#princess margaret of york

[eve-to-adam]

Elizabeth of York, fashion character design. Mourning outfit, c. 1482.

[boleynecklace]

ELIZABETH OF YORK, MARGARET BEAUFORT, AND HENRY VII THE WHITE PRINCESS (2017)

[spiritundaunted]

The Duchess of York with Princess Elizabeth and a canine friend at Glamis Castle.

I've read that the Duke took this photo and it was in 1930 when Elizabeth was pregnant with Princess Margaret. Hence the strategic placement of the dog and the wall!

Good job, Bertie. It's a sweet photo!

📸

[for-valour]

“The King looked at her as if he couldn’t believe anybody could be so much fun.”

- George VI, Sarah Bradford.

Happy Heavenly Birthday to your papa’s ‘Joy’ — beautiful Princess Margaret is 93 today!

I love how Bertie says, ‘mwaah’ and smiles with such bashful pride when Margot gives him a kiss. It’s too precious! 🥹

gif made by @for-valour

[goodoldroyalty]

Happy women’s day.💐

Bertie and his women.💗

[bstag]

House York.

[collarsncrowns]

The Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth) with their daughters Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret.

[grandmaster-anne]

25 December 1969 The Royal Family at church © ITN

[catherinesvalois]

TUDOR WEEK 2022 DAY 2 FAVORITE TUDOR PARENT + CHILD RELATIONSHIP →  ELIZABETH OF YORK + HENRY VII AND THEIR CHILDREN

[juanatrastamara]

tudor week 23: favourite portrayal of a family member - amanda hale, rebecca ferguson and jodie comer as...

[ M A R G A R E T • B E A U F O R T | E L I Z A B E T H • W O O D V I L L E | E L I Z A B E T H • O F • Y O R K ]

the red queen | my lady, the king's mother | mother of a dynasty | survivor - the white queen | commoner turned queen | yorkist queen | mother of a queen - first tudor queen | white rose of york | mother of a legendary king & queens | mother of the tudors |

[isabelleneville]

[eve-to-adam]

Elizabeth of York, fashion character design c. 1473-1474.

If you dare to think that I have developed some kind of obsession with little Elizabeth of York, I must tell you...

… you are right.

P.S. My mom told me she looks like a historical Tinkerbell and now I can't stop thinking about it lol

[pretty-little-fools]

[starksmedici]

Let’s talk about Philippa Gregory.

This video by the wonderful TikTok creator Fawzia Mariam explain most of my dislike for Philippa Gregory. I have tried to like her, I really have. I love her writing style and as some of you might know I am a huge fan of historical fiction, both in books and in tv shows, and it’s kind of hard to omit this woman who is praised as one of, if not its grandest name. This also means that I am pretty capable of accepting some historical inaccuracies, as there is no such thing as a fully accurate period drama.

My problem with Gregory however, is that she is being put forward as an authority on women’s history, when she writes FICTION, and she feels to me to be quite internally misogynistic. This I have mainly noticed in the tv shows by Starz.

I have to admit that I have not yet read those particular books, and I’m probably not going to due to my dislike and the reviews (maybe I will read The White Queen, definitely not The Red Queen). But to what I have heard the shows are a pretty accurate adaptation of the books.

Now my claim of Gregory being misogynistic is mainly coming from the relationships that women have in those shows. It seems that none of them get along, when in reality quite a few of them did get along well/they were cordial. It seems to be perpetuating an image that women in high positions just cannot get along. Furthermore, Gregory likes to have women be scheming masterminds, and the reasons that bad things happen - not the men who mostly are paragons of virtue and if they are not, they are forgiven, often make (only) small mistakes (of course there are exceptions). Margaret is a perfect example because Henry only gets on the throne because of her scheming and she even kills the princes in the tower (for which there is no evidence), and tells her son to r*pe his bride, which he does but she seems to be the only one getting judged for it. By the way Margaret was possibly sex repulsed after getting wedded and bedded AT TWELVE YEARS OLD. So to have her *tell* her son to rape his bride, makes me feel ill.

Margaret seems overall pretty frosty also, and comes across as a caricature of a religious fanatic when she was a complex woman who is said to have been funny and kind, and was overall a badass woman who was clever and was a tragic victim of her time (again she was married at 12, gave birth at 13). A lot of the things that Gregory shoved in her shoes were unlike to have been her at all, or at least only her.

My particular issue with The Spanish Princess is the modern “girlbossification” of Katherine of Aragon who comes across as arrogant, rude and impolite (and again kind of like a scheming liar) when this woman had HUMBLE in her motto. It’s almost as if PG/the show runners did not think Katherine interesting enough the way she was, not feminist enough in our modern views, which I highly disagree with. KATHERINE OF ARAGON WAS A TOTAL BADASS.

So my point with this post is not to say that you cannot enjoy PG shows/books, by all means enjoy what you want (I too enjoy TWQ & TWP), but please do not accept her as a truthful source of history. I am also not saying that I expect or want period drama to be 100% accurate, however I do expect some degree of accuracy, and if I want to watch a show about this or that historical person, I want that show to be about them, not about a random person with their name.

And yes I am extra pissed because I am super interested in historical Margaret Beaufort and I highly protest against the character assassination that Gregory’s books are.

[for-valour]

BERTIE IS DRIVING! :)

Also, the original car --a black 1939 Daimler DB18 Drophead Coupé-- is still in existence today and from what I have read, is well-loved and looked after by its current owner!

From the BBC documentary, Princess Margaret: The Rebel Royal. gifs made by @for-valour

[goodoldroyalty]

But the little girls great ambition was to sit in the stalls or the dress circle. They had to hang over the side of the royal box, to see properly. I can still see the Duke anxiously seizing his daughters' petti-coats, afraid they would fall over altogether in their immense enthusiasm.

The little princesses (Marion Crawford)