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Historical Fashion Challenge 2025

Day 11: 1840s (paintings)

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Empathy...

Sometimes you feel so identified with all the empresses, queens, princesses, sultanas and other women of the court, that they had to pretend that everything is fine with their relationships when they discover that they are in love with another woman and that you, even if you are the 'official' one, will always be (the other).

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Ribbons and Lace, 1904 by Edmund Blair Leighton (English, 1852–1922)

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According to historian McCaffrey, Queen Catherine of Aragon did not see Anne Boleyn as a rival during her time at the English court:

🎀 "We know that Catherine asked one of her ladies-in-waiting, who was criticising Anne Boleyn, to stop and told her that one day she would take pity on her." 🎀

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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. Jane Austen

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୨୧ Henry VIII sends Anne Boleyn 17 love letters, written in French and English, in which he expresses his feelings in a clumsy and poetic way. ୨୧

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Madeline After Prayer, 1868 by Daniel Maclise (Irish, 1806–1870)

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In 1525, Anne Boleyn returned to England and began working at the court of King Henry VIII as a lady-in-waiting to Queen Catherine of Aragon. ♥

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★ por primera vez en mi vida voy hacer lo que me gusta & esto es compartir mi conocimiento sobre historia, especialmente la monarquía ★