#Sarah Churchill

[defensivelee]

behold the fruits of my labor: or, if TFC had an anime opening that was mostly just Shrewsbury.

((unmute if you will!))

[agustinavids]

Dead Ringers (2023) - The Favourite (2018)

Parallels

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[artschoolglasses]

Portrait of Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, christian Friedrich Zincke, 1722

[coquette2004]

The Stuarts and Friends: On Halloween

*Stay home and give out candy to the little kids*: James VI and I, Mary II, Hans William Bentinck, George of Denmark

*Go to a party*: Mary Queen of Scots, Anne of Denmark, Charles II, James Duke of Monmouth, Arnold Joost van Keppel, Sarah Churchill, John Churchill

*(And get drunk)*: Charles II, James Duke of Monmouth

*Wear a cute costume*: Catherine of Braganza, Mary of Modena

*Wear a sexy costume*: Mary Queen of Scots, Anne of Denmark, Anne Hyde

*Wear a really creative costume*: Charles II, Sarah Churchill

*Don't celebrate Halloween*: Charles I, William III, Anne Queen of Great Britain

*HAVE BANNED HALLOWEEN*: Henrietta Maria, James II

[death-isnt-surprising]

Sarah: You’re giving me a sticker? Anne: Not just a sticker. That is a sticker of a kitty saying “me-wow!” Sarah: I’m not a preschooler. Anne: Fine, I’ll take it back- Sarah: I earned this, back off!

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[unanchored-ship]

rip Sarah Churchill you would have loved RPF

[ehnari]

I watched The Favourite yesterday, I liked it a lot! I will probably try to finish this someday, when I'm sure I can do it proper justice.

[boredofboredomyy]

Movie / Show alphabet -> F

The Favourite (2018)

Genre: Historical, Satire, Dark Comedy

[defensivelee]

i don't want to dwell so much on the uhhh present happenings, but coincidentally i was looking thru what's labeled as 'the elections' portion of the duchess of marlborough's correspondence, where i found a letter addressed to her by mary, countess cowper. not so long ago, actually, just october 23rd....1710 :3

in it lady cowper briefly mentions adelhida talbot, the duke of shrewsbury's wife! she was known to be very outspoken and bold and flirty, to the point she annoyed even sarah. some additional context to this is the fact that she was also a fine entertainer in her own home and adored parties and companyyyy (･ω<)☆

this is what lady cowper has to say:

Your description of the Duchess of Shrewsbury is very good. I have heard much such an account of her, only with this addition. My Lord Duke looking a little grave, she chucked him several times under the chin, bidding him look up amongst all the company. She is a great honour to a court.

when i tell you this woman had a STRANGLEHOLD on her husband (ノ*°▽°*) !!!

[unwelcome-ephestion]

Fred Astaire and Jane Powell starred as siblings in Royal Wedding, but the above photograph is of Astaire and his love interest, Anne Ashmond, played by Sarah Churchill. And if you, like me, spent the entire film wondering where you knew Anne Ashmond from, boy will you be surprised. It's not her filmography, which is in fact very small. It's the resemblance that she bears to her father - Winston Churchill.

Sarah Churchill's career is by all accounts a very sad one; she made very few pictures, with Royal Wedding being the only one of much interest, and when she returned to the London stage in the 1950s, she struggled with alcoholism to the point of spending a period in Holloway Prison for her disorderly conduct. It's unclear from Royal Wedding, where her role is not large or varied enough to tell, whether her career was derailed only by addiction or by a lack of talent - it's quite possible that nepotism influenced her casting through her career - but it's certainly true that by the 1960s her acting career had declined to almost nothing. She died in 1982 at the age of 67.

[coquette2004]

Exactly what I thought. The whole "you look like a badger" scene seemed like she preferred Anne didn't go meet the ambassador and send her instead so she could gain more power.

Both Sarah and Abigail were manipulative in that film - actually, everyone except Anne was!

And Anne was plagued by ill health and heartbreak over losing all her family either to religious differences or death, I'm surprised she didn't go mad because I would have went insane a long time ago if it were me.

I mean, even if Sarah Churchill did love (not just romantically or sexually or platonically but LOVE, RESPECTFUL LOVE…over and above simple deference to a sovereign) Queen Anne, I don’t think I would call Sarah’s cruelty towards Anne ‘honesty.’ The Favourite certainly didn’t position it this way, at least I didn’t get that vibe. When Sarah says that her spite was merely the honesty that comes as a trapping of love, it wasn’t true. She had behaved horrifically, sometimes. And this is true to life, this is one of the reasons Anne came to unseat Sarah in the first place; because she was tired of being cut down in public, called pathetic for grieving for her children etc. Now, I love Sarah and in the film, she was even more compelling. But her jibes came from a not very nice place…she was a bully.

And I think, ultimately, the movie came to the same conclusion I have come to from reading about Anne’s life: regardless of her sexuality and her obvious longing for a woman that truly reciprocated her love, what Anne really wanted in her life was all the children she lost. I think that’s who she misses at the end of the movie….hence why the rabbits take hold of the whole screen. Sarah is merely another person who has left her and become dead to her, and Abigail is on the brink of becoming dead to her. Anne was so tired on her deathbed, physically and mentally. It was said that no one had ever welcomed death as much as she did. The loss…it just built up.

[coquette2004]

Giving the gang aesthetics because I don't know what else to post:

(AKA Me acting like I know personally historical dead folk for one minute straight 😂😭)

Charles: Teenage Dirtbag - makes sense to me it's his personality.

James: Catholic Core (it's actually an aesthetic if it doesn't seem like it)

Maria: Coquette

William: Deffo Goth Academia

Mary: Either Fairycore/Cottagecore/Shabby Chic

Anne: Hmm, this is hard. I think she could be Dethereal as she was mega exhausted from everything in the run up to her death. Or Cottagecore - she liked a quiet life with George (I HAVE NO IDEA HELP)

George: Downtown (a more chilled aesthetic since he wasn't for a big fuss)

Sarah: Y2K/McBling which makes sense as she was the Queen Bee of Anne's court

I honestly have no clue so give me ideas haha :⁠-⁠).

[death-isnt-surprising]

Lady Marlborough: Why do you think I don’t love you? I do. I would kill for you.

Queen Anne:

Lady Marlborough: Ask me to kill for you. Queen Anne: …First of all, calm down-

[ariadneslament]

In honour of Olivia Colman's (belated) birthday, I want to remind you that The Favourite, the nasty fun of a film that brought her her first Oscar, is finally available on Netflix. Also, don't forget to buy the book that inspired the film!

(And it's "honour", dear auto-correct, with "U")

[perfettamentechic]

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