roses with thorns

Mostly Tudors/Wars of the Roses with sprinklings of other historical stuff occasionally // Anne Boleyn Apologist™️

[agrippinaes]

MAKE ME CHOOSE: @yelena-belxva asked: anne boleyn in the tudors (2007-2010) or anne boleyn (2021)?

[bforbetterthanyou]

Do you think historical fiction (in any form) is voyeuristic?

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[catherinesboleyn]

Wolf Hall season 2 costumes and headpieces

episode one

[elephantlovemedleys]

After her last speech, all shred of hope she might have held on to slowly left her body and soul as she kneeled down and prayed to God one last time. The act itself by the swordsman was swift and smooth— God did take mercy on her after all. Anne Boleyn, the woman who had changed the course of history, was now dead. Despite Henry's efforts to destroy her reputation, she would forever be immortalised, in all her intelligence and strength, in the injustice of her death. —  Thorns, Lust, and Glory: The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn, Estelle Paranque

[lizzieforbes]

[bforbetterthanyou]

Do you think historical fiction (in any form) is voyeuristic?

Yes

No

Depends (please elaborate)

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[tudordramasource]

NATALIE PORTMAN as Anne Boleyn in THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL (2008) | dir. Justin Chadwick

[batfleckgifs]

BEN AFFLECK as NED ALLEYN SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE ‧ 1998

[thomascromwelll-deactivated2025]

JODIE COMER as Elizabeth of York in The White Princess — Episode one.

[bforbetterthanyou]

Do you think historical fiction (in any form) is voyeuristic?

Yes

No

Depends (please elaborate)

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[elizabethboleyn]

THE TUDORS (2007 - 2010) | Season One Subway Promotional Material

[elephantlovemedleys]

Natalie Dormer and Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII in The Tudors (S2E01 EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL)

[catherinesboleyn]

Anne Boleyn in The Tudors 2x02

[bforbetterthanyou]

Do you think historical fiction (in any form) is voyeuristic?

Yes

No

Depends (please elaborate)

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[didanagy]

THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL (2008)

dir. justin chadwick

[ladygiselletudor]

The Tudors Favorites Costumes ♔: Anne´s brown gown

[fideidefenswhore]

And as touching the Queen, if it be adjudged by the law of God that she is my lawful wife, there was never thing more pleasant nor more acceptable to me in my life, both for the discharge and clearing of my conscience and also for the good qualities and conditions the which I know to be in her. For I assure you all, that beside her noble parentage of the which she is descended (as you well know) she is a woman of most gentleness, of most humility and buxomness, yea and of all good qualities appertaining to nobility, she is without comparison as I this twenty years almost have had the true experiment, so that if I were to marry again, if the marriage might be good, I would surely chose her above all other women.

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On the other side the approved, excellent virtuous [qualities] of the said gentlewoman [Anne], the purity of her life, her constant virginity, her maidenly and womanly pudicity, her soberness, chasteness, meekness, humility, wisdom, descent of right noble and high through regal blood, education in all good and laudable [qualities] and manners, apparent aptness to procreation of children, with her other infinite good qualities, more to be regarded and esteemed than the only progeny,“ be the grounds on which the King’s desire is founded, which Wolsey regards as honest and necessary.