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Monarchies are only fun in fiction. But overthrowing a monarchy in real life could be very fun
#uk politics#king charles news#bbc#england#english politics#we should have stolen all our stuff back from the museum when they werent looking#princess diana#kate middleton#camilla#charles#king#queen#down with the monarchy#i was secretly hoping King Arthur would come back at that moment#could you imagine#uk#politics#uk police#scotland
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#anti monarchy#abolish the monarchy#fuck the monarchy#they’re cocks#pieces of SHIT#stealing from people#murdering#slave owning#rich#shit stains#not a countdown#id in alt text#tampon charlie#c*milla#bitch asses#hate them#the coronation#just shitposting#image#alt text#british royalty#british royal family#king charles iii#queen camilla#queen of england#king of england#uk politics#british politics#punk
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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)
#kings of england#artists on tumblr#drawing#traditional art#traditional drawing#Richard III#Henry VII#Henry VIII#Mary I#Elizabeth I#Charles I#Charles II#George III#George IV#Queen Victoria#George v#George VI#Edward VII#queen elizabeth ii#history art
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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.
#Time Travel#Famous Murders#Jack the Ripper#La Bete du Gevaudan#Gandillon Family#Werewolves#William Rufus#King William II#Edward V#Richard of Shrewsbury#French History#English History#Early Modern Europe#Victorian England#Lord Darnley#Mary Queen of Scots#Scottish History#Amy Robsart#Lord Dudley#The Sodder Children#The Somerton Man#Australian History#Prime Minister Harold Holt#Elizabeth Short#The Black Dahlia
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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.
#lol I don't remember writing this - I found it when I was searching for something else in my drafts. But it's 100% true so I had to post it.#elizabeth woodville#my post#Imo this is mainly because Elizabeth's negative historiography has always involved both vilification and diminishment in equal measure.#and because her brand of vilification (femme fatale; intriguer) suggests more indirect/“feminine” than legitimate/forceful types of power#It's still bizarre though-you'd think these would be some of the most famous & defining aspects of Elizabeth's life. But apparently not#I guess she only matters when it comes to marrying Edward and Promoting Her Family and scheming against Richard#There is very lacking interest in her beyond those things even in her traditionally negative depictions#And most of her “reassessments” tend to do diminish her so badly she's rendered utterly irrelevant and almost pathetic by the end of it#Even when some of these things *are* mentioned they're never truly emphasized as they should be.#See: her formal appointment in royal councils. It was highly unconventional + entirely unprecedented for queens in the 14th & 15th century#You'd think this would be incredibly important and highlighted when analyzing late medieval queenship in England but apparently not#Historians are more willing to straight-up INVENT positions & roles for so many other late medieval queens/king's mothers that didn't exist#(not getting into this right now it's too long...)#But somehow acknowledging and discussing Elizabeth's ACTUAL formally appointed role is too much for them I guess#She's either subsumed into the general vilification of her family (never mind that they were known as 'the queen's kin' to actual#contemporaries; they were defined by HER not the other way around) or she's rendered utterly insignificant by historians. Often both.#But at the end of the day her individual role and identity often overlooked or downplayed in both scenarios#and ofc I've said this before but - there has literally never been a proper reassessment of Elizabeth's role in 1483-85 TILL DATE#despite the fact that it's such a sensational and well-known time period in medieval England#This isn't even a Wars of the Roses thing. Both Margaret of Anjou and Margaret Beaufort have had multiple different reassessments#of their roles and positions during their respective crises/upheavals by now;#There is simply a distinct lack of interest in reassessing Elizabeth in a similar way and I think this needs to be acknowledged.#Speaking of which - there's also a persistent habit of analyzing her through the context of Margaret of Anjou or Elizabeth of York#(either as a parallel or a foil) rather than as a historical figure in HER OWN RIGHT#that's also too long to get into I just wanted to point it out because I hate it and I think it's utterly senseless#I've so much to say about how all of this affects her portrayal in historical fiction as well but that's going into a whole other tangent#ofc there are other things but these in particular *really* frustrate me#just felt like ranting a bit in the tags because these are all things that I want to individually discuss someday with proper posts...
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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.
#brf#queen mary of teck#england#uk monarchy#british royal family#united kingdom#rare photos#king george v#old photos#queen elizabeth ii#mary of teck#george v#princess margaret#queen mother#ukfanpage
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I mean… the perfection in this photo?
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The Princess of Wales June 2024 Photo Challenge
11. Favourite photo(s) of Catherine with the British Royal Family.
#pow june 2024 challenge#princess of wales#duchess of cambridge#queen elizabeth#queen elizabeth ii#autumn phillips#savannah phillips#zara tindall#mia tindall#prince philip#duke of edinburgh#duchess of edinburgh#countess of wessex#king charles iii#king charles#queen camilla#princess anne#princess royal#peter phillips#british royal family#england#2024#june 2024#the wales#my edit
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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
#coronation#king charles#monarchy#britain#england#i aim to make as much of a mockery of this as i can#my country isn't a republic but it should be#one of the last countries to not have an independence day from the crown (clown emoji)#queen consort camilla#drinking game#uk politics#king charles iii#anti monarchy
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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
#if they try that again with the King though I’m straight up saying ‘down with the monarchy’#queen elizabeth#the queen of england#queen of england#queen elizabeth ii
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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.
#the white queen#twqedit#perioddramaedit#twq10#elizabeth woodville#edward iv of england#jacquetta of luxembourg#S1E01 In Love With the King#my edits
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King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra at Cowes, Isle of Wight, August 1909
#royalty#United Kingdom#King Edward VII#Queen Alexandra#Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom#Princess Alexandra of Denmark#1909#England
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The Sanctuary of Richard III by Paul Hardy
#richard iii#art#paul hardy#king#england#medieval#middle ages#shakespeare#wars of the roses#kingdom#armour#history#english#plantagenets#europe#european#queen#royalty#monarchy#monarch#royals#william shakespeare#royal court#nobility#aristocratic#knights#knight
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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.
#elizabeth woodville#nobody was doing it like her#I wanted to add more things (eg: propaganda casting her as a transgressive figure and a threat to established orders; the way we'll never#truly Know her as she's been constantly rewritten across history) but ofc neither are unique to her or any other historical woman#my post#wars of the roses#don't reblog these tags but - the thing about Elizabeth is that she kept winning and losing at the same time#She rose higher and fell harder (in 1483-85) than anyone else in the late 15th century#From 1461 she was never ever at lasting peace - her widowhood and the crisis of 1469-71 and the actual terrible nightmare of 1483-85 and#Simnel's rebellion against her family and the fact that her birth family kept dying with her#and then she herself died right around the time yet another Pretender was stirring and threatening her children. That's...A Lot.#Imho Elizabeth was THE adaptor of the Wars of the Roses - she repeatedly found herself in highly anomalous and#unprecedented situations and just had to survive and adjust every single time#But that's just...never talked about when it comes to her#There are so many aspects of her life that are potentially fascinating yet completely unexplored in scholarship or media:#Her official appointment in royal councils; her position as the first Englishwoman post the Norman Conquest to be crowned queen#and what that actually MEANT for her; an actual examination of the propaganda against her; how she both foreshadowed and set a precedent#for Henry VIII's english queens; etc#There hasn't even been a proper reassessment of her role in 1483-85 TILL DATE despite it being one of the most wildly contested#periods in medieval England#lol I guess that's what drew me to Elizabeth in the first place - there's a fundamental lack of interest or acknowledgement in what was#actually happening with her and how it may have affected her. There's SO MUCH we can talk about but historians have repeatedly#stuck to the basics - and even then not well#I guess I have more things to write about on this blog then ((assuming I ever ever find the energy)#also to be clear while the Yorkists did 'eat themselves alive' they also Won - the crisis of 1483-85 was an internal conflict within#the dynasty that was not related to the events that ended in 1471 (which resulted in Edward IV's victory)#Henry Tudor was a figurehead for Edwardian Yorkists who specifically raised him as a claimant and were the ones who supported him#specifically as the husband of Elizabeth of York (swearing him as king only after he publicly swore to marry her)#Richard's defeat at Bosworth had *nothing* to do with 'York VS Lancaster' - it was the victory of one Yorkist faction against another#But yes the traditional line of succession was broken by Richard's betrayal and the male dynastic line was ultimately extinguished.
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Rare photo of the Wedding of the Duke of York (future George VI) and Elisabeth Bowes Lion
#united kingdom#uk monarchy#british royal family#england#queen mary of teck#king george v#rare photos#brf#queen mary#old photos#wedding#bride#marriage#wedding photography#queen mother#king george vi#queen alexandra#ukfanpage
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I very deeply wonder how Eleanor went about to name Will. How did she chose the name? Why that name specifically? Did she even chose the name? If not, who did?
#i do think its curious like#she named katherine and elizabeth after queens of england yeah#and will isnt... actually a full name usually#will is most of the time a shortform for wilhelm or william#both of which are names of kings of England#so if eleanor did chose the name#she chose to give will an incomplete name of a king :')#something something you will never rule agains#something something.... will being the dark king... but not fully.#URGH IM INSANE#dark heir#dark rise#will kempen#eleanor kempen
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