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Writing, at its core, is an utterly lonely experience. I both love it and hate if for that.

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SARAH BOLGER as MARY TUDOR THE TUDORS | SEASON THREE EPISODE EIGHT

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RIP Jane Seymour

↳ Queen of England, 30th May 1536 - 24th October 1537

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The world wants us at odds. We don't have to let it be that way.

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♛ Unknown Location in Dover, November 14th 1532 ♛

One of  the two possible wedding dates of the marriage of Henry VIII, King of England and his second wife Anne Boleyn. 

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♛ Elizabeth of York, Queen of England ♛

 Born at the Palace of Westminster on 11 February 1466, oldest daughter and first child of Edward IV, King of England and his wife Elizabeth Woodville. 

 Sister to Edward V. Niece of Richard III. Heiress of York. Wife of Henry VII - the Lancarastrain Heir joining the houses of York and Lancaster. Mother of Arthur, Prince of Wales, Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Henry VIII, King of England and Mary, Queen of France. Grandmother of Mary I, Henry, Duke of Richmond, Elizabeth I, Edward VI,  James V of Scotland, Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, Frances Brandon and Eleanor Brandon. Great grandmother of notably among others Mary, Queen of Scots, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Jane Grey disputed Queen of England, Katherine Grey and Mary Grey. Ancestress of all English and British Royal Monarchs since 1509. 

 Died at The Tower of London on 11 February 1503 - her 37th birthday -  of childbed fever. 

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♛ St. Stephen’s Chapel Palace of Westminster, Spring 1472 ♛

Wedding of Richard, Duke of Gloucester (future Richard III, King of England) and Anne Nevile.

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♛ Woodville family home in Northamptonshire, May 1st 1464 ♛

The possible wedding date and location of Edward IV, King of England’s secret wedding to Elizabeth Woodville.

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“ She may be just a girl, but I tell you this …… if she gets her way, she will set our whole country in a roar. ”

♛ Tower of London, May 19th 1536 ♛ Execution of Anne Boleyn, second wife and Queen consort of Henry VIII, King of England and mother of the future Elizabeth I, Queen of England.

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♛ The Church of the Observant Friars outside of Greenwich Palace, June 11th 1509 ♛

Wedding of Henry VIII, King of England and his first wife Katherine of Aragon and Castile, Dowager Princess of Wales

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💋 a kiss or romance

picking up from here, preceded by there, let's get into it:

He absorbs her gentle admonishment with seeming equanimity, his expression not altering one whit, until he ducks his face, and unpeels one richly embroidered glove from his writing hand (that, she knows, gleaned in their hovering, quick work of the code they created together, to know to meet here in this very chosen place, at this very chosen time), displaying the back of it, and palm, in turn, with all the gravity of an artist revealing a painting, as his jaw moves from side to side.

The flourishes are quick, but Anne discerns the cuts running on fingertips all the way down the knuckles, webbing, and pulverized cuticles, as he chokes out: "Aching work, indeed." The King folds the same hand, and jerks it away from her sudden, instinctual reach, but relents at her second attempt, unfurling his grip as she examines, carefully. Anne traverses every needlestruck, joust-bruised corner of his hand, so much larger than her own, yet so, presently, twin to her mother's after a bout of embroidery; the fingers, one by one, she traces, tip to tail, before lifting the same fingertips to her lips and kissing them in courtly reversal: her, the servitor-knight, him, the sewer of tabards.  

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♢  Farleigh Hungerford Castle, August 14th 1473 ♢

Birth of Margaret Plantagenet, future Countess of Salisbury. Daughter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, Prince of England and Isabelle Neville, Duchess of Clarence, joint heiress of the Earl of Warwick.

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♛ Westminster Abbey, June 24th, 1509 ♛

Joint coronation of Henry VIII, King of England and Katherine of Aragon, Queen Consort of England

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BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF (2001) dir. Christophe Gans