no other will but hers

bound to obey and serve cunt.

[edwardseymour]

jane seymour murdering anne boleyn’s dog, setting her bed on fire with her in it, leaving threatening messages for her in her chambers, wenching with henry while anne’s belly is doing it’s business, dangling her locket in front of anne, poisoning henry against her, moving into luxurious riverside lodgings in london and adorning herself in gorgeous finery while awaiting the deaths of six innocent people, getting betrothed to their killer the day after anne’s death to the tune of cannons, and going from nondescript lady-in-waiting to queen of england in a month—

[edwardseymour]

why do british female content creators who flirt with far right talking points all look literally the same?

[edwardseymour]

busty but only bc they’re overweight, badly fitted bras and terrible outfits, fuckass makeup and a red lip that never suits their undertone, fried ass hair…

[edwardseymour]

why do british female content creators who flirt with far right talking points all look literally the same?

[jeannepompadour]

Front and back views of English dress and gable hood by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1528–30

[daydreamsinthesun]

“Deliriously, he looked towards the day when his daughter Mary would avenge the wrongs committed to her mother. ‘It will be strange to some when my daughter cometh of age, she shall take place above My Lady of Somerset,’ he confided, ‘for then she shall be taken as a Queen’s daughter not as my daughter.’”

-Chris Skidmore, Edward VI: The Lost King of England, 99. 

[edwardseymour]

[redacted] archive give the docs i requested to me give them to me now

[litandlifequotes]

And I swear to you, if someone made me want to be so severing, then that motherfucker is a walking, bloody guillotine.

"If Upon Me in My Garden" by Francine J. Harris

[edwardseymour]

i love how fiercely mediocre the seymours are i really, really do it’s probably my all-time favourite thing about them

[edwardseymour]

put your made-up meritocracies and pseudo exceptionalism in the bin it's the seymours who survive to this day

[edwardseymour]

#really exposes the lie of great man history in some ways #'such and such was the most educated manwomanchildbeast of their day' yeah well jane seymour was plain & boring & SHE won the deck of cards #the seymours still hold their titles and the boleyns are food for worms so hows that for a rat race

[jareckiworld]

Skaistė Verdingytė — Apples of Memory (oil on canvas, 2020)

[catherinesboleyn]

“Tell me something honest, so the memories turn dark”

[edwardseymour]

celebration and a slaughter...

[edwardseymour]

“far from coming to regret the loss of more's counsel, however, henry's immediate response was a seemingly ghoulish revelling in his own cruelty. [...] two days after the execution of john fisher, and while more was in the tower awaiting trial, the city of london presented as part of the year's midsummer watch parade a pageant played by child-actors representing scenes from the book of revelation. at its centre was a tableau of clergymen being beheaded, possibly by the child actors generally, possibly by one representing henry himself [...] word of this grotesque spectacle [...] so delighted the king that, having dined with the skinners' company prior to the parade, he walked through the city to view it incognito before triumphantly revealing himself to the cheering crowds and taking their applause at the end.” (greg walker)

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“particularly sickening, but also highly significant, is the way henry staged and celebrated the deaths of those he formerly loved, and then ‘discovered’ to be traitors. when catherine of aragon died, he and his new queen dressed in bright yellow and danced the night away; when thomas cromwell, who had faithfully advanced his wishes and his authority for many years, was ignominiously deposed and executed, henry chose the day of his death for his wedding day, as he married katherine howard and extravagant celebration. these sudden reversals of fortune left his courtiers and subjects shaken, and as he grew older and more anxious, and the number of betrayals accumulated, henry’s swift turns from ebullience to savagery became more and more frightening”. (lucy wooding)

[glorianas]

The lure of Margaret Tudor lies in her obscurity. Margaret lived a life just as full, and just as tumultuous as Henry, and definitely more so than her sister Mary. Margaret organized a coup, married half as many people as her brother, and was always thirsting for power. This queen goes down in the history books as one of the most formidable women in Scottish history, along with her daughter –in- law, Mary of Guise. The life of this remarkable woman who flouted convention and destroyed tradition is one of the best historical treats. This entirely Tudor, Tudor. 

Margaret Tudor, Jenny Nicholson

[elephantlovemedleys]

Isabelle Huppert as Anne Brontë in Les Soeurs Brontë / The Brontë Sisters (1979)

[edwardseymour]

when you notice how much media and literature goes out of it's way to have jane seymour be a victim of physical and emotional violence you never really stop noticing it

[ednyfedfychan]

“The records of the black presence in Tudor England and Stuart Britain that do exist tell us that most black people were in domestic service and on the lower runs of Tudor society. The archives record their births and deaths but also their baptisms and marriages, suggesting that when given the opportunity they became integrated into the society around them. But the numbers of black Tudors are too small for us to talk of a ‘black community’.”

— Black and British: A Forgotten History, David Olusoga

[edwardseymour]

it’s a shame that the elizabeth films are a bit shit because the concept of kathy burke as mary i should, by rights, eat

[ymabdarogan]

Ironic how common it is to hear a sentiment like “NO ONE CARES if you don’t have any particular investment in Anne Boleyn YOU’RE NOT SPECIAL so DON’T TALK ABOUT IT just SHUT UP” from the kind of people who collectively agree to have a histrionic public meltdown if they catch you not clapping vigorously enough during Anne Boleyn The Movie Episode 63