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ok last imperium post just for this moment that made me laugh where octavian declares in front of the roman crowd that "adultery shall now be called a crime" and the following shot is on iullus

and i just love the guy behind him who's like "he means you, i think".

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Mark Antony & Lucius Vorenus in Rome (S02E09)

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MARIE ANTOINETTE (2006) dir. Sofia Copola

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Giusy Buscemi (wearing Giorgio Armani) at the 'Maria' premiere as part of the 81st Venice Film Festival on Thursday (29th August 2024) in Venice, Italy.

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@pscentral event 38: costume appreciation ⤷ The colours of period dramas

Anne Boleyn in The Tudors (2007 - 2010) Queen Charlotte in Queen Charlotte (2023) Marie Antoinette in Marie Antoinette (2006) Cecilia Tallis in Atonement (2007) Concetta di Salina in Il Gattopardo (2025) Lucilla in Gladiator (2000) Kate Sharma in Bridgerton (2020 -) Lucrezia Borgia in The Borgias (2011 - 2013) Isabel de Castilla in Isabel (2012 - 2014) Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera  (2004)

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"She can deal with difficult circumstances. She needs to be the woman of her family, learning how to manipulate people, and that requires a great deal of intelligence. Not only is she becoming politically powerful, but she is also expanding her knowledge of poisons and cures. The witchcraft side of Lucrezia comes out, which is really exciting." — HOLLIDAY GRAINGER

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this test of the mountain

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And while you mourn your father, you must also mourn someone else: Elizabeth Mountbatten. For she has now been replaced by another person: Elizabeth Regina. The two Elizabeths will frequently be in conflict with one another. The fact is: the Crown must win, must always win. [Queen Mary, S01E02]

Imelda Staunton and Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II

S06E10 • Sleep, Dearie Sleep

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Her heart, Elizabeth said, "cwtched" for him, which means "hug" in Welsh. She was infatuated from the moment she saw him. "I get an orgasm just listening to that voice of his," she said.

And he felt the same. "I fell in love at once. She was like a mirage of beauty of the ages, irresistible like the pull of gravity."

Producer Walter Wanger stood on the set and watched amused as the two of them huddled together talking during their first days of Cleopatra. When they were called to start filming, they pulled away from each other and went to their places, but an invisible rope always seemed to draw them back together.

Richard began to point things out to her about the way she was living her life, like how strange it was that she only wore Mike Todd's wedding ring and often left the one Eddie Fisher gave her behind. He said that she seemed to be stuck four years in the past. "He was like Prince Charming kissing the sleeping princess," she wrote.

CLEOPATRA (1963) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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Gaia Girace as Raffaella Cerullo | L'amica Geniale 2.05

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cut off the serpent's head

[quotes on the third picture taken from the play "sejanus: his fall" and biography "tiberius caesar" by g.p. baker]

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"I think you will offer me the succession to your throne, and I have no desire to become Emperor."

"Whom do you suggest?"

"No one. No throne at all. Rome was a republic before the Caesars came, let it be a republic again."

"I've given them 40 years of peace. That's not enough. That's why I am not offering you the succession."

"What???????"

He was so funny for this

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THE BORGIAS - 3.07: Lucrezia's Gambit

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The Vestals by José Rico Cejudo

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"The are a lot of things I love about the interpretation of Lucrezia. First of all it is an incredible honor to breathe life into a character, who really existed  It also is a great challenge to create this amazing development from a little girl to a liberated, strong women." — ISOLDA DYCHAUK

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Nan's fairy look in 2.03 of The Buccaneers

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JACOB COLLINS-LEVY as HENRY VII THE WHITE PRINCESS Episode 1 In Bed with the Enemy