#lady lyon

[stevefordphotos]

Lady Lyon at The Great Club, Marrickville, on September 28, 2023

© 2023 Steve Ford

[luzdelfuegos]

𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐚 𝐋𝐲𝐨𝐧, 1981 𝐛𝐲 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐞

[isabelleneville]

@perioddramasource: PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK

Day Seven: Free Day ~ Favourite Period Drama Actress - NATALIE DORMER

Selected Filmography:

Casanova - Victoria Donato

The Tudors - Anne Boleyn, Marquess of Pembroke, later, Queen of England

Agatha Christie's Marple - Moira Nicholson

W.E. - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Duchess of York, later, Queen of England

Rush - Gemma

The Scandalous Lady W - Seymour Worsley, Lady Worsley,

Picnic at the Hanging Rock - Hester Appleyard

The Professor and the Madman - Eliza Merrett

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels - Magda, pictured as one of her aliases Elsa Branson

[kairaloi]

AITA for involving the whole city in my petty revenge plot?

For the last five years, I (26F) have been fighting to defend my country against the neighboring empire. I’ve tried to keep my gender under wraps (literally) because the camp was mostly men, and I just don’t want the trouble. But the problem is that my father was the general leading this section of the army. He’s seen me on the battlefield. He’s acknowledged what I did to win certain battles. He’s SEEN me use my bloodline ability, which is THE SAME as HIS. But even though I’ve been his aide for the last two years and saved his life five times, he had the AUDACITY to ask me to investigate where his daughter went.

When I was eleven, my mother k****ed herself. Father immediately packed me up and sent me to live with my aunt. As soon as his carriage was out of sight, she started abusing me. Dragging me by my hair, hitting me… she threw hot coals in my face and burned me pretty badly the first night I was there. I didn’t think the scars were bad enough to make me entirely unrecognizable to my family. But I guess they did. Or my father and twin brother are just incredibly stupid.

But the war is over, and Father returned to the capital to get Felix and me. When Aunt Karen said I’d run away, Father ordered me to find his daughter. He looked me dead in the eyes and told me to investigate what had happened to his daughter.

I tried to resolve it peacefully by resigning after I destroyed Aunt Karen by exposing everything she’d done in the last twenty years. But Father won’t let me go. He still calls me “Sir Mortuary” even though I attended the celebration ball in a dress, revealing that I’ve been a woman this whole time. Even though I’ve started dating the four most powerful men in the country. Even though Felix climbed out of his drunken stupor and finally recognized me. Everyone ELSE has figured it out. Why hasn't my father?!

Am I the a-hole for involving the whole city in my petty revenge against my father? Because I want to embarrass him. I want the truth to hit him like an avalanche. I want him to be so MORTIFIED by his stupidity that he retreats to some remote cave in our duchy and never shows his face again.

[leonisandmurex]

Tickle fight! || William & Charlotte, Lilibet & Margot, Peter & James, Louise & Isla, Charles & William, Diana & William, William, George, Charlotte & Louis, Charles & Diana, Elizabeth & Charles, Catherine & Louis

[spiritundaunted]

"Bertie, do you know you have got a most changeable face? It is too odd, sometimes you look a completely different person, always nice though, but I must not flatter you because then your head will swell, & you will have to buy new hats. That would be very sad, wouldn’t it? ... Darling B, you are an Angel. Your as ever loving E."

Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, to the Duke of York, 31 March 1923 (they were engaged at the time, but each with their respective families for Easter, and Elizabeth was looking at Bertie's photo in the newspaper.)

[vox-anglosphere]

A priceless century-old thank you letter from the Queen Mother, written to a friend after her engagement, discovered as a bookmark.

[higherentity]

[postcard-from-the-past]

Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon on a British vintage postcard

[remuspoopin2]

Scenario:

Betsy x Mary

Set to: I Kissed A Girl (Glee Version)

After months of rekindling their “special” friendship, Betsy and Mary finally share a kiss. After they leave each other, Betsy is so elated she runs home to tell Grandmama, consequences be damned. But once she arrives, she finds a letter and an nervous Grandmama. She knows that the letter must be important… so for the first time, she reads it, without Dr. Reed’s help! However, she quickly learns upon reading it (“Father never calls me Elizabeth unless it’s dire!”) she learns… her Father is DEAD!

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, 1939

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952 as the wife of King George VI.

She was concurrently the last Empress of India until the British Raj was dissolved in August 1947.

After her husband died, she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II.

[heartsbreaking-migrated]

"oh i'm sorry, i didn't see you there!" dot stepped back and shifted the basket she carried to her other arm. she hadn't realized someone had walked up to the same booth she was looking at, she'd been so engrossed with trying to decide what to make her family for dinner. she kept looking at the vegetables at the stand, turning over the peppers. "you know any good recipes with peppers? my 10 year old's pretty easy to cook for, but my husband! i've never met a pickier man in my life!" she looked back over at the stranger she'd mistakenly stepped into, smiling expectantly.

starter call | starter for @unsnare / caoimhe oidhche *

[kairaloi]

Books on sale

Howdy my Moots and Lurkers! I put some of my books on Kindle Countdown

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

I GOT ANOTHER MESSAGE FROM A POSSIBLE RELATIVE

[leonisandmurex]

Thirty years young || Diana, Catharine, Margaret, Elizabeth, Beatrice, William, Sophie, Anne, Bertie, Sarah, Philip, Elizabeth

[davbertieloml]

OTD in 1900, Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother was born 👑

Happy heavenly birthday, Lizziee🫶🏻