#empress maud

[perioddramasource]

ALISON PILL as EMPRESS MAUD 

The Pillars of the Earth (2010)

#chewieblog #userstream #ceremonial #cinematv #perioddramaedit #gifshistorical #femaledaily #useroptional #userthing #ours #*gifs #Gaby #supervalcsi #empress matilda #historyedit #periodedit #the pillars of the earth #empress maud

[tercessketchfield]

MEN THINK ABOUT ROMAN EMPIRE. WOMEN THINK ABOUT HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE

JUDITH OF BAVARIA (797-843) — Daughter of Count Welf I of Bavaria, Judith was a Carolingian Empress as the second wife of Louis I the Pious. Mother of Gisela and Charles the Bald, she foght for both her own influence at court and for the succession of her son over the claims of his elder half-brothers, the sons of Louis I from his first marriage. Charles became the Emperor in 875, after the death of Louis II, his nephew and a son of his half-brother Lothair / fancast: Annabel Scholey

MARIA OF AUSTRIA (1528-1603) — Daughter of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Isabella of Portugal. She served as Regent of Spain both jointly with her husband, Maximilian (before their accession to the imperial throne), and in person, for her father, and brother, Philip II. Her children include two Holy Roman Emperors, Rudolf II and Matthias, over whom she held great influence, and queens consorts of Spain, and France / fancast: Olivia Cooke

EMPRESS MAUD (1102-1167) — Daughter of Henry I of England and Matilda of Scotland. Her first marriage to the Holy Roman Emperor, Henry V, gave her the title under which she came down into history, and was a source of great pride to Maud. Rightful heiress of Henry I, she confronted her cousin, King Stephen, in the civil war, known as the Anarchy, fighting ferociously for her rights. She failed in this for herself but won for her son Henry, who became king and established the Plantagenet dynasty in England / cast: Alison Pill in The Pillars of the Earth (2010)

MARIA THERESA (1717-1780) — She succeded her father Charles VI as the ruler of Habsburg monarchy in 1740, and devoutedly defended it against its enemies in the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Year's War. Wife of the Holy Roman Emperor, Francis I, she was a forceful personality and a competent ruler herself, reigning first in her own right, and later, jointly with her son Empreror Joseph II. Her children include two Holy Romam Emperors (Joseph II and Leopold II), queens consorts of Naples ans Sicily, and France / cast: Marie-Luise Stockinger in Maria Theresia (2017)

#historyedit #judith of bavaria #maria of austria #empress maud #empress matilda #maria theresa #maria theresia #perioddramaedit #history #women in history #perioddramasource #onlyperioddramas #tusereliza #userbennet #usermina #weloveperioddrama #cortegiania #perioddramagif #gifshistorical #my edit #*i have literally zero idea what is this lmao* but i really like it idk

[sixth-light]

The thing that has been vexing me lately about Fantasy Historical Sexism (vs the real kind) is how it flattens out actual historical politics - particularly in the high medieval period, sexism against female rulers was a tool for people who were already their political opponents for political reasons, rather than a common primary motivator for contesting inheritance. Fairly large numbers of women in medieval Western Europe inherited estates ‘suo jure’, in their own right - not even getting into things like the political power of abbesses (who could often be those same women in retirement, or their sisters or daughters or mothers). 

Historical fantasy tends to be so obsessed with having One Special Woman Who Is Fighting Sexism that it actually erases from the popular conception of history the women who were already there, and the complexity of their lives, and it’s just...very...dull. 

#yes yes this is a grrm subtweet for the obvious reason #but it's not JUST about him #just. thinking about how he has a fictional Empress Maud #but he has no equivalent of Eleanor of Aquitaine AFAIK #not in specific but like. even in general #and he's hardly the only offender #it's...yeah

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

~ ROYALS AND THEIR SIGNATURES ~

Part 1/3

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Queen Alexandra(Alexandra of Denmark)

Princess Beatrice of Battenberg

Princess Victoria of Wales

Queen Victoria

King Edward VII

Louise, Princess Royal & Duchess of Fife

Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna(Alix of Hesse)

Tsar Nicholas II

Queen Maud of Norway(Maud of Wales)

#queen alexandra #alexandra of denmark #princess beatrice of battenberg #princess victoria of wales #princess toria #queen victoria #king edward vii #princess louise duchess of fife #louise princess royal #princess alice grand duchess of hesse #empress alexandra feodorovna #alix of hesse #tsar nicholas ii #maud of wales #queen maud of norway #signatures

[loiladadiani]

King Christian X (Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm; 1870 – 1947); King of Denmark from 1912 to his death in 1947

I want to place this remarkable individual within the context of the many royal families we discuss in this blog. He had quite an eventful and successful reign, including transitioning his country into a constitutional monarchy, but this post is just about (some) of his relatives.

He was a grandson of Christian IX and the son of the future Frederick VIII. His brother was the future Hakoon VII of Norway. His paternal aunts were Dagmar (Empress Maria Feodorovna) and Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom. King George V, Queen Maud, and Tsar Nicholas II were his first cousins. Christian X's mother was Lovisa of Sweden.

He was raised strictly in a palace part of the Amelienborg Palace complex. He received a military education and studied at the Officers Academy.

Christian initially loved Princess Marguerite of Orleans, but his feelings were not returned, so he married Princess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg Schwerin. Alexandrine's maternal line was Romanov...her mother, Anastasia, was the daughter of Nicholas I's younger son, Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaievich. They had two sons: Prince Frederick (1899–1972), later King Frederick IX of Denmark and Prince Knud (1900–1976)

In case you are wondering, he was 6 feet 7 inches tall.

What a dynasty Christian IX and Queen Louise gave to the world!

#European history #Christian IX #Christian X #Louise of Hesse-Kessel #Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna #Frederick VIII #Empress Maria Feodorovna #Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom #George V #Nicholas II #King Hakoon VII #Queen Maud #Lovisa of Sweeden #Alexandrine of Mecklenburg Schwerin

[aerial-jace]

I love it when fictional or fictionalized women abuse their absolute political power. I'm always on the sidelines cheering like: "Go girl! Crush the pathetic bugs with the full weight of tyranny!"

#I specify 'or fictionalized' because one of the inspirations for this post is Queen Maude from When Christ and His Saints Slept #that is to say a fictionalized version of Empress Mathilda #(the English queen whose reign the civil war known as The Anarchy was fought over)

[ykzzr]

Empress Maria, Princess Victoria of Wales, Grand Duchess Olga, Princess Maud of Wales , Grand Duke George in the back may 1896.

#george alexandrovich #empress maria feodorovna #olga alexandrovna #princess victoria #princess maud #grand duke george #maria feodorovna #1890s #romanovs

[greengableslover]

“Look at that sea, girls - all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.”

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

ATONEMENT (2007)

MR. MALCOLM’S LIST (2022)

PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (2019)

SANDITON (2019 - 2023)

ANNE WITH AN E (2017 - 2019)

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995)

LITTLE WOMEN (2019)

SISSI - THE FATEFUL YEARS OF AN EMPRESS (1957)

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1995)

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES (1985)

#perioddramaedit #periodedit #periodgif #filmedit #moviegifs #tvedit #perioddramasource #userbennet #catalinabaylors #tuserbea #userpavlova #userperioddrama #userseeleybooth #userdraconis #aogg #aogg 1985 #sense and sensibility #mr. malcolm's list #sanditon #portrait of a lady on fire #anne with an e #little women 2019 #sissi - fateful years of an empress #pride and prejudice 1995 #atonement #*film #*

[howtofightwrite]

How physically active were actually "medieval" noble women? I know is a long period but I usually see people complaning about noble women in fantasy doing stuff such as hunting or riding horses. I have seen a couple of illustrations of fencing manuals with women in them too.

We, as a culture, especially in the US, have a very bad habit of using the British Regency/Victorian era as the gold standard for how women all over the world were treated throughout history. And the truth is, it ain’t that way. It never was, because women in this exact era used to duel each other in other parts of Europe and often did it topless.

Yes, this is real. We have records of it.

Was it all women, all the time? No. Was it often enough to mention? Yes.

There’s a really good article by Kameron Hurley, “Women Have Always Fought” that goes over the history of women warriors and the laziness of specular fiction in detail. This is a particularly great few paragraphs from the article that covers where our popular conception that women don’t fight comes from.

“Women have always fought,” he said. “Shaka Zulu had an all-female force of fighters. Women have been part of every resistance movement. Women dressed as men and went to war, went to sea, and participated actively in combat for as long as there have been people.”

I had no idea what to say to this. I had been nurtured in the U.S. school system on a steady diet of the Great Men theory of history. History was full of Great Men. I had to take separate Women’s History courses just to learn about what women were doing while all the men were killing each other. It turned out many of them were governing countries and figuring out rather effective methods of birth control that had sweeping ramifications on the makeup of particular states, especially Greece and Rome.

Half the world is full of women, but it’s rare to hear a narrative that doesn’t speak of women as the people who have things done to them instead of the people who do things. More often, women are talked about as a man’s daughter. A man’s wife.

Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

Check out some of these real women below.

Empress Maude, the daughter of the English King, Henry I, was named her father’s heir after her brother died. While her cousin Stephen stole the throne after her father’s death, she raised an army and took the country into a civil war to take it back. They fought it out for the decade it took for her son to reach adulthood, and laid the groundwork for Henry II to become king. There’s a great novel by Sharon Kay Penman, When Christ and His Saints Slept which chronicles the civil war. If you’re interested in medieval history, I recommend reading it. Her daughter-in-law, Eleanor of Aquitaine, also led an interesting life. (It should be said, real history got to the denied female heir fights for her throne before George R.R. Martin.)

There’s great videos from Xiran Jay Zhao discussing the Chinese warrior queen Fu Hao of the Shang Dynasty and Wu Zetian, who became China’s first female emperor. (Yes, you read that right. Emperor.)

There is Khutulun, the Wrestler Princess and the great-great granddaughter of Gengis Khan, who is one source of our “defeat her in battle to marry her” tropes. She issued this challenge, “defeat her in wrestling, she’ll marry.” She scammed would be suitors out of 10,000 horses. Western male authors are so threatened by Khutulun, they’ve kept trying to rewrite her history by making her fall victim to the power of love. (No, seriously.)

There’s also Hojo Masako, the Buddhist nun who deposed her own son when he proved incompetent and ruled Japan as Shogun. Here’s her wiki entry too.

The Amazons of Greek Myth were real in that they were actual Scythian women who went to war. (As Scythian women did, just like their men.) They terrified and terrorized the Greeks so much, they became immortalized in their mythology. Don’t believe me? Here’s an article from National Geographic and this one from Live Science.

There’s stories like this all throughout history from big events to small ones. (You can find more over at Rejected Princesses if you’re interested.) There are female warriors, female generals, noblewomen who took command of their husbands’ forces, widows who took to the sea to get revenge on those who wronged them, women who rode with their husbands to battle, female assassins, female leaders of rebellions, etc. The women of the Japanese samurai class were trained to fight, and fight they did. Women warriors, queens, and politicians are all over mythology too. You’ll often see these women come out of the upper echelons of society because money creates options, but they are there. Many of those stories are lost to history, in some cases purposefully, and there was a long trend among archeologists that assumed because a person was buried with male grave goods, the body had to be male. We’re now finding out that isn’t true. There’s a significant portion of warrior corpses that have turned out to be female. Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla chose to post a notice about it in response to these exact criticisms you’re questioning.

Those people you see complaining online? They’re clinging to a version of history that doesn’t exist. More, we know it doesn’t, because popular culture is hungry to the point of desperate for aggressive, confident, and competent female characters. If they were truly a lie, they wouldn’t ring true for so many people.

The history we’re taught today largely downplays women’s achievements, contributions, and successes while uplifting those of men. It’s a fact. Go look at famous female figures anywhere, you’ll find the same story at play over and over. Historically, fantasy as a genre largely portrays a world that is, in fact, fantasy, but that fantasy has nothing to do with women doing things they’re not “supposed” to. There’s no clubhouse. There’s nothing unrealistic in imagining your female character is a kickass queen who defeats overconfident men in wrestling competitions and robs them of all their horses. It’s not unrealistic to come up with an ending that doesn’t conclude in tragedy, violent deaths, them “learning their place,” or even locked within the bonds of an unhappy marriage. (Shocker!) Some did, but the truth isn’t universal. It’s not even unrealistic to imagine they might have supportive male family members, love interests, and followers who happily (gasp) assist them in these endeavors. Maude, for reference, had bastard half-brothers who helped her instead of trying to take the throne for themselves.

History got here before fantasy authors. There’s nothing unrealistic about reality. Popular conceptions and common knowledge fed to us by the majority male dominated culture isn’t always the truth. Reality is, it’s the stories we see normalized across the media spectrum that are wrong. The ones that insist women are objects, who commodify their pain, and reframe their stories to ensure the focus remains on men. While this is changing, women are still often treated as the NPCs of male driven stories.

The people you hear complaining? They want storytelling traditions to stay that way, for the Great Man values countless narratives have reinforced to remain unchallenged. Funny as it sounds, they’re threatened by the very existence of narratives that countermand that centralized focus on men being superior, that there is a stratified gender hierarchy, and men taking their place as the sole, worshipful focus of a woman’s existence, much less these female characters being important in their own narratives. If these people weren’t threatened by female characters being people, they wouldn’t say anything. They’d just move on in apathy.

Reality is people are complicated. There’s room for all stripes in all colors and contexts. It’s no secret that history has suppressed and erased countless stories that don’t support the ruling narrative of the dominant culture. These same people forget there’s plenty of storytelling traditions that include women taking their place as warriors in cultures outside America. For all the sexism and misogyny, women fighting is not an alien concept, it’s not even foreign to other Western European traditions.

Believe what your own research is showing you, not what a bunch of idiots who can’t tell their ass from their elbow are whining about. They can’t handle someone who isn’t straight, male, and (most often) white being the central focus. Really, they can’t handle these characters as even a side focus. That’s their loss, it doesn’t have to be yours.

-Michi

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#Michi answers #how to fight write #writing advice #writing reference #writing tips #history

[blackcat419]

I’m a real blogger I got my first hate comment 🥹

This is from my post about Jaehera’s death and her deserving better.

I’ll admit where I’m wrong, the dance isn’t based entirely off the war of the roses but more about Empress Matilda/Maude and her cousin Stephen of Blois during the time called the Anarchy. This war is actually about sexism keeping a woman off the throne in favor of her male family member and ends with her son inheriting the throne as her cousin’s heir. The similarities are Matilda’s young brother dying young and her father naming her heir with the lords swearing to follow her. But unlike Viserys, her father doesn’t remarry and cause an entire succession crisis. The war of the roses influence comes from both sides fearing their complete destruction so the other side won’t have claimants threatening their rule later on.

On to the other points of your ‘argument’.

1. Team green is salty that the blacks carry on the targ line.

Nope, I’m anti Targaryens as they are terrible rulers who end their own dragons, kingdom, and dynasty through pure stupidity (I know there’s more than them being stupid but shhh).

Rhaenyra’s line gave us Aegon the unworthy and the black fire rebellions along with the war of the 9 penny kings which did way more danage to the kingdom than any other conflict. You also get Aerys the mad king, Daeron the young dragon who gets himself killed cause he thought he could beat the dornish, Baelon the blessed a man so chaste he literally locks his sisters up so he won’t fuck them, and Rhaegar a man so obsessed with prophecy he runs away with a teenager and leaves his wife and children to be viciously murdered.

2. You don’t hate Jaehera, you just make fun of her for how we react.

What the fuck kind of reasoning is that? You make fun of a kids death cause people care?? Wow. Just wow.

3. A family continues a dynasty so there for they’re right.

I guess Tywin is the greatest of all time cause his grandkids get to be kings without any Baratheon blood.

Also that means that Vaemond was right cause his Granddaughter got to be queen.

4. Complain to George.

Nah the old man has enough distractions and doesn’t need to be bothered with this.

5. My three strong boys are the reeaaaly innocents.

Hah. Jace and Luke are not innocent. Luke cut out Aemonds eye and Jace was a big part of the war effort.

Jeoffrey, Jaehearys, and Maelor are completely innocent. Jeoffrey was killed by his mom’s dragon, Jaehearys was killed by Daemon’s assassins, and Maelor was killed on Rhaenyra’s orders.

So anyways hope we learned a valuable lesson on fuck around and find out. See y’all next time!

#house of the dragon #hotd #hotd discussion #team green #anti team black #tw team black #Jaehera Targaryen #jaehearys targaryen #maelor targaryen #justice for Jaehera #justice for Jaehearys #justice for Maelor #jace velaryon #luke velaryon #Jeoffrey valaryon #Luke deserved it

[tercessketchfield]

— House of Normandy: QUEENS ♕

#historyedit #matilda of flanders #matilda of scotland #adeliza of louvain #matilda of boulogne #empress matilda #empress maud #history #perioddramaedit #periodedits #gifshistorical #onlyperioddramas #perioddramasource #women in history #english history #fancast #userperioddrama #userbennet #duchessofhastings #my edit

[thefourteenflames]

Historical Parallels: Rhaenyra Targaryen and Empress Maud

#daemyra #daemon x rhaenyra #rhaenyra targaryen #daemon targaryen #book quotes #the rogue prince #house of the dragon #hotd #the realms delight #game of thrones #the song of ice and fire #the world of ice and fire #middle ages #the dance of the dragons #fantasy #house targaryen #rhaenyra x daemon #history #historical characters #medieval history #empress matilda #the anarchy #english history

[girlbosstourney]

PRESENTING: THE GREAT TUMBLR GIRLBOSS TOURNEY!!!!!!

We have 128 phenomenal contestants, and several shitty ones that were abandoned on the spreadsheet. Some were rejected for good reasons: Freddie Mercury isn’t a girl, Princess Di died too recently, and Trish is from one lady’s single Tiktok. Some were rejected for petty and foolish reasons, such as “I don’t like Hetalia” and “I don’t like early 2000s movies.”

Under the cut is all the match-ups in plain text for those of you who with to ctrl+F for their girlboss. If your own girlboss didn’t make it in, feel free to send in asks about how I’m a fool for running this poll without including your rejected babygirl.

Additionally, feel free to peruse the original spreadsheet to see everyone who didn’t make it in. It is organized in no way shape or form besides the occasional collating of characters who had multiple submissions (notably, Vriska).

If there’s anything I should know about any of the accepted girlbosses (”The person who played this girlboss is currently being prosecuted for murder in North Carolina” or other similar aspects of despicability that should get them disqualified) please inform me off-anon, with evidence. While some of these girlbosses are literal murderers, those who have shed human blood are either fictional or have been dead for over a century, but I don’t want any current murderers around. I want everyone on tumblr to be able to enjoy this tournament if possible.

Polls should begin some time this weekend, assuming no problems arise.

Vriska Serket vs. Azula

Makima vs. Lady Macbeth

Wu Zhao vs. Asahina Tomiko

Edelgard von Hresvelg vs. Allison (Kill Six Billion Demons)

Turanga Leela vs. Emily Prentiss

Lady Dimitrescu vs. Riliane Lucifen d'Autriche

Franziska von Karma vs. Gerri Kellman

Romana vs. Missy

Hatsune Miku vs. Lord Dominator

Kim Wexler vs. Dahlia Hawthorne

Maria Calavera vs. Maria (Silent Hill 2)

Lup Taaco vs. Fig Faeth

Banica Conchita vs. Queen Maud/Empress Matilda

Lady Jessica vs. Jadwiga

Stepmother (Dimension 20) vs. Fine (Symphogear)

Princess Caroline vs. Queen (Deltarune)

Amanda Young vs. Erica Slaughter

Charlie vs. Victim

Charlotte Hale vs. Bryce Tankthrust

Edalyn Clawthorne vs. Amaya

Fujiko Mine vs. Mitsuru Kirijo

Arashi Narukami vs. Mizuki Akiyama

Bela Talbot vs. Hamyuts Meseta

Michael Burnham vs. Eva Popoff

Anna Kyoyama vs. Ava Maddox

Giulia Tofana vs. Eleanor Guthrie

Renee Minkowski vs. Katherine Pulitzer

Ozaki Kouyou vs. Ayt Madashi

Romina vs. Clytemnestra

Pioneer 10 vs. Prospera Mercury

Kafka vs. Jinx

Chrisjen Avasarala vs. Dana Scully

Grell Sutcliffe vs. Misa Amane

T'Pring vs. Della Duck

Madalena (Galavant) vs. Cersei Lannister

Baru Cormorant vs. Riza Hawkeye

Cleopatra vs. Morton Salt Girl

Susie (Deltarune) vs. Emma (The Promised Neverland)

Pearl Forrester vs. GlaDOS

Mapleshade vs. Midna

Amanda Waller vs. Victoria Hand

Chevalier d'Eon vs. Samus

The Golden Witch Beatrice vs. Morgana

Amy Dunne vs. Irene Adler

Junko Enoshima vs. Usagi Tsukino

Sharpay Evans vs. Heather Chandler

Moira O'Deorain vs. Tsunade

Welegato/Cairngorm vs. Garnet (Steven Universe)

Ada Wong vs. Medea

Shego vs. Loba

Maddie Fenton vs. Pearl Houzuki

Cala Maria vs. Morathi

Akane Kurashiki vs. Evolved One

Boudica vs. Tlacey

Larxene vs. The Administrator

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft vs. Joan d'Arc

Koyanskaya vs. Mitzi May

Eowyn vs. Chacha

Alexis Rose vs. Julia Cotton

Shenzi vs. Tak

Grandmother Raven vs. Roxanne Wolf

Toph Beifong vs. Sasha Waybright

April O'Neil vs. Misty Quigley

Rose Lalonde vs. Mia Fey

#tournament #my method for any fandoms with multiple girlboss submissions was 'everyone gets firsts before anyone gets seconds' #except for ace attorney. which had the greatest number of distinct girlbosses in submissions.

[archduchessofnowhere]

I was today years old when I learned that the memoirs of Countess Marie Larisch, Louise of Belgium and Crown Princess Louise of Saxony had the same ghostwriter: Maude Ffoulkes

She even wrote her own memoirs, My Own Past. I read the chapter about meeting Marie Larisch and working with her to write her memoirs and honestly it was super interesting. For instance, the original manuscript which Larisch wrote was only about Mayerling, it was Ffoulkes who asked her if she could also include stories about Empress Elisabeth (so we know who to blame for the permanent damage to Elisabeth's historiography). Also, when Ffoulkes asked Larisch if she wanted to write the book just to get money, the countess answered that she wanted the truth to be known, and that she wanted revenge on Franz Josef. Once they started to work together, she said to Ffoulkes that they would "write a book which will annoy that stupid old man in Vienna" (lol) which honestly explains a lot the entire tone of the memoirs.

Ffoulkes had every reason to claim she absolutely trusted Larisch was telling the truth, and perhaps she really did believe her. But I find very funny that one of the stories Larisch told her was of visiting Elisabeth's tomb with her aunt the Duchess of Alençon. Who very famously died a year before her older sister.

#ffoulkes has the vibes of a prolific historical romance writer #also the last story is WILD she claims that she went with sophie to the capuchin crypt and they found elisabeth's coffin open #and that her body had turn blue??? girl you just said you are persona non grata in vienna how did you even got to the crypt #maude ffoulkes #marie von wallersee countess larisch

[the-ghost-bird]

Thanks for the tag darling @castlesnchurches

3 ships: The Biologist from Annihilation x Area X, Hannigram, me x my bed

Last song:

Last film: Saint Maud

Currently reading: House Of Psychotic Women by Kier-La Janisse

Currently craving: Teriyaki

Fave color: Emerald green, navy blue, blood red

Relationship status: Single, so if any femmes want to take advantage of m- *gunshot*

Last Thing Googled: "pub with pool table near me" because i wanted to find a new place to play pool, quite straightforward

Current obsession: The biologist from Annihilation will always be my obsession

Tagging: @the-missing-kid @wingedcatninja @slavic-empress @cursed-and-haunted @koibish @starobi @vandominia @thelemonbandit @mudkipper @unstablecryptid @saintmurd0ck

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[teatimeatwinterpalace]

By 1895, Princess Victoria was twenty-seven and Princess Maud twenty-six. 'Like Juno's swans, still couples and inseparable', ran one lyrical description, while their aunt, the Empress Frederick referred to them, with rather more accuracy, as 'two such Ducks!' Indeed, the two princesses were seldom seen apart. Pale carbon copies of their mother, but without her marvellous beauty, they looked alike, they dressed alike, they spoke alike. In company they were diffident although, according to Mary Gladstone, not at all 'stuck up' and in private they were playful. The two princesses, says one effusive observer, 'appeared so invariably together that they became a suggestive symbol of that close family life which is typical of our nation at its best, and nowhere finds greater expression than in the home life of the Royal Family’ | Grandmama of Europe : the crowned descendants of Queen Victoria by Aronson.

PRINCESS VICTORIA OF WALES AND PRINCESS MAUD OF WALES

#princess maud #queen of norway #princess victoria #england #emulating their mother and aunt minnie ♡