Favorite Character Meme 1/2 Episodes Mistress Seymour, Will You Place Your Hand Upon This Holy Bible

♔ Favorite Character Meme  →  1/2 Episodes “Mistress Seymour, will you place your hand upon this Holy Bible and will you promise and swear to serve Her Majesty Queen Anne faithfully, honorably and discreetly; and will you promise and swear that your conduct will always be modest, virtuous and good, presenting at all times a godly spectacle to others?” “I do so promise and swear.”  — 2x08 Lady In Waiting 

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

“The relationship between Anne and Henry was always tempestuous. Her outspokenness and involvement in politics did not make her an easy spouse; there was a great deal of love but also a great deal of temper. And Anne, for all her declamations, was less confident than she seemed. There had been many attacks on her and she stood at the centre of a storm that showed no signs of abating.”

— Linda Porter

The example that came to mind for this was actually Julia Fox, because when she talks about the first time Henry told KoA he was seeking an annulment, and that “all would be for the best”, and how she cried when he told her this, she was like “oh she was probably using tears to manipulate him” and I was like.......uhm....that seems...decidedly unkind?

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 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?

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.

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,