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thetudorslovers · 2 months

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“She is not of ordinary clay,” Henry had once said to Wolsey, explaining his infatuation for Anne, a comment that most historians take to refer to Anne’s unwillingness to engage in sex before marriage. But perhaps Henry, tired of docile mistresses and a wife whose undeniable intelligence was cramped by obedience to role and religion, found Anne’s independence and ingenuity of mind among those qualities that made her extraordinary. Certainly, he was more than willing—without any “wheedling” or “crying”—to accept the help she offered in strategizing for the divorce. Even David Starkey notes this. “In the divorce, Anne and Henry were one. They debated it and discussed it; they exchanged ideas and agents; they devised strategies and stratagems. And they did all this together.” For Starkey, this made them “Macbeth and Lady Macbeth”—and Anne, “like Lady Macbeth, frequently took the initiative.” But this venomous, anti- Anne gloss on the partnership of Henry and Anne skips over the most unusual thing about it: that it was a partnership. And an unusually “modern” one that did not fit into any of the available cultural patterns. It took a woman “not of ordinary clay” to shatter the mold—and a king who was glad to see it in pieces. For the moment.

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krasivaa · 4 months

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He said he loves me

but he's just a liar...

#😖#catherine of aragon #anne boleyn #jane seymour #anne of cleves #katherine howard #catherine parr #henry viii #henry viii and his six wives #six wives of henry viii #the six wives #the tudors #tudor #tudors #the tudor dynasty #erf #english royalty #my collage #my edit

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anneeeboleyn · 7 months

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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀❛the most happy❜

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🕯THE TUDORS WEEK 2023 🕯

day five : best queen.

Natalie Dormer as Queen Anne Boleyn.

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gulnarsultan · 1 year

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Yandere charls Brandon please

Sorry for taking so long. You want the historical character from The Tudors. Did I understand correctly? I hope you will like it. Feel free to write more requests. It was written inspired by his character in history. Moreover, Henry Cavillin's portrayal of this role makes one fall in love with this character even more.

~Charles can impress many women.

~ He obsesses you from the moment you catch Charles' eye.

~ Believe me, this man will find a way to marry you.

~ It will pamper you in every way. Anything you want will be given to you as soon as possible.

~ No one can stop you from getting married. He will marry you, whether through peace or war.

~ Never gives you physical punishment. Their punishment is psychological and emotional. Isolating you is another form of punishment.

~ This man has a reproductive disposition. He will want a lot of children from you. She especially wants more boys.

~ He sees children as proof of your love. He also knows that you won't leave the children and run away.

~ He is a jealous man. However, it manages to mask it very well.

~ He is not afraid to get rid of his opponents. Moreover, he solves it in such ways that no one can blame him.

~ There is no escape from this man until your last breath. Wherever you go, this man will find you and take you back.

#the tudors #charles brandon x reader #henry cavill characters #charles brandon x ofc #charles brandon #yandere tudors #yandere the tudors #yandere tudors characters #yandere charles brandon #yandere charles brandon x reader #the tudor dynasty

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thediamondarcher · 5 months

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what is an interesting fact about the tudor dynasty?

omg okay I don't have anyone to talk about this irl so i have a lot to say

Catherine Parr married Thomas Seymour (Jane's brother) and he started to sxually abuse Queen Elizabeth I while Catherine was pregnant with her first and only child

Henry spent more than 4 years trying to divorce Catherine Of Aragon to marry Anne Boleyn and they were only married for 3 years until Henry basically charged her with crimes she hadn't committed (like adultery and conspiracy against the king)

the only two wives of Henry that Mary I (Catherine Of Aragon's daughter) liked/respected were Anne Of Cleves and Catherine Parr

Margaret Beaufort (Henry VII mother) was 13 years old when she gave birth to him, her only child

Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, the "beheaded queens" were actually cousins

Queen Elizabeth I (Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII daughter) is Queen Elizabeth II first cousin

Elizabeth I is considered to be one of the best queens in England to this day, she had a reign of 45 years until she died at the age of 69 (that was obviously something practically abnormal at that time since she had almost no teeth and no hair left) She was also the last monarch of The House Of Tudor

#somethings might be wrong but I'm very new to this topic so sorry if i got something wrong #the tudor dynasty #tudor history #tudor queens #elizabeth i #anne boleyn #anne of cleves #catherine parr #catherine howard #mary i of england #henry viii #henry vii of england

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queenalexandraofdenmark · 20 days

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#my polls #catherine of aragon #anne boleyn #jane seymour #anne of cleves #katherine howard #catherine parr #the tudor dynasty

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world-of-wales · 1 year

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⋆ William, The Conqueror to Princess Charlotte of Wales ⋆

⤜ William I is Princess Charlotte's 31st Great-Grandfather via her paternal grandmother's line through Charles Lennox

William I of England

Henry I of England

Empress Matilda

Henry II of England

John of England

Henry III of England

Edward I of England

Edward II of England

Edward III of England

Lionel of Antwerp, Ist Duke of Clarence

Philippa Plantagenet, Vth Countess of Ulster

Roger Mortimer, IVth Earl of March

Anne Mortimer

Richard Plantagenet, IIIrd Duke of York

Edward IV of England

Elizabeth of York

Margaret Tudor

James V, King of Scotland

Mary Stewart, Queen of Scotland

James I of England

Charles I of England

Charles II of England

Charles Lennox, Ist Duke of Richmond

Lady Anne Lennox

Lady Elizabeth Keppel

John Russell, VIth Duke of Bedford

Lady Louisa Jane Russell

James Hamilton, IInd Duke of Abercorn

James Hamilton, IIIrd Duke of Abercorn

Lady Cynthia Hamilton

John Spencer, VIIIth Earl Spencer

Diana, Princess of Wales

William, The Prince of Wales

Princess Charlotte of Wales

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part-time-deranged · 5 months

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Rip Anne Boleyn

#anne boleyn more like anne blorbolyn #anne boleyn #wolf hall #henry viii #tudor history #tudor england #the tudors #the tudor dynasty #alex funky text posts

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anne1522boleyn · 5 months

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The Queens happy

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yxxxxxx1 · 20 days

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I used to have a massive crush on the actor who played Edward Seymour. I mean, look at him, look at his jawline, look at the way he looks at you.

What a man...

#edward seymour #the tudors #the tudor dynasty #handsome #crush #max brown #Seymour Family #history #british history #british royal family

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thetudorslovers · 11 months

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"This partial submerging of a queen in the overall royal entourage is one explanation for there being less notice of Anne Boleyn’s active participation in public affairs after 1533. Her influence on Henry could now be exercised in private. She also attracted less attention from observers because marriage had settled the issues in which she had been personally a combatant. There are nevertheless sufficient signs that her influence remained, even though exercised behind the scenes. Indeed, for many, Anne mattered precisely because of her closeness to Henry. A petition to the king in 1535 describes her as having ‘the name to be a mediatrix betwixt your grace and high justice’. Anne’s remarkable achievement in securing the grant to her uncle, the duke of Norfolk, of the wardship and marriage of the king’s own son, the duke of Richmond, free, gratis and for nothing, demonstrates how effective she could be. She saw influence as something to be used with circumspection, as her refusal to seek a customs exemption for Lady Lisle in 1532 had demonstrated, but it was there. The queen was, however, more than a seductive voice on a pillow. As early as 1531 the duke of Milan was advised that he should treat her as a force in her own right, and equip his ambassador with some novel and flashy Italian knick-knacks for her, worth 1200 crowns or so. We have already seen her involvement in diplomatic contacts with France, and it is notable how English envoys seem anxious to keep in with her. Then again, when Lord Leonard Grey returned to Ireland in the autumn of 1535 with considerable forces and substantial rewards from the king, Anne was present at the final briefing session; she gave Grey the chain round her waist, worth 100 marks, and a purse of twenty golden sovereigns. Above all, Anne was very active in religious matters, as will appears.

Following marriage, Anne’s potential as a patron grew too. One of Lord Lisle’s correspondents assured him that, ‘I have moved a friend of mine about the queen concerning Master Howard’s matter, and I mistrust not but that I shall obtain your desire in that behalf.‘ On another occasion she wrote, apparently to Cromwell, asking him to assist the career of a young man deserted by his family and saying that he could not ‘do a better deed for the increase of your eternal reward in the world to come’. She would also act directly. The dean and chapter of Exeter, expecting soon to have a farm to rent out on the expiry of a lease, found themselves invited by Anne to grant a new sixty-year term to a nominee of hers at the existing rent; a letter from Anne was reckoned in 1531 to smooth matters at Calais for her uncle Lord Edmund Howard, the controller there; when she became aware of an excessive delay in one chancery suit, she thought nothing of writing to the chancellor, requesting speedier action."

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bluegirlartist · 11 months

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Anne Boleyn was murdered on this day in 1536

For about a year, I’ve been reading about historical women. Anne Boleyn has just absolutely intrigued me. Her life and death is tragic, and what else is tragic is the general public doesn’t know or understand who she was. Anne was ahead of her time, in education, talents, and skills. She had a sense of independence and self respect.

She was not a greedy seductress wanting to be queen. In fact, she avoided the kings advances, moving away from court. But unfortunately a marriage proposal was just something as a woman you couldn’t reject. And despite everything she was thrown away for not having a son and refusing to be a quiet and compliant wife. Murdered upon false accusations to rid of her.

But she will be remembered and honoured.

Anne the quene ❤️

#blue girl artist #art #drawing #digital art #artist on tumblr #support small artists #anne boleyn #the tudors #women in history #historical women #queen anne boleyn #the tudor dynasty #female art #female artist #teen artist #elizabeth i #o death rock me asleep

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greenmp3 · 8 months

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"TUDOR ROSES" by Alice Starmore, a 1998 book containing knitting patterns inspired by members of the Tudor Dynasty. -> in order: Margaret Tudor, Anne Boleyn, Katherine of Aragon, Elizabeth of York, Jane Seymour, Katherine Howard, Elizabeth I, Catherine Parr

#love her so much but these patterns intimidate me #alice starmore #knitting #the tudor dynasty #history #fibre arts

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travllingbunny · 3 months

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Hi! I don't know how much you're interested in the subject today, but considering how i really adored a lot of your opinions/views of the Wars of the Roses and some people involved, especially Richard III, i was wondering how you think a scenerio where Richard remained King for more time or simply won Bosworth would be

Thank you for the teresting question.

Contrary to historical fiction works that portray him as desperate at the Battle of Bosworth, I think it's more likely Richard was hoping to get rid of Henry Tudor quickly and saw him as just a temporary nuisance. If only the battle had happened a couple of days later, when Richard got reinforcements from the North, or if William Stanley had not made the decision to definitely switch sides to Henry, the battle would've probably gone completely differently.

Below is my speculation of what happens if Richard wins:

The immediate outcome seems relatively clear - we know now that Richard was in the middle of secret negotiations with the royal family of Portugal for a double marriage between him and Infanta Joanna, and Elizabeth of York and King's 16-year old cousin Manuel, Duke of Beja, which were apparently going very well. It seems unlikely that Joanna, who had been refusing to get married for so long, would accept, but supposedly the negotiations were going well. We know Richard had sent her a personal letter, so it's fun to speculate what he said that would make her reconsider. I'm thinking he may have talked about religion (as they were both known to be pious) and pitched the marriage in terms of a partnership, and how she could do good for peace and the people of England through charity work (which she was known to do) and maybe even assured her that she wouldn't have to keep having children after she gave birth to an heir? Richard was expected to remarry and have a son after his only legitimate son and his wife died, but going by his choice of bride, he was looking for a great Queen and political partner above all, and not a broodmare - I can't imagine Joanna, who wanted to be a nun and was against marriage, agreeing to keep popping up a child every year or two until she hits menopause. He also may not have been two concerned because he had an heir and spares already, even though not 'of his body'- - his adult nephew John de La Pole and his younger brothers William, Edmund and Richard. The Portugal double marriage would've been a genius political move for many reasons: it would allow Richard to claim that he was ending the York/Lancaster rift for good by marrying Joanna, since the Portuguese royal family were through the female line the main surviving Lancastrian branch; it would fulfil his promise to Elizabeth Woodville that he would find good matches for her daughters in spite of their new 'bastard' status - and how! a Portuguese royal marriage was worthy of a princess* - and could be seen as healing the rift between the Yorkists too (and would at the same time make it impossible for Henry Tudor or anyone else to try to claim the throne of England by marrying her); and it would give England a great, intelligent and respectable Queen, who had experience in ruling as regent and could rule in RIchard's absence when he spent time abroad in wars, and whose reputation for piety and charity for people would help restore his tarnished reputation.

One interesting consequence of his marriage alliance is that Elizabeth of York would eventually have become a Queen Consort, but of Portugal, as Manuel eventually became King.Manuel I in 1495.

Once the situation became more stable, Richard would've probably focused on the things he had already started to do during his short reign - legal reforms aimed mostly at bettering the judiciary and the status of common people, and he would no doubt also want to curtail the power of major noblemen of questionable loyalty such as the Stanleys - and things he is known to have enthusiastically talked about planning to do, such as trying to convince other European countries to mount a campaign to stop the Ottoman Empire's conquests in Europe. (France would be an unlikely ally, Portugal and Burgundy would be obvious ones, and he'd no doubt try to pitch it to the Holy Roman Empire.)

I don't know whether he'd be successful at that, or how long he would live, but a few most obvious historical consequences would be:

the way the previous few decades were remembered in history would be very different, and no one would ever call them the "Wars of the Roses" - which was a name given by Walter Scott in the 19th century based on the fact that Henry VII used the red-white Tudor rose as his sigil, promoting it as a sign of supposed unity between the Lancaster and York dynasties - in spite of the fact that the Lancasters didn't actually use a red rose, or any kind of rose, as their sigil. Henry VII also presented the conflicts that had gone on as a part of one ongoing conflict that he ended with the Battle of Bosworth and by marrying Elizabeth of York. In reality, these were a few conflicts separated by years or even decades in between, and before the battle of Bosworth, the last actual armed conflict fought over the throne of England had been 14 years earlier, when Edward IV won his second and decisive war over the Lancasters. The conflict between the two Yorkist factions after Edward's death did not result in any actual battle (in 1783, Buckingham failed to ignite a rebellion, and his ally Henry turned back to France, realizing the war was lost before it began), so Henry basically 'ended the Wars of the Roses' only after he restarted them in 1485. (Not to mention that Henry had to fight another battle two years later against the Yorkists led by Jon de la Pole, which is always conveniently left out in history books, and had to catch, exile or execute various Yorkist pretenders throughout his reign.) If Henry loses the battle, he becomes only a footnote in history. Edward IV remains considered the one who ended the Lancaster-York conflicts with his decisive victory in 1471. Richard probably manages to be popular and respected king (much more than Henry was with his notorious tax laws) and would likely have claimed to have 'united the York and Lancaster branches' with his marriage to Joanna (though he probably wouldn't have made a huge deal out of it as Henry did, since Henry was promoting himself as the founder of a new dynasty that would start a new era). But what of the Princes in the Tower? Well, we don't know what happened to them and Richard may be suspected to have murdered them, but Henry definitely did imprison 11 year old Edward of Warwick and keep him locked up in the Tower until he was 25 and then executed him on trumped up treason charges just because he was another pretender to the throne, but barely anyone talks about it or cares, so... (insert something about history being written by the winners)

Scotland and England remain separate independent countries. It's very unlikely that the same chain of events would happen where the daughter of a king of England marries a king of Scotland, and then a century later her descendant becomes not just the king of Scotland but also the heir to the throne of England because the ruling dynasty of England died out. There is never a Tudor dynasty, never a Stuart dynasty, never a Hanover dynasty. And there's never a United Kingdom.

There is never such a thing as Anglicanism/the Church of England, with the monarch as its head. Mind you, this doesn't necessarily mean that England remains fully or predominantly Catholic - Protestantism was gaining popularity not just in England (even when Henry was still a devout Catholic) but also in Scotland, which didn't have a Henry VIII splitting with the Pope so he could annul his marriage. It's impossible to tell how exactly the Reformation and Counter-reformation would've affected England under different monarchs and a different dynasty, since so much of the religious strife in the 16th century was linked to Henry's decisions, his break from the Pope, his marriages and annulments and his succession issues, and then with the personalities and backgrounds of his children: Edward as a staunch Protestant (just like his mother's family), Mary as a staunch Catholic (completely unsurprising with her background and the fact that her father broke from the Pope so he could annul his marriage to her mother, proclaiming her a bastard), and then Elizabeth, who couldn't be tolerant to Catholics even if she didn't care about religion, since the Pope and therefore all Catholics considered her a bastard and an illegitimate monarch. How would elderly Richard, and/or his heirs, treat Protestants? What would they think of Martin Luther, or of William Tyndale? It's impossible to tell. He was a devout Catholic, but Protestantism didn't exist at the time, and would he (who was the first of English kings to publish official state documents in English) hate the idea of translating the Bible into English so ordinary people could understand it without the help of clergy? I really don't know, and it's even harder to tell what his heirs would be like in that regard. Would there be more religious tolerance in England? For all we know, it might even be less if a particularly fanatical monarch ended up on a throne... but at least I think I can say with some certainty that English monarchs of this hypothetical York dynasty would have no personal and dynastic reasons to persecute either Protestants or Catholics the way monarchs of the Tudor dynasty had due to their specific circumstances.

#richard iii #english history #henry vii #the wars of the roses #battle of bosworth #the tudor dynasty #edward iv #elizabeth of york #henry viii #church of england #english reformation #wars of the roses

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gulnarsultan · 1 year

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