and my name shall never be forgotten. @queenaboleyna - Tumblr Blog

someone has prolly already done this but here

#i know i sound like a broken record but #honestly its weird to label tt as trashy and then prop up dramas that are just as bad and somehow even more innacurate #while instead pretending theyve done Academic Research and whatnot #the tudors #the lady has spoken #period dramas #history

ifallelseperished

Although throughout her reign Queen Elizabeth I never spoke publicly of her mother, the “treasonous” and beheaded second wife of Henry VIII, upon Elizabeth’s death in 1603, this ring was removed from her finger. Within its secret compartment are two miniature enamel portraits, one of Elizabeth, the other, of a woman many believe to be Anne.

#anne boleyn #elizabeth i

hyperfixation4whatever

On the 19th of May, Anne Boleyn was beheaded

There was a powerful compulsion within Tudor religious culture to die a good death, and this, for condemned criminals, included conforming to the model of the pious scaffold confession Condemned men and women were supposed to behave as penitent sinners (for were not all mortal sinners in the eyes of God?), set a good example, and thus make peace with the world, their accusers, and God. [..]. In this context, Anne's final words might be read as a model of restraint. Leaving open the question of her innocence, she made peace with her accusers and prepared to meet her God with a conscience clear of rancour. — Greg Walker, Rethinking the Fall of Anne Boleyn

“Good Christian people, I have not come here to preach a sermon; I have come here to die. For according to the law and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak of that whereof I am accused and condemned to die, but I pray God save the King and send him long to reign over you, for a gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never, and to me he was ever a good, a gentle, and sovereign lord. And if any person will meddle of my cause, I require them to judge the best. And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.” — Anne Boleyn

#anne boleyn

glorianas

JODIE COMER as ELIZABETH OF YORK

THE WHITE PRINCESS

(2017)

#the white princess #elizabeth of york #jodie comer

venustapolis

Italian palace at dusk (Ferdinand Knab, 1893)

#art

edwardslovelyelizabeth

"The King [Edward IV] was wedded to Elisabeth Gray [Elizabeth Woodville], widow, the which Sir John Gray that was her husband was slain at York field in king Harry's party, and the same Elisabeth was daughter to the Lord Rivers, and the wedding was privately in a secret place, the first day of May the year above said [May 1, 1464]"

The Workworth's Chronicle

#the white queen #elizabeth woodville #edward iv #rebecca ferguson #max irons