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This is terrifying

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I don’t know why, but I have always seen them this way. I remember coming across a website about a fiction book where they have sex and honey is involved somehow... I can’t remember why honey? In what context? I’m not sure. But it’s funny.

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13 February 1541 ✧ Katheryn Howard is executed at nine o’clock in the morning, within the Tower of London.

An eyewitness stated: “I see the Queen and the Lady Rochford suffer within the Tower. Whose souls be with God, for they made the most godly and Christian end… [Katheryn] uttered [her] lively faith in the blood of Christ only… [she] desired all Christian people to take regard unto [her] worthy and just punishment.” After the ‘customary words of edification and confession’ were spoken, Katheryn knelt at the block—which she had practiced on the night before—and was quickly beheaded.

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Famous Historians do this all the time lmao

come here Tracy Borman I JUST WANT TO TALK

A rant on Tracy Borman’s Anne Boleyn documentary below cut

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G U Y S

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What the actual chaotic fuck is this

They have the Boleyns ice cream in Uruguay…

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What’s your favorite fact about each of Henry’s wives? Feel free to add in any other Tudor women

Catherine of Aragon — I like that she served as an ambassador to England. I don’t think that’s as widely a known fact as it should be.

Anne Boleyn — I like that she was political. I mean, I know that’s kind of obvious but I feel like, we’re so used to living in a time when it’s really common for women to be political and be involved in politics that we forget that, in the 16th century, it was quite extraordinary that Anne not only had political opinions but actually wanted to express them and be involved. Most women during that time, even a lot of Queens, even if they had political opinions didn’t always express them (or weren’t allowed to).

Jane Seymour — such an enigma to me...damn I can’t think of anything off the top of my head. I feel kinda bad but even during her time as Queen there’s still so little about her.

Anna of Cleves — Apparently she was known to show up at people’s houses unannounced. There was one noble (I can’t remember who) who, like, complained that Anna was always showing up at his estate with no warning and would just expect to be allowed to stay there. I think that says so much about her.

Katheryn Howard — I like how much she did for Elizabeth. I mean, there wasn’t much she could do really, but, like, when Katheryn gave Elizabeth some of her jewelry or insisted Elizabeth sit across from her at the table. I mean, Katheryn was Elizabeth’s step-mother but, of course, they had a much closer family bond because they were also first cousins once removed.

Kathryn Parr — It’s so hard for me to reconcile these two completely different sides to Kathryn Parr. I want to believe she was a good person, but marrying Thomas Seymour (even before The Incident) was a pretty ify thing to do. I like that she had one of her portraits painted by a woman and she seemed to be pretty supportive of women in general—which makes the marriage to Thomas that much more baffling; even before the thing with Elizabeth, he had a reputation.

Anyway...other Tudor women...

This isn’t really a fact but I often like to think about the fact that Margaret Tudor died in 1541 which means she lived to see 5 of Henry’s 6 marriages and died just at the start of Katheryn Howard’s downfall. I’ve always wondered what she thought about...everything. Oh and this is more of an actual fact, I really like that she apparently liked Anne Boleyn. Mary Rose Tudor’s hatred of Anne is quite well known but no one ever seems to talk about the fact that Margaret supported the divorce and Anne.

And another fact that people really never talk enough about—how Jane Boleyn continued to use the title “Lady Rochford” after George’s death. Now, if she really hated George why would she continue to use his title? Why would she never re-marry and try to distance herself from the Boleyns? Why did she still, apparently, publicly mourn George and Anne’s deaths even into the Queenship of Katheryn Howard?

I also like the fact that Mary I was apparently quite fond of gambling (almost to a fault) and that she never seemed to hold her feelings about Anne against Elizabeth (the rift between them only really began after Henry VIII’s death).

There are probably a bunch more facts I’ll think of later but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

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Bruh

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W H A T

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“I told the Queen that I myself had heard the French ambassador when he came to Vienna praise the Queen of Scotland, saying that she was very beautiful, and the heir to the throne of England and therefore worthy of such a prince as the Archduke [Charles of Austria]. The Queen answered that she was superior to the Queen of Scotland.”

— Adam von Zwetkowich to Maximilian II, London, 4 June 1565, in Queen Elizabeth and Some Foreigners, by Victor Von Klarwill, 1928, p. 218.

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Oh, we really don’t!

we don’t talk about henry viii’s mace gun enough