the white queen

“He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.” not an official blog

[haticesultanas]

It is easy to be squeamish when you are a girl. It is easy to be principled when you have nothing. But when you are a woman and you have a son destined for the throne, after years of waiting, and when you are a queen and you want to keep your crown, you will be ready to do anything; anything. You will be ready to kill for it: kill innocents if need be. 

gif request meme // bethwoodvilles asked: the white queen + favorite minor character

[haticesultanas]

I thought this marriage was for me but it’s not. It’s all for them.

gif request meme // bethwoodvilles asked: the white queen + most attractive

[haticesultanas]

I escorted Margaret to England for her wedding when she was just fifteen. I carried her train at her coronation. I was by her side when she gave birth to her son. I was her dearest friend. If any harm comes to me, it will be your head she spikes on the city walls.

gif request meme // bethwoodvilles asked: the white queen + favorite platonic relationship

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gif/picspam request meme ▷ nellgwyne asked: the white queen + favourite minor character

“How else can a poor widow make her way in the world?”

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gif request meme ▷ darkphoenixgoddess10 asked: twq + favourite romantic relationship

“Do you love me Richard, truly?” “I do. Perhaps I always have.”

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gif request meme // anon asked: edward iv + favorite lines

[stardust-pond]

King Richard III & Queen Anne Neville | Historical OTP | Insp. + <<

[cortegiania]

Margaret had survived the dangers of her son’s birth. She had helped protect him during the years that followed, and risked her own life to conspire on his behalf against Richard III. In promoting her son as king, she had sacrificed her own superior claim to the throne. […]  In the post-Reformation England of the seventeenth century Margaret’s spirituality came to be judged mere superstition and her i n t e l l i g e n c e and t o u g h n e s s of character were regarded with equal suspicion. […] That Margaret was responsible for the princes’ deaths is a theory becoming fashionable again and remains linked to cultural p r e j u d i c e s. Margaret’s support for her son had been construed as those of an obsessively ambitious mother, yet for her generation she was fulfilling a d u t y. She was honour bound to help him regain his rightful inheritance, and later to help him restore the House of Lancaster, into which she had been born.

Leanda de Lisle - Tudor: the Family Story { x }

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my favorite characters → elizabeth woodville

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british royal family + favourite historical member ♔ lady margaret beaufort (requested by anonymous)

[ohfairmaidenofyork]

♔ Edward the Fourth ♔ 22nd of April 1442 ~ 9th of April 1483

Plantagenet, House of York

‘He was a goodly personage and very princely to behold; of heart courageous, politic in counsel, in adversity nothing abashed, in prosperity rather joyful than proud, in peace just and merciful, in war sharp and fierce, in the field bold and hardy, and nevertheless no further than wisdom would, adventurous.’ - Thomas More

[bethwoodvilles]

A war that won’t be won on the battlefield

[trueloveisdelena]

my heart is set upon a lusty pin;

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[haticesultanas]

The Tudor dynasty was a royal house of Welsh and English origin, descended in the male line from the Tudors of Penmynydd, which ruled the Kingdom of England and its realms, including their ancestral Wales and the Lordship of Ireland, later the Kingdom of Ireland, from 1485 until 1603. Its first monarch was Henry VII, a descendant through his mother of a legitimised branch of the English royal House of Lancaster. […] In total, five Tudor monarchs ruled their domains for just over a century. Henry VIII of England was the only male-line male heir of Henry VII to live to the age of maturity. Issues around the Royal succession (including marriage and the succession rights of women) became major political themes during the Tudor era. The House of Stuart came to power in 1603 when the Tudor line failed, as Elizabeth I died without issue.

(as requested by anon)

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You are Henry T u d o r