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jane seymour having a son just so he can kill her idiot shitheel brothers 😩 real hot girl shit

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Anne Boleyn Molten Gold Pendant by Common Era

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We three, we're not a crowd. We're not even company.

“Hands on his hips, [Edward VI] would imitate Henry’s straddling pose, and emit ‘thunderous oaths’ in his high, imperious voice. By calculated displays of wrath and coldness, he sought to make men fear him as they had his father. By now a fanatical Protestant, he was fond of lecturing those around him in the articles of his faith, a role which sat oddly with his youth. His councilors and courtiers were already in awe of him. ‘He will be the wonder and terror of the world if he lives,’ declared Bishop Hooper that year.”

“A strong feature of Star Chamber cases brought by female plaintiffs was the accusation that those supposedly charged with keeping law and order were in fact undermining it… Elizabeth Barnardiston brought her case to Star Chamber because the man she accused of orchestrating the disruption to her property at Grafton – a parcel of her jointure – was Sir John Seymour of Wolf Hall, the current sheriff of the county, who had a reputation for being overbearing.”

“As queen, she made a point of distancing herself from her inferiors, and could be remote and arrogant, being a stickler for the observance of etiquette at her court. Chapuys feared that, once Jane had had a taste of queenship, she would forget her good intentions towards the Lady Mary, but his fears proved unfounded. Jane remained loyal to her supporters, and to Mary’s cause, and in the months to come would endeavor to heal the rift between the King and his daughter.”

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He’d see you dead. You know that, right?

John Dudley and about 40 years of Seymour experience.

Becoming Elizabeth (2022), 1x01 | 1x02 | 1x03 | 1x04 | 1x06

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damian lewis as henry viii in wolf hall

primetime emmy award nominee for outstanding supporting actor in a limited series or movie

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Beware!

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One of the funniest things about enemies-to-lovers ships is how they’re almost always obsessed with each other. Like if a character actively chooses to interact with another character over and over again instead of simply ignoring them? Throw darts at it all you want, but you still printed out a picture of them to hang on your wall

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you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

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“beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves” welcome to jane x anne vibology 101 class is in session

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sw*fties will do mental gymnastics to convince themselves taylor's a lyrical genius but let's be real you could compare her crap to poetry written by an emo middle schooler going through baby's first break up and her ass would be left in the dust

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"I PICK ON EVERYONE DEAD OR ALIVE" LOUISE BOURGEOIS // 1999 [lead and steel | 21 x 31.1 x 1.3 cm.]

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Do you ever think about the fact that by the time Katheryn Howard arrived at the Dowager Duchess’ household her life was already almost half over because I DO

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It’s because at first the version of Mary that exists in Chapuys’ head is little more than a sexist, paternalistic remix of her real identity, so thoroughly warped by the age & class difference that he sees her as barely more than a porcelain madonna, a moral/religious figurehead, so sexless she’s barely human. But as Mary ages and their relationship is maintained through less explicitly stressful circumstances then the ones it was conceived under amidst the Great Matter, she begins to grow outside of the parameters he established for her internally. She gets her life back, she’s not just pretty and in pain anymore, she’s energetic, provocative, romantically active, loud. And that scares him, the way it scared him with Cesare’s mother, but it also excites and intrigues him, not least of all because he can’t be physically intimate with Mary the way he was with the mistress who bore his illegitimate son. The illegitimate son he left so he could go perform diplomatic duties in the same country as Mary. Who wants to be a mother. Who loves children. Who is at once everything he’d ever want in a woman and young enough to be his biological child, facts which would be so blatantly immoral if he ever confronted their coexistence that he has to force himself to stay in denial about it. While Mary goes around planning for the future and playing footsie with Phillip of Bavaria, more or less unaware that her very existence is eating this poor bastard’s brain. Eustace is a 50 year old politician with TSwift’s “You Belong With Me” playing in his head every time he meets eyes with his dead friend’s 21 year old daughter. It’s pathetic. It’s disgusting. It’s narratively delicious.

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Phoebe Dynevor as Daphne Bridgerton

Bridgerton 1.04

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Elizabeth shall be a greater queen than any king of yours. She shall rule a greater England than you could ever have built. My Elizabeth shall be Queen. And my blood will have been well spent.

anonymous requested: anne of the thousand days + favourite familiar relationship

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The Toilette by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824 - 1898)