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FIREBRAND (2024) dir. Karim Aïnouz

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#so one is romantic and the other isn't because...? 🧐🧐🧐

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“The Friday following, being the 19th day of May, 1536, and the 28th year of King Henry the VIII, at eight of the clock in the morning, Anne Boleyn, Queen, was brought to execution on the green within the Tower of London, by the great White Tower; the Lord Chancellor of England, the Duke of Richmond, Duke of Suffolk, with the most of the King’s Council, as earls, lords, and nobles of this realm, being present at the same; also the Major of London, with the Aldermen and Sheriffs, and certain of the best crafts of London, being there present also. On a scaffold made there for the said execution the said Queen Anne said thus: ‘Masters, I here humbly submit me to the law as the law has judged me, and as for mine offences, I here accuse no man, God knows them; I remit them to God, beseeching him to have mercy on my soul, and I beseech Jesus save my sovereign and master the King, the most godly, noble, and gentle Prince that is, and long to reign over you’, which words were spoken with a goodly smiling countenance; and this done, she kneeled down on her knees and said: ‘To Jesus Christ I commend my soul’, and suddenly the hangman smote of her head at a stroke with a sword; her body with the head was buried in the Chapel within the Tower of London, in the quire there, the same day at afternoon, when she had reigned as Queen three years, lacking 14 days, from her coronation to her death.”

A chronicle of England during the reigns of the Tudors, from A.D. 1485 to 1559 Volume 1, page 41 by Charles Wriothesley

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“This morning she sent for me that I might be with her at such time as she received the good Lord, to the intent I should hear her speak, as touching her innocency alway to be clear; and in the writing of this she sent for me. And at my coming she said, ‘Mr. Kingston, I hear say I shall not die before noon, and I am very sorry therefor, for I thought to be dead by this time, and past my pain.’ I told her it should be no pain, it was so subtle. And then she said, ‘I heard say the executor was very good, and I have a little neck,’ and put her hand about it, laughing heartily. I have seen many men and also women executed, and all they have been in great sorrow, and to my knowledge this lady has much joy and pleasure in death.”

[19] May. Otho, C. x. 223. B. M. Burnet, i. 327. (fn. 8) Ellis, 1 Ser. ii. 64., 910. Sir Wm. Kingston to Cromwell. from Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII: May 1536, 16-20 Pages 371-391

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anne boleyn week (day one): favourite fictional portrayal

natalie dormer in the tudors / genevieve bujold in anne of the thousand days

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They're gonna crucify me anyway what if the way you hold me is actually what's holy? If long suffering propriety is what they want from me they don't know how you've haunted me so stunningly. I choose you and me … religiously.

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a day late but happy 464th anniversary to the day elizabeth i ditched a meeting to watch robert dudley play tennis

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Edward and Elizabeth observed the festivities separately, much to Edward’s dismay. Writing to his sister from the manor of Tittenhanger near St Albans on 18 December [1546], he lamented, ‘Change of place, in fact, did not vex me so much, dearest sister, as your going from me. Nothing can happen more agreeable to me than a letter from you […] I hope to visit you shortly […] as my chamberlain has reported to me. Farewell, dearest sister!’

Many of Elizabeth’s earliest thoughts were of the brother she adored, who had ‘four teeth, three full out and the fourth appearing’ by the summer of 1538.  She liked giving Edward gifts, such as a ‘shirt of cambric of her own working’, which she presented to him at New Year 1539 – an extremely personal gift that not only showcased Elizabeth’s skill with a needle but also displayed her thoughtfulness. 

Young Elizabeth: Elizabeth I and Her Perilous Path to the Crown, Nicola Tallis

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reputation precedes me, they told you I'm crazy i swear i don't love the drama, it loves me

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"Your most loving, most faithful servant. Robbie."

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I was Elvis's doll, his own living doll, to fashion as he pleased. The more we were together the more I came to resemble him in every way. His tastes, his insecurities, his hang-ups — all became mine. My sole ambition was to please him, to be rewarded with his approval and affection. When he criticized me, I fell to pieces. - PRISCILLA PRESLEY

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“I’ll pay the price, you won’t.”

“Slut!” by Taylor Swift

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NATALIE DORMER as Anne Boleyn ↴ THE TUDORS | Wolsey, Wolsey, Wolsey! ( 1.03 )

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CAILEE SPAENY as PRISCILLA PRESLEY

PRISCILLA (2023)

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Natalie Dormer as Anne Boleyn in The Tudors (2007-2010)

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Natalie Dormer as Anne Boleyn The Tudors (2007-2010)

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“Darling, this was just as hard as when they pulled me apart…” hoax by Taylor Swift// May 19th, 1536: the execution of Anne Boleyn