#mark smeaton

[threesonsofyorks]

NATALIE DORMER and DAVID ALPAY as Queen Anne Boleyn and Mark Smeaton The Tudors (2007-2010) — Season two, episode five

[elizabethboleyn]

You are in Henry VIII's court and have been condemned to die why are you being executed (allegedly)?

Heresy - I am a Catholic

Heresy - I am a Protestant

I had relations with the Queen pre her marriage to the King

I had relations with the Queen during here marriage to the King

I aided the Queen in her affair

I cheated on the King and had midnight trysts

I couldn't give the King a son and meddled too much in politics

I wanted to overthrow the King

I am the Queen's brother and made fun of his prowess

I prophesized the King's death

I refused to take the Oath of Supremacy

I participated in the Pilgrimage of Grace

Voting ended onFeb 1, 2025

[austin--friars]

How fitting, Patrick thinks. Mark Smeaton always had the most beautiful voice, as pure as an angel’s hymn. Oh, how Patrick had prayed for a different outcome before this day; one void of death and tragedy. He thinks of the unanswered letters sent to his uncle, the Bishop of Winchester, pleading for him to intervene. Yet, he fears all believe these rumors against Mark. All that is left to do now, after of course performing the final absolution of sins, is to comfort Mark. Who knows what one feels when their head is sliced from their shoulders; where their soul goes and what they will see those few seconds after their skull falls upon the platform? Patrick does not, and he prays he never will, but in less than an hour this young boy of twenty three, will have faced a tragedy that men years his senior will never dream of.  “A song bird. How perfect, Mark. I believe–” Both men are startled by the violent pounding upon the door, and in steps Kingston and the guard, their faces grave. It is time then, for Mark to die. Patrick squeezes his hand, and rises with him.

The Death of Mark Smeaton

[aqrilene]

A commission of Joey Batey as Mark Smeaton for @everlastingfable

Thank you so much! I had a blast painting this dandy fellow

[vermillionbedfellow]

thomas cromwell and his fuck ass bob orchestrating the downfall of anne boleyn and her 'lovers' to elevate himself in the eyes of his unstable maniacal work wife

[edwardseymour]

Hi! Hope you're well! Do you think Anne Boleyn was very elitist? I don't know if it's very reliable but her reported interaction with Mark Smeaton seems very much so.

hi there! i'm good, hope you're doing well!

✨ terfs/zionists fuck off ✨

in my opinion, almost certainly anne was elitist - the entire social framework she existed in depended on a hierarchy, after all — but i'm not sure she was especially so. after all, it has been argued that her failure to conform to the social expectations of queenship is what ultimately brought her down: "anne had been behaving like the young lady-in-waiting she had long been, not with the dignity and restraint befitting her new status" (bernard).

so i am sure elitism or snobbery was certainly a trait she would have shared with many of her peers... and i think it would have likely been expected to one degree or another. when she scolded mark smeaton with the words 'you may not look to have me speak to you as i should do a noble man, because you be an inferior person, it is elitism within an elitist system — as it was also a significant enforcement of the etiquette and hierarchy that made up the court dynamic: "it was not for a commoner to disregard her question in this way, nor then to dismiss himselt from her presence. anne's tart reminder to him of the nature of hierarchy is a reaction to this" (lipscombe). it followed smeaton supposedly snubbing anne, which was "overstepping the boundaries of social hierarchy, whether or not anything inappropriate had ever passed between them" (clark).

then again, our record of the interaction comes from anne boleyn recounting it in the tower, so perhaps she was intentionally portraying herself in such a manner to diminish any accusations of guilt: "her disdainful reproach — dismissing him as ‘an inferior person’ — suggests that she was trying to distance herself from him, to show her gaoler how little she had thought of him" (bernard). by this point smeaton had, after all, already confessed to adultery with anne, so perhaps in her desperation she thought her best defence was to throw herself on hierarchy to detach herself from smeaton. if so, then tragically, she was wrong, and she failed.

[rainsaysthings]

Dear god. I may never recover from this image. The hair. The boots. 🫣🫣

My Tav would invite this bard into her party. And he'd steal Astarion from her before they settled on a throuple.

[finitevariety]

imagine being tortured and executed for a crime you probably didn't commit and, 500 years later, the first thing that shows up when someone googles you is some deviantart fanart showing your gutters. dear god