“Queen Catherine, however, set the tone for the majority of courtiers with her conspicuous neutrality on matters of religion, walking the tightrope of the Catholic-Protestant hybrid established by Henry VIII. She attended Mass and kept feast days as required of her, without ever seeming so sympathetic to religious traditionalism that she could be accused of papism. She owned a copy of the New Testament in English, yet she did not personally interpret the scriptures in any way that might lead to an accusation of heresy. […] The ambassadors at Hampton Court noticed the terror beneath the courtiers' smiles, as they feared who might be next. The ‘fair and beloved’ Queen Catherine meanwhile carried on with preparations for the forthcoming visit to Hampton Court of a Scottish diplomat, Sir James Campbell. If she felt any twinge of unease at her husband's rapid turning of Fortune's wheel, she hid it brilliantly.”
— Gareth Russell, The Palace
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Completely random F1 Family Tree for u all
timeline? uh i made it the fuck up
Both Charles and Ollie were immaculately concepted yes
No Oscar and Max do NOT fuck with the idea that their dad is dating someone their age
Family Dinners must go so hard on the Merc side
Like on the Ferrari side it’s just pasta and catholic guilt
but Merc?? Oh blood is shedding
Roscoe is chilling with everyone so he wasn’t included
Is logan the product of an affair? is he secretly adopted? he and we will never know
based on this, who’s the paddock slut cuz i was gonna start by saying Nando-
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That multimillionaire formula one driver's loser vibes and cringefail personality have captivated me. I wish to see him either succeed with reckless abandon or fail so tragically that the narrative itself is rewritten.
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If Merc were cool this is what they’d film next, get the whole crew involved
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“Physically, Queen Jane, whom Parliament loyally described as ‘chaste, pure and fertile’, was pale and of medium height. The girls' stepfather was told by a friend at court that Jane was gentle and kind; some courtiers dissented and thought her ‘proud and haughty’, a tactic that they cynically suspected she had adopted to hide her inferior intellect. Others suggested that the opposite was the case, namely that Jane had prioritised her safety over an advertisement of her natural intelligence, a conclusion tellingly reached by the Emperor's ambassador to England, Eustace Chapuys, who revised his previously contemptuous assessment of Jane's intelligence after several conversations with her. Other observers noticed too that Jane was ‘firm’ when it came to dealing with her servants, and applauded her dignity and circumspection.”
— Gareth Russell, The Palace
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my coworker, who is turning 50, said the best thing to me today..... he was talking about how he remembers when lewis was the first driver to really be a "celebrity" and get in on the fashion trends, celeb girlfriends, met gala, etc etc. and i'm thinking he's gonna say something uncool abt the young drivers or something but then he goes "and i'm just so glad that this new generation of drivers are all..... really weird." and he is so right. they are so weird and it rocks
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