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Bridgerton ― 1.01 Diamond of the First Water

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Bridgerton ― 1.01 Diamond of the First Water

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Daphne Bridgerton & Simon Basset in Bridgerton ― 1.01 Diamond of the First Water

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Pride and Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

Emma (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde

The Crown (Season 4, 2020) created by Peter Morgan

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Portia Featherington + costumes (Bridgerton season 1)

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Bridgerton ― 1.01 Diamond of the First Water

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“And you. Leonidas’s sweet and gentle daughter, with a world of poison in your heart. You fought and fought to keep all the cruelty locked up in your head, and for what? None of them ever loved you, because none of them ever knew you.”

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The Duke of Hastings entrance BRIDGERTON, ep 1

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Benedict Bridgerton + awkward moments

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The king has done what he should not. He has married from another house, and a commoner at that. There are many who will be cursing our luck and wishing us to fall. But you, Elizabeth- you may have it all. You love your husband, and he will give you prestige, too.

THE WHITE QUEEN 1.01 “In love with the king”

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“Daphne,” Anthony said pointedly, “I should be delighted to act as your chaperon.” “Really, Anthony,” Violet cut in, “they hardly need one if they are to remain here in the ballroom.” “Oh, I insist.” “You two run along,” Violet said to Daphne and Simon, waving her hand at them. “Anthony will be with you in just a moment.” Anthony tried to follow immediately, but Violet grabbed onto his wrist. Hard. “What the devil do you think you're doing?” she hissed. “Protecting my sister!”

— The Duke and I by Julia Quinn (Bridgerton #1)

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BRIDGERTON | 1x08 ‘AFTER THE RAIN’

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On the west wall of this stupendous room is an enormous portrait of the family that owned and created it. Almost seventeen feet wide and eleven deep, Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, and his Family c.1635 is the largest painting ever made by van Dyck, a joint portrait of the 4th Earl of Pembroke and his children. Each of the ten figures it portrays is just larger than lifesize and they dominate, as they were meant to, the gilded space in front of them. The painting is full of grace and aristocratic poise, of riches at ease with themselves, of what now would be called privilege and was then considered nobility. It exudes a distant and forgotten handsomeness, an abandoned world of elegance and power, neither stiff nor louche, but regal and familial.

featured on: Pride and Prejudice (2005), Emma. (2020), Bridgerton (2020)

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Jonathan Bailey as Anthony Bridgerton in Bridgerton ― 1.01 Diamond of the First Water

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Audrey Hepburn as Jo Stockton in Funny Face (1957) dir. Stanley Donen

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favourite 2017 books:

The Wrath and The Dawn by Renee Ahdieh

It’s inevitable. When you meet the one who makes you smile as you’ve never smiled before, cry as you’ve never cried before… there is nothing to do but fall.