I still would make the same choice.

Welcome to our little treasure trove. We are two Scandinavian vikingettes, Maria and Merja, making our own collection of things we find intriguing and beautiful. We are not a spoiler free blog, so be warned. Our current obsession is Lucifer and we hope...

[vivelareine]

I cannot tell you how heartened and pleased I am about everything I hear about you; the whole world is ecstatic. They are right, too: a King of twenty and a Queen of nineteen, all their actions are full of humanity, generosity, prudence and wisdom. … in a word my heart is overjoyed, and I pray God to preserve you for the good of your people, for the world, for your family, and for your old Mama…

–Maria Theresa to Marie Antoinette, 16 June 1774 [translation: Olivier Bernier, Secrets of Marie Antoinette]

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Powerful women in the Mediterranean region during the Ancient times → on screen:

Helen of Troy (Diane Kruger, Troy, 2004) Olympias of Epirus (Angelina Jolie, Alexander, 2004) Cleopatra VII Philopator (Monica Bellucci, Asterix & Obelix meet Cleopatra, 2002) Livia Drusilla (Alice Henley, Rome, 2007)

[chivalry-on-canvas]

Reliquary Bust of Charlemagne from the Aachen Cathedral Treasury

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IN THE GREY (2026)

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[didanagy]

HEDY LAMARR as DELILAH

SAMSON AND DELILAH (1949)

dir. cecil b. demille

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[wardengrill]

Ingrid Bergman as Paula Alquist in Gaslight (1944)

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[calisverse]

𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐇 𝐁𝐎𝐋𝐆𝐄𝐑 as 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘 / 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐈 𝐎𝐅 𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃

The Tudors. Season 3, Episode 4.

[delambelles]

We're cousins, then. We are sisters.

SOPHIE BAEK & POSY LI in Bridgerton Season Four, Part Two

[strawberrythiefs]

MARY & EDITH | DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE

ROSAMUND: Why not go shopping together? EDITH: With Mary? Not likely. — DOWNTON ABBEY 6.02

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All three of them.

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Camping.