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𝐌𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐄 𝐉𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐑 as 𝐑𝐄𝐈𝐍𝐀 𝐈𝐒𝐀𝐁𝐄𝐋 𝐈 𝐃𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐀 / 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐈𝐒𝐀𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐄 𝐈 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐋𝐄

RTVE's Isabel. Episode 9, Season 1. Isabel's white embroided wedding gown.

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Helena Bonham Carter as Jane Grey (Lady Jane, 1986)

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katherine howard, oatlands palace (28th july 1540)

“an orchard, its mature trees groaning under the weight of fruit, offered shade to the heads of courtiers and servants, as they endured the stifling heat. the trees were old, but the orchard was not. they had been uprooted from st peter’s abbey at nearby chertsey, a nine-century-old monastery founded by saint erkenwald, [...] and brought to grace the king’s gardens when the abbey was shut down [...] the stones that built the little palace’s extension had come from the augustinian priory at tandridge as it was pulled down to make way for aristocratic demesnes. the price paid by many of his subjects for the king’s religious revolution weighed heavily and silently on oatlands, but as thick carpets from the ottoman empire, chairs upholstered in velvets and cloth of gold, gilt cups, bejewelled table services, and beds hung with cloth of silver were all processed into oatlands, there was little outward sign of the stresses and tribulation that had gone into making it suitable for the royal household.” (gareth russell, young and damned and fair)

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in the end, you’re my sister. 

requested by @such-g00d-luck

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𝐌𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐄 𝐉𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐑 as 𝐑𝐄𝐈𝐍𝐀 𝐈𝐒𝐀𝐁𝐄𝐋 𝐈 𝐃𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐀 / 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐈𝐒𝐀𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐄 𝐈 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐋𝐄

RTVE's Isabel. Episode 1, Season 1. Isabel's prelude to her coronation.

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Helena Bonham Carter as Jane Grey (Lady Jane, 1986)

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Because he loves me as much as I love him. 

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HE GOT TO PET THE DOGOS!!!!!!!😍😍😍😍

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Natalie Dormer and James Frain as Anne Boleyn and Thomas Cromwell in The Tudors (2007-2010) — S02E08 'Lady in Waiting'

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my personal list of greek myth retellings that are actually good and do something interesting with the myth:

The King Must Die and The Bull from the Sea, Mary Renault

Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays, Christa Wolf

The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood

The Lost Books of the Odyssey, Zachary Mason

Here the World Entire, Anwen Kya Hayward

Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles, Jeanette Winterson

Achilles, Elizabeth Cook

Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad, Alice Oswald

Averno, Louise Glück

Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson

Antigonick, Anne Carson

Oresteia, Robert Icke

Antigone, Jean Anouilh

Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl

Girl on an Altar, Marina Carr

Los Reyes, Julio Cortázar

Hadestown, Anaïs Mitchell

O Brother Where Art Thou, Coen Brothers

honorable mention to Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia which doesn't count on a technicality

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one gifset per episode servant of the people | sluha narodu s2e13

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Hidden Consent of the Stars - Read on AO3

Robert didn’t know it then but this conversation would become seared into his young mind, carving divots and pathways into his memory. So much so that years and years later, when he grew into a man, he would recall this moment to an intrigued ambassador, his tongue slightly loosened by wine and frustrated, agonised hope. All other memories of this age would be fuzzy to him but he would still be able to picture Elizabeth’s red curls and soft, childish face with her glassy eyes in sharp relief. That ambassador would relay this piece of personal history between the man and that flame haired girl back to his master on the continent who would grow ever more concerned about the great Earl of Leicester’s influence on the Queen of England. His words would be recorded for centuries, until they found themselves between the pages of history books, thumbed through by bored students, exhausted academics and passionate storytellers.

Summary: Young Robert Dudley and Lady Elizabeth Tudor are the best of friends. Overlooked in the English court they can enjoy each other’s company generally unbothered. But one awful day in November 1541, they witness something that shocks them to their very core. Months later, Elizabeth confesses to her friend something that would prove, years down the line, to be a life altering decision. 

tag list: @outrowingss @glowingatdawn @emilykaldwen @interstellarbeams @sherwoodknights @imjustasmith @mihrsuri @obi-blond-kenobi @elizabethtaylors @aliciatudors-love @vintagedolce (please let me know if you’d like to be added!)

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art + lemony snicket

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Elizabeth’s apparent need for compliments and admiration of her appearance has also been put down to sheer vanity, but was it just that? On occasion Elizabeth made it quite obvious that a compliment was expected from ambassadors and courtiers, but in some of these cases it may simply have been a feminine manoeuvre for gaining time. The oft-quoted conversation with Sir James Melville may have been as much to test him and gain information about the Queen of Scots as to obtain compliments for herself. Sir Richard Baker described her as short sighted; the compliments would have given her time to get a clear view of the speaker.

Janet Arnold, Queen Elizabeth’s Wardrobe Unlock'd

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Professionally, while much has been made of the incongruousness of a TV star leading his country through this crisis, Zelenskyy’s satire was in fact all about reflecting civic national concerns. Touring most Ukrainian cities with his troupe Kvartal 95 since 2014, he deepened his native understanding of their experiences and realities nationwide. Skits often focused on the corrupt political elite but also highlighted the duty of ordinary citizens to fight malfeasance in their daily lives. He frequently made space, at times with less-than-dignified jokes, for the active role citizens play in the management of Ukrainian society. Zelenskyy’s shows would often end with earnest messages about protecting Ukraine’s soldiers, ending corruption and poverty, and civic Ukrainian unity. (..) His appeal is simple, but Zelenskyy himself is not. He is a lawyer by training who ran a small but significant regional entertainment empire and knew how to navigate Ukraine’s complex and murky political economy.

Olga Onuch, Henry E. Hale, “The Zelenskyy effect: Why Ukraine’s “Ze” is defeating Russia’s “Z””

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Did Elizabeth I ever open the belly of Catholics?

Okay this is really weird because according to my inbox this message was sent to me in April 2024 but I literally have only just received it? I have no clue why.

To answer this, not herself personally if that's what you mean lol - but in terms of execution style, no, Catholics recusants were usually just hung although some of the executions could be more torturous, such as Margaret Clitherow who was pressed to death. Many more were simply imprisoned or given ruinous fines.

However, the stomach being opened would have happened to those being hung, drawn and quartered which was usually reserved for more serious recusants or accusations of treason. This is what happened to the conspiritors of the Babington plot. Usually, a person was hung till they were dead before being quartered, but such was Elizabeth's fury with the conspiritors that she ordered that they still be alive when they were cut down and their bellies opened (remember - their aim was to murder Elizabeth and replace her on the throne with Mary so Elizabeth wasn't just being bloodthirsty for no reason). Usually, the English crowd watching an execution were gunning for bloodshed, but the horror of watching live men have their bowels ripped from them, screaming, was too much even for them to handle. Elizabeth, sensitive to the mood of the people, ordered that the next batch of traitors be hung till they were completely dead before their bowels were removed.

The strong reaction of the crowd tells us that victims having their stomachs open while still alive was not common, and it was also not taken well as it made Elizabeth look particularly vicious. But the key point here is that the Babington conspirators were executed because they were found out to be part of a conspiracy whose aim was to murder Elizabeth and replace her with Mary. They were not executed specifically because they were Catholic (although that didn't help their case, I'm sure).