#king charles i

[the-jewel-catalogue]

This ring, mounted with a shield-shaped diamond, belonged to Charles I when Prince of Wales and is engraved with his badge of three feathers. The reverse is enamelled with a bow and arrow, perhaps suggesting Cupid's arrow and meaning the ring was a love token.

~ RCT

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Ring with triple portrait of Charles I by Anthony Van Dyck (1635-1636).

Date: 17th century

Medium: Gold, enamel, diamond, glass

[beansontoastttt]

[hussyknee]

Somewhat put off by the spoilers I've read about Mary and George. There's no doubt nearly all relationships in the British court were some level of sordid, but King James, to all intents and purposes, had genuine feelings for his three male favourites, most especially George Villiers. He was no Henry VIII. I don't know why they wanted to reduce the most famous and open homosexual relationship in European royal history to a comedy between a "cock-struck" old lech and a conniving courtier that led him by the nose and then betrayed and murdered him.

All evidence points to George at least being loyal to James (if you discount his love letters as simply sucking up to his benefactor) and even had a fond relationship with his Queen and his son Charles. He was in fact in France when James died, and reportedly cried when he heard the news.

It's even a little heartbreaking because this is right after Nicholas Galitzine played the closeted gay Prince Henry in Red, White and Royal Blue, who in the book is proud of the open and unashamed love between his ancestor and his lover, and the way even James's son Charles I honoured Villiers for accompanying him to the Spanish Court to ask for the hand of the Infanta.

“Actually . . . you remember how I told you about the gay king, James I?”

“The one with the dumb jock boyfriend?”

“Yes, that one. Well, his most beloved favorite was a man named George Villiers. ‘The handsomest-bodied man in all of England,’ they called him. James was completely besotted. Everyone knew. This French poet, de Viau, wrote a poem about it.” He clears his throat and starts to recite: ‘One man fucks Monsieur le Grand, another fucks the Comte de Tonnerre , and it is well known that the King of England, fucks the Duke of Buckingham.’” Alex must be staring, because he adds, “Well, it rhymes in French. Anyway. Did you know the reason the King James translation of the Bible exists is because the Church of England was so displeased with James for flaunting his relationship with Villiers that he had the translation commissioned to appease them?”

“You’re kidding.”

“He stood in front of the Privy Council and said, ‘Christ had John, and I have George.’’

“Jesus.”

“Precisely.” Henry’s still looking up at the statue, but Alex can’t stop looking at him and the sly smile on his face, lost in his own thoughts. ��And James’s son, Charles I, is the reason we have dear Samson. It’s the only Giambologna that ever left Florence. He was a gift to Charles from the King of Spain, and Charles gave it, this massive, absolutely priceless masterpiece of a sculpture, to Villiers. And a few centuries later, here he is. One of the most beautiful pieces we own, and we didn’t even steal it. We only needed Villiers and his trolloping ways with the queer monarchs. To me, if there were a registry of national gay landmarks in Britain, Samson would be on it.”

Henry’s beaming like a proud parent, like Samson is his, and Alex is hit with a wave of pride in kind.

He takes his phone out and lines up a shot, Henry standing there all soft and rumpled and smiling next to one of the most exquisite works of art in the world.

“What are you doing?”

“I’m taking a picture of a national gay landmark,” Alex tells him. “And also a statue.”

Like all white liberals, Casey McQuiston tends to romanticise the crime against humanity that is royalty and also that house built by bunch of slave owners that has since housed a progression of genocidal war criminals. There's very little to like about any British monarch. But the relationship between James and Villiers is a significant part of gay history and there's no need to smear it even more than it's already been smeared the last four hundred years, contrary to the actual known facts.

Idk man. I'm sensitive to this stuff Ig. Maybe I'd be a little more positive about it if I watched it, but the trailer gave me "tee hee they're gay" vibes so Idk if I want to.

Edit: so it seems the trailer is misleading and the story is more complex than a "tee hee gay" comedy. I might watch it after all, even if the starkly visible age difference makes me a bit queasy. How tf is Galitzine nearly thirty and a babyface with those razor cheekbones?? Perfect to show how uncomfortable it looks for a middle aged man to get with a kid of twenty.

[kindercelery]

“This is mine son, he is like a beanpole; tall”

[moonbreezes]

Even more new stills????????

Baby Charles in HD you look so baby to me

And those orders of the garter yummy yummy

I smell Spanish match fits or perhaps mourning ones after the Queen Anne?

[riesenfeldcenter]

The more I look at this frontispiece (from this 1684 account of the trial of King Charles I), the more the White Lotus Season 2 opening theme song intensifies in my head.

[theothergal]

I liked Mary and George, but I think It would have been better if It had 2/3 seasons, instead of a miniserie.

George's corruption arc felt kinda rushed, especially in the last episodes. I wanted to see him get more ruthless and more influential as the time passed and I wanted to see more of his relationship with Charles and with James too (I'll never forgive them for not including the Jesus and John speech. I know, I know, this Is not a romance but COME ON!)

[brokenbluebouquet]

This is from Daniel Mytens’s Wikipedia page. I’ve always known that there was rumours about Charles and George being lovers; but i’ve never come across this claim anywhere else. I suspect this is just something random that’s slipped through wiki editing process but I hope there’s a primary source that says something about this rumour as it’s too juicy to overlook.

[dreamconsumer]

King Charles I by Jean Petitot.

[captainsamta]

Sketches (for fun)

[assortedantics]

He really does look to be on the verge of tears in every portrait.

He really looks as though he couldn’t say boo to a goose!

I hate to say it, but based on these portraits it’s very unsurprising that he was overthrown.

[diana9241livejournalcom]

we almost forgot... Spanish!George!!!!... aka William Miller in las Aventuras del Capitan Alatriste

I'm curious about Mary&George's seventh episode for this motive. We already saw the Spanish escaped, but only from the Spanish point of view, now we can see it from the English POV, as the majestic fiasco who was the Spanish escapade. All on YouTube, in French but it's something

Spanish!George ( episode 02), we can have better but Miller is the only Spanish actor who is fluent in English and without an accent ( 'cause is born in England )

Spanish!george and Spanish!baby Charles ( episode 3), btw the actor who plays Charles I is german but is speaks a very agreable English

[beansontoastttt]

Sigma sigma?

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1661 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, is ritually executed more than two years after his death, on the 12th anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.

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[heavyarethecrowns]