Richard, Duke Of Gloucester, Was The Youngest Son Of Richard, Duke Of York And Cecily Neville. By The

Richard, Duke of Gloucester, was the youngest son of Richard, Duke of York and Cecily Neville. By the time his brother became King Edward IV, when Richard was just eleven, he had already endured many hardships, including the deaths of his beloved father and eldest brother Edmund, and foreign exile. However, he soon proved himself to be a young man of character: he was a valiant warrior and a fiercely loyal subject. Though he (likely already) had two illegitimate children when he married Anne Neville, he seems to have been faithful to her—highly unusual for the time. Richard was, of course, hardly a saint. Yet while questions remain concerning his actions following Edward’s death in 1483, the fact remains that he was a remarkably successful and socially-conscious king despite his his brief reign. He died bravely in the summer of 1485 and remains the last English king to have fallen in battle.

Sorry but the ‘without her arrogance’ kills me , Juana was REGNANT! 📢 📢 📢 Regnant.

‘Comparing Anne Boleyn and Katherine of Aragon in a way that is unfavorable to the latter is evil and sexist’ yeah, well, Katherine of Aragon partisans do this all the time with her elder sister so :)

Today in Tudor History: Anne Boleyn is crowned at Westminster Abbey (June 1st, 1533) 

For your wit alone many men would bemoan, And since it is so, many still cry aloud. It is a great loss that you are dead and gone,

I find it weird when Katherine of Aragon biographers try to shoehorn in her being ‘Machiavellian’, like...I think she was politically gifted, I think she used her networks well, I think she knew when to be discreet, I think she knew how to utilize her public moments for public sympathy/approval (famously, like Blackfriars) but sometimes I feel like biographers apply this...weirdly, to private moments?

I want to tell you that in this slippery world, you represent for me all that is innocent, everything that is good, unsullied, uncorrupted.