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The Love of a Princess (Part 2) - Rooster

Pairing: Rooster / Simpson!OC (Princess Alexandra)

Word Count: 3.2k

This work, all my works, and my entire blog are 18+ Only

Series Warnings: (Modern-ish) Royal AU; Meant to Be Set in 1920s/1930s; AU Country/World; Inspired by History; Bodyguard AU; Implied Very Much Legal Age Gap; Sexism; Angst

Summary: Princess Alexandra confronts her father about his decision. Rooster struggles to adapt to royal protocol.

Part 1

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Princess Alexandra glared at her own image as her maid brushed out her hair, letting her hair fall naturally down her back. She would have to wash the product out of it later, but so long as it allowed her some freedom, then she was content enough. Wiping her makeup from her face, she snapped her compact shut with extra harshness that made her maid pause.

“Is everything alright, miss?” Jane asked kindly.

“No, it’s not, I’m afraid,” Alexandra stated as Jane arranged the pins that she pulled from Alexandra’s hair. “I’m sure that they’ve already given you the orders to pack my things for me. For my trip out to the countryside.”

“Yes, miss.”

“How long did they tell you to pack for?”

“A few months, miss.”

“Of course,” Alexandra sighed, looking down at her hands for a moment. Fiddling with her mother’s ring, she straightened up again. “Thank you, Jane.”

“Yes, miss. Did you need anything else?”

“Not right now, Jane, thank you.” Alexandra stood up and let Jane unzip her dress for her so that she could slip into a far less formal one. “But can you please make sure that a hot bath is waiting for me when I return from my meeting with my father? I’d prefer to wash the day away from me.”

“Certainly. Did you wish for me to be on hand, miss?”

“No, I can handle it. You get your rest. I’ll be fine,” Alexandra replied, stepping out of her state dress. Once her less formal dress was zipped up, Alexandra was slipping into flats and turning to leave the room. “If anyone comes looking for me, Jane, please tell them that I am spending time with my sisters and do not wish to be disturbed.”

“Yes, miss, of course.”

~~~~~

Bradley stood beside the couch that Maverick was sitting on, his hands loosely folded behind his back. After one of the most boring lunches of his life and entertaining himself out in the garden while the more senior members of the military and government conducted their meetings with the King, it was finally his turn.

And he found himself wishing that he was out in the gardens again.

“And what of your medical training?” the king asked him, looking down at Bradley’s profile.

“I have First Aid training, Your Majesty.”

“Anything beyond that?”

“No, sir, I leave anything beyond that to the medics and doctors.”

“There is a nurse staying with them,” Solomon Bates, the king’s private secretary and right hand man, reminded the king gently. “And a doctor is a phone call away in the nearest town.”

“How good are you with horses?” the king asked next, looking up at Bradley.

“Horses, sir?”

“Yes, you’ll find that my daughters are all avid riders. You will need to be able to keep stride with them. Or to chase after them.”

“I can ride a horse, sir. I’m no jockey, but I can stay in the saddle.”

“I’m sure that they will put a test to that,” the king remarked, mostly to himself, though Solomon cracked a smile as well. “DId you grow up with any sisters, Lieutenant?”

“No, sir. I’m an only child. Always have been.”

“Well, you will learn quickly. You will have to in order to survive.” Closing the folder, Beau placed it onto the coffee table and turned back to Bradley. “You will be given a room in the castle, of course. It will be close to the princess’s rooms, should you need to rush to their aid, but far enough away to maintain a sense of properness.”

“Yes, sir.”

“Any guests to the castle, other than the usual staff and providers, will have to be vetted through my private secretary,” the king explained, gesturing to Solomon. “And while I cannot stop you from leaving the castle for your personal needs, as it is not a prison, you are to conduct yourself with the utmost sense of properness in the surrounding town.”

“Of course, sir. That goes without saying.”

“Good.” Standing up from his seat, and causing everyone else to get to their feet as well. “You shall meet the princesses tomorrow before you embark by train to the countryside. I am sure that will give you more than enough time to get your affairs in order and pack.”

“Yes, sir. It is most generous, really,” Bradley replied, not sure if he was overdoing it.

“If you would all excuse me, I must speak with my daughters now,” the king stated, before exiting the room.

It was only after the door closed that Bradley allowed himself to take a breath. Solomon turned to Maverick and the two nodded to each other like old friends before Solomon turned to Bradley. Walking over to him, Solomon handed Bradley a small journal.

“Here is all of the information that you will need for this assignment. Information about the princesses and all of the staff and everything else that goes on that you should be aware about. I expect a report by telephone every Friday after breakfast at 10 sharp. You can also always call me with concerns, Lieutenant.”

“Thank you, sir.”

“And good luck,” Solomon remarked, causing Bradley to raise an eyebrow before he walked off.

“I believe that you’ve just found what you’ll be doing for the rest of the evening,” Maverick commented, tapping the top of the journal Bradley was handed. “But get some rest. It is not a short trip to their country estate.”

Bradley nodded, glancing down at the journal, before he and Maverick left.

~~~~~

“I don’t know why you’re so upset,” Princess Ellie stated, lounging on the couch. “You hate being in the city.”

“No, I don’t,” Alexandra insisted, staring out the window and into the gardens.

“Well, then you don’t like it as much as you like the countryside,” Ellie sighed, staring at the ceiling. “But are you going to be this huffy the whole time we’re there?”

“Ellie,” Princess Sophie sighed, hitting her older sister with a pillow. “Don’t be rude.”

“I’m just saying,” Ellie groaned, rolling to sit up. “You’re getting a vacation and you’re throwing a fit about it?”

“I’m not throwing a fit. And it’s not a vacation, it’s a banishment,” Alexandra stated, folding her arms over her chest. “And as next in line, I have a right to be involved in these meetings. Or at least the right to stay in the same building as them. I’m not a child, but everyone insists on treating me as one.”

“Maybe because you throw a tantrum every time someone tells you that you can’t do anything?” Ellie suggested, earning a glare from her elder sister. “What?”

“If I’m going to be queen one day, I need a hands-on education. Not one from a thousand miles behind the first sign of action.”

“No one’s forgotten that you’ll be queen one day, Alexandra,” Ellie sighed, leaning back in her seat. “Because you never let them forget it.”

The sound of the door opening tore Alexandra’s glare away from Ellie and towards her father. Beau was still dressed in the uniform that he wore at the lunch, having been in meetings since its conclusion. And when he saw Alexandra’s annoyed expression, he walked straight towards the brandy he kept in the room.

“Ellie, stop prodding your sister,” Beau stated firmly, causing Ellie to sigh.

“Sorry, Dad.”

“I’m not who you should be apologizing to, Ellie.”

“Sorry, Ms. Heir to the Throne,” Ellie replied condescendingly, causing Alexandra to snap.

“You’re such a pain in the ass, Ellie!” Alexandra roared, grabbing the nearest pillow and throwing it at Ellie with force.

“Stop it, right now!” Beau stepped in between his two eldest daughters to stop the risk of another pillow sailing across the room. “You are both acting like children! Sophie’s the youngest of you, but she’s the only one acting responsibly right now!”

“Is that why you won’t let me stay for these meetings?” Alexandra demanded of her father, who turned to her with a tired expression that only made tears well in her eyes. For this was far from the first time that they had ever had this conversation. “How can I be heir and one day the queen, if you don’t allow me to learn my duties?”

“You will, Alexandra. But this is a very difficult time for our nation and the world and it is not the best time for that. But it will come.”

“When?”

“When you are ready.”

“Or when you and the rest of the establishment are ready?” Alexandra challenged her father.

“That’s not fair, Alexandra.”

“Why isn’t it fair? I have completed my academic courses with top marks. Took extra subjects. More than you did. Learned additional languages. I know the Constitution from start to finish. I’ve read thousands of pages of the history of our nation. And then reread them. I stay current on events happening in our country and around the world. I conduct myself positively at every event that I attend. All I want—all I need—is a chance!”

“I understand that, Alexandra. But the time is not right for that chance.”

Her face screwed into a frown, Alexandra turned on her heel and stepped away from her father, returning to the window. Beau sighed and shot his middle daughter a look that she proceeded to ignore before sharing a look with his youngest daughter.

“All three of you should use this time away from the chaos of the city to reflect and grow on your own. The countryside will provide you with that space, with that peace. Of course, you know that you can always call me, but it might be at odd hours. There will be a lot going on in Miramar while you three are gone.”

“Will you ever come up to visit us?” Sophie asked, causing Beau to turn to her sadly.

“I’m not sure, sweetheart.”

“So, that means ‘no,’” Ellie remarked, causing Beau to turn to her.

“Might I suggest that you use all of that free time, Ellie, to learn the difference between honesty and cruelty?”

“Yes, Father,” she replied quietly, looking down.

“And Sophie, I’m sure that you want to improve on your riding.”

“I like the piano more these days,” Sophie stated, leaning back in her seat.

“Well, there’s at least two grand pianos there. I can have someone find some music for you before you leave.”

“Ms. Holloway can’t come up to the countryside?”

“She’s got three young children at home, sweetheart. She should remain in Miramar with them.”

When he heard his eldest daughter’s scoff at his words, Beau turned to face her. Alexandra kept her back to him and her posture rigid. Composing himself, Beau took a step towards Alexandra, but did not move too much closer when she was easily provoked.

“And you, Alexandra, should take some time and learn that there are other important aspects to being a leader than just the knowledge that you carry with you. Go out riding. Find some new hobbies. Live less like an heir and more like a human. And when you return to Miramar, we can discuss your position and ongoing education.”

Alexandra turned from the window and walked past her father, heading out of the room. No one made any move to make her stay, knowing that Alexandra required solitude and would lash out if she was not granted it.

“Good night,” was all Alexandra offered before she shut the door behind her.

~~~~~

Bradley was dressed in a civilian suit and without a single hair out of place while he waited in the courtyard to meet the princesses. Their luggage was already being loaded into a car, but there was no sign of the princesses themselves. His singular bag, which looked so ratty next to their luggage, was loaded in last.

“Are they always late?” he asked one of the attendants.

“They are not late, Mr. Bradshaw. You are simply early,” the attendant replied, a bit snootily, before walking off as if he had been personally offended.

“Christ,” Bradley sighed, throwing his head back for a moment.

He let out another breath and straightened up, staring straight in front of him. But soon enough, he heard the sound of footsteps. Standing at attention, Bradley spotted the youngest of the three princesses first.

“You’re the Navy man that’s joining us?” she asked, walking straight to him.

She could not have been very far at all into her teens and yet she had enough mischief in her smile that Bradley suddenly understood why everyone told him to get his rest while he could. Pausing for a moment, Bradley offered her a small smile.

“What makes you say that?” he questioned, looking down at her.

“You’re the only man today that I’ve never seen before at the palace,” she pointed out, folding her hands in front of her. “Alexandra said that your name is Bradley.”

“Yes, it is, Your Highness. Lieutenant Bradley Bradshaw, at your service,” he stated, bowing his head to her and earning an amused grin from her in return.

“You can stop all the stuffy stuff when we get away. We all hate it,” she added with a whisper, causing Bradley to smile.

“I’ll keep that in mind.”

“All I’m saying is that I don’t understand why we have to leave so early,” Ellie sighed, walking out of the palace next.

“Because it’s never a bad idea to get an early start. Another lesson that you could learn,” the king replied, before the two of them turned to Bradley. “Ah, Lieutenant Bradshaw. I hope that we did not keep you waiting for too long.”

“Not at all, Your Majesty,” Bradley stated, bowing to the king.

“You’re the man who’s accompanying us?” Ellie asked, smiling flirtatiously up at Bradley.

“Car. Now,” Beau stated firmly, pointing at the vehicle.

Ellie huffed and sent Bradley one last smile before getting into the first car that pulled up. Sophie got in behind her and the door was shut behind them. Bradley turned to the king and was about to stammer out some kind of apology, but the king held up a hand.

“You do not have to apologize, Lieutenant Bradshaw. I must, in fact, apologize to you. My middle daughter simply tries to get a reaction that she would find amusing out of you with comments like that. You shouldn’t take it any other way. And you should ensure that no other young men who she might come into contact with take it that way as well.”

“Yes, sir. I understand, sir.”

Princess Alexandra stepped out of the palace last, talking with Solomon Bates as she walked. She gave Solomon a squeeze on his shoulder in goodbye before moving on to say goodbye to her father. Though they had a spat the night before, Alexandra still accepted her father’s hug and kiss on the top of her head.

“I love you.”

“I love you too,” Alexandra replied quietly before releasing her father. “I’ll call myself when we arrive, if that would put you at ease.”

“I’d appreciate it.”

Alexandra nodded before walking around her father and to the second car. The attendant opened the door for her, and she slipped inside. With one last bow to the king, Bradley moved to sit beside her. As the heir apparent to the throne, she was entitled to more protection than her sisters.

“Lieutenant Bradshaw,” she greeted him as she set her purse on her lap. He nodded back to her before the door shut and the car started towards the station. “I hope that the luncheon wasn’t too horrible for you yesterday.”

“I’m not used to such events,” Bradley remarked before hastily adding, “Your Royal Highness.”

“I’d prefer for you to just call me Alexandra if we’re not at a formal event,” Alexandra replied, looking out the window.

“Your sister said the same, actually.”

“Sophie?”

“Yes. Does she prefer for everyone to call her Sophie?”

“We’ve called her Sophie since the day that she was born,” Alexandra explained, turning back to Bradley. “And anyone who calls Ellie ‘Eleanor’ is at risk of severe personal injury. So, if you hear me call her that, it’s best to duck for cover.”

“And do you have any nicknames that I should be aware of?” Bradley asked, staring her down for a moment and causing Alexandra’s cheeks to warm.

“No. It’s just Alexandra.”

“Alright,” Bradley replied, nodding slowly, “Alexandra.”

She offered him a small smile and nod before looking out of the window, watching the streets of Miramar pass them by. Bradley looked around the car, running his hands over the tops of his thighs, before turning back to Alexandra. She sat calmly in the seat beside him, looking like the picture of poise that everyone knew her as.

“Have you spent a lot of time in the countryside?” he asked after a time of silence.

“Yes, but not so much recently. Over the last few years, we’ve really only gone out there a few weeks out of the year,” Alexandra admitted, still staring out the window. “But Sophie was actually born out there.”

“Was that why your father asked me if I had any medical training?”

“Oh God,” she sighed, holding a hand to her head. “We have a nurse who lives with us while we’re there. He appointed her himself. And the doctor is ten minutes down the road.”

“That’s what your father’s private secretary said.”

“Don’t let anything that he said worry you too much. You wouldn’t have been appointed to the position if there was a sizable doubt in his head about you. He doesn’t let anyone around us that hasn’t been heavily vetted,” she added with a note of attitude.

“I’m supposed to check in with Mr. Bates every Friday morning, after breakfast,” Bradley told her, causing her to raise an eyebrow.

“Only once a week? That’s a note of high praise.”

“Is it?”

“He made some in a similar position to yours check in every day. Of course, that was when Prime Minister Cain was in charge. My father trusts Tom Kazansky’s opinion with his life. And his daughters.”

“Many do, I would think.”

“How do you know the Prime Minister?” Alexandra asked Bradley, who shifted in his seat.

“My uncle knows him. Peter Mitchell. Though I grew up calling him ‘Mav’ and the Prime Minister ‘Ice.’ Those were nicknames that they received in the war. They were very close and so I sort of grew up around the Prime Minister.”

“It helps that you’re in the Navy too. My father goes on and on about his Navy days to us. He misses it terribly, though not the war. The comradery of it.” Alexandra looked away from Bradley and stared ahead. “It’s very lonely at the top.”

“I can only imagine,” he replied softly.

Alexandra turned back to him and the two locked eyes for a moment. There seemed to be a measure of curiosity on both sides before the driver broke the moment and announced that they arrived at the station.

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logi1974 · 2 years ago

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Südengland 2023 - Tag 11 Teil 2

Ladies and Gentlemen!

Der Lower Ward von Windsor Castle befindet sich direkt westlich des Round Tower. Man geht durch das Normannen Tor, und ist in zwei Bereiche unterteilt.

Das College of St.George, bestehend aus Residenzen für den Dekan und die Kanoniker von Windsor im nördlichen Teil und die historische St.Georg’s Kapelle im südlichen Teil des Lower Ward.

Schon von weitem können wir auch hier wieder die Menschenschlangen sehen, die alle anstehen und in die Kirche wollen.

Die erste Kapelle ließ König Heinrich III. im frühen 13. Jahrhundert bauen. 1475 entschied sich dann König Eduard IV., eine neue, größere Kapelle zu errichten. Die Bauarbeiten zogen sich allerdings über fünf Jahrzehnte hin, so dass die Kirche bis 1528 lange ohne Dach blieb.

In hellem Sandstein gebaut, mit großen Fenstern und verzierten Strebebögen, gilt die Kapelle als eine der bedeutendsten spätgotischen Kirchen weltweit.

Der sogenannte "Perpendicular Style" mit seiner strengen horizontalen und vertikalen Linienführung, mit erstaunlichen Details und einer atemberaubenden Steindecke, war typisch für englische Kathedralen in jener Zeit.

Sie ist eines der besten Beispiele für gotische Architektur in England. Seit ihrer Erbauung wurden verschiedene Ergänzungen vorgenommen.

Leider sind hier nicht nur wieder die Schlangen enorm, sondern es gilt ebenfalls wieder ein Fotografierverbot. Deshalb auch hier wieder Bilder aus der Broschüre.

Im Inneren der Kirche fällt besonders das prächtig geschnitzte Chorgestühl aus Eiche für die Ritter des Hosenbandordens auf. Über ihren Sitzplätzen hängen die Banner der aktuellen Mitglieder, sowie die Wappenschilde von über 700 früheren Mitgliedern des Ordens.

Die St. George's Chapel dient den Rittern des Hosenbandordens für ihre Zeremonien. Dabei geht der Name der Kapelle auf den militärischen und nationalen Schutzheiligen George zurück. Insbesondere im 19. Jahrhundert gab es, unter König George IV, immer wieder umfassende Renovierungsarbeiten, dabei wurde auch die königliche Gruft errichtet.

Die Privatkapelle ist aufwändig, in einer ziemlich überwältigenden Mischung aus klassischem, gotischem und Rokoko-Stil, eingerichtet. Sogar die Möbel und Einrichtungsgegenstände wurden nach Maß gefertigt, um dem großen Renovierungsplan zu entsprechen. Die Räume wurden kurz vor dem Tod des Königs im Jahr 1830 fertiggestellt.

Heute ist die St. George's Chapel insgesamt 72 Meter lang. Der Name "chapel" - auf Deutsch "Kapelle" - ist da etwas irreführend, wirkt das Ganze doch eher wie eine Kathedrale.

Seit 1833 werden die Ritter des Hosenbandordens "Military Knights of Windsor" genannt. Auch Prinz Philip war Mitglied des Ordens, einer der angesehensten Orden Europas. Die Queen war die Großmeisterin und band mit diesem Orden Ritter an sich, die meistens Mitglieder anderer Königshäuser sind - ein Privileg. Der Orden tagt einmal im Jahr im Altarraum von St. George's.

Die Chapel dient auch als Mausoleum, hier sind etliche vormalige englische Monarchen bestattet. Karl I. wurde 1649 wegen Hochverrats verurteilt und im Whitehall Palace enthauptet. Das Parlament ordnete an, dass er ohne Prunk und Trubel beigesetzt werden sollte. Sein Leichnam ruht in der Gruft mit Henry VIII. Weitere Mitglieder der königlichen Familie, die hier begraben wurden, sind Edward IV., Henry VI., Henry VIII. und Jane Seymour, Edward VII. und Königin Alexandra sowie George V. und Königin Mary.

Es gibt auch zahlreiche Denkmäler zu bewundern, von denen das denkwürdigste ein Marmordenkmal von Matthew Wyatt für Prinzessin Charlotte ist, die bei der Geburt starb.

Trotz ihrer 800 Plätze ist die Kapelle eher für den kleinen, intimeren Rahmen gedacht. Die Schlossmauern von Windsor Castle hindern zudem Schaulustige daran, direkt vor den Eingang der Kirche zu treten.

Harry und Meghan haben ihre Hochzeit hier vergleichsweise klein mit 600 Gästen zelebriert. Der heutige britische König Charles III. heiratete seine zweite Frau, Camilla Parker-Bowles, die nun den Titel Queen Consort - Königsgemahlin - trägt, ohne viel Aufsehen ebenfalls in der Windsor-Kapelle.

Fast alle Trauerfeiern der britischen Königsfamilie werden in St. George's Chapel abgehalten. Hier werden auch hochrangige Familienmitglieder wie etwa George III., George VI., die "Queen Mum", sowie Margaret, die Schwester von Queen Elizabeth, bestattet. Ein historischer Ort, an dem jetzt auch Queen Elizabeth II. und Prinz Philip ruhen.

Und zwar in der King George VI. Memorial Chapel. Dort ist die Grabplatte von Queen Elizabeth und Prinz Philip zu sehen. Der Stein besteht aus handgeschnitztem schwarzen belgischen Marmor und verkündet auch die Lebensdaten von König George VI. und Queen Mum. In der Mitte prangt das Wappen des Hosenbandordens, dem alle vier Royals angehörten. Auch die Urne von Prinzessin Margaret, der jüngeren Schwester der Queen, ist in der Seitenkapelle untergebracht.

Hier ist der Trubel natürlich besonder groß. Man kann gerade einmal 1 Sekunde auf die Grabplatte blicken, dann wird man auch schon weiter geschoben. Die Aufpasser kennen keine Gnade und ermahnen jeden Besucher streng, der sich mehr Zeit nehmen will, um seiner Königin die Aufwartung zu machen. Move- move - move ...

Etwas versteckt, hinter der St. George's Chapel befindet sich das “Tudor Viertel” aus dem 15. Jahrhundert - das 1480 erbaute Horseshoe Kloster in dem der Klerus untergebracht war. Es umfasst den Pfarrer-Chor und die Laienangestellten der Kapelle. Seit 2011 werden die Räume als Büros, Bibliothek und als Häuser für den Dekan genutzt.

Hinter dem Horseshoe Kloster befindet sich der Curfew Tower (Clock Tower), einer der noch erhaltenen Teile des Lower Ward aus dem 13. Jahrhundert. Das Innere des Turms enthält ein ehemaliges Verlies und die Ausfallpforte, einem geheimen Ausgang für die Bewohner in Zeiten der Belagerung.

Im Obergeschoss befinden sich die später (1478) aufgestellten Schlossglocken und die Schlossuhr von 1689. Das konische Dach im französischen Stil ist ein Versuch von Anthony Salvin aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, dem Turm nach dem Vorbild von Versaille etwas internationalen Glanz zu verschaffen.

Geich gegenüber liegt der Haupteingang der St. George's Chapel. Dieser ist verschlossen und wird nur zu besonderen Gelegenheiten geöffnet, zum Beispiel, wenn Prinz Harry eine gewisse Miss Meghan Markle heiratet.

Auf der Südseite des unteren Bezirks befindet sich das Tor von König Heinrich VIII., das das Wappen von Katharina von Aragon trägt und den zweiten Eingang zum Schloss bildet.

Durch dieses Tor verlassen die Tagesbesucher das Gelände wieder. Rechter Hand des Gates befindet sich die Abgabestation für den Audioguide.

Nach rund 4 1/ Stunden, die wir im Castle verbrachten, geht es auch für uns durch das Henry VIII Gate, zurück ins sprudelnde Leben von Windsor.

In einer der Seitengassen genehmigen wir uns eine Cappucino, der mit 2,80 £ sogar recht preisgünstig ausfällt.

Unten am Royal Theatre machen wir noch ein paar nette Aufnahmen, denn jetzt ist auch die Sonne rum.

Es geht zurück zum Auto und wir fahren noch einmal kurz rüber nach Old Windsor.

Und wir finden tatsächlich auch die Einfahrt zu dem Anwesen, das einem anderen König gehört. Und zwar einem König aus dem Showbiz: Sir Elton John.

Für uns geht es wirklich zurück zu unserem Appartement - uns qualmen die Socken und der Kopf raucht - und packen müssen wir auch schon wieder.

Good Night!

Angie, Micha und Mister Bunnybear (Hasenbär)

#St. George's Chapel #Windsor Castle #Schloss Windsor #Windsor #Südengland

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grandmaster-anne · 2 years ago

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Court Circular | 7th February 2023

Buckingham Palace

The King held an Investiture at Windsor Castle this morning. The following were received in audience by The King this afternoon and kissed hands upon their appointment as His Majesty’s Ambassadors: Mrs Alyson King (the Democratic Republic of the Congo) and Miss Jan Thompson (the Kingdom of Norway). Mr Ayman Jarjour was also received by His Majesty. Mrs Ailsa Terry was received in audience by The King upon her appointment as British High Commissioner to Malaysia. Mr Adam Terry was also received by His Majesty. Mrs Jane Owen was received in audience by The King and kissed hands upon her appointment as Governor of the Cayman Islands. The Queen Consort, President, this afternoon held a Reception for Duchenne UK at Clarence House.

St James’s Palace

The Earl of Wessex this morning received Mr Nicholas Pyle (Deputy Governor of Gibraltar). His Royal Highness this evening attended the New Zealand Society Waitangi Day Service in St Giles’-without-Cripplegate Church, London EC2, followed by a Reception at Girdlers’ Hall, Basinghall Avenue, London EC2. The Countess of Wessex this morning attended The Countess of Wessex Cup between Royal Air Force Wittering, 5th Battalion The Rifles, Royal Corps of Army Music, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps, The Lincoln and Welland Regiment and The Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers of which Her Royal Highness is Honorary Air Commodore, Royal Honorary Colonel, Colonel-in-Chief, Colonel-in-Chief, Colonel-in-Chief and Colonel-in-Chief respectively, at the Royal Corps of Army Music, Gibraltar Barracks, Minley, and was received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire (Mr Nigel Atkinson).

St James’s Palace

The Princess Royal, Perpetual Master, the Worshipful Company of Saddlers, this morning attended the National Saddlery Competition Showcase at Saddlers Hall, 40 Gutter Lane, London EC2. Her Royal Highness, Commandant-in-Chief (Youth), St John Ambulance, this afternoon held a Young Achievers’ Reception at Buckingham Palace. The Princess Royal, Patron, Royal National Children’s SpringBoard Foundation, later attended a Reception at Westminster School, Dean’s Yard, London SW1. Her Royal Highness, Royal Fellow, the Royal Academy of Engineering, this evening attended The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Reception at Prince Philip House, 3 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1, and was received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London (Sir Kenneth Olisa).

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readingonpluto · 2 years ago

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If you like ___ then read ___ - Studio Ghibli Edition

No, I am not giving any context :)

Howl’s Moving Castle

Sorcery of Thorns by Margret Rogerson

Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones

Castle in the Sky

Starflight by Melissa Landers

To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo

Truthwitch by Susan Dennard

Grave of the Fireflies

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Cat Returns

The Cat Who Saved Books by Louise Heal Kawai

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Kiki’s Delivery Service

We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry

The Ex Hex by Rachel Hawkins

Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker

My Neighbour Totoro

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

The Wind in the Willow by Kenneth Grahame

Fairy Tale: A True Story by Monica Kulling

Spirited Away

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud

Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins

Princess Mononoke

The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh

Only Yesterday

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret World of Arrietty

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

Wild Beauty by Anna Marie McLemore

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

When Marnie Was There

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

When the Butterflies Came by Kimberley Griffiths Little

Ponyo

Between the Lines by Samantha Van Leer & Jodi Picoult

Fathomless by Jackson Pearce

Midnight Pearls by Debbie Viguie

The Wind Rises

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

From Up on Poppy Hill

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

Better Together by Christine Riccio

Wonder by R.J. Palacio

Porco Rosso

We Hunt the Flames by Hafsah Faizal

The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi

Biggles the Camels are Coming by W.E. Johns

Whisper of the Heart

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

The Upside to Unrequited by Becky Albertalli

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

The Last Namsara by Kristen Ciccarelli

Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton

The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

Pom Poko

Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Adam Douglas

#book recommendations #studio ghilibi #if you like this try this #books #Books and Literature

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23 Books in 2023

[2022]

Finished

Loved / reread / read

The Vegetarian by Han Kang (12/29/22 - 1/4/23)

The Defining Decade by Meg Jay (1/5)

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu (1/6)

Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim (1/6-1/8)

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (1/5-1/11)

Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries #5) by Martha Wells (1/4-1/19)

The Goddess Chronicle by Natsuo Kirino (12/27–1/19)

Swan Dive by Georgina Pazcoguin (1/19)

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (1/24-2/3)

Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull & Amy Wallace (1/20–2/9)

I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown (3/4)

Once Upon a Marquess by Courtney Milan (3/1-3/10)

This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch by Tabitha Carvan (4/4)

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (4/23)

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin (finished 4/29)

Nuclear Family by Joseph Han (4/27- 5/3)

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula LeGuin (4/30-5/9)

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (reread, started est. bigolas dickolas saga & finished 5/25)

The Devil Comes Courting by Courtney Milan (5/11-5/26)

Life Mask by Emma Donoghue (5/27-5/30)

Lady of the Camelias by Alexandre Dumas, fils (reread, 5/14-6/4)

My Not-So-Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella (6/4-6/6)

The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery (6/6-6/7)

Shakespeare Saved My Life by Laura Bates (6/7-6/11)

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin (6/4-6/18)

Love is a Mixtape by Rob Sheffield (6/14-6/21)

Beauty by Robin McKinley (reread, 6/22-6/24)

Geisha: A Life by Mineko Iwasaki (6/26-6/28)

A Lady of Persuasion by Tessa Dare (6/29-6/30)

Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuinston (6/30)

The Duke Who Didn’t by Courtney Milan (reread, 7/1-7/3)

Any Duchess Will Do by Tessa Dare (6/30-7/4)

Yellowface by R. F. Kuang (7/3)

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (7/10)

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (7/18)

Persuasion by Jane Austen (7/14-7/22)

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett (reread, 7/21)

Burnout by Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA (7/23-7/24)

Mao’s Last Dancer by Li Cunxin (7/3-7/24)

The Red Palace by June Hur (7/26-8/2)

The Farthest Shore by Ursula LeGuin (8/1-8/15)

Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett

The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg

The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King (9/2-9/3)

Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (9/3-9/4)

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor (9/22-9/27)

A Mathematician’s Lament by Paul Lockhart (9/23-9/28)

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou (9/28-9/29)

Days of Distraction by Alexandra Chang (9/27-10/02)

Foreverland by Heather Havrilesky (10/03)

Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee (10/21)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (finished 10/27)

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up / Spark Joy by Marie Kondo (11/15-11/18)

Raise Your Voice by Kathy Khang (11/28)

The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly by Margareta Magnusson (12/5-12/6)

The Art of Discarding by Nagisa Tatsumi (12/5-12/7)

The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson (12/11)

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (12/17-12/24)

The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis (12/28-12/31)

Ongoing

The Worst Journey in the World: The Graphic Novel by Sarah Airriess (1/17–)

Lord of the Rings (via LOTR Newsletter)

DNF

Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel (12/28–1/12)

Astray by Emma Donoghue (1/4-1/13)

Time Squared by Lesley Krueger (2/10)

Mambo in Chinatown by Jean Kwok (3/18-3/19)

Density rhapsody lmao (4/4-4/18)

Madly deeply alan rickman (4/19-4/20)

Be the bridge (4/20)

The dead romantics (4/20)

Bronze drum (5/1)

This is how augusten burroughs (5/3)

Tastes like war grace m cho (5/4)

The duchess war courtney Milan (5/11)

The calculating stars mary robinette kowal (5/11)

Frugal wizard brandon sanderson

Fool moon jim butcher (5/21)

Vladimir julia may jonas (5/29)

Light from uncommon stars (6/11)

The spy who came in from the cold by john lecarre (6/25, try again later)

How not to be wrong by jordan ellenberg (6/29)

The great derangement by amitav ghosh (7/28)

i keep my exoskeletons to myself by marisa crane (9/16)

the key to rebecca by ken follet (10/03. not even tim downie can rescue this)

Frostblood by Ely Blake (11/something - 12/11)

Too Like The Lightning by Ada Palmer (12/17. wanted to love it though)

The expatriates by janice yk lee (12/27)

#emerald reads #new year new books!#emerald speaks

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Every book I’ve ever read (not including short stories or comics, not necessarily a recommendation list)

1. Mosquitoland by David Arnold

2. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

4. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

5. The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks

6. The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

7. The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

8. Seeing Redd by Frank Beddor

9. The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

10. The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall

11. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

12. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

13. The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites by Zac Brewer

14. The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Ninth Grade Slays by Zac Brewer

15. The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Tenth Grade Bleeds by Zac Brewer

16. The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eleventh Grade Burns by Zac Brewer

17. The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Twelfth Grade Kills by Zac Brewer

18. No Flying in the House by Betty Brock

19. Wish by Alexandra Bullen

20. Skeleton Creek by Patrick Carman

21. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll

22. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Caroll

23. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

24. The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary

25. Little Bee by Chris Cleave

26. Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements

27. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

28. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

29. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

30. Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton

31. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

32. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

33. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

34. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupêry

35. No and Me by Delphine de Vigan

36. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo

37. The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo

38. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

39. The Brotherhood of the Conch: The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming by Chitra Banarjee Divakaruni

40. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

41. The Kind of Friends We Used to Be by Frances O’Rourke Dowell

42. Where I’d Like to Be by Frances O’Roark Dowell

43. Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan

44. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

45. Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic

46. Who Is Stealing the Twelve Days of Christmas? by Martha Freeman

47. Coraline by Neil Gaiman

48. Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman

49. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

50. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

51. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Green

52. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

53. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

54. Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey by Margaret Peterson Haddix

55. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

56. Princess Academy by Shannon Hale

57. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

58. How to Steal a Car by Pete Hautman

59. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

60. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

61. Brooklyn Bridge by Karen Hesse

62. Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

63. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson-Burnett

64. The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson-Burnett

65. Lemonade Mouth by Mark Peter Hughes

66. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

67. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

68. The First Last Part by Angela Johnson

69. Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones

70. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

71. The Shining by Stephen King

72. Carrie by Stephen King

73. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

74. A Separate Peace by John Knowles

75. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

76. Fairy Tale: A True Story by Monica Kulling

77. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

78. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

79. The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis

80. The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis

81. Every Day by David Leviathan

82. Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg by Gail Carson Levine

83. Fairest by Gail Carson Levine

84. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

85. The Call of the Wild by Jack London

86. The Giver by Lois Lowry

87. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

88. Eyes Like Stars by Lisa Mantchev

89. Perchance to Dream by Lisa Mantchev

90. Daniel’s Story by Carol Matas

91. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

92. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

93. The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne

94. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

95. Girls Rule by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

96. The New York Grimpendium by J.W. Ocker

97. 1984 by George Orwell

98. Animal Farm by George Orwell

99. Willa by Heart by Coleen Murtagh Paratore

100. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

101. Witch and Wizard: The Gift by James Patterson

102. Witch and Wizard by James Patterson and Cate Tiernan

103. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

104. Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce

105. Ripper by Stefan Petrucha

106. Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick

107. Anthem by Ayn Rand

108. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

109. Emily the Strange: Lost, Dark, and Bored by Rob Reger

110. Across the Universe by Beth Revis

111. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

112. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

113. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan

114. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan

115. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

116. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

117. The Kane Chronicles: The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan

118. The Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan

119. Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan

120. Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

121. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

122. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

123. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

124. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

125. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

126. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

127. The Tales of Beadle the Bard by J.K. Rowling

128. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

129. The Teashop Girls by Laura Schaefer

130. Princess From Another Planet by Mindy Schanback

131. It’s Raining Cupcakes by Lisa Schroeder

132. Pretty Little Liars: Book One by Sara Shepard

133. The War with Grandpa by Robert Kimmel Smith

134. Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli

135. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

136. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

137. Dracula by Bram Stoker

138. Museum of Thieves by Lian Tanner

139. Killer Pizza by Greg Taylor

140. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

141. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente

142. It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

143. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

144. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

145. Ghost Hotel by Lawrence Weinberg

146. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

147. Who Censored Roger Rabbit by Gary K. Wolf

148. The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic by Allan Wolf

149. Christina’s Ghost by Betty Ren Wright

150. The Gates of Evangeline by Hester Young

151. Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks (12/9/16)

152. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (12/27/16)

153. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (2/7/17)

154. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (4/27/17)

155. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (5/15/2017)

156. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (1/04/18)

157. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (1/10/18)

158. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (3/9/18)

159. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (11/1/2018)

160. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (11/14/2018)

161. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (2/14/2019)

162. Forrest Gump by Winston Groom (3/6/19)

163. The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara (3/27/19)

164. Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden (4/4/19)

165. Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck (4/9/19)

166. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (4/13/19)

167. We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach (4/17/19)

168. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (7/12/19)

169. Matilda by Roald Dahl (8/7/19)

170. The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens (8/8/19)

171. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (8/21/19)

172. The Tea Girl from Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See (8/24/19)

173. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron (9/13/19)

174. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (9/26/19)

175. The Quiet American by Graham Greene (10/22/19)

176. The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1/2/20)

177. The Fuck-Up by Arthur Nersesian (1/30/20)

178. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (3/17/20)

179. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (7/26/20)

180. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne by Ann Radcliffe (9/13/20)

181. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (9/29/20)

182. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (11/15/20)

183. If You Follow Me by Malena Watrous (12/26/20)

184. My Ántonia by Willa Cather (1/9/21)

185. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1/13/21)

186. Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (1/17/21)

187. Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao (1/28/21)

188. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (2/1/21)

189. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (2/14/21)

190. American Son by Brian Ascalon Roley (2/22/21)

191. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (2/18/21)

192. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (4/14/21)

193. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (4/20/21)

194. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (5/4/21)

195. The Little Friend by Donna Tartt (7/7/21)

196. Half-Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls (11/29/21)

197. The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls (12/13/21)

198. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (7/22/22)

199. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brönte (9/2/22)

200. Persuasion by Jane Austen (10/14/22)

201. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (10/22/22)

202. King Lear by William Shakespeare (10/28/22)

203. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (11/3/22)

204. The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle (11/5/22)

205. The Awakening by Kate Chopin (11/19/22)

206. No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai (11/27/22)

207. Rebecca by Daphne Du Marier (12/2/22)

208. Sense and Sensibility (12/23/22)

209. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1/13/23)

210. The Tempest by William Shakespeare (1/18/23)

211. Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare (1/26/23)

212. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass (1/31/23)

213. Othello by William Shakespeare (2/5/23)

214. Girl, Interrupted by Susana Kaysen (2/27/23)

215. Hag-seed by Margaret Atwood (3/2/23)

216. Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction by Robert J. C. Young (3/5/23)

217. Cuban Refugees: Cuban Roots, American Freedoms by Deborah Kent (3/21/23)

218. Frida Kahlo by Hettie Judah (4/5/23)

219. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (4/15/23)

220. Beloved by Toni Morrison (5/28/23)

221. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (6/12/23)

222. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (6/30/23)

223. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (7/21/23)

224. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (7/24/23)

225. The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang (7/28/23)

226. Never Broken: Songs are Only Half the Story by Jewel (8/6/23)

227. A Therapeutic Atlas by The School of Life (8/18/23)

228. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (8/22/23)

229. The Vietnam War, 1945–1975 by New-York Historical Society (8/23/23)

230. White Fang by Jack London (8/30/23)

231. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (8/31/23)

232. Austral by Carlos Fonseca (10/2/23)

233. The Dreamkeepers by Gloria Ladson-Billings (10/4/23)

234. Emma by Jane Austen (10/13/23)

235. The Monk by Matthew Lewis (11/3/23)

236. Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett 2/11/24

237. Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya 3/5/24

238. Never Grow Up by Jackie Chan with Zhu Mo 3/14/24

239. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 3/27/24

240. The Third Wedding Wreath by Costas Taktsis 4/25/24

241. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 7/3/24

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Aout MMXXIV

Films

Le Gendarme en balade (1970) de Jean Girault avec Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Jean Lefebvre, Christian Marin, Guy Grosso, Michel Modo, Claude Gensac, France Rumilly, Nicole Vervil et Dominique Davray

Ali (2001) de Michael Mann avec Will Smith, Jon Voight, Jamie Foxx, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver, Jeffrey Wright et Nona Gaye

Les Enchaînés (Notorious) (1946) d'Alfred Hitchcock avec Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin et Reinhold Schünzel

Lettre d'une inconnue (Letter from an Unknown Woman) (1948) de Max Ophüls avec Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Art Smith, Leo B. Pessin, Marcel Journet, Mady Christians, Howard Freeman et Sonja Bryden

Lucky Jo (1964) de Michel Deville avec Eddie Constantine, Pierre Brasseur, Françoise Arnoul, Georges Wilson, Christiane Minazzoli, Claude Brasseur, Jean-Pierre Darras et André Cellier

Borg McEnroe (2017) de Janus Metz Pedersen avec Sverrir Gudnason, Shia LaBeouf, Stellan Skarsgård, Tuva Novotny, Scott Arthur, Robert Emms et David Bamber

La Vérité (1960) de Henri-Georges Clouzot avec Brigitte Bardot, Sami Frey, Marie-José Nat, Charles Vanel, Paul Meurisse, Louis Seigner, René Blancard et Colette Castel

Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) de Zack Snyder avec Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Ray Fisher, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jeremy Irons et Diane Lane

La Chèvre (1981) de Francis Veber avec Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Robin, Corynne Charby, André Valardy, Pedro Armendáriz Jr. et Jorge Luke

Piège de cristal (Die Hard) (1988) de John McTiernan avec Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, Paul Gleason et William Atherton

Le Samouraï (1967) de Jean-Pierre Melville avec Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier, Jacques Leroy et Jacques Deschamps

La Piscine (1969) de Jacques Deray avec Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin, Paul Crauchet, Suzie Jaspard et Steve Eckart

Forfaiture (1937) de Marcel L'Herbier avec Louis Jouvet, Lise Delamare, Ève Francis, Sylvia Bataille, Victor Francen, Sessue Hayakawa et Lucas Gridoux

The Batman (2022) de Matt Reeves avec Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell, John Turturro, Andy Serkis

Plein Soleil (1960) de René Clément avec Alain Delon, Marie Laforêt, Maurice Ronet, Erno Crisa, Elvire Popesco, Frank Latimore et Billy Kearns

58 Minutes pour vivre (Die Hard 2) (1990) de Renny Harlin avec Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Sadler, Dennis Franz, Franco Nero, William Atherton, Reginald VelJohnson, Fred Thompson, Art Evans, John Amos, Tom Bower et Sheila McCarthy

Mort d'un pourri (1977) de Georges Lautner avec Alain Delon, Ornella Muti, Stéphane Audran, Mireille Darc, Maurice Ronet, Michel Aumont, Jean Bouise, Daniel Ceccaldi, Julien Guiomar et Klaus Kinski

The Layover (2017) de William H. Macy avec Alexandra Daddario, Kate Upton, Matt Barr, Matt L. Jones, Rob Corddry, Kal Penn et Molly Shannon

Une journée en enfer (Die Hard with a Vengeance) (1995) de John McTiernan avec Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L. Jackson, Larry Bryggman, Graham Greene et Colleen Camp

Séries

Le Coffre à Catch

#179 : Le festival de Kane ! - #180 : Jack Swagger repasse par la ECW ! - #181 : Les adieux de Tommy Dreamer (Colby en fil rouge) - #182 : Bret et Shawn font la paix et on termine le Homecoming!

Castle Saison 7

Sans relâche - Montréal - Une force invisible - Un problème enfantin - Un buzz foudroyant - De parfaits inconnus - Les Mystères de l'Ouest - Chevalier blanc - Action! - Un Noël dans la mafia - Castle, détective privé - L'affaire est dans le sac - Devant mes yeux - Résurrection - Règlement de comptes

The Durrells : une famille anglaise à Corfou Saison 3, 4

Episode 1 - Episode 2 - Episode 3 - Episode 4 - Episode 5 - Episode 6 - Episode 7 - Episode 8 - Episode 1 - Episode 2 - Episode 3 - Episode 4 - Episode 5 - Episode 6

Biography: WWE Legends Saison 3

Paige - Yokozuna

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

Le Prisonnier du château d'If - Le Revenant - Les Scélérats - La Vengeance

Maguy Saison 7

Suzanne désespérément - OPA comique - Hallali conjugal - Qui l'eût "crue" ? - Dernier de Corday - La mégère à prix Boissier - Absence unique - Un monde chou, chou, chou - Flamme fatale - Le déchargé de mission - Ice-cream et châtiment - L'âge de déraison - Un ome peut en cacher un autre - Maguy rock - Direction assistée - La vie en roses - Le bazar et la nécessité - Le salaire du rappeur - Pas commode d'emploi - Maguyvaudages - Sauve qui puce - SOS vampires - Il est 5 heures, Maguy s'éveille - Certains l'aiment faux

Commissaire Moulin Saison 1

Petite Hantise - Cent mille soleils - Affectation spéciale

Commissaire Dupin

Une famille endeuillée - La morte rose

Affaires sensibles

Bambi, vedette de cabaret et femme ordinaire - Simone Weber, "la diabolique de Nancy"

Spectacles

Adele at the BBC (2015)

ABBA : Live at Wembley Arena (1979)

Bénabar : Live au Grand Rex (2004)

Eddy Mitchell : Ma dernière séance (2011) à l'Olympia

Livres

Les Disparus de Trégastel de Jean-Luc Bannalec

Nota Bene, tome 6 : La Vie au Moyen Âge de Benjamin Brillaud, Phil Castaza, Christian Paty et Mathieu Mariolle

Les Schtroumpfs, tome 11 : Les Schtroumpfs olympiques de Peyo

Astérix, tome 12 : Astérix aux jeux Olympiques de René Goscinny et Albert Uderzo

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leifgrandeduchesse · 2 years ago

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Alexandra, Princess of Wales, Colonel the Honourable Oliver Montagu and Prince Albert Victor photographed in Scotland, 1876.

'Oliver Montagu came', a very distinguished visitor wrote from Dunrobin Castle in 1876, 'his devotion to the Princess is a proof of a loyal friendship, as well as of a romantic and chivalrous devotion to a good and beautiful woman.'

Queen Alexandra by G. Arthur

[...] One of the guests was Oliver Montagu, whom Bertie had appointed equerry. Alix described him to Minnie as 'my good friend O'. She was still endearingly loyal to 'my Bertie', but she had come to depend on Montagu's companionship. Outwardly loud and bumptious, Montagu had a softer, religious side, and he became Alix's devoted admirer. To conduct a platonic flirtation with a gallant officer, a cavalier whom she always danced the first after-dinner valse, made her feel adored without being threatened.

Bertie: a life of Edward VII by Jane Ridley

Alix seems to have found some consolation in the support of Oliver Montagu. The gallant Montagu, Lady Antrim recalled, 'shielded her in every way, not least from his own great love, and managed to defeat gossip. Oliver Montagu was looked upon with awe by the young as he sauntered into a ballroom, regardless of anything but his beautiful Princess, who as a matter of course always danced the first after-supper waltz with him. But she remained marvellously circumspect.'

Bertie: a life of Edward VII by Jane Ridley

Royal Collection Trust / © His Majesty King Charles III 2022

#queen alexandra #</3

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fictionadventurer · 2 years ago

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Hello! I was just wondering what your favorite books are. I noticed that you seem to post about books I really like but no one around me has ever read (like The Blue Castle), so I was just curious if we had other book favorites in common!

Sincerely,

Sirius:)

I don't know if I can narrow it down to a top 20 or anything, but I can provide a list of a few of my favorite authors and the books of their I most love. My taste isn't terribly obscure--most of the more obscure books were recommended to me by people here on tumblr--so it's likely we share several favorites.

Jane Austen: Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, The Watsons, Emma, Lady Susan, Sense and Sensibility (Bonus: Sanditon, completed by Marie Dobbs)

Wendell Berry: Bringing It to the Table: Writings on Farming and Food

G.K. Chesterton: Orthodoxy, Manalive, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, Tremendous Trifles, The Innocence of Father Brown, The Wisdom of Father Brown

Nina Clare: Beau Brown

Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay

Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White

Allie Condie: Matched

Kenley Davidson: Goldheart, The Countess and the Frog

Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations

Heather Dixon: Entwined

Regina Doman: The Shadow of the Bear, Black as Night, Waking Rose, The Midnight Dancers, Alex O'Donnell and the 40 Cyberthieves, Rapunzel Let Down

Tim Downs: Shoofly Pie, Less Than Dead

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Amanda Dykes: Yours is the Night

Elizabeth Gaskell: Wives and Daughters, North and South, Cranford, My Lady Ludlow

Jean Craighead George: The Tarantula in My Purse

Rumer Godden: The Kitchen Madonna

Elizabeth Goudge: Pilgrim's Inn/The Herb of Grace

Ben Hatke: Zita the Spacegirl

Georgette Heyer: A Civil Contract, The Grand Sophy, The Talisman Ring

Caryll Houselander: The Reed of God

Gail Carson Levine: Ella Enchanted

C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia, but especially The Silver Chair and The Magician's Nephew; A Grief Observed, Surprised by Joy, The Problem of Pain

Therese of Lisieux: Story of a Soul

George Macdonald: The Light Princess

Emily B. Martin: Woodwalker

Robert K. Massie: Nicholas and Alexandra

C.J. Milbrandt: Meadowsweet, Harrow and Rakefang

L.M. Montgomery: The Anne of Green Gables series, especially Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne's House of Dreams, and Rilla of Ingleside; The Blue Castle; Jane of Lantern Hill

Pope Pius VI: "Humanae Vitae"

Mollie E. Reeder: The Electrical Menagerie

Kate Stradling: Brine and Bone

Dorothy L. Sayers: The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, but especially The Nine Tailors, Gaudy Night, and Murder Must Advertise; The Man Born to Be King, The Mind of the Maker, Creed or Chaos?

Noel Streatfeild: Skating Shoes, Traveling Shoes, Ballet Shoes

Emily Stimpson: These Beautiful Bones, The Catholic Table

Matthew Stover: Novelization of The Revenge of the Sith

Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time

Meriol Trevor: The Crystal Snowstorm, Following the Phoenix, Angel and Dragon

J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Letters from Father Christmas

John R. Tunis: The Kid from Tomkinsville, The Kid Comes Back

Megan Whalen Turner: The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings

Jules Verne: Around the World in 80 Days

Maisie Ward: Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Little House on the Prairie series

P.G. Wodehouse: The Psmith series: Mike and Psmith, Psmith in the City, Psmith Journalist and Leave It to Psmith

#answered asks #books #siriusfan13 #naturally some of these are more 'favorite' than 'good'#and some i haven't read in a long while #but this is most of the ones that were important to me and that i think have held up #throw on the american girl books too cuz i think they hold up but i'm too lazy to look up authors #and mr. popper's penguins which was a staple of my childhood #i would have put it on there but it would have started the list which felt wrong

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shadowworldwanderers · 2 years ago

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Masterlist

Stories on AO3

Old Intros

Introductory Pages:

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Sunny ‘Rose’ Sonnshine

Lilah Reed Nyx Bloom Chuck Dourif Helena Reese Matheson-Adjacent Babies: Emilie Mayson Adelaide Dean Deanna Louis Ellie Sutton Marisol Swinton Delilah Symonds

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Jessike ‘Sike’ Logan Elvie Ellory Cassidy Cole Elen Ellis Carlie/Carl Connor Essie Ellory Jenni Oriel Jessamyn ‘Jess’ Oriel Jessika ‘Sika’ Oriel Josie Oriel Jodie Oriel Jazz Oriel Jemima ‘Jem’ Oriel Jemma Oriel Jade Oriel Jasmine ‘Mina’ Oriel Jo Oriel Janine Oriel Juliet Oriel Coralee ‘Cora’ Matthews Millie Meadows Joey Jackson Josh Jackson Gia Wolfe Darla Wolfe Arlene Wolfe Brigitta Wolfe Donna Amato Gina Amato Jeanne Amato Aria Amato Willow Amato Carla Amato Fiona Amato Fiamma Amato Isla Amato Inga Amato Anton Allegro Vincenzo Lombardi Solina Ramirez Lolita Sanchez Marisol Espinoza Jodeyne Morrison Ellory Masterson

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Joelle ‘Joey’ Sink Jessica Mae Faust Ginny & Joey Brixton-Masters Honey & Jake Brixton-Masters Katie Fine River Swallows Roan Swallows Reese Swallows Shadow World Babies: Angelike Kirk Eliana Olivier Marisol ‘Sunshine’ Corazon Annabella Sciorra Gianna Fioretti Rhiannon Ellis Cara Sutton Kat Trellis Kimber Bell Marisol Lees Ria Leigh Delilah Daae Hanna Weiss Mindie Swallows Kismet Christian Juliette Loomis Vanessa Myers Arielle Sea Ellie Dewey Lace Belle Esme Innocent Katie Rollins Cherie ‘Cherry’ Garcia Jessie Wolfe Erin Willows Suzannah Davies Emilia Loss Melanie Jeffries Meredith Greylek Kelly Greylek (No relation to Meredith) Cassidy Rubirosa Candice Banks Kendra Copper Ariadne Todd Desdemona Hex Raven Rose Candace ‘Candy’ Caine Angelina Haven Mina Schiff Callie Dennis Esme Ross Susanna Johnson Consuela ‘Connie’ Sanders Raffaela ‘Raffi’ Angeles Ariel Warton Syren Sirena Hela Helios Anne Dread Rose Rayes Hope Evans Faith Hopkins Elizabeth ‘Eliza’ Eames-Olivet Alexandria ‘Alex’ Eames-Olivet April Dawson June May May Engel Augusta Haim Billy Wolfe Savannah Stanley Stanley Cyprus Kellie Cyrano Bella Wolfe Mina Marston Nadiya Corazon Annalise Sciorra Samantha Southhall Amelia Borstein Elena Greenwood Elizabeth Preston Suella Randall Marienne Rubirosa Lilith Morningstar Saralee Rayes Destiny Dracula Martha Curatola Solina Dracula

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Lady Liandrin MacBeth Juliet MacIntosh John-Ross Croft Annchi ‘Angie’ Croft Morgana Addams Angeline ‘Angel’ Verna Lane Eulalie Tamerlane Poe

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"Or any landmark place with iconic look related nature not openly presidental history?"

First, most of our natural parks -- Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Sequoias/Redwoods, Badlands, etc. -- are all in the west/midwest and not very easy for people to get to in an eco-friendly place. Almost all of our natural areas require long car rides or planes (or both). That said, here are a few off the top of my head:

Our most iconic natural landmark is Grand Canyon, but it's practically the middle of nowhere and not an easy place to get to (see comment above).

Central Park (in NYC) - they could hold the ceremony at the Belvedere Castle or at the Jackie Kennedy Onassis Reservoir

Niagara Falls - bonus points for this one if Will and Kate pair it with a Canada tour as they can be on the Canadian side while the prizes are held on the US side. Though most of the event venues seem to be hotel ballrooms (which isn't as glamorous as the Alexandra Palace) but wouldn't it be neat if the whole thing was done on one of the boats with the falls as the backdrop?

Florida Everglades

Mount St. Helens in Washington (easily accessible from Vancouver if there's a Canadian tour)

But there are also several cities along the East Coast so endangered by rising oceans due to climate change they're expected to be gone by 2100. The Earthshot Council might give these places more weight so they can raise attention to the harmful effects of climate change:

Boston

Manhattan

Miami

New Orleans

Charleston

All signs point to Boston or NYC because they're also transportation hubs, making it easier for people to get there. Not only that, Boston and NYC make it easy for performers and presenters to "offset" a trip to Earthshot with other business in NYC.

I am wary of the event being in DC. 2022 is the midterm elections so it's going to be a very political fall with a lot of sniping. Earthshot has to avoid politics to be a sustainable long-term effort so I can't see William wanting to get pulled into the muck. (And we Americans cam/will always make everything political.) So if it is held here in DC, there should be no politics at all - no Presidents, no First Ladies, no one currently sitting in Congress or serving in the Cabinet. We don't have an "elder statesman" not affiliated with politics in any way, like David Attenborough, who could be the face of this movement in the US. The only people I can think of are Jeff Corwin, because I used to watch his nature shows all the time growing up, and Morgan Freeman, because he voiced the "March of the Penguins" documentary that set the standard for American nature docs. (Al Gore and Jane Fonda are too political, and Leo DiCaprio is very "do as I say, not as I do" with his private plane army.)

Thanks for this detailed analysis. I also think DC isn't an option, not just because it's an election year, but because there is no way that a future King of the UK would host such a high profile event at the seat of the American democracy.

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nellygwyn · 4 years ago

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BOOK RECS

Okay, so lots of people wanted this and so, I am compiling a list of my favourite books (both fiction and non-fiction), books that I recommend you read as soon as humanly possible. In the meantime, I’ll be pinning this post to the top of my blog (once I work out how to do that lmao) so it will be accessible for old and new followers. I’m going to order this list thematically, I think, just to keep everything tidy and orderly. Of course, a lot of this list will consist of historical fiction and historical non-fiction because that’s what I read primarily and thus, that’s where my bias is, but I promise to try and spice it up just a little bit.

Favourite fiction books of all time:

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock // Imogen Hermes Gowar

Sense and Sensibility // Jane Austen

Slammerkin // Emma Donoghue

Remarkable Creatures // Tracy Chevalier

Life Mask // Emma Donoghue

His Dark Materials // Philip Pullman (this includes the follow-up series The Book of Dust)

Emma // Jane Austen

The Miniaturist // Jessie Burton

Girl, Woman, Other // Bernadine Evaristo

Jane Eyre // Charlotte Brontë

Persuasion // Jane Austen

Girl with a Pearl Earring // Tracy Chevalier

The Silent Companions // Laura Purcell

Tess of the d’Urbervilles // Thomas Hardy

Northanger Abbey // Jane Austen

The Chronicles of Narnia // C.S. Lewis

Pride and Prejudice // Jane Austen

Goodnight, Mr Tom // Michelle Magorian

The French Lieutenant’s Woman // John Fowles

The Butcher’s Hook // Janet Ellis

Mansfield Park // Jane Austen

The All Souls Trilogy // Deborah Harkness

The Railway Children // Edith Nesbit

Favourite non-fiction books of all time

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman // Robert Massie

Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King // Antonia Fraser

Madame de Pompadour // Nancy Mitford

The First Iron Lady: A Life of Caroline of Ansbach // Matthew Dennison

Black and British: A Forgotten History // David Olusoga

Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court // Lucy Worsley

Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Katherine Howard, the Fifth Wife of Henry VIII // Gareth Russell

King Charles II // Antonia Fraser

Casanova’s Women // Judith Summers

Marie Antoinette: The Journey // Antonia Fraser

Mrs. Jordan’s Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King // Claire Tomalin

Jane Austen at Home // Lucy Worsley

Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames // Lara Maiklem

The Last Royal Rebel: The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth // Anna Keay

The Marlboroughs: John and Sarah Churchill // Christopher Hibbert

Nell Gwynn: A Biography // Charles Beauclerk

Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the Primeval Monsters // Patricia Pierce

Georgian London: Into the Streets // Lucy Inglis

The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart // Sarah Fraser

Wedlock: How Georgian Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match // Wendy Moore

Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from the Stone Age to the Silver Screen // Greg Jenner

Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum // Kathryn Hughes

Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey // Nicola Tallis

Favourite books about the history of sex and/or sex work

The Origins of Sex: A History of First Sexual Revolution // Faramerz Dabhoiwala

Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris // Nina Kushner

Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore // Julie Peakman

Courtesans // Katie Hickman

The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in mid-Nineteenth Century England

Madams, Bawds, and Brothel Keepers // Fergus Linnane

The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital // Dan Cruickshank

A Curious History of Sex // Kate Lister

Sex and Punishment: 4000 Years of Judging Desire // Eric Berkowitz

Queen of the Courtesans: Fanny Murray // Barbara White

Rent Boys: A History from Ancient Times to Present // Michael Hone

Celeste // Roland Perry

Sex and the Gender Revolution // Randolph Trumbach

The Pleasure’s All Mine: A History of Perverse Sex // Julie Peakman

LGBT+ fiction I love*

The Confessions of the Fox // Jordy Rosenberg

As Meat Loves Salt // Maria Mccann

Bone China // Laura Purcell

Brideshead Revisited // Evelyn Waugh

The Confessions of Frannie Langton // Sara Collins

The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle // Neil Blackmore

Orlando // Virginia Woolf

Tipping the Velvet // Sarah Waters

She Rises // Kate Worsley

The Mercies // Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit // Jeanette Winterson

Maurice // E.M Forster

Frankisstein: A Love Story // Jeanette Winterson

If I Was Your Girl // Meredith Russo

The Well of Loneliness // Radclyffe Hall

* fyi, Life Mask and Girl, Woman, Other are also LGBT+ fiction

Classics I haven’t already mentioned (including children’s classics)

Far From the Madding Crowd // Thomas Hardy

I Capture the Castle // Dodie Smith

Vanity Fair // William Makepeace Thackeray

Wuthering Heights // Emily Brontë

The Blazing World // Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle

Murder on the Orient Express // Agatha Christie

Great Expectations // Charles Dickens

North and South // Elizabeth Gaskell

Evelina // Frances Burney

Death on the Nile // Agatha Christie

The Monk // Matthew Lewis

Frankenstein // Mary Shelley

Vilette // Charlotte Brontë

The Mayor of Casterbridge // Thomas Hardy

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall // Anne Brontë

Vile Bodies // Evelyn Waugh

Beloved // Toni Morrison

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd // Agatha Christie

The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling // Henry Fielding

A Room With a View // E.M. Forster

Silas Marner // George Eliot

Jude the Obscure // Thomas Hardy

My Man Jeeves // P.G. Wodehouse

Lady Audley’s Secret // Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Middlemarch // George Eliot

Little Women // Louisa May Alcott

Children of the New Forest // Frederick Marryat

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings // Maya Angelou

Rebecca // Daphne du Maurier

Alice in Wonderland // Lewis Carroll

The Wind in the Willows // Kenneth Grahame

Anna Karenina // Leo Tolstoy

Howard’s End // E.M. Forster

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 // Sue Townsend

Even more fiction recommendations

The Darling Strumpet // Gillian Bagwell

The Wolf Hall trilogy // Hilary Mantel

The Illumination of Ursula Flight // Anne-Marie Crowhurst

Queenie // Candace Carty-Williams

Forever Amber // Kathleen Winsor

The Corset // Laura Purcell

Love in Colour // Bolu Babalola

Artemisia // Alexandra Lapierre

Blackberry and Wild Rose // Sonia Velton

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories // Angela Carter

The Languedoc trilogy // Kate Mosse

Longbourn // Jo Baker

A Skinful of Shadows // Frances Hardinge

The Black Moth // Georgette Heyer

The Far Pavilions // M.M Kaye

The Essex Serpent // Sarah Perry

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo // Taylor Jenkins Reid

Cavalier Queen // Fiona Mountain

The Winter Palace // Eva Stachniak

Friday’s Child // Georgette Heyer

Falling Angels // Tracy Chevalier

Little // Edward Carey

Chocolat // Joanne Harris

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street // Natasha Pulley

My Sister, the Serial Killer // Oyinkan Braithwaite

The Convenient Marriage // Georgette Heyer

Katie Mulholland // Catherine Cookson

Restoration // Rose Tremain

Meat Market // Juno Dawson

Lady on the Coin // Margaret Campbell Bowes

In the Company of the Courtesan // Sarah Dunant

The Crimson Petal and the White // Michel Faber

A Place of Greater Safety // Hilary Mantel

The Little Shop of Found Things // Paula Brackston

The Improbability of Love // Hannah Rothschild

The Murder Most Unladylike series // Robin Stevens

Dark Angels // Karleen Koen

The Words in My Hand // Guinevere Glasfurd

Time’s Convert // Deborah Harkness

The Collector // John Fowles

Vivaldi’s Virgins // Barbara Quick

The Foundling // Stacey Halls

The Phantom Tree // Nicola Cornick

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle // Stuart Turton

Golden Hill // Francis Spufford

Assorted non-fiction not yet mentioned

The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World // Deborah Cadbury

The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History to the Italian Renaissance // Catherine Fletcher

All the King's Women: Love, Sex, and Politics in the life of Charles II // Derek Jackson

Mozart’s Women // Jane Glover

Scandalous Liaisons: Charles II and His Court // R.E. Pritchard

Matilda: Queen, Empress, Warrior // Catherine Hanley

Black Tudors // Miranda Kaufman

To Catch a King: Charles II's Great Escape // Charles Spencer

1666: Plague, War and Hellfire // Rebecca Rideal

Henrietta Maria: Charles I's Indomitable Queen // Alison Plowden

Catherine of Braganza: Charles II's Restoration Queen // Sarah-Beth Watkins

Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses // Helen Rappaport

Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832 // Stella Tillyard

The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir // Michael Bundock

Black London: Life Before Emancipation // Gretchen Gerzina

In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon’s Wars, 1793-1815

The King’s Mistress: Scandal, Intrigue and the True Story of the Woman who Stole the Heart of George I // Claudia Gold

Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson // Paula Byrne

The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England // Amanda Vickery

Terms and Conditions: Life in Girls’ Boarding School, 1939-1979 // Ysenda Maxtone Graham

Fanny Burney: A Biography // Claire Harman

Aphra Behn: A Secret Life // Janet Todd

The Imperial Harem: Women and the Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire // Leslie Peirce

The Fall of the House of Byron // Emily Brand

The Favourite: Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough // Ophelia Field

Night-Walking: A Nocturnal History of London // Matthew Beaumont, Will Self

Jane Austen: A Life // Claire Tomalin

Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton // Flora Fraser

Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the 18th Century // John Brewer

Henrietta Howard: King’s Mistress, Queen’s Servant // Tracy Borman

City of Beasts: How Animals Shaped Georgian London // Tom Almeroth-Williams

Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion // Anne Somerset

Charlotte Brontë: A Life // Claire Harman

Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe // Anthony Summers

Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day // Peter Ackroyd

Elizabeth I and Her Circle // Susan Doran

African Europeans: An Untold History // Olivette Otele

Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron, and Other Tangled Lives // Daisy Hay

How to Create the Perfect Wife // Wendy Moore

The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon, Duchess of Marlborough // Hugo Vickers

The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn // Eric Ives

Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy // Barbara Ehrenreich

A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie // Kathryn Harkup

Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II // Linda Porter

Female Husbands: A Trans History // Jen Manion

Ladies in Waiting: From the Tudors to the Present Day // Anne Somerset

Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country // Edward Parnell

A Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles // Ned Palmer

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine // Lindsey Fitzharris

Medieval Woman: Village Life in the Middle Ages // Ann Baer

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York // Anne de Courcy

The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc // Suzannah Lipscomb

The Daughters of the Winter Queen // Nancy Goldstone

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency // Bea Koch

Bess of Hardwick // Mary S. Lovell

The Royal Art of Poison // Eleanor Herman

The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte, and the Hanoverians // Janice Hadlow

Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football; How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment // Lee Jackson

Favourite books about current social/political issues (?? for lack of a better term)

Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power // Lola Olufemi

Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Worker Rights // Molly Smith, Juno Mac

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race // Reni Eddo-Lodge

Trans Britain: Our Journey from the Shadows // Christine Burns

Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism // Alison Phipps

Trans Like Me: A Journey For All Of Us // C.N Lester

Brit(Ish): On Race, Identity, and Belonging // Afua Hirsch

The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence, and Cultural Restitution // Dan Hicks

Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living // Jes M. Baker

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot // Mikki Kendall

Denial: Holocaust History on Trial // Deborah Lipstadt

Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape // Jessica Valenti, Jaclyn Friedman

Don’t Touch My Hair // Emma Dabiri

Sister Outsider // Audre Lorde

Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen // Amrou Al-Kadhi

Trans Power // Juno Roche

Breathe: A Letter to My Sons // Imani Perry

The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment // Amelia Gentleman

Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You // Sofie Hagen

Diaries, memoirs & letters

The Diary of a Young Girl // Anne Frank

Renia’s Diary: A Young Girl’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust // Renia Spiegel

Writing Home // Alan Bennett

The Diary of Samuel Pepys // Samuel Pepys

Histoire de Ma Vie // Giacomo Casanova

Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger // Nigel Slater

London Journal, 1762-1763 // James Boswell

The Diary of a Bookseller // Shaun Blythell

Jane Austen’s Letters // edited by Deidre la Faye

H is for Hawk // Helen Mcdonald

The Salt Path // Raynor Winn

The Glitter and the Gold // Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough

Journals and Letters // Fanny Burney

Educated // Tara Westover

Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading // Lucy Mangan

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? // Jeanette Winterson

A Dutiful Boy // Mohsin Zaidi

Secrets and Lies: The Trials of Christine Keeler // Christine Keeler

800 Years of Women’s Letters // edited by Olga Kenyon

Istanbul // Orhan Pamuk

Henry and June // Anaïs Nin

Historical romance (this is a short list because I’m still fairly new to this genre)

The Bridgerton series // Julia Quinn

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover // Sarah Mclean

Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake // Sarah Mclean

The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics // Olivia Waite

That Could Be Enough // Alyssa Cole

Unveiled // Courtney Milan

The Craft of Love // EE Ottoman

The Maiden Lane series // Elizabeth Hoyt

An Extraordinary Union // Alyssa Cole

Slightly Dangerous // Mary Balogh

Dangerous Alliance: An Austentacious Romance // Jennieke Cohen

A Fashionable Indulgence // KJ Charles

#the only categories not on here are plays and poetry #just bc this post would be even longer!#you can ask me for my favourite playwrights/poets separately tho

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juniaships · 3 years ago

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Hogwarts: The Fifth House AU

Warning: Harry Potter, Mention of persecution, child death

House Name: Equinus

The name is a portmanteau of equine and equinox. The main element is Time, corresponding with the major elements.

House Founder: Princess Mazda

A princess born to magical royalty, she possessed no powers but a strong mind and passion for learning. She housed muggles and wizards alike during the days of persecution. During the construction of Hogwarts she asked for a house made for younger muggles and squibs to make sure they weren't separated from their families. While kind, her major flaw was being too naive and failure to recognize the growing tension among her people...

House Symbol: Unicorn

The unicorn is a mythical creature said to exhibit power within its horn. Mazda loved unicorns and even has a stable of them. There are descendants of her original unicorns still roaming Hogwarts ground.

House Color: Purple

A color so expensive to make only the aristocracy could afford it. Mazda's house infamously wore purple, though the exact colors changed depending on availability. Currently it is true regal purple following the invention of cheap synthetic dye. Its secondary color is Pink; representing connection to humanity and rebelling against blood supremacy.

House Values

Strangely this house embodies all the values of the others houses, with an added twist: ethics, (ravenclaw's intelligence), humility (slytherin's ambition), forgiveness (gryffindor's bravery) and strength (hufflepuff's loyalty). On its own Equinus values growth, emotional spiritual and physical.

House Ghost

The Crying Woman

Nothing is known about her, except she haunts the castle crying for her lost children. Her face streaked with tears long dried, body frail than eggshells yet heartless spirit strong in hate. Salazar's monster got something to do with. She may represents the grief stemming from the Days of Persecution.

Location

Equinus lives in a separate building on school grounds. The dome house features gender neutral dorms for muggle and squibs students, staff chambers, laundry room, chemist lab, and computer lab. There is an underground entrance student takes to enter into Hogwarts.

Common Room

Being a house tailored for muggles the Equinus common room is the most modern of the houses. It used to have a fireplace until it was replaced by electric heaters. The common room is the largest room at the Equinus Dome. During the day it can be used freely by students of all houses for muggle studies.

Other

Famous members are fictional inventors, athletes and scientists including: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Frankenstein, Sir Greystone (grandnephew of Tarzan and Jane Porter), Galahad, & Sally Lockhart (not related to Gilderoy)

The house is most adept in modern technology, always creating new ways to keep up with magical peers.

After the Battle of Hogwarts the house absorbed what was left of Slytherin and reformed it, finally ending generations of hate

Salazar and Mazda did not get along at ALL. Even in death they still fight.

Mazda's Scepter double functions as a key, but it has been lost to time

The student leader is one of her descendants, Alexandra Mazda

The main trio of the house who I haven't created yet, will be called the Amethyst Trio.

#TW Harry Potter #Fifth House AU #Harry Potter OC #Squibs #Muggles #Muggles Know About The Wizarding World AU #House Equinus #Anti JKR #Anti JK Rowling

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SEXUALITY MASTERLIST:

Adam Mikaelson = Straight

Adelaide Crawley = Straight

Aleksandr Petrova = Straight

Alexandra Rawlins = Straight

Alexandra Thibault = Pansexual

Al’thea Corren = Straight

Allison Argent = Bisexual

Anastasia Romanova-Barnes = Bisexual

Annabeth Chase = Straight

Anna Smith = Straight

Andrea Kazanky = Bisexual (m! lean)

Anne Weying = Straight

Annie Cresta = Straight

Annika Hart = Straight

Anthony Bridgerton = Straight

Anthony Burton = Gay

Anya Jenkins = Straight

Aria Edwards= Bisexual

Ariel Shaw = Bisexual

Astraea = Pansexual

Astrid Torisdottir = Straight

Avery Osborn = Bisexual

Bailey Pritchett = Straight

Barbara Gordon = Straight

Benedict Bridgerton = Bisexual

Bexley Addams = Bisexual

Bexley Rogers = Bisexual

Blair Waldorf = Straight

Braeden = Straight

Brandon Williams = Straight

Brooke Davis = Bisexual

Bonnie Bennett = Straight

Buffy Summers = Straight

Cassie Lang = Straight

Cassie Perez = Straight

Caroline Burton = Straight

Caroline Forbes = Bisexual

Caroline Mitchell = Straight

Charlotte Hopper = Bisexual

Chrissy Cunningham = Straight

Christine Palmer = Straight

Chloe Frazer = Straight

Claire Dearing = Straight

Connor Lang = Bisexual

Cordelia Bennett = Straight

Daniel Winchester = Straight

Daphne Bridgerton = Straight

Dawn Granger = Straight

Derek Kelly = Bisexual

Donna Troy = Straight

Elisabeth Banks = Straight

Elizabeth Taylor = Straight

Eli Hale = Bisexual

Ellie Sattler = Straight

Ellinor Lokisdottir = Pansexual

Eloise Bridgerton = Straight

Emerson Panabaker = Straight

Emily Chase = Bisexual

Emily Walker = Straight

Evelyn Riley = Bisexual

Evelyn Hale = Pansexual

Felicia Hardy = Straight

Fleur Delacour = Straight

Freyja Thorsdottir = Bisexual

Geri Broussard = Straight

Georgia Scott = Bisexual

Graham Octavius = Straight

Gwen Stacy = Bisexual

Hadley Grant = Straight

Hadley Sullivan = Straight

Harry Osborn = Bisexual

Harriet Carter-Rogers = Straight

Haley James (Scott) = Bisexual

Hazel Mikaelson = Straight

Heike Zemo = Straight

Hermione Granger = Straight

Holly Harrington = Straight

Hope Van Dyne = Straight

Jade Tulle-Salvatore = Bisexual

Jeanette Byers = Bisexual

Jessica Day = Straight

Jo March = Straight

Joey Potter = Straight

Josephine Octavius = Bisexual

Jonathan Stark = Pansexual

Joyce Byers = Straight

Kassandra Mikaelson = Bisexual

Kate Sharma = Straight

Katerina Ivanov = Straight

Katherine Pierce = Straight

Kathryn Vaughn = Straight

Katniss Everdeen = Straight

Kayleigh Robbins = Lesbian

Kiara Carrera = Bisexual

Lizzie Saltzman = Bisexual

Lois Lane = Bisexual

Love Quinn = Bisexual

Lydia Henderson = Straight

Maisie Lockwood = Bisexual

Makkari = Straight

Malia Tate = Bisexual

Mara Winchester = Bisexual

Mary Crawley = Straight

Mary-Jane Watson = Bisexual

Max Mayfield = Bisexual

Melissa Masterson = Straight

Megan Walker = Bisexual

Michael Winchester = Bisexual

Nancy Wheeler = Bisexual

Natalie Lockwood = Straight

Natasha Trace = Straight

Nathan Scott = Straight

Nova Organa Solo = Straight

Ophelia Mikaelson = Bisexual

Pacey Witter = Straight

Padme Amidala = Straight

Pansy Parkinson = Bisexual

Rachel Berry = Bisexual

Ruby = Pansexual

Rosie Octavius = Straight

Sam Carpenter = Bisexual

Sam Salvatore = Bisexual

Samantha Winchester = Pansexual

Sarah Cameron = Bisexual

Sarah Stark = Bisexual

Scarlett Black = Straight

Scarlett Williams = Bisexual

Sasha Stark = Lesbian

Selina Kyle = Straight

Sharon Carter = Straight

Siena Rosso = Straight

Sidney Prescott = Straight

Sigyn = Straight

Sophia Rogers = Straight

Sophie Beckett = Straight

Stefan Mikaelson = Bisexual

Steven Stark = Straight

Stella Walker = Bisexual

Stefan Salvatore = Bisexual (f! lean)

Talia Montgomery = Straight

Tatum Riley = Straight

Tris Castle-Mikaelson = Pansexual

Twyla Jean = Straight

Quinn Fabray = Bisexual

Valentina Sanchez = Bisexual

Violet Munson = Straight

Willow Rosenberg = Bisexual (f! lean)

Yelena Belova = AroAce

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