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First of all, I want to say that I love how the entire internet is completely going off on this painting but I actually like the painting. And I'll tell you why.

If God forbid I was Charles, and I waited my whole entire m************ life to be king and then the second my ass hit the throne, I got sick and was fetching to die, I would want my official portrait to be something so f****** out there that in centuries to come people would just stop at that particular portrait and go "Yo, what the hell was up with THAT guy!?"

Mission accomplished.

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you cannot comprehend the true nature of king charles’ attack

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Sorry y’all always forget that the Royal Family TO THIS DAY is descended from Mary, Queen of Scots.

Mary Stuart: I will beat you at the political game

Elizabeth I: girl u can't beat me at Connect 4

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Queen Victoria understood King James’ dream.

Victoria and Scotland

- She loved spending time in Scotland in the North East. No, really.

- Her and Albert bought Balmoral as a royal summer retreat: a royal tradition to this day

-  Victoria spent almost one day out of ten during her reign in Scotland

- She would actually put on a Scottish accent when talking to her Scottish staff, and would delight in giving them “wan poon”

- Covered her rooms in Balmoral floor to wall in tartan which her PMs hated

- Victoria would go round throwing open all the windows when she got up which meant Balmoral was always freezing; her staff hated it

- Whenever she arrived in Scotland there’d be lots of national and civic events, which helped define and channel Scottish national identity

- It wasn’t just an elite thing either; she writes in her diaries about arriving at Holyrood and Arthur’s Seat being covered in spectators all the way to the summit

- She really did consider herself a Jacobite

- She had a keen interest in Scottish history:  Victoria described Mary Queen of Scots as her ‘poor ancestress’ and the tomb of the Scottish King James III was 'restored by a descendent, Victoria’. 

- She always used correct numerals in discussing Anglo-Scottish monarchs such as James VI and I.

- Said Bannockburn was “where her two ancestors met in battle”; saw herself as a physical embodiment of the Union

- Published journals in the 1860s and 1880s which were hugely popular and made Highland tourism fashionable

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A stunning portrait of Queen Mary II of England, Scotland and Ireland when she was Princess of Orange by Dutch-English painter Willem Wissing. It has been documented that Mary shared some physical and personality traits of her great great paternal grandmother and namesake Mary, Queen of Scots.

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James VI of Scotland. Unknown artist.

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King James I: *builds secret tunnel connecting his room to the room of a man he calls his husband*

Historians: it’s very hard to tell what kind of relationship they would have had, let’s not look at this through a 21st century lens

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Dude straight killed ppl he owed money

On June 27th 1583 James VI escaped from Ruthven Castle to St Andrews Castle.

This is, to me is always one of the strangest occurrences in Scottish Royal history. Now called Huntingtower Castle, Ruthven was, as you would maybe expect Lord Ruthven, who also went by the name the Earl of Gowrie.

Apparently this had to do with The Protestant Lords getting worried about those pesky Catholics getting to paly with the young King, one in particular was Esmé Stewart who was his second cousin and part of the Franco-Scot arm of the family. Esmé arrived Scotland just as James was about about to reach his majority, that is the age in which he would rule in his own right, until then he had Regents rule in his name and they often quarrelled and jostled schemed for their own aims.

The Scottish diplomat and memoir writer, James Melville described Esmé as “of nature, upright, just, and gentle”. Given James’s penchant for men,( it has been written he was gay, or at least bisexual), this exoctic visitor from France soon became a firm favourite with 13 year old King. Less than a year after arriving James made gave Esmé the title Earl of Lennox and in 1581 further bestowed him with the name Duke of Lennox.

Of course in a post reformation Scotland ruled by Protestants a Catholic with titles such as these pissed them off a wee bit. In the end Esmé had to make a choice, his religion or his friendship with James, he chose the King. The Scottish Kirk remained suspicious of Lennox after his public conversion, and took alarm when he had the Earl of Morton tried and beheaded on charges of treason, for the murder of his first cousin and Jame’s father Lord Darnley.

Scottish Calvinists began to noticed the physical displays of affection between him and the king and alleged that Lennox “went about to draw the King to carnal lust” While James had disposed of his Regents and was now ruling, something had to be done.

In August 1582, in what became known as the Ruthven Raid, the Protestant earls of Gowrie and Angus lured James into Ruthven Castle, imprisoned him and forced Lennox to leave Scotland. During James’s imprisonment , John Craig, whom the king had personally appointed Royal Chaplain in 1579, rebuked him so sharply from the pulpit for having issued a proclamation so offensive to the clergy “that the king wept” to which the Earl of Gowrie responded “Tis better that bairns weep than bearded men!”

This next part was in my eyes strange, even though he was a prisoner James kept a secret correspondence with Esmé, who the Lords expected him to show he was falsely converting to fool the King, on the contrary the former duke remained a Presbyterian and died May 1583. I would have loved to have found a more sinister cause of death, but all I could muster was natural causes.

His final letter was to James Stewart, Lord Doune, requests that Lord Doune take care of his son and to recover for him Esmé’s possessions in Scotland. His heart was taken beck to James in Scotland and his wife and son Ludovic came to Scotland. James had repeatedly vouched for Lennox’s religious sincerity and wrote of him in a poem called “Ane Tragedie of the Phoenix”, which compared him to an exotic bird of unique beauty killed by envy.

James regarded all Lennox’s family with great affection, and instructed his son Charles I to do well by them. Charles faithfully fulfilled this obligation, and as a result the Lennox family had considerable influence at the English Court over the next two generations.

The King’s captivity came to an end in June 1583, when he escaped while on a visit to St Andrews. The Ruthven conspirators were in turn banished from the kingdom. The Earl of Gowrie was shortly afterwards pardoned and allowed to return, but after involving himself in further plotting, was executed in May 1584.

The photo is a 19 century depiction of James and his captors by Scottish artist William Baxter Collier Fyfe

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On July 29th 1567 King James VI was crowned King of Scots at Stirling.

Mary Queen of Scot’s son was crowned only a few days after she herself was forced to abdicate, which I covered this on July 24th, more on her and James’s faither later.

James was born into a political cauldron on June 19th 1566, in Edinburgh Castle and, as a firstborn son, he automatically became Duke of Rothesay, Prince, and Grand Lieutenant of Scotland. He was baptised in a Catholic ceremony and received the name of Charles James. Elizabeth I, as godmother in absentia, sent a significant amount of gold to Edinburgh as a gift for the newborn’s baptism. It was not unusual for monarchs to use another given name for their term on the throne.

When he was only eight months old, Lord Darnley, his father, was assassinated at Kirk o‘ Field on February 10, 1567. After the death of her husband, Mary married for a third time with James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, who was suspected of being the architect of Lord Darnley’s assassination.

His uncle, James Stuart, Earl of Moray, ruled in his place and became first of 4 regents, two were assassinated, a third died after a short illness, some historians point to poisoning, others say natural causes, the fourth and last of his Regents lost his head after being found guilty of playing a part in Darnley’s murder, it wasn’t a job with prospects and you wouldn’t be relying on collecting a pension from it.

From that moment onwards, the power, at least in theory, was held by the king himself rather than by a regent.

Nonetheless, James VI of Scotland did not reign directly: he relied on the advice of his closest courtiers, such as his cousin Esmé Steward, Duke of Lennox, and James Stuart, who received the title of Earl of Arran for his testimony against Morton. Since Lennox was Catholic, and Arran favoured episcopalism, the Scottish Presbyterian lords did not like the government. During the Ruthven Raid of 1582, some Presbyterian nobles, led by William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, captured James and held him captive for almost a year in Ruthven Castle (now known as Huntingtower Castle), in Perthshire. Arran was also held captive while Lennox was forced into exile in France. In 1583, the king and Arran managed to escape: Gowrie was executed whilst the rebels were forced to flee to England. The Scottish Parliament, which was loyal to the king, passed the Black Acts, which placed the Church of Scotland under the king’s control.

The acts were extremely popular but the clergy was opposed to them and denounced the king. In fact, the church was trying to keep James’ influence under control before he became powerful and bold enough to attack Presbyterianism, in the end no attack was made.

In 1586, thanks to the Treaty of Berwick, James VI and Elizabeth I became allies. James decided to continue to support the virgin queen of England, since, as a descendant of Margaret Tudor, he was a potential successor to her crown. Elizabeth’s father, Henry VIII, feared that the English crown would fall under the sovereignty of the Stuarts. To prevent this, he excluded Margaret and her descendants from the line of succession in his will. Nonetheless, since they were Elizabeth’s closest relatives, both Mary and James were both serious contenders for the Crown of England.

There is so much more about James to read, I have covered parts here and their in the past, in particular his persecution of women as witches. He did go on to be James I of England and during his troubled reign Guy Fawkes attempted to blow him, and his Parliament up.

James did gain some favour in both Scotland and England by marrying a protestant Princess, Anne of Denmark, they had 7 children, 4 of whom died in infancy, their son Charles became King and was of course executed.

James died in 1625 aged 58 and is buried at Westminster Abbey.

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I like how James I is wearing the Crown of Scotland

List of monarchs: the House of Stuart.

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You’re the town’s superhero. Your greatest enemy is the town’s supervillian. However, secretly, your both brothers. This isn’t anything tragic, as your whole destructive rivalry is actually just a massive prank on your third brother, the mayor.

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you could say i've just had a lightbulb moment

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This is so real though when ur into someone every little twitch concerns you

What gets me about Rink-O-Mania

Mike somehow noticed Will rolling his eyes, but the only time we see it, Mike is looking away.

Mike didn’t notice that El was uncomfortable around Angela even though he was looking directly at her when she was showing signs of discomfort.

Like…what? Was he really so distracted by watching Will mope out of the corner of his eye that he didn’t see what was literally right in front of him?

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Mike’s internal monologue:

“Pretty Pretty Pretty Pretty Pretty Pretty”

I still can't believe this scene is real

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Especially cause Will clearly CLEARLY wanted to dance with Mike at the snowball. Come one now.

Listen. Obviously OBVIOUSLY it wouldn't be Will's "fault" for falling in love with Mike, no matter the circumstances. But especially considering the events of season 2 like... so you're telling me Will's supposed to sit there while Mike's talking to him in that soft gentle voice, "Are you hurting again?? 🥺🥺🥺💞" and looking at him Like That... and what? NOT fall in love?? Ridiculous. Preposterous.

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“Turn your back on Mother Nature” with a cut scene of byler being intimate.

i don’t think i can accurately describe how much i need everybody wants to rule the world by tears for fears to be in s5 of stranger things. i will combust into flame if we get there’s a room where the light wont find you / holding hands while the walls come tumbling down / when they do i’ll be right right behind you

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This decision was so obviously made by dudes who NEVER EVER CALL HOME

from a marketing standpoint this netflix stuff is SO funny to me because it’s definitely not unheard of for companies to totally screw themselves over thinking what did it was a good idea😂😂like imagine to execs at netflix sitting around a table talking about this and saying “oh my god this is such a good idea, we’ll make so much money over this”😂😂😂ahhh i’m howeling