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“I’m having his baby - no I’m not, but you should see your faces!” sounds like something Elizabeth would say to fuck with her privy council lmao

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King Henry VIII and Queen Anne Boleyn in THE TUDORS (2007-2010)

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Harriet Walter as Margaret Pole in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light

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being a history lover is wild, because it will be the prettiest, most perfect spring day imaginable and you'll be sat there thinking that it's one of the worst days of the year because of something that happened like 159 years ago

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The Tudors 2.10

“Destiny and Fortune”

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"[...] one of The Tudors’ acting powerhouses, the woman who, through her extensive research, incredible performance and understanding gave us the best portrayal of any historical figure we’ve seen in recent memory: Natalie Dormer’s portrayal of Queen Anne Boleyn.

Every other version I know of plays her one of two, rather shallow ways: partying and dancing heedlessly to her grave[...] A spoiled, dumbed down, scheming, diabolical, cheating, ruthless, manipulative brat [...] This version was particularly popular from the 1930’s through the 50’s, when she became a moralistic cautionary tale, and resurfaced during The other Boleyn girl/Wolf Hall portrayals, propagating her black legend of an incestuous, promiscuous witch.

The second way is the Ophelia/Cordelia route: A wide-eyed ingenue, a martyred, utterly clueless pawn murdered by ambitious, smarter and more powerful men, totally without her own agency or thoughts. This version is of more recent vintage (think Anne of the thousand days or the 2003 miniseries, to name a few), as a half assed attempt to make her more sympathetic, but I think it’s even more insulting than the “Anne as Salome” stuff of an earlier era. In short, they paint her as an absolute victim.

By contrast, Dormer’s version in the Tudors is the only one that I’ve seen that portrays Anne as she actually appears in the historical record: A savvy, charming, erudite, reformist, freakishly intelligent court player who could go toe-to-toe with the likes of Wolsey, Cromwell and even Henry himself, but also a lonely, isolated, stressed queen, trapped in a situation she simply couldn’t control."

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"In the 21st Century dramatic portrayals of Anne returned to ‘Scheming Harridan’ territory with a side order of bringing possible incest back, with two adaptations of the Gregoryverse’s The Other Boleyn Girl and, of course, Wolf Hall.  Claire Foy in Wolf Hall delivered great on what she was given, but that script for Anne was an instrument with only a couple of notes. The weight of Cromwell’s Hero Edit warped Anne into a complete and unremitting bitch. There was not a scene she spoke in (well, until she got executed) in which she wasn’t bullying or plotting or implying something nasty about someone.

By contrast, Dormer got all the notes, and played them beautifully. Partly as a function of scale of the role, with 21 epsiodes we got all of Anne’s rise and fall and we got to see the nuance of what her varying situations did to her behaviour and personality. We got a portrayal of Anne that felt like an actual human being, and that is a considerable feat with a woman who polarised opinion from the moment the English people found out she existed."

Day 6 - Favourite portrayal of a Tudor Family Member: Natalie Dormer as Anne Boleyn, TudorWeek2023

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Jodie Comer as ELIZABETH OF YORK in The White Princess (2017)

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Natalie Portman as Anne Boleyn in The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)

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endless images of anne boleyn 2273/♾️

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— Those are the threats, are they not? —  Well, my lady… let us take one apiece, then.

Becoming Elizabeth (2022–), 1x08

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KING AND QUEEN OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND

Queen Mary I, of England and Ireland and her husband and consort King Philip II, of Spain and I of England and Ireland* attributed to Hans Eworth c.1558.

*Philip was granted the right to enjoy his wife’s titles during the term of their marriage under the Act for the Marriage of Queen Mary to Philip of Spain 1554. 

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ANNE BOLEYN moments with PRINCESS ELIZABETH

THE TUDORS (2007-2010) | S02

requested by Anon

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Elizabeth of York, Queen Consort of England.

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Handwriting and signature of Princess Mary from a letter written to Thomas Cromwell to express her concern for the welfare of Margaret Coke, formerly a servant of her mother, Katherine of Aragon, 15 April, 1537.