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thelittletsarina · 5 months

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Massive Audio Gifting!

Anastasia:

Second National Tour

May 14, 2022 - Operachristinedaae

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Kyla Stone (Anya), Sam McLellan (Dmitry), Bryan Seastrom (Vlad), Brandon Delgado (Gleb), Madeline Raube (Countess Lily), Gerri Weagraff (Dowager Empress), Taya Diggs (Little Anastasia/Alexei), Mikayla Agrella (Tsarina Alexandra), Christian McQueen (Tsar Nicholas ii/Count Ipolitov/Count Gregory), Taylor Stanger (Prince Siegfried), Veronica Rae Jiao (u/s Odette), Dakota Hoar (Von Rothbart), Lauren Teyke (Olga Romanov), Lizzy Marie Legregin (s/w Tatiana Romanov/Dunya), Victoria Madden (Maria Romanov/Marfa), Veronica Rae Jiao (Young Anastasia/Paulina), Harrison Drake (Grolinsky/Count Leopold), Sarah Statler (Countess Gregory), Louis Brogna (Sergei), William Aaron Bishop, Evin Johnson

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Second US National Tour

November 4, 2022 - Operachristinedaae

Veronica Stern (Anya), Willem Butler (Dmitry), Bryan Seastrom (Vlad), Ben Edquist (Gleb), Gerri Weagraff (Dowager Empress), Madeline Raube (Countess Lily), Alexandrya Salazar (Little Anastasia/Alexei Romanov), Kaitlyn Jackson (Tsarina Alexandra), Amin Fuson (Tsar Nicholas ii), Brooklyn Liabo (Young Anastasia), Victoria Madden (Maria Romanov), Gabriella Burke (Olga Romanov/Odette), Thalia Atallah (Tatiana Romanov), Zachary Bigelow, Willam Aaron Bishop, Louis Brogna, Billy McGavin, Luke Rands, Lathan Roberts, Sarah Statler

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Second National Tour

November 5, 2022 - Operachristinedaae

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Veronica Stern (Anya), Willem Butler (Dmitry), Bryan Seastrom (Vlad), Ben Edquist (Gleb), Gerri Weagraff (Dowager Empress), Alexandrya Salazar (Little Anastasia/Alexei Romanov), Rebecca Hartman (u/s Tsarina Alexandra), Amin Fuson (Tsar Nicholas ii), Brooklyn Liabo (Young Anastasia/Paulina), Victoria Madden (Maria Romanov/Marfa), Gabriella Burke (Olga Romanov/Odette), Thalia Atallah (Tatiana Romanov/Dunya), Kaitlyn Jackson (u/s Countess Lily), Alec Llyod (u/s Prince Siegfried), Zachary Bigelow, Willam Aaron Bishop, Louis Brogna, Billy McGavin, Luke Rands, Sarah Statler

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Second National Tour

November 5, 2022 - Operachristinedaae

Rebecca Hartman (u/s Anya), Willem Butler (Dmitry), Bryan Seastrom (Vlad), Ben Edquist (Gleb), Gerri Weagraff (Dowager Empress), Kaitlyn Jackson (u/s Countess Lily), Leela Chopra (Little Anastasia/Alexei Romanov), Amy Smith (u/s Tsarina Alexandra), Amin Fuson (Tsar Nicholas ii), Brooklyn Liabo (Young Anastasia), Victoria Madden (Maria Romanov), Gabriella Burke (Olga Romanov/Odette), Thalia Atallah (Tatiana Romanov), Alec Lloyd (u/s Prince Siegfried), Zachary Bigelow, Louis Brogna, Billy McGavin, Luke Rands, Sarah Statler, Dominic Pagliaro (s/w)

(Rebecca’s Anya Debut & Dominic’s swing Debut)

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Second National Tour

December 10, 2022 - Operachristinedaae

Veronica Stern (Anya), Willem Butler (Dmitry), Bryan Seastrom (Vlad), Ben Edquist (Gleb), Gerri Weagraff (Dowager Empress), Madeline Raube (Countess Lily), Leela Chopra (Little Anastasia/Alexei Romanov), Kaitlyn Jackson (Tsarina Alexandra), Dominic Pagliaro (u/s Tsar Nicholas II/Count Ipolitov/Count Gregory), Brooklyn Liabo (Young Anastasia/Paulina), Victoria Madden (Maria Romanov/Marfa), Gabriella Burke (Olga Romanov/Odette), Thalia Atallah (Tatiana Romanov/Dunya), Zachary Bigelow (Suitor/Soldier), Willam Aaron Bishop (Romanov Servant/Train Smoker), Louis Brogna (Suitor/Sergei), Billy McGavin (Count Leopold), Luke Rands (Suitor/Von Rothbart), Lathan Roberts (Suitor/Prince Siegfried), Sarah Statler (Romanov Servant/Countess Gregory)

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Second National Tour

December 11, 2022 - Operachristinedaae

Veronica Stern (Anya), Willem Butler (Dmitry), Bryan Seastrom (Vlad), Ben Edquist (Gleb), Gerri Weargaff (Dowager Empress), Madeline Raube (Countess Lily), Leela Chopra (Little Anastasia/Alexei Romanov), Kaitlyn Jackson (Tsarina Alexandra), Dominic Pagliro (u/s Tsar Nicholas ii/Count Ipolitov/Count Gregory), Brooklyn Liabo (Young Anastasia/Paulina), Victoria Madden (Maria Romanov/Marfa), Gabriella Burke (Olga Romanov/Odette), Thalia Atallah (Tatiana Romanov/Dunya), Zachary Bigelow (Suitor/Soldier), Willam Aaron Bishop (Romanov Servant/train smoker), Louis Brogna (Suitor/Sergei), Billy McGavin (Count Leopold), Alec Lloyd (u/s Suitor/Von Rothbart), Lathan Roberts (Suitor/Prince Siegfried), Sarah Statler (Romanov Servant/Countess Gregory)

(Ben’s last show - Released by Operachristinedaae)

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Annie:

Third National Tour

January 28, 2023 - Operachristinedaae

Ellie Pulsifer (Annie), Christopher Swan (Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks), Stefanie Londino (Miss Hannigan), Julia Nicole Hunter (Grace Farrell), Andrew Scoggin (u/s Rooster Hannigan), Krista Curry (Lily St. Regis), Mark Woodard (F.D.R), Addison (Sandy), Riglee Ruth Bryson (Pepper), Bronte Harrison (Molly), Vivanne Neely (July), Izzy Pike (Kate), Kenzie Rees (Duffy), Valeria Velasco (Tessie), Bradley Ford Betos (Lt. Ward/Fred McCracken/Ickes/Brandeis), Harrison Drake (Drake), Laura Elizabeth Flanagan (Annette/Bonnie Boylan), Jataria Heyward (Mrs. Greer/Star To Be/Ronnie Boylan), Kevin Ivey Morrison (Apple Seller/Jimmy Johnson/Hull), Leanna Rubin (Sophie the Kettle/Mrs. Pugh/Perkins), Kaley Were (Cecile/Connie Boylan), Andrew Scoggin (Bundles McCloskey/Bert Healy/Howe), Mark Woodard (Dog Catcher), Aidan Ziegler-Hansen (s/w Asst. Dog Catcher/Sound Effects Man/Morganthau)

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Third National Tour

January 29, 2023 - Operachristinedaae

Matinée

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My Fair Lady:

Sixth National Tour

May 6, 2023 - Operachristinedaae

Matinée

Madeline Powell (Eliza Doolittle), Jonathan Grunert (Henry Higgins), John Adkison (Colonel Pickering), Michael Hegarty (Alfred P. Doolittle), Nathan Haltiwanger (Freddy Eynsford-Hill), Becky Saunders (Mrs. Higgins), Madeline Brennan (Mrs. Pearce), Daniel James Canaday (Professor Zoltan Karpathy), Diana Craig (Queen of Transylvania), Torinae (Mrs. Eynsford-Hill), Blair Beasley (Clara Eynsford-Hill), Maeghin Mueller (Mrs. Hopkins), Kelly Gleason (Higgins’ maid/Flower Girl/Ensemble), Anna Backer (Higgins’ maid/Ensemble), Nick Berke (s/w Frank/Ensemble), Timothy Scott Brausch (Mrs. Higgins’ servant/ensemble), William Warren Carver (Loverly Quartet/Constable/Prince of Transylvania), Richard Coleman (Loverly Quartet/Jamie/Ensemble), Allyson Gishi (Higgins’ maid/ensemble), Sam Griffin (Charles/swing Loverly quartet/Lord Boxington), Sami Murphy (Lady Boxington/Ensemble), Kevin D. O’Neil (Harry/Ensemble), Kal Kail (Constable/Ensemble), Jackson Hurt (Loverly Quartet/Ensemble)

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Six:

Second National Tour (Boleyn)

July 11, 2023 - Operachristinedaae

Gerianne Pérez (Catherine of Aragon), Aryn Bohannon (s/b Anne Boleyn), Amina Faye (Jane Seymour), Cecilia Snow (s/b Anna of Cleves), Aline Mayagoitia (Katherine Howard), Sydney Parra (Catherine Parr)

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Wicked:

Broadway

January 7, 2023 - Operachristinedaae

Alyssa Fox (s/b Elphaba), Brittney Johnson (Glinda), James D. Gish (Fiyero), Clevant Derricks (The Wizard), Michele Pawk (Madame Morrible), Mikayla Renfrow (Nessarose), Yando Lopez (u/s Boq), Clifton Davis (Doctor Dillamond), Dashi Mitchell (u/s Chistery), Kristina Doucette (Witch's Mother), Kevin Massey (u/s Witch's Father / Ozian Official), Alicia Albright (s/w Ensemble), Micaela Martinez (s/w Ensemble), Hunter Mikles (s/w Ensemble), Allsun O'Malley (s/w Ensemble), Jesse JP Johnson (s/w Ensemble)

(Released by Operachristinedaae)

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Second National Tour (Munchkinland)

September 11, 2021 - Operachristinedaae

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Talia Suskauer (Elphaba), Allison Bailey (Glinda), Jordan Litz (t/r Fiyero), Cleavant Derricks (The Wizard), Sharon Sachs (Madame Morrible), Amanda Fallon Smith (Nessarose), DJ Plunkett (Boq), Clifton Davis (Doctor Dillamond), Travante S Baker (Chistery), Megan Loomis (Midwife), Marina Lazzaretto (Witch's Mother), Wayne Schroder (Witch's Father / Ozian Official), Nick Burrage (Ensemble), Jordan Casanova (Ensemble), Matt Densky (Ensemble), Marie Eife (Ensemble), Ryan Patrick Farrell (Ensemble), Sara Gonzales (Ensemble), Hunter Mikles (Ensemble), Hayden Milanes (Ensemble), Jennafer Newberry (Ensemble), Alicia Newcom (Ensemble), Jackie Raye (Ensemble), Rebecca Gans Reavis (Ensemble), Andy Richardson (Ensemble), Anthony Sagaria (Ensemble), Justin Wirick (Ensemble)

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Second National Tour (Munchkinland)

October 14, 2021 - Operachristinedaae

Talia Suskauer (Elphaba), Allison Bailey (Glinda), Curt Hansen (Fiyero), Cleavant Derricks (The Wizard), Sharon Sachs (Madame Morrible), Jackie Raye (u/s Nessarose), DJ Plunkett (Boq), Clifton Davis (Doctor Dillamond), Megan Loomis (Midwife), Marina Lazzaretto (Witch's Mother), Nick Burrage (Ensemble), Jordan Casanova (Ensemble), Matt Densky (Ensemble), Marie Eife (Ensemble), Ryan Patrick Farrell (Ensemble), Jenny Florkowski (s/w Ensemble), Sara Gonzales (Ensemble), Jordan Litz (Ensemble), Hunter Mikles (Ensemble), Hayden Milanes (Ensemble), Jennafer Newberry (Ensemble), Alicia Newcom (Ensemble), Rebecca Gans Reavis (Ensemble), Andy Richardson (Ensemble), Anthony Sagaria (Ensemble), Justin Wirick (Ensemble)

(Jackie Raye's Post Pandemic Nessarose Debut!)

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Second National Tour (Munchkinland)

March 20, 2022 - Operachristinedaae

Talia Suskauer (Elphaba), Allison Bailey (Glinda), Jordan Litz (Fiyero), Cleavant Derricks (The Wizard), Lisa Howard (Madame Morrible), Amanda Fallon Smith (Nessarose), DJ Plunkett (Boq), David Scott Purdy (u/s Doctor Dillamond), Travante S Baker (Chistery), Megan Loomis (Midwife), Alexia Acebo (Witch's Mother), Wayne Schroder (Witch's Father / Ozian Official), Nick Burrage (Ensemble), Jordan Casanova (Ensemble), Matt Densky (Ensemble), Marie Eife (Ensemble), Ryan Patrick Farrell (Ensemble), Sara Gonzales (Ensemble), Chelsea Cree Groen (Ensemble), Ryan Mac (Ensemble), Alicia Newcom (Ensemble), Jackie Raye (Ensemble), Rebecca Gans Reavis (Ensemble), Andy Richardson (Ensemble), Paul Schwensen (Ensemble), Justin Wirick (Ensemble), Anthony Lee Bryant (s/w Ensemble), Ben Susak (s/w Ensemble)

(Final performance for Talia, Allison, Amanda, DJ, and Cleavant - Released by Operachristinedaae)

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justforbooks · 7 months

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The word “great” is somewhat promiscuously applied to actors. But it was undoubtedly deserved by Sir Michael Gambon, who has died aged 82 after suffering from pneumonia.

He had weight, presence, authority, vocal power and a chameleon-like ability to reinvent himself from one role to another. He was a natural for heavyweight classic roles such as Lear and Othello. But what was truly remarkable was Gambon’s interpretative skill in the work of the best contemporary dramatists, including Harold Pinter, Alan Ayckbourn, David Hare, Caryl Churchill and Simon Gray.

Although he was a fine TV and film actor – and forever identified in the popular imagination with Professor Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter franchise – the stage was his natural territory. It is also no accident that, in his private life, Gambon was an expert on, and assiduous collector of, machine tools and firearms for, as Peter Hall once said: “Fate gave him genius but he uses it as a craftsman.”

Off-stage, he was also a larger-than-life figure and a superb raconteur: a kind of green-room Falstaff. I have fond memories of an evening in a Turin restaurant in March 2006 on the eve of Pinter’s acceptance of the European Theatre prize. Gambon kept the table in a constant roar, not least with his oft-told tale of auditioning for Laurence Olivier as a young actor in 1963 and cheekily choosing to do a speech from Richard III; but the next night Gambon gave an explosive rendering of Pinter’s poem American Football that threatened to blow the roof off the Turin theatre.

However, Gambon’s bravura was also mixed with a certain modesty. In the summer of 2008 I met him for tea in London and found him eagerly studying the script of Pinter’s No Man’s Land, in which he was scheduled, several months later, to play Hirst. He told me that he had started work on it so soon because he found it difficult to learn lines at his age.

“Sometimes,” he said, “I sleep with a script under my pillow, or just carry it around in my raincoat pocket, in the hope the lines will rub off on me.” I think he was genuine; but with Gambon, one of life’s great leg-pullers, you were never entirely sure.

Gambon achieved greatness without either the formal training or genetic inheritance that are often considered indispensable.

He was born into a working-class Dublin family that had no artistic background; his mother, Mary (nee Hoare), was a seamstress, and his father, Edward, an engineer. When the family settled in Britain after the second world war, the young Gambon went to St Aloysius school for boys, in Somers Town, central London. On leaving at the age of 15 he signed a five-year apprenticeship with Vickers-Armstrongs, leading to a job as a tool-and-die maker. With his mechanical aptitude, he loved the work. But he also discovered a passion for amateur theatre and, having started by building sets, eventually moved into performing. “I want varoom!” he once said. “I thought, Jesus, this is for me.”

With typical chutzpah, he wrote to the Gate theatre in Dublin, creating a fantasy list of roles that he had played in London, including Marchbanks in Shaw’s Candida; in the end, he made his professional debut there in 1962 as the Second Gentleman in Othello. His best decision, however, on returning to London, was to sign up for an improvisational acting class run by William Gaskill at the Royal Court.

Gaskill was about to join the newly formed National Theatre company at the Old Vic and recommended Gambon for an audition: hence the celebrated story of Gambon’s first encounter with Olivier, which ended with the young actor, in his excess of zeal, banging his hand on a nail in an upstage column and bleeding profusely. Far from being the nail in Gambon’s coffin, this led to a productive four years with the National in which he progressed from walk-ons to substantial roles such as that of Swiss Cheese in Gaskill’s revival of Mother Courage.

On Olivier’s advice, however, Gambon left the National in 1967 to hone and pursue his craft at Birmingham rep – a shrewd move that saw him, at the astonishingly early age of 27, playing his first Othello. He moved on later to the Royal Shakespeare Company, and in 1968 made his first foray into television with the leading role in a BBC adventure series called The Borderers.

However, it was through working on another TV series, The Challengers, that he made a contact that was to transform his career. His fellow actor Eric Thompson was moving into directing, and in 1975 was set to do an Ayckbourn trilogy, The Norman Conquests, at the Greenwich theatre. He cast Gambon, against type, as a dithering vet.

He revealed, for the first time, his shape-shifting gifts; and the sight of him, seated at a dinner table on a preposterously low stool with his head barely visible above the table’s edge, remains one of the great comic images of modern theatre.

This led to a highly productive working relationship with Ayckbourn including key roles in Just Between Ourselves (Queen’s theatre, London, 1977) and Sisterly Feelings (National, 1980).

At the same time, Gambon began an association with Gray by taking over, from Alan Bates, the role of the emotionally detached hero in Otherwise Engaged (Queen’s theatre, 1976).

That was directed by Pinter, for whom in 1978 Gambon created the part of Jerry in Betrayal at the National. It was a production beset by problems, including a strike that threatened to kibosh the first night, but Gambon’s mixture of physical power and emotional delicacy marked him out as a natural Pinter actor. That power, however, manifested itself in the 1980s in a series of performances that staked out Gambon’s claim to greatness.

First, in 1980, came Brecht’s Galileo at the National: a superbly triumphant performance that brought out the toughness, obduracy and ravening intellectual curiosity of Brecht’s hero. It was a measure of his breakthrough that, as Gambon returned to his dressing room after the first night, he found the other actors in the National’s internal courtyard were shouting and roaring their approval. Two years later, Gambon returned to the RSC to play both a monumental King Lear and a ravaged Antony opposite Helen Mirren’s Cleopatra.

But arguably the finest of all of Gambon’s 80s performances was his Eddie Carbone in Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge, directed by Ayckbourn at the National (1987). It helped that Gambon actually looked like Miller’s longshoreman-hero: big and barrel-chested with muscular forearms, he was plausibly a man who could work the Brooklyn docks.

Gambon also charted Eddie’s complex inner life through precise physical actions. He stabbed a table angrily with a fork on learning that his niece had got a job, let his eyes roam restlessly over a paper as the niece and the immigrant Rodolpho quietly spooned, and buckled visibly at the knees on realising that a fatal phone-call to the authorities had ensnared two other immigrants. In its power and melancholy, this towering performance justified the sobriquet once applied by Ralph Richardson of “the great Gambon”.

When you consider that the decade also saw Gambon playing the psoriasis-ravaged hero of Dennis Potter’s TV series The Singing Detective (1986), you realise his virtuosity and range.

And that became even clearer in 1990 when he played the mild-mannered hero of Ayckbourn’s Man of the Moment (Globe theatre, now Gielgud, London), had another crack at Othello for Ayckbourn in Scarborough and appeared, in 1989, as a romantically fixated espionage agent in Pinter’s TV adaptation of Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day: that last performance, alternately sinister and shy, was one of Gambon’s finest for television and deserved a far wider showing.

In later years Gambon successfully balanced his stage career with an amazingly prolific one in film and television. In Hare’s Skylight at the National in 1995 he combined the bulk and weight of a prosperous restaurateur with a feathery lightness – a skipping post-coital dance across the stage with the balletic grace often possessed by heavily built men.

Gambon was equally brilliant as a disgusting, Dickensian, accent-shifting Davies in a revival of Pinter’s The Caretaker (Comedy theatre, 2000), as a perplexed bull of a father in Churchill’s A Number (Royal Court, 2002), as a Lear-like Hamm in Beckett’s Endgame (Albery, 2004) and as a brooding, alcoholic Hirst in Pinter’s No Man’s Land (Duke of York’s, 2008). Even if Gambon’s Falstaff in a 2005 National Theatre production of Henry IV Parts One and Two did not quite match expectations, his work for the theatre revealed an ability to combine volcanic power with psychological depth and physical delicacy.

Ill health and increasing memory problems forced him to retire from stage acting in 2015, but not before he had given memorable performances in two Beckett plays: Krapp’s Last Tape (Duchess, 2010) and All That Fall (Jermyn Street theatre, 2012), where he played, opposite Eileen Atkins, the sightless but stentorian Mr Rooney.

He also continued to work in television and film for as long as possible. He belied the whole notion of the small screen by giving large-scale performances as the black sheep of a big family in Stephen Poliakoff’s Perfect Strangers (2001) and as a reclusive plutocrat in the same writer’s Joe’s Palace (2007).

He was nominated for awards for his performances as Lyndon Johnson in an American TV movie, Path to War (2002), and as Mr Woodhouse in a BBC version of Jane Austen’s Emma (2009). Later TV series included The Casual Vacancy (2015), Fearless (2017) and Little Women (2017).

In film, he had a rich and varied career that ranged from the violent hero of Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989), to a heavyweight mafia boss in Mobsters (1991), the aged Lord Marchmain in Brideshead Revisited (2008), a cantankerous old director in Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet (2012) and the bearded Hogwarts headteacher (whom he privately referred to as “Dumblebore”) in six of the eight Harry Potter films, taking over the role for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) following the death of Richard Harris.

He also provided the narration for the Coen brothers’ Hail, Caesar! (2016) and voiceovers for the two Paddington films (2014 and 2017).

But Gambon brought to everything he did, in life as well as art, enormous gusto, a sense of mischief and a concern with precision: he was almost as happy restoring old firearms as he was working on a new role.

In 1992 he was appointed CBE, and six years later was knighted.

He married Anne Miller in 1962, and they had a son, Fergus. From a subsequent relationship with Philippa Hart, whom he met on the set of Gosford Park, he had two sons, Michael and William.

He is survived by Anne and his three sons.

🔔 Michael Gambon, actor, born 19 October 1940; died 27 September 2023

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goldfishgrahamcracker · 10 months

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Franklin's lost expedition crew

I was looking at posts about AMC's The Terror and I kept getting confused by the use of first names, so I wanted to see how many of the characters had the same names. Arranging the crew in alphabetical order, I got:

1 x Abraham (Seeley)

4 x Alexander (Berry, McDonald, Paterson, Wilson)

5 x Charles (Best, Coombs, Des Voeux, Johnson, Osmer)

1 x Cornelius (Hickey)

2 x Daniel (Arthur, Bryant)

3 x David (Leys, Macdonald, Young) + Bonus: Bryant in the show but most historical sources I found list him as Daniel

1 x Edmund (Hoar)

3 x Edward (Couch, Genge, Little)

2 x Edwin (Helpman, Lawrence)

3 x Francis (Crozier, Dunn, Pocock)

1 x Frederick (Hornby) + Bonus: Des Voeux, whom I have seen referred to as Frederick rather than Charles on occasion

6 x George (Cann, Chambers, Hodgson, Kinnaird, Thompson, Williams)

1 x Gillies (MacBean)

1 x Graham (Gore)

7 x Henry/Harry (Collins, Goodsir, Le Vesconte, Lloyd, Peglar, Sait, Wilkes)

10 x James (Brown, Daly, Elliot, Fairholme, Fitzjames, Hart, Reid, Ridgen, Thompson, Walker) + Bonus: Ross, who was not part of the expedition but appears in the show

23 x John (Bailey, Bates, Bridgens, Brown, Cowie, Diggle, Downing, Franklin, Gregory, Hammond, Handford, Hartnell, Irving, Kenley, Lane, Morfin, Murray, Peddie, Strickland, Sullivan, Torrington, Weekes, Wilson)

2 x Joseph (Andrews, Healey)

1 x Josephus (Geater)

1 x Luke (Smith)

1 x Magnus (Manson)

1 x Philip (Reddington)

1 x Reuben (Male)

2 x Richard (Aylmore, Wall)

8 x Robert (Carr, Ferrier, Golding, Hopcraft, Johns, Sargent, Sinclair, Thomas)

3 x Samuel (Brown, Crispe, Honey)

1 x Solomon (Tozer)

16 x Thomas (Armitage, Blanky, Burt, Darlington, Evans, Farr, Hartnell, Honey, Johnson, Jopson, McConvey, Plater, Tadman, Terry, Watson, Work)

22 x William (Aitken, Bell, Braine, Clossan, Fowler, Gibson, Goddard, Heather, Hedges, Jerry, Johnson, Mark, Orren, Pilkington, Read, Rhodes, Shanks, Sims, Sinclair, Smith, Strong, Wentzall)

#i saw the 23 johns coming but not the 22 williams #there may be a mistake somewhere but that was a lot of names #amc the terror #the terror #terrorposting

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artmialma · 1 year

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William Hoare (1707-1792)

Allegory of Summer

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aimeedaisies · 1 year

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The Princess Royal’s Official Engagements in April 2023

03/04 In Glamorgan, Wales Princess Anne carried out the following engagements;

As Patron of the Royal College of Midwives, visited Prince Charles Hospital, Merthyr Tydfil. 👶

As President of Carers Trust, visited Bridgend Carers Centre, Bridgend. 🩼

As Royal Patron of the National Coastwatch Institution, opened St Donat’s Bay Station, United World Colleges Atlantic College, St Donat’s, followed by a Reception at St Donat’s Castle, Llantwit Manor. 🚤

04/04 In Worcestershire and Gloucestershire, Princess Anne carried out the following engagements;

As Patron of the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regimental Association, HRH dedicated the Norton Worcestershire Regiment Group, in Norton. 🌲

As President of Carers Trust, HRH visited Crossroads Care Gloucestershire, at Daglingworth Village Hall, Daglingworth. 🩺

Opened Eastwood Park Limited’s Training Centre, Falfield, Wotton-Under-Edge. 👩‍🎓

Visited Wickwar Town Hall, Wickwar, Wotton-Under-Edge 🏫

09/04 unofficial Princess Anne and her husband, Sir Tim Laurence, attended the Easter Sunday Mattins Service at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor. Also in attendance were King Charles, Queen Camilla, the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Prince Louis, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, James, Earl of Wessex, Peter Phillips, Zara, Mike, Mia and Lena Tindall, Princess Beatrice, Edoardo Mapelli-Mozzi, Princess Eugenie, Jack Brooksbank, Lady Sarah Chatto and Daniel Chatto. 🐣

~~🐣 Easter break 🐣~~

17/04 Princess Anne carried out the following engagements in Kelso, Scotland;

Visited Kelso Racecourse for their Bicentenary Race Day and met Grand National ‘23 winner Corach Rambler.

Afterwards HRH attended a Reception for Carers at the Racecourse. 🥂

18/04 Princess Anne carried out the following engagements in the Scottish Highlands;

Opened the Life Sciences Innovation Centre at the University of the Highlands and Islands, Inverness Campus. 🧑‍🎓

Visited the Lochaber Rural Education Trust in Torlundy, Fort William.✏️

Opened the new Corpach Marina, Caledonian Canal, Corpach in Fort William. 🚤

19/04 As Patron of the Spinal Injuries Association, Princess Anne attended a Reception at Hoare Memorial Hall in Westminster, London. 🩼

Later as President of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, accompanied by Sir Tim, HRH attended the President’s Lecture and Dinner. 👨‍🏫

20/04 The Princess Royal, held an Investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace. 🎖️

As Patron of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, attended the Spring Conference. 💊

21/04 Attended HMS Raleigh’s Phase One Training Passing Out Parade in Cornwall 🫡

22/04 Princess Anne and Sir Tim attended the Women’s Six Nations Scotland v Ireland games in Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹🏉

25/04 Princess Anne carried out the following engagements in Northern Ireland;

As Patron of Save the Children UK, visited their charity shop in Ballycastle as they were celebrating celebrating their 10th birthday of opening. 🎂

As Patron of the National Museum of The Royal Navy, opened HMS Caroline museum, after restoration of HMS Caroline and the Pumphouse in Alexandra Dock, Belfast. ⛴️

26/04 Princess Anne as Patron of the Whitley Fund for Nature, accompanied by Sir Tim, attended the Whitley Awards Ceremony at the Royal Geographical Society, Kensington. 🦋🌳

27/04 Princess Anne carried out several engagements in London;

As Patron of Livability, attended a ‘Changes for the Future’ Forum. 🏘️

As Admiral of the Sea Cadet Corps, HRH opened the brand new National Support Centre and attended a Sea Cadet Forum. 🌊

The Princess Royal, As Patron of the Learning and Work Institute, attended an ‘Art for the People’ Forum. 🖼️

As President of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Commonwealth Study Conferences, held a Dinner at St. James’s Palace for the Commonwealth Study Conferences Canada’s President’s Council and the Study Conference 2023. 🍽️

28/04 unofficial As the brand new President of the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway Trust Sir Tim visited one of the stations and met various volunteers of the railway, had a look around the Signalbox and Carriage & Wagon at Winchcombe in Gloucestershire. 🚂

Total official engagements for Anne in April: 29

2023 total so far: 171

Total official engagements accompanied by Tim in April: 3

2023 total so far: 41

#unofficial means it wasn’t in the court circular so it hasn’t been added to the total #hardest working royal 🫡#no choice but to stanne #this is based of the court circular #monthly engagement post #april 2023 #and yes i’m doing a seperate count for tim too #because i’m rooting for…#operation working royal tim #charles i hope you’re listenanne #not all engagements are listed on this post #if you want a full list plz dm me 💕#princess anne #princess royal #tim laurence #timothy laurence #brf

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Hoare, William - self portrait in pastel

#hoare #self-portrait

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gogmstuff · 10 months

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Susan, Mrs. Henry Hoare by William Hoare of Bath (auctioned by Sotheby's). From their Web site; navigation marks and a few spots in the background removed with Photoshop 1595X2077.

#Georgian fashion #Rococo fashion #Louis XV fashion #Susan Hoare #William Hoare of Bath #van Dyck revival #lace collar #brim hat #hat feathers #paned sleeves #back-flared cuffs

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youngadultmatters · 1 year

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Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 7.

There is a willow grows aslant a brook, that shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; there with fantastic garlands did she come, of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, that liberal shepherds give a grosser name, but our cold maids do dead men’s fingers call them: there, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds, clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; hen down her weedy trophies and herself, fell in the weeping brook. her clothes spread wide, and, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up; which time she chanted snatches of old tunes, ss one incapable of her own distress, or like a creature native and indued.

Unto that element.

– William Shakespeare.

Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2.

Doubt thou the stars are fire,

Doubt that the sun doth move,

Doubt truth to be a liar,

But never doubt I love.

Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2.

Duvida da luz dos astros,

De que o sol tenha calor,

Duvida até da verdade,

Mas confia em meu amor.

#ophelia #hamlet #william shakespeare #ofélia #shakespeare #ophelia2018 #poem #daisy ridley #george mackay #movie #claire mccarthy

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saints-who-never-existed · 4 months

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Rereading The Terror

Chapter Forty-Four: Goodsir

Christ, this is a heavy-going chapter. I'm just going to go ahead and put it all under the cut just in case.

Yet again, Goodsir proceeds to tear my actual heart out with a single opening sentence: "Tuesday, 6 June - Captain Fitzjames has finally died. It is a Blessing."

Fitzjames is far from the first to die on the awful march south from Terror Camp. Hoare died two days into the trek, then Dundy succumbed about two weeks in along with Pilkington on the very same day. In a gut-wrenching wee paragraph, Goodsir reflects somewhat on identity in death - the ways it's lost and reclaimed. He laments that he either forgot or never fully clocked that he and Le Vesconte shared a first name: "I confess that I hadn't remembered that Lieutenant Le Vesconte's first name had been Harry... It bothers me now that I must have heard the Other Officers call him Harry from time to time - perhaps a hundred times - but I had always been too busy or preoccupied to notice. It was only after Lieutenant Le Vesconte's death that I paid attention to the other Men using his Christian name. Private Pilkington's Christian name was William."

After those two deaths, there is a period of relative calm where the men start to convince themselves that the weak have died off and only the truly strong remain. It doesn't last: "Captain Fitzjames's sudden collapse reminded us that we were all growing Weaker. There were no longer any truly Strong among us."

Fitzjames collapses in his harness a few days prior to his death, the poor sod puking and shitting himself inside out - "The cramps curled him into a fetal position and made this strong and Brave man cry aloud."

He tries to haul again the next day only to collapse again and he worsens rapidly from there. His vision blurs, he has trouble swallowing, soon enough he's no longer able to speak and sooner still, he's too paralysed even to lift his arms and communicate in writing. Goodsir reflects that Fitzjames's inability to speak at least spares the rest of the men the burden of hearing him scream in pain any longer... :(((

Perhaps worst of all is that Fitzjames is fully lucid and alert throughout his long painful decline. :(((((((((((

There's truly nothing that Goodsir can do for him - he administers a Tincture of Lobelia, for instance, that is apparently more or less pure nicotine to try to ease Fitzjames's constricted throat. He has to massage it down with his bare hands just like in the show ("...like feeding a dying Baby Bird.") but it doesn't help. "...a Stimulant that Dr Peddie had sworn by. It would raise Jesus from the dead a day early, Peddie used to blaspheme when in his cups. It did no good whatsoever." Of course, I cannot help but think of "I'm not Christ..." in response to that titbit!

At Fitzjames's funeral, the Marines fire a volley into the air, startling a nearby Ptarmigan into flight. Interestingly, the ptarmigan is the official bird of Nunavut and is important to many cultures as everything from a symbol of courage and resilience to a messenger for death. All the assembled men care about, though, is that it's fresh meat they have no hope of catching or consuming...

With poor James buried, talk turns to what killed him. He had scurvy, of course, just like everyone else but Goodsir suspects a more nefarious culprit - poison. In their initial discussion on the subject, Crozier's suspicions fall on Richard Aylmore - shady steward, mastermind of the Carnivale, frequent confidante of Hickey - who's been serving the Erebus officers in the weeks preceding. But Goodsir stops him, thinking Botulism the more likely culprit (although the limits of the time period prevent him fully understanding it or calling it by that name): "That is the Terror of this Poison that Paralyzes first the voice and then the entire body. It cannot be Seen or Tested For. It is as invisible as Death itself."

Crozier smiles at that ("It was a strangely chilling sight.") and orders that everyone except Aylmore be taken off the tinned food rations, just in case...

Needless to say, Goodsir is more shaken and more desolate than ever to hear that as the chapter draws to a close: "Every time I believe I Know one of these men or Officers, I find that I am wrong. A million years of Man's Medicinal Progress will never reveal the secret Condition and sealed Compartments of the Human Soul."

#The Terror #The Terror AMC #Observations #Random Observations #Meta #Rereading the Terror #Terror Spoilers #Harry Goodsir #James Fitzjames #Francis Crozier #Richard Aylmore #Henry Le Vesconte #William Pilkington

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simena · 1 year

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William Hoare - Allegory of Summer

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kwebtv · 2 days

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Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years - ITV - September 6, 1981 - October 25, 1981

Drama (8 Episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Robert Hardy as Winston Churchill

Siân Phillips as Clementine Churchill

Nigel Havers as Randolph Churchill

Tim Pigott-Smith as Brendan Bracken

David Swift as Professor Lindemann

Sherrie Hewson as Mrs. Pearman

Moray Watson as Major Desmond Morton

Paul Freeman as Ralph Wigram

Frank Middlemass as Lord Derby

Sam Wanamaker as Bernard Baruch

Peter Barkworth as Stanley Baldwin

Eric Porter as Neville Chamberlain

Edward Woodward as Sir Samuel Hoare

Peter Vaughan as Sir Thomas Inskip

Robert James as Ramsay MacDonald

Tony Mathews as Anthony Eden

Ian Collier as Harold Macmillan

Marcella Markham as Nancy Astor

Walter Gotell as Lord Swinton

Richard Murdoch as Lord Halifax

Clive Swift as Sir Horace Wilson

Phil Brown as Lord Beaverbrook

Diane Fletcher as Ava Wigram

Geoffrey Toone as Sir Louis Kershaw

Norman Jones as Clement Attlee

Geoffrey Chater as Lord Hailsham

Stratford Johns as Lord Rothermere

Norman Bird as Sir Maurice Hankey

Roger Bizley as Ernst Hanfstaengl

James Cossins as Lord Lothian

Guy Deghy as King George V

Stephen Elliott as William Randolph Hearst

Günter Meisner as Adolf Hitler

Frederick Jaeger as Joachim von Ribbentrop

David Langton as Lord Londonderry

Preston Lockwood as Austen Chamberlain

David Markham as the Duke of Marlborough

Richard Marner as Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin

Llewellyn Rees as Lord Salisbury

Terence Rigby as Thomas Barlow

Margaret Courtenay as Maxine Elliott

Merrie Lynn Ross as Marion Davies

Nigel Stock as Admiral Domvile

#Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years #TV #ITV #Drama #1981 #1980's #Robert Hardy #Sian Phillips #Nigel Havers #Peter Barkworth #Eric Porter #Sam Wannamaker #Edward Woodward

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katharined · 1 year

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𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐌𝐎𝐎𝐍, 𝐂𝐎𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐒 𝐂𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐑 / 𝐀 𝐍𝐄𝐃𝐊𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐍𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐀.

written by: di & sunny featuring: edmund percy, katharine brandon, and john seymour (a captive witness).

Though it was strangely out of Katharine Brandon’s character to inch a toe outside of formality, one could argue it was woven in her very blood to marry thus: in secret, without one’s sovereign blessing the union, and with only the ancient chapel walls, the man beside her, and the milky-eyed priest before them soaking up the soft-utterance of her vows. It had been her mother’s fate, and before her, a great-grandmother’s – Elizabeth Woodville.

What, then, could stop a woman whose bones were borne from indiscretion and treachery from taking matrimonial fate into her own hands?

The journey had taken little more than a day, with their swift-footed and silver-tongued excuse from court proving far more arduous than the trip itself. The dense, leafy forests of England shaded their breakneck pilgrimage toward the North, where the Old Faith flourished still, where the trees had withered hoar-white with frost, berries and saplings dripping with crystalline icicles: a daunting harbinger of winter’s premature arrival.

As morning broke across England, the air crisp and pine-scented, Katharine breathed in the sight of the stone chapel, slumping into the near-frozen ground, and carefully slipped her hand into Edmund’s as she alighted from her snow-white gelding.

Some might argue that Edmund attempting to undermine his own father’s hand by marrying in secret was in line with the reputation of a Howard, for he carried the same blood as his mother and grandfather. Destined to concoct dangerous plans to raise himself and those around him to higher status, for it had been whispered to him since birth that he was meant for grandeur, even if at times it felt a curse to be borne a son to a mother who wanted a daughter to make queen.

Every movement previously made had been designed by others in Edmund’s life, calculated so that he may play puppet in hands under the guise of love, only to be freed by the nature of genuine love. The affection born between him and Richard granted him the ability to desire for a life that allowed them to love freer, or the brotherly bond that was bred with William – one that afforded him an unseen position in life, a fresh path.

And now, Katherine, who listened to Edmund’s heartfelt request, an indecent sort of proposal, had given him her faith and trust.

The cold was harsh, seeping through the layers of clothing that he had donned this morning, shades of deep, romantic violet that he’d chosen in hopes of impressing his companion. Edmund’s hand helped her down from the horse, eyes sweeping over the quaint stone chapel, a far cry from anything he foresaw himself marrying in before. Yet, ever a romantic, he could see the tendrils wrapping around of the tale he’d weave when it came time to inform others. Ill-fated lovers, meant to never be together unless they took fortune into their own two hands. He prayed Richard may forgive him for this treason against his own heart, and for God to protect them from the wrath it would surely draw from the rest of the court.

Head turned once more to her, words stolen by the appearance of John Seymour, a man that a few weeks ago he thought little of, till Katherine had informed him that she trusted him enough to bear witness to their union – even if Edmund felt repugnant still at the prospect of owing the man anything. With her hand safely ensnared in Edmund’s larger one, Katharine’s eyes too snapped to the sound of snow crushing beneath hooves, the violent bursts of ivory air blowing out of a stallion’s nose. Her chill-purpled lips formed into a perfect ‘o.’

Jack, her son-in-law, had come; he would bear witness to their union, giving it weight in the eyes of both God and man; his debt to her repaid. The picture of grace, the Duchess extended a silent smile in thanks, releasing her velvet cloak and allowing the chestnut river of brown hair to cascade down her snow-fluttered gown.

With a softer grin directed at Katharine, Edmund then motioned with his head for them to proceed onward into the chapel, where inside waited the priest that he’d sent for. An old, slowly decaying man, with bony hands and eyes that barely recognized the pair before him. A devout man of the Catholic faith, who survived the Henrician rule and would likely survive the rule of his son as well, sworn to allow no slip of his tongue about the traitorous proceedings that would carry out today. Edmund could not help but admire the beauty that Katherine exuded beside him, the strength with which she carried herself, finding no tremble in her frame as they faced the treacherous future that would soon await them.

But where Edmund may have been treading into uncharted, shark-infested waters, the Duchess found herself in far more familiar territory. She had been married already once prior, and had primed her eldest daughter, Phillipa, extensively in her path to the altar, familiar with each trick of etiquette and ceremonial custom that was to follow. Still, she blinked with caution before the atavistic priest, whose blinded eyes leered back at her drippingly, before bequeathing to him a small pouch ringing with precious coins – the only indication that the couple standing before him hailed from noble stock – waiting for another gummy smile to pink across the his cheeks before proceeding.

‘Shall we?’ Kate murmured to Ned, her voice uncommonly soft as she peeled off her leather gloves and exposed her rosy fingertips to the air. For the first time in nearly two decades, her ring finger was unencumbered by Henry Grey’s opal-studded heirloom, with only a bleached circle around the knuckle left in its wake; she’d buried it in the frozen grounds they’d flown through en route to the chapel, Ned and Kate, neck-and-neck.

The Duchess’ ringless hands sought warmth in the soft velvet of her cloak as she moved to stand facing her betrothed, and the priest began to hum the holy ordinances of matrimony to which Katharine had once pledged herself unto for all eternity, her mind reciting the vows she would soon once more utter. Catching a sliver of white out of the tail of her gaze, she instinctively bent forth to brush her fingers across Edmund’s chest, pressing the dusting of snow scattered across the sapphire-fabric of his doublet into nothingness, a moist stain, pursing her mouth into a tight-lipped smile.

It wouldn’t be Ned Percy if he didn’t arrive at his own nuptials in disarray, after all.

A whiff of fond affection struck Edmund at the simple motion, a faint yet genuine smile that overtook his features as he regarded her with a chin tilted downward, focus pulled entirely from the priest as he spoke to them. The Earl found himself barely listening to the lengthy words that spilled from the old man, thoughts drawn to Katharine and her alone, wondering if in another life what words he may have gifted to her on their wedding day so that she felt cherished. Would he wax poetic about the curve of her lips, the sharp edges of her smile, or the siren call of her voice when it wrapped around his name? Certainly not, for all physical compliments paled in comparison to the woman that stood before now, they were shallow, hollow phrases that would fail to encompass every piece of Katharine that Edmund had grown to admire.

To not acknowledge her strength, the steady line of her shoulders against the constant storm that waged against her since girlhood, witty eyes that had raised a flock of headstrong daughters that bowed to no man in this life or the next; it was a cardinal sin to look at all that Katharine Brandon was and name her merely beautiful.

Enraptured by thought, there was a lull from the priest, his tow-head turned to look at Edmund as if he was waiting for his acknowledgement. He nodded his head quickly, pulling his eyes from Katharine to do so, before that cerulean gaze returned to her face once more as they prepared to repeat the words that the man spoke. Edmund prayed that the lord did not allow his tongue to falter as he pledged a life to her in this chapel.

“I, Edmund, take thee to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, till death do us part, and thereto I plight thee my troth.”

His words rang out steady, confident, the words heavy with the weight of the truth within them; piercing eyes that bore into her, a silent vow hidden within that he would provide for her what others had been unable to. The silent pledge of a devotion that rang beyond a simple love affair.

Katharine’s chest untightened as she released a long-withheld breath – the dazed, unconcerned look in Edmund’s eyes vanishing as he announced his vows, a sigh of relief rattling out from her lungs. Sharing a discreet, sidelong glance with John, the Duchess gave a curt nod, with aplomb reciting her own oath. “I take thee, Edmund, to my wedded husband,” Katharine uttered, followed by the same vow as the Earl’s and the time-honoured promise to – ‘be bonny and buxom in bed and board’ – though her lips curled around the phrase with certain animosity. “Till death do us part.”

Her son-in-law, John, shuffled eagerly forth to provide the rings, which Katharine firstly allowed Edmund to slip onto her finger, eyes feasting over the pair of gilded bands admiringly, entwined with sprigs of ivy splashed with roses. She then gingerly retrieved her husband’s ring and slid it onto his digit, her hands folding over his, thick gold bands clinking merrily to their union. “I did not have time to have it engraved.” She found her words convulsing with laughter – nervous, pitchy twittering – recognizing what was yet to come for the new couple; not merely the joining of their body, flesh and soul, but the fallout that was certainly to ensue at court.

Katharine prayed it was not their very necks that would suffer their folly – nor her daughters. “Perhaps next year.”

She then cut her eyes across his, the corners of her lips creasing as she clutched fast to the sleeve of Edmund’s jacket, the trembling of her fingers pulsing through the snow-lined wool. It was well done, now. In the eyes of God, and John Seymour, Lord Hertford, in this frozen little chapel, they were married. “Husband Edmund. Father Ralph. Our good and dear son, John. What say we take our breakfast at the inn, now? I believe we have a marriage to drink to.”

And as her smile met his – this time genuine, as untarnished as the bands that graced their fingers – Katharine felt a trickle of happiness warm her royal blood.

Fin.

#edmund.#john.#crescent moon / nedkate.#AAAAAA

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