#queen and kings of england

[phd-in-bears]

Monarchies are only fun in fiction. But overthrowing a monarchy in real life could be very fun

[didthekingdieyet]

[captainsamta]

Something I had done years ago on A4 size paper. I think I skipped a few due to lack of space. Kings and Queens of England (after king Henry IV)

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question : Murder and Disappearance Edition I

Given that Judge Crater, Roanoke, and the Dyatlov Pass Incident are credibly solved, though not 100% provable, I'm leaving them out in favor of things ,ore mysterious. I almost left out Amelia Earhart, but the evidence there is sketchier.

Some people were a little confused. Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury are the Princes in the Tower.

[wonder-worker]

Wild how we know that Elizabeth Woodville was officially appointed to royal councils in her own right during her husband’s reign and fortified the Tower of London in preparation of a siege while 8-months pregnant and had forces gathering at Westminster “in the queen’s name” in 1483 – only for NONE of these things to be even included, let alone explored, in the vast majority of scholarship and historical novels involving her.

[behindthecrowns]

I think this photo was taken in 1934/1935, because King George V looked really tired and weak. I find it adorable that Queen Elizabeth in this photo as a child tries to imitate the solemn posture of her grandmother Queen Mary.

[goodoldroyalty]

I mean… the perfection in this photo?

[thewales-family]

The Princess of Wales June 2024 Photo Challenge

11. Favourite photo(s) of Catherine with the British Royal Family.

[internetgreatesthits]

WTF!!

[jinxstark]

Coronation drinking game:

Take a drink every time you see a stupid hat, a celebrity, or sausage fingers.

Finish your drink every time you see a protestor being arrested or an egg hits Charles.

Ten minutes into watching the pomp and faff and I'm already feeling tipsy - double points for Katy Perry who is both a celebrity and in a stupid hat

[kitkat-the-muffin]

My parents used to tell me to eat my food properly and with sophistication just in case I dine with the Queen of England some day

When the Queen died, that night I ate dinner with my elbows on the table and the fork in my left hand

When my parents objected, I simply said “Queen’s dead, the table is now lawless” and they had no retorts

[kosemsultanim]

THE WHITE QUEEN 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY WEEK | Day 1 (August 14): Favorite Episode → 1.01 In Love With the King

You are a girl from the house of Lancaster, and you live in a country that is divided. You may not fall in love with a York king, unless there is some profit in it for you. Your life will not be easy because you wish it to be so. You will have to wade through blood and you will know loss, you must be stronger.

[februaryfrost]

King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra at Cowes, Isle of Wight, August 1909

[wonder-worker]

Thinking about Elizabeth Woodville as a gothic heroine is making me go insane. She entered the story by overturning existing social structures, provoking both ire and fascination. She married into a dynasty doomed to eat itself alive. She was repeatedly associated with the supernatural, both in terms of love and death. Her life was shaped entirely by uncanny repetitions - two marriages, two widowhoods, two depositions, two flights to sanctuary, two ultimate reclamations, all paralleling and ricocheting off each other. Her plight after 1483 exposed the true rot at the heart of the monarchy - the trappings of royalty pulled away to reveal nothing, a never-ending cycle of betrayal and war, the price of power being the (literal) blood of children. She lived past the end of her family name, she lived past the end of her myth. She ended her life in a deeply anomalous position, half-in and half-out of royal society. She was both a haunting tragedy and the ultimate survivor who was finally free.

[behindthecrowns]

Rare photo of the Wedding of the Duke of York (future George VI) and Elisabeth Bowes Lion

[illustratus]

The Sanctuary of Richard III by Paul Hardy