, as the English public of the time might well have said, 'at least he's our pr__k).

Art, politics, religion, shipwrecks. Michael Dean knows his controversies and A Diamond In The Dust is crammed to the gunwales with them. George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham is a superbly-drawn (he's real - all the people in the book are, and there are tons of them) character, sexually versatile on both sides, bold, generally courageous, a kind of World-War-II-We'll-Fight-Them-On-The-Beaches lad (he might well have turned up there for a cameo), hated, unfortunately by Queen Henrietta, and in the end murdered. The narrative does slump a bit when he exits, but it's coming to the end (for Charles I) when he leaves the story, and Charles is only going one way.

Michael Dean is expert with history and characters. His novel about the painter Marc Chagall, The White Crucifixion (2018) as well as being a fine novel is a smart piece of work, coming across - like A Diamond in the Dust - with the feel of historical accuracy (only God knows if it's extremely true, but He's tied up with Charles I's Majesty in Misery, possibly for eternity).

A Diamond in the Dust may be one for (1) history experts who long to pick holes in other historians' work while gloating at their superiority; (2) fanatical puritans (OK, Americans), protestants, catholics (it's got lots of all of them, entangled, not always religiously) (3) Republicans (4) Royalists (5) fans of art (yards and yards of art in 225 pages, lots of named works, very detailed biographies of big (and interestingly obscure) artists and patrons. And others who hate being categorised but read The Guardian flagrantly, with a fixed expression of disapproval.

[Image credit: book cover, with thanks to the copyright holders]

John Park

Words Across Time

19 May 2023

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#A Diamond In The Dust #Michael Dean #John Park #Words Across Time #wordsacrosstime #May 2023 #Holland Park Press #The Stuarts #Bernadette Jansen op de Haar #History #English History #Charles I #Charles II #George Villiers #Duke of Buckingham #Henry Wardlaw #Frances Howard #Queen Henrietta #Anthony van Dyck #Hubert Le Sueur #Oliver Cromwell #Nicholas Lanier #Endymion Porter #Wat Montagu #Abraham van der Doort #Peter Paul Rubens #Jan van Belcamp #Sir John Suckling #Privy Gallery #Henry Frederick

[thesevenseasandbeyond]

Villiers-sous-Grey (décembre 2021)

#villiers-sous-grey #france #forest #nature #landscape #my photos #photographers on tumblr

[clairity-org]

Diego Rivera, Portrait of Frances Ford Seymour and Frances de Villiers Brokaw, 1941, Oil on linen, 11/22/22 #sfmoma #artmuseum by Sharon Mollerus

#Diego Rivera #San Francisco Museum of Modern Art #1941 #Oil on linen #Portrait of Frances Ford Seymour and Frances de Villiers Brokaw #sfmoma #California #San Francisco #CA #flickr

[famousinuniverse]

Monceau, Métro Line 2, Paris, France: Monceau is a station on Paris Métro Line 2 near the Parc Monceau on the border of the 8th and 17th arrondissement of Paris. The station is located under the Boulevard de Courcelles at the Place de la République-Dominican, on the edge of the Parc Monceau. Oriented approximately along an east–west axis, it intersects between Courcelles and Villiers stations. Wikipedia

#Monceau #Métro Line 2 #Paris #France

[equatorjournal]

Age-crusted amphorae, like jumbled tombstones, mark the weedy grave of a Greek ship that sailed in the days of Alexander the Great. Oldest merchantman yet recovered, she antedates by two centuries the Greek wine ship Jacques-Yves Cousteau excavated off Grand Congloué rock near Marseilles, France. Photo by Michael L. Katzev. From "Men, ships, and the sea" by Alan Villiers, 1978. https://www.instagram.com/p/CqisOV5tB2K/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[lilypoppy05]

Mary & George First Look Teaser-Trailer - Coming Soon.

Credit: Sky

CAST:

-Nicholas Galitzine as George Villiers

-Julianne Moore as Mary Villiers

-Tony Curran as King James I

-Niamh Algar as Sandie

-Nicola Walker as Lady Hatton

-Trine Dyrholm as Queen Anne

-Sean Gilder as Sir Thomas Compton

-Adrian Rawlins as Sir Edward Coke

-Mark O’Halloran as Sir Francis Bacon

-Laurie Davidson as Somerset

-Samuel Blenkin as Prince Charles

-Jacob McCarthy as Kit Villiers

-Tom Victor as John Villiers

-Alice Grant as Susan Villiers

-Amelia Gething as Frances Coke

-Mirren Mack as Katherine Manners

-Rina Mahoney as Laura Ashcattle

-Simon Russell Beale as Sir George Villiers

#Mary & George #Nicholas Galitzine #Julianne Moore #Tony Curran #Sky

[hussyknee]

Somewhat put off by the spoilers I've read about Mary and George. There's no doubt nearly all relationships in the British court were some level of sordid, but King James, to all intents and purposes, had genuine feelings for his three male favourites, most especially George Villiers. He was no Henry VIII. I don't know why they wanted to reduce the most famous and open homosexual relationship in European royal history to a comedy between a "cock-struck" old lech and a conniving courtier that led him by the nose and then betrayed and murdered him.

All evidence points to George at least being loyal to James (if you discount his love letters as simply sucking up to his benefactor) and even had a fond relationship with his Queen and his son Charles. He was in fact in France when James died, and reportedly cried when he heard the news.

It's even a little heartbreaking because this is right after Nicholas Galitzine played the closeted gay Prince Henry in Red, White and Royal Blue, who in the book is proud of the open and unashamed love between his ancestor and his lover, and the way even James's son Charles I honoured Villiers for accompanying him to the Spanish Court to ask for the hand of the Infanta.

“Actually . . . you remember how I told you about the gay king, James I?”

“The one with the dumb jock boyfriend?”

“Yes, that one. Well, his most beloved favorite was a man named George Villiers. ‘The handsomest-bodied man in all of England,’ they called him. James was completely besotted. Everyone knew. This French poet, de Viau, wrote a poem about it.” He clears his throat and starts to recite: ‘One man fucks Monsieur le Grand, another fucks the Comte de Tonnerre , and it is well known that the King of England, fucks the Duke of Buckingham.’” Alex must be staring, because he adds, “Well, it rhymes in French. Anyway. Did you know the reason the King James translation of the Bible exists is because the Church of England was so displeased with James for flaunting his relationship with Villiers that he had the translation commissioned to appease them?”

“You’re kidding.”

“He stood in front of the Privy Council and said, ‘Christ had John, and I have George.’’

“Jesus.”

“Precisely.” Henry’s still looking up at the statue, but Alex can’t stop looking at him and the sly smile on his face, lost in his own thoughts. “And James’s son, Charles I, is the reason we have dear Samson. It’s the only Giambologna that ever left Florence. He was a gift to Charles from the King of Spain, and Charles gave it, this massive, absolutely priceless masterpiece of a sculpture, to Villiers. And a few centuries later, here he is. One of the most beautiful pieces we own, and we didn’t even steal it. We only needed Villiers and his trolloping ways with the queer monarchs. To me, if there were a registry of national gay landmarks in Britain, Samson would be on it.”

Henry’s beaming like a proud parent, like Samson is his, and Alex is hit with a wave of pride in kind.

He takes his phone out and lines up a shot, Henry standing there all soft and rumpled and smiling next to one of the most exquisite works of art in the world.

“What are you doing?”

“I’m taking a picture of a national gay landmark,” Alex tells him. “And also a statue.”

Like all white liberals, Casey McQuiston tends to romanticise the crime against humanity that is royalty and also that house built by bunch of slave owners that has since housed a progression of genocidal war criminals. There's very little to like about any British monarch. But the relationship between James and Villiers is a significant part of gay history and there's no need to smear it even more than it's already been smeared the last four hundred years, contrary to the actual known facts.

Idk man. I'm sensitive to this stuff Ig. Maybe I'd be a little more positive about it if I watched it, but the trailer gave me "tee hee they're gay" vibes so Idk if I want to.

Edit: so it seems the trailer is misleading and the story is more complex than a "tee hee gay" comedy. I might watch it after all, even if the starkly visible age difference makes me a bit queasy. How tf is Galitzine nearly thirty and a babyface with those razor cheekbones?? Perfect to show how uncomfortable it looks for a middle aged man to get with a kid of twenty.

#nicholas galitzine #mary and george spoilers #mary and george #british history #the stuarts #king james vi and i #george villers #king charles i #period drama #julianne moore #lgbtqia #lgbt history #queer media #queer representation #queer history #queer drama #knee of huss