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if u don’t like my posts send me $1000 and i’ll delete whatever one u want

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quick question: are you guys ok? 🧐

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What do you think of the odd theory that George Boleyn, dean of Lichfield, was the son of George and Jane Boleyn?

My first thought is, if he was, we would know. There’s no way that the brother and sister-in-law of the Queen could have a child without anyone knowing about it (even if that child was born before Anne became Queen).

It’s really not that unlikely that there were other Boleyns out there that we don’t know much about (or anything at all). The Boleyn family went back many generations. Or, for all we know, he might not have been a Boleyn by birth. Think of Richard Williams who took Thomas Cromwell’s surname and became known as Richard Cromwell thereafter (and even gave his children the surname Cromwell).

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Okay so I’m listening to the episode of Talking Tudors from yesterday about Anne Boleyn’s trial records and Dan Gosling, the guest, pointed out something I’d never realized before

So the call for peers to come and serve on the jury went out two days before the trial which means that only peers who were already within two days from London would’ve been able to make it there in time to serve. And he also said something like some peers who knew this was happening would’ve already been in London anticipating that they’d be called on to serve as jurors.

That just gives a whole new perspective to the people we know served on the jury

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wow okay someone sent me an ask about my Boleyn family fancasts and somehow the ask has now disappeared, so I’ll just make a post. I wish I remembered the URL of who sent me this so I could tag you. :/

Anyway so the ask was who are my fancasts for the Boleyn family

So I’ve had these same fancasts for a while, but I just love them all so much

For Thomas Boleyn:

Mark Jackson

Alternately, Richard Pepper

(I guess it’s not really a fan cast since he’s already played the role, but the fan cast aspect is him as Thomas in something that’s not a PGreg adaptation)

For Elizabeth Boleyn:

Laura Donnelly

Alternatively, since seeing her in TSP, I do like Laura Carmichael

And, this is a bit of a wild card, but Perdita Weeks who played Mary Boleyn in The Tudors is in her 40s now

For Mary Boleyn:

Amelia Gething (say what you want about TSP, but they had great casting)

For George Boleyn:

Isaac Hempstead Wright

He’s probably too boyish for an older George circa 1530s and I don’t know what he’d look like with facial hair, but I think he’d be a great young George

And for Anne:

How can I not say Olivia Cooke and Emily Carey?

Alternatively, Janet Montgomery

As for Jane Boleyn…because we don’t know what she looks like (that portrait labeled Lady Parker is not her) you can pretty much choose anyone so I’d have to think more on that and what actors just give me Jane vibes based on personality

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"Dominic Mancini believed that at the council meeting a discussion around the possibility of Richard becoming the king's protector had also taken place: Two opinions were propounded. One was that the duke of Gloucester should govern, because Edward in his will had so directed, and because by law the gorvenment ought to devolve on him. But this was the losing resolution; the winning was that the government should be carried on by many persons among whom the duke, far from being excluded, should be accounted the chief. By this means the duke would be given due honour, and the royal authority greater security; because it had been found that no regent ever laid down his office, save reluctantly, and from armed compulsion, whence civil wars had often arisen. Moreover, if the entire gorvenment were commited to one man he might easily usurp the sovereignty. All who favoured the queen's family voted for this proposal, as they were afraid that, if Richard took unto himself the crown or even governed alone, they, who bore the blame of Clarence's death, would suffer death or at least be ejected from their high estate. Mancini had heard from 'common report' that shortly after the council meeting had ended, William, Lord Hastings, immediately sent letters and messengers to Richard, reporting the council's decision. Advising the duke to 'hasten to the capital with a strong force', Hastings urged the duke to seize the king before reaching London. For his part, he warned Richard thet 'he was alone in the capital and not withought great danger, for he could scarcely escape the snares of his enemies since 'their old hatred' had been aggravated by his friendship with the duke." — Richard III England's Most Controversial King by Chris Skidmore

ANEURIN BARNARD as Richard, Duke of Gloucester (Richard III) The White Queen (2013) — Episode eight.

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(thinking mainly of the pre-hviii’s death chapters) to me TLE still remains the best novel of weir to me bcus it’s before she got that series deal so it’s the only one where the voices feel like… believable and the voices sound distinct to each other.

like save one almost verbatim copy-pasted scene in the passionate tudor she doesn’t really replicate anything else in the novel which she does in… literally ever other novel since she started her six wives series 😭

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Finally got around to ranking portrayals of Robery from least to most favourite. I don't think any of ya'll will be shocked at who are bookending these rankings lol - but still, check it out if you'd like!

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1 and 19 for the ask game

the character everyone gets wrong

AB… i should be personally compensated for so much as skimming fatal throne bcus what the hell was that 😭😭😭

mad/ashamed/horrified you actually like

not really anything? i have impeccable taste, everyone else is wrong (real answer, wife after wife and H&A by dawn ius… trashy modern au’s are guilty pleasures)

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𝐉𝐀𝐂𝐎𝐁 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐒-𝐋𝐄𝐕𝐘 as 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐇𝐄𝐍𝐑𝐘 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐕𝐈𝐈

The White Princess. Season 1, Episode 10.

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𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐘𝐀 𝐌𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑 as 𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐙𝐀𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐇 𝐎𝐅 𝐘𝐎𝐑𝐊

The White Queen (2013) Episode 10.

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REBECCA FERGUSON and CAROLINE GOODALL as Elizabeth Woodville and Cecily Neville The White Queen (2013) — Episode eight

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“In a number of Henry’s letters [to Anne Boleyn], it is apparent that the bearer is often George Boleyn. In one, Henry writes ‘the great affection I have for you has induced me to send you this bearer, to be better informed of your health and pleasure, and because, since my parting from you, I have been told that the opinion in which I left you is totally changed, and that you would not come to court.’ He ends by saying, ‘beseeching you to give credence to this bearer in all that he will tell you from me’; it is more than likely that Henry is talking about George, since no mere courtier would be trusted with such personal information, and the circle of people who knew of the relationship between the King and Anne was limited [in 1527]. From the contents of this letter, it is also apparent that the King visited Anne at Hever reasonably regularly throughout this period. As one of his closest companions, George would have accompanied him, particularly as Hever was his home and Anne was his sister.

Henry VIII’s Privy Purse Expenses from November 1529 to December 1532 show that when George [Boleyn] was not on embassy abroad, he was the King’s constant companion. One of the King’s favoured few, the high regard in which he was held is obvious from these entries. 

The Privy Purse Expenses put to rest the notion that George enjoyed royal favour purely because of his sisters’ relationships with the King. [Henry VIII] would never have suffered the continued presence of a courtier whom he did not personally like, or one from whose company he did not derive pleasure, [and] George was a regular companion to the King for at least 12 years.”

 –George Boleyn: Tudor Poet, Courtier and Diplomat

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favorite character per show 9/∞: The Tudors → Thomas More (Jeremy Northam)

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JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS and NATALIE DORMER as King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn The Tudors (2007-2010) — Season one, episode nine

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PORTRAYALS OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

VANESSA REDGRAVE · Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) CAMILLE RUTHERFORD · Mary Queen of Scots (2013) ADELAIDE KANE · Reign (2013–2017) SAOIRSE RONAN · Mary Queen of Scots (2018) ANTONIA CLARKE · The Serpent Queen (2022)