#House of Stuart

[victusinveritas]

[vox-anglosphere]

On this day in 1660, Charles II rode into London as Britain's new king.

[royalty-nobility]

Queen Mary II

Artist: Sir Peter Lely (Dutch, active in England, 1618-1680)

Date: ca. 1677

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Queen Mary II

Mary II (30 April 1662 – 28 December 1694) was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland with her husband, King William III and II, from 1689 until her death in 1694. She was also Princess of Orange following her marriage on 4 November 1677. Her joint reign with William over Britain is known as that of William and Mary.

This portrait shows Mary at the age of fifteen, at the time of her marriage to William of Orange.

[dreamconsumer]

Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, King of Scotland. English School.

[paranoid-artist]

art dump but not but yes but no

[marquisevonobst]

Yk I had to do it

[classic-art-favourites]

Willem II, Prince of Orange and His Bride Mary Stuart by Anthony van Dyck, 1641.

[roehenstart]

King Charles II (1630-1685) in Garter Robes. By Henri Gascars.

[vintagedolce]

They really are going all out with the Stuart era and I'm so excited!!!!

"A new documentary-drama is coming to Sky History, starring Joseph Fiennes, Jared Harris and Sheila Atim, and following King Charles II's hunt for his father's killers.

Told through dramatic reconstruction, with Fiennes, Harris and Atim serving as the primary storytellers, the three-part series is a story about espionage, revenge, power, loyalty and "the moment that changed the landscape of British politics and society forever".

[duchessofyorksstuff]

[carolineofansbach]

Moodboard: Anne Stuart, Queen of Great-Britain and Ireland (1665-1714)

[minetteskvareninova]

I know this is random, but do you have an opinion on Henry the Eight’s wives discourse? Do you have a favorite?

My opinion is that they are all overrated and people should stop making media about them. The Stuarts deserve far more attention than them. Justice for Stuarts, and yes I know one of them was literally criminally prosecuted and sentenced to death for his crimes, but that's not the point-

Anyway, aside from that, I don't hate any of them? Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn are both icons in their own right (even though Anne is the most overrated of them all, don't @ me), Jane Seymour... Seems to have been a nice lady, Anne of Cleves ditto, Catherine Howard deserved better most of them', and Catherine Parr is yet another icon.

Honestly as a Habsburg girlie first and foremost I don't get the hype around the Tudors? The most boring British dynasty if you ask me.

[vox-anglosphere]

Regicide-1649

[royalty-nobility]

Princess Henrietta Anne Stuart, Duchess of Orléans (‘Minette’) (1644–1670) and an Unidentified Enslaved Attendant

Artist: after Jean Charles Nocret, the Younger (French, 1648-1691)

Date: 1700-1799

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Trust Collections, London, United Kingdom

Description

Princess Henrietta was the youngest daughter of Charles I and was affectionately called 'Minette' by her brother. She married Philip, Duke of Orleans, brother of Louis XIV in 1661. This may be a version of the picture in Charles II's collection described as 'Maddam with her husband's picture in her hand and a little dog by her' and another copy version is at Temple Newsam, Leeds. Princess Henrietta had been smuggled to France by her governess after the imprisonment of her father, King Charles I. She grew up at the French court with her mother and became a favourite of the French royal family later facilitating a treaty between Louis XIV and her brother, King Charles II. But her marriage was not a happy one. Philippe, jealous of his flirtatious older brother, deprived his wife of any friends, leaving her isolated and lonely and her untimely death was intially blamed on poison, although autopsies revealed that she died of a punctured ulcer.

[dreamconsumer]

Madeleine of France, Queen of Scotland (1520-1537).

[maltrunners]

House of Stuart blended Scotch

Review by: Raygun This is normally the sort of thing that most of us–I think it’s fair to say–wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole. This is about as low as the bottom shelf gets: aged just long enough to qualify legally as Scotch, and as cheap as Scotch can get. I certainly wouldn’t buy it, but when I could get a glass for free, why not? Sometimes it’s good to see what the very low end looks…