#the dowager queen

[gracielikegrapes]

Canon/most fanfics

The Dowager Queen by @feyhunter78

[guiiay]

alicent hightower post 2x6. someone check up on the dowager queen please

[newts-gay]

where is my alicent “i shall have one of her son’s eyes in return” hightower?

where is my alicent “you may do as you wish husband, when i am cold in my grave” hightower?

where is my alicent “congratulations, stepdaughter. what a blessing this is for you” hightower?

where is my alicent “do keep trying ser laenor, sooner or late you'll get one that looks like you” hightower?

AND

don’t even get me started on alicent “bastard blood shed at war” hightower

she would have been way too powerful for anyone’s screen (especially with olivia’s brilliant performances) and tb stannies kept her from us

[wonder-worker]

A central element of the myth of [Eleanor of Aquitaine] is that of her exceptionalism. Historians and Eleanor biographers have tended to take literally Richard of Devizes’s conventional panegyric of her as ‘an incomparable woman’ [and] a woman out of her time. […] Amazement at Eleanor’s power and independence is born from a presentism that assumes generally that the Middle Ages were a backward age, and specifically that medieval women were all downtrodden and marginalized. Eleanor’s career can, from such a perspective, only be explained by assuming that she was an exception who rose by sheer force of personality above the restrictions placed upon twelfth-century women.

-Michael R. Evans, Inventing Eleanor: The Medieval and Post-Medieval Image of Eleanor of Aquitaine

"...The idea of Eleanor’s exceptionalism rests on an assumption that women of her age were powerless. On the contrary, in Western Europe before the twelfth century there were ‘no really effective barriers to the capacity of women to exercise power; they appear as military leaders, judges, castellans, controllers of property’. […] In an important article published in 1992, Jane Martindale sought to locate Eleanor in context, stripping away much of the conjecture that had grown up around her, and returning to primary sources, including her charters. Martindale also demonstrated how Eleanor was not out of the ordinary for a twelfth-century queen either in the extent of her power or in the criticisms levelled against her.

If we look at Eleanor’s predecessors as Anglo-Norman queens of England, we find many examples of women wielding political power. Matilda of Flanders (wife of William the Conqueror) acted as regent in Normandy during his frequent absences in England following the Conquest, and [the first wife of Henry I, Matilda of Scotland, played some role in governing England during her husband's absences], while during the civil war of Stephen’s reign Matilda of Boulogne led the fight for a time on behalf of her royal husband, who had been captured by the forces of the empress. And if we wish to seek a rebel woman, we need look no further than Juliana, illegitimate daughter of Henry I, who attempted to assassinate him with a crossbow, or Adèle of Champagne, the third wife of Louis VII, who ‘[a]t the moment when Henry II held Eleanor of Aquitaine in jail for her revolt … led a revolt with her brothers against her son, Philip II'.

Eleanor is, therefore, less the exception than the rule – albeit an extreme example of that rule. This can be illustrated by comparing her with a twelfth century woman who has attracted less literary and historical attention. Adela of Blois died in 1137, the year of Eleanor’s marriage to Louis VII. […] The chronicle and charter evidence reveals Adela to have ‘legitimately exercised the powers of comital lordship’ in the domains of Blois-Champagne, both in consort with her husband and alone during his absence on crusade and after his death. […] There was, however, nothing atypical about the nature of Adela’s power. In the words of her biographer Kimberley LoPrete, ‘while the extent of Adela’s powers and the political impact of her actions were exceptional for a woman of her day (and indeed for most men), the sources of her powers and the activities she engaged in were not fundamentally different from those of other women of lordly rank’. These words could equally apply to Eleanor; the extent of her power, as heiress to the richest lordship in France, wife of two kings and mother of two or three more, was remarkable, but the nature of her power was not exceptional. Other noble or royal women governed, arranged marriages and alliances, and were patrons of the church. Eleanor represents one end of a continuum, not an isolated outlier."

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[clixsmxdernxs]

i do not care about anything else other than this BEAUTIFUL FACE wtf

WHAT THE FUCK literally what the fuck is that face

[galinneall-dearg]

TTTE Texposts Part 3 (Source)

[pookiebearhelaena]

"and Helaena, my sweet girl"

Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture

And save it from the funny tricks of time

(requested by @lawolfe)

[fictonrantsworld]

Oh my beloved she's so scared😭😥🥺

[evagreen-stories]

"To you, I'm just a man,

To me, you're all I am,

Where the hell am I supposed to go?"

Something in the Orange (Z&Es Version) - Zach Bryan

[7pleiades7]

The Queen Dowager Juliane Marie (1776), (detail), by Vigilius Eriksen (Danish, 1722–1782), oil on canvas, 301.8 × 212 cm, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

[chasingthedragons]

Gowns of House Hightower II

GREEN & GOLD [& BLUE]

Queen Helaena Targaryen keeps the trend of the young ladies with V details, combining her dresses with different black and white collared base dresses and tunics. While the dowager Queen is diluting the intense green of her dresses, starting with her basic dresses, until she changes it completely for the light blue.

Gowns of House Hightower I

[hailgaaail]

˚ㅤ𝅄 𝙄 𝙥𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙢𝙮𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙮 𝙬𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚, 𝙢𝙮 𝙬𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙄 𝙥𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝅄 ࣪ 𓈒‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎

‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎𝜗𝜚 𝑨𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑯𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝜗𝜚

ᘞ Greetings! Before continuing with the reading, please keep in mind that English is not my native language, so I apologize for any spelling or grammar mistakes. That being said, I hope you enjoy.

“ Words that Alicent should have said to the people around her and to herself, words that time turned into the knot of the rope with which she hung her fate ” the playlist.

This Night Has Opened My Eyes — The Smiths.

He said he'd cure your ills, but he didn't and he never will / She could have been a poet or, she could have been a fool / She took away your troubles but then again, she left pain / And I'm not happy, and I'm not sad.

Get Gone — Fiona Apple.

How can I deal with this if he won't get with this? Am I gonna heal from this? / It's time the truth goes out, that he don't give a shit about me / I'll idealize and realize that it's no sacrifice, because the price is paid and there's nothing left to grieve.

The Child is Gone / Fiona Apple.

Take the shade from the canvas and leave me the white / I'm a stranger to myself but don't reach for me, I'm too far away / Take all of your sympathy and leave it outside cause there's no kind of loving that can make this all right / And I suddenly feel like a different person / The child is gone.

Still Cold / Mazzy Star.

You used to say your heart felt like a stone, now everything you ever wanted is your's alone / Still cold like the stars, that's just the way you are.

Abbey / Mitski.

There is a dream that I sometimes see that only appears in the dark of sleep / I am waiting, I have been waiting, I was born waiting, I was born waiting for that something, just one something / And I wake every night crying, "Set me free".

Class of 2013 / Mitski.

And I'll leave once I figure out how to pay for my own life too / Mom, am I still young? Can I dream for a few months more?

You've Got Everything Now / The Smiths.

You've got everything now and what a terrible mess I've made of my life / But I don't want a lover, I just want to be seen . . . / You are your mother's only son and you're a desperate one.

! From Rhaenyra Targaryen to Alicent Hightower.

Love Ridden / Fiona Apple.

And I wanna crawl in with you, but I cry instead, I want your warmth, but it will only make me colder when it's over / Not baby anymore, if I need you, I'll just use your simple name / I stood too long in the way of the door, and now I'm giving up on you.

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Alicent Hightower’s seven-pointed star necklace collection.

[alienas]

COSTUME APPRECIATION Augusta, Dowager Princess of Wales, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

[hotdaemondtargaryen]

targtowers.