#now that i think about it is kind of evil-catholic-jacobite-xenophobe core of me to refuse to tag him by his title

[defensivelee]

Have you seen the flashback of Marlborough in The Gathering Storm?? It's a film about Winston Churchill and there's a scene of him imagining Marlborough leading the British Army and they end up having eye contact in this really dramatic climax.

i've watched that scene before, yes ! i have a lot of Feelings about marly being compared to his descendant, most of them boiling down to 'get the fuck away from my wife' but i promise it also makes some academic sense that i could get into later potentially

however, what's funnier to me about that scene is that marly is played by THE CURRENT EARL OF PORTLAND?? BENTINCK'S DESCENDANT. my boy is rolling in his fucking grave on god

love that guy tho bc he called bentinck too dull to be gay

anyway, on the list of marlys that we have in media he's fine appearance-wise, i just cannot take him seriously akjajjkasjk