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Photo sequence showing German personnel recovering the remains of the crew of 42nd RTR Matilda II "Park Royal" during Operation Crusader in November 1941

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Char Matilda II du 7th Royal Tank Regiment – Opération Compass – Campagne d'Afrique du Nord – 19 décembre 1940

Photographe : Capitaine Geoffrey John Keating - No. 1 Army Film and Photo Section, Army Film and Photographic Unit

©Imperial War Museums - E 1416

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Matilda II

21 May 1940: The Battle of Arras begins with British tanks descending on the German 7th Panzer Division. British Matilda tanks wreak havoc among the German column and buy time for the evacuation at Dunkirk.

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House of the Dragon’s Historical Inspiration

╰─▸ The Anarchy (1138 - 1153) was a civil war that broke out in England when Stephen of Blois seized the throne after his uncle Henry I’s death. Henry I’s heir apparent, his daughter Empress Matilda, traveled to England and waged war against her cousin with the help of her uncle, King David of Scotland. Though Matilda’s army captured Stephen, she was never officially crowned and the war entered a stalemate. Stephen was released on the agreement that after his reign, Matilda’s sons and not his own would gain the throne, thus ending the feud.

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TCB/Shipwrecked/Pulp Doodles!

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All the blossoms in my garden 🪴

An Angevin-Plantagenets family tree I made for my medieval art collection zine, “If All The World Were Mine!” The physical edition is now available, so check it out if you can :D

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↳ a brief guide to house plantagenet history: the anarchy (part 1)

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Empress Matilda — Rhaenyra’s Historical Parallel

“We can think of Empress Matilda as the fierce nearly Norman queen, who battled her cousin Stephen and the sexism of medieval England for 19 long years, during a period described as ‘The Anarchy’. Basing her campaign in Oxford, Matilda battled, sieged, and even made an elaborate escape during her enduring efforts to claim the English throne.

Matilda would have been the first English Queen to rule in her own right, had she been crowned in 1141. She was the first woman to be named as heir to the English throne and she fought fiercely for her succession. As it happened, England wouldn’t see a queen for another 400 years.” — Museum of Oxford

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other people playing pentiment: I think Ferenc and Guy killed those people because I don't like them and think they deserve to die.

me playing pentiment: I think Matilda and Else killed those people because I like them and think they deserve to get away with murder.

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the fact that Henry II had two parents who were willing to relinquish their titles and share their authority with him (with his father even writing that he hoped Henry would one day "surpass me and all my predecessors in power and dignity") only to become known as the guy who drove all his sons into open revolt against him because he refused to give them adequate power 🤡

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Behold: Matilda Mk III

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Becket (1964)

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Matilda II

The Battle of Arras was fought in 1940. The Infantry Tank Mk.II was at the top of the proverbial food chain in 1940, but this engagement proved that it takes more than the thickest armour and the biggest gun to win a tank battle.

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❛𝐼𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑠

𝐼𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠, 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠

𝑊𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑐𝒉 𝑎𝑠 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝒉𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑑𝑒

𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑, 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑❜

. ֺ ָ ֙⋆ ་ ᳝ ˖ . ֺ ָ ֙⋆ ་ ᳝ ˖ . ֺ ָ ֙⋆ ་ ᳝ ˖ . ֺ ָ ֙⋆ ˖ . ֺ ָ ֙⋆ ་ ᳝ ˖ . ֺ ָ ֙⋆ ་ ᳝˖ . ֺ ָ ֙⋆

☾︎⋆͙̈𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕's oc☆˚⋆͙̈ Don't steal or copy

. ֺ ָ ֙⋆ ་ ᳝ ˖ . ֺ ָ ֙⋆ ་ ᳝ ˖ . ֺ ָ ֙⋆ ་ ᳝ ˖ . ֺ ָ ֙⋆ ˖ . ֺ ָ ֙⋆ ་ ᳝ ˖ . ֺ ָ ֙⋆ ་ ᳝˖ . ֺ ָ ֙⋆

──┈⊰᯽⊱┈──╌❊╌──┈⊰᯽⊱┈──

𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐓𝐲𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐥 . House Tyrell values family, image, and power.

Their Vanity was Exceeded Only by Their Ambition.

A Tyrell can be graceful, beautiful, kind, and gentle as well as cunning, scheming, protective, and vain.

House Tyrell’s sigil, Golden Rose with the words “Growing Strong” actually represent their main personality. They will plant some seeds and may appear as harmless and charming at first. As the time goes, they will slowly but surely grows into something bigger and bigger until their roots stick with their host. As they have grown strong, they are able to destroy everything as they please. Like some thorny plants that can destroy even a fortress when they outgrew it.

Like a rose petal, the Tyrells may appear as sweet hearted, graceful, pretty, alluring, and caring. But beneath this persona, they possess sharp thorns which can effectively kill. They are actually extremely cunning, politically-savvy, manipulative, and ruthless.

𝐋𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐫. Large blue eyes, softly curling brown hair, gentle, dutiful, fair. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒆.

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❝𝐀𝐆𝐄

─18 ❞

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❝𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐌

─ Matilda De Angelis❞

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❝𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘

─ caring - dutiful - cunning - gentle ❞

She is very conscientious and gentle but underneath the surface there is a little bit of fire and a rebellious streak that she doesn’t even know exists.

Elinor has grown up a certain way and is very aware of the rules and boundaries that society has set upon her.

Through the years, duty became, for Elinor, the obvious virtue to follow in her life, not because she wants to, but because she needs to, because she needs to in order to survive at court, amongst snakes and dragons or, maybe, deep down, only to justify the unrighteous nature of some of her thoughts. She has learned to do her duty, it comes easier to her, especially because of how Alicent has and probably will always have, great influence on her behaviour, because of how, growing up, the Queen seemes to have shaped Elinor into a version of herself, not knowing if the young lady would b I'me a better version or a worse one...

Elinor is fair and lively, with a shy and sweet smile; she has a kind, caring nature and a magnetic charm. She is intelligent and shrewd, sweet, gentle, ambitious, energetic, tractable and practical. She is also particularly skilled at reading a room, adjusting her behaviour depending on the situation.

Elinor is a sociable introvert and loves connecting with people in a meaningful way, often preferring one-on-one conversations to big group events. She is sensitive and kind, always thinking about others, particularly those who she cares about and those in need.

She also values harmony and avoids conflict when possible.Trustworthy and committed, she fights for what she believes in and greatly values stability.

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❝𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐒

❏ Interests

She’s 18 years old so she has still a kind of innocent character. She very much appreciates books, painting, and also nature and being outside, adventure and just the simple things in life like flowers and the gardens, where she can appreciate the calm surroundings.

❏ Family

Elinor is the only daughter of Lord Martyn Tyrell and his wife, Lady Florence Fossoway. She is also related to the Hightowers by her mother's side of the family.

Elinor had her disagreements with her mother, like most daughters have but, she loved her dearly, craving her love and validation even if her mother often requested perfection. When Elinor's mother fell ill, Elinor was only fourteen and she would forever miss her presence in the years that followed.

That is when, in her moment of weakness, Alicent appeared like a saviour, extending her hand out for Elinor to take, extending her hand out so she could pull the young girl into a motherly embrace, both comforting ans coated in poison, making the young rose grow around the stony tower; a pillar from which Elinor couldn't and didn't want to get away from. As years passed, Elinor started viewing Alicent as a mother figure and, in her young, broken heart, she constantly feels the need and urge to please the Queen in everything she does and Alicent, maybe, even absentmindedly, uses it to her advantage.

Elinor and Alicent seem to exist like mirror of each other; Elinor being a broken glass recomposed with pieces from both her mother and the Queen.

Elinor's father, another important figure in the young woman's life, rather changed through time. He's considered a man of great learning, but also methodical, blunt, domineering. He's an ambitious man, always has been, cunning, organized, methodical and calculating.

His worst traits only surfaced even more after Elinor's mother died. It is almost like she was the one keeping his ambitious and calculating nature at bay.

Elinor loves her father dearly, despite him having changed, despite the fact that he uses his daughter's affection for him to convince her to do what he thinks is best for him, herself and their house.

❏ Bad habits

And she would do it again and again, fidgeting and torturing her poor fingers as if hurting them was a way for her fear and anxiety to be externalised, a way for her to feel free from worries for a spilt second while her thoughts were numbed by the pain her hands were feeling...

❏ Love interest (optional)

Aegon II Targaryen

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Royal Reads: Apr-Jun 2024

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George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Shaped the Monarchy by Sally Bedell Smith (new paperback version published Apr. 11, 2024) // Heroines of the Tudor World by Sharon Bennett Connolly (Jun. 15, 2024)

Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII's Queens by Charlotte Bolland, Suzannah Lipscomb, Nicola Clarke, Brett Dolman, Alden Gregory, Benjamin Hebbert, Nicola Tallis, Valerie Schutte (Jun. 20, 2024) // Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between the Windsors by Tom Bower (new paperback version published Apr. 16, 2024) // The Private Life of James II by Justine Ruth Brown (May 30, 2024)

The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens by Nicola Clark (Apr. 25, 2024) // James VI, Britannic Prince: King of Scots and Elizabeth's Heir, 1566-1603 by Alexander Courtney (Jun. 3, 2024)

Wise Words from King Charles III by Karen Dolby (Apr. 25, 2024) // Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe by John Guy, Julia Fox (new paperback version published Jun. 6, 2024) // Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World by Martin Goodman (May 14, 2024)

Rasputin's Killer and his Romanov Princess by Coryne Hall (Jun. 15, 2024) // Catherine de' Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen by Mary Hollingsworth (Jun. 6, 2024) // Power and Glory: Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty by Alexander Larman (new hardcover published Apr. 30, 2024)

Stephen and Matilda's Civil War: Cousins of Anarchy by Matthew Lewis (May 30, 2024) // Courting the Virgin Queen: Queen Elizabeth I And Her Suitors by Carol Ann Lloyd (Jun. 30, 2024) // Babur: The Chessboard King by Aabhas Maldahiyar (Jun. 27, 2024)

Lady Charlotte Guest: The Exceptional Life of a Female Industrialist by Victoria Owens (Jun. 30, 2024) // Thorns, Lust and Glory: The betrayal of Anne Boleyn by Estelle Paranque (May 2, 2024)

The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of Royal History at Hampton Court by Gareth Russell (new paperback version published May 9, 2024) // The Lost Queen: The Surprising Life of Catherine of Braganza, Britain’s Forgotten Monarch by Sophie Shorland (Jun. 6, 2024)

The Royal Palaces: Secrets and Scandals by Kate Williams, James Oses (Jun. 27, 2024) // The Mysterious Death of Katherine Parr: What Really Happened to Henry VIII's Last Queen? by June Woolerton (Apr. 4, 2024) // Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess by Adam Zamoyski (Jun. 20, 2024)

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HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2009-2014) | Matilda(s), Stephen... and Henry