historicalbastards

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me when i was 10 watching amadeus for the first time ever and seeing constanze undress

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thinking about the time that my fifth grade class went on a field trip to an old battlefield from the american revolution and they let a bunch of 10-11 year olds load and fire muskets

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if your response to “the founding fathers shouldn’t have enslaved people”, is “nobody’s perfect”, or “it was normal back then”, bless your heart and your tiny fucking brain you absolute goddamn moron

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facts abt king george iii 😁🙏‼️

- During a fit of his illness, George declared that he didn’t like Queen Charlotte (his wife), and once refused grapes that were gifted to him by her, while he was staying at Kew.

- When Princess Amelia had passed away, the king and his wife were notified almost immediately. Upon being told this, George refused to believe such, and stated, “I know very well she can be brought back to life again.”

- Once while his wife and his daughters were visiting him during a fit of his illness, he insisted that they do catch-singing. He insisted that his Doctor join in as well.

- During a walk in Kew Gardens, Fanny Burney saw the king and others who were walking with him. Burney ‘ran off with all my might’ while the king chased after her ‘loudly and hoarsely calling after me, “Miss Burney, Miss Burney!”’ She continued to run until Dr. Willis said that the king could get hurt, to which she reluctantly stopped and forced herself to talk to him.

- Fanny Burney was also the Keeper of the Robes for the family. Due to her position she was able to become close with them. Once while playing with princess Amelia, the king bursted through the doors unexpectedly. Fanny tried to explain to the princess that they must be quiet to not disturb her father. Amelia didn’t listen, and cried out, “Papa, go!” “What!” the king replied. “Go Papa—you must go!” The king ‘took her up in his arms and began kissing and playing with her’.

TW : mentions/implications of abuse!

- Once, while walking around Hampton Court, the Duke of Sussex, (George III’s son), thought aloud, “I wonder in which one of these rooms it was that George II struck my father? The blow so disgusted him that he could never afterwards think of it as a residence.”

- When visiting a family portrait that had been completed after the death of his two sons (Alfred and Octavius), the king’s daughters bursted into tears, while he and his wife appeared to be “visibly moved”.

- A few months after the death of his son, Octavius, ‘every morning, he (the king) wished himself eighty, or ninety, or dead.’

- As a prince, George was not very fond on reading classics. He wrote on the margin of Caesar’s Commentaries; “Monsieur Caesar, je vous souhaite au diable.” (I wish you to hell).

- During Amelia’s last moments, she gave the king a ring that contained a lock of her hair. Amelia asked her father to not forget her, to which he replied with “that I never do, you are engraven on my heart.”