May 2012
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Lady Catherine Grey, the younger sister of Lady...
everything-tudor:
Catherine Seymour, Countess of Hertford, was born at Bradgate Park in Leicester, on the 25th of August, 1540.
She was the second surviving daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, by his marriage to Lady Frances Brandon. She was the younger sister of Lady Jane Grey and older sister of Lady Mary Grey. Catherine Grey’s maternal grandparents were Charles Brandon, 1st Duke...
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From Merry Gourmet Miniatures
Tudor Dining Foods
The Tudor Era dates between 1558 and 1603 Almost all our tudor food across the range of prepared and kitchen food is what would have been served in a manor house, prosperous farm or merchants home for family and servants.
All the food in the Manor house and farm would have been produced on the estate. Only the exotic foods like the citrus fruits, (oranges and lemons) vine...
Hell no, Philippa Gregory: 3. "Henry was a... →
hellnophilippagregory:
The fact that even PG wasn’t stupid enough to include something in her novel really makes a statement about this person.
NOTICE: If you, or anyone you know, have taken The Other Boleyn Girl as fact, please see your doctor immediately, for you might have brain damage. He will most likely…
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Philippa Gregory Under the Literature section of...
Philippa Gregory, in works such as The Other Boleyn Girl, in which, among numerous other mistakes, she cuts out Mary Boleyn’s promiscuous past, and portrays Anne Boleyn as an evil woman and that the charges against her (such as sex with her brother) as accurate. Gregory claims that there is “doubt” in these areas and that she is merely giving her own “interpretation,”...
Hell no, Philippa Gregory: 2. "I want my first... →
hellnophilippagregory:
PLAGIARISM!!!
I don’t know if I should be more bothered by the fact that this person was blatantly preparing to copy TOBG, or the fact that they thought it was worth copying.
I’m going with the latter.
If you’re going to write historical fiction, it doesn’t have to be great to be published….
Hell no, Philippa Gregory: 1. "Philippa Gregory is... →
hellnophilippagregory:
I understand the implication is not that she is a literal genius of an esteemed IQ, so let’s put that falsehood aside.
Just think about this for a moment. Maybe she’s smart; if you judge based on university, she did go to the University of Sussex, and then the University of Edinburgh, which are…
“For six years, this year, and this, and this, and this, I did not love him. And...”
– Anne Boleyn from the film Anne of a Thousand Days (via myhistoryobsession)
Working History: Anne of the Thousand Days... →
workinghistory:
As I have said before, Anne of the Thousand Days influenced my love of Tudor History. I would not have become such a fan had it not been for this movie. I will do my best to remain impartial, but I think it is fairly obvious that this review is glowing.
I want to focus on three aspects that made…
This is and will always be one of my top five favorite movies period. I...
Working History: No! →
workinghistory:
It is never okay to be glad that someone died. I do not care who it is. Reveling in death makes you no better than the monsters you claim to hate!
Anne Boleyn was a good woman, she did not deserve to die. But it is not okay to be happy Jane Seymour died at birth. Anne Boleyn would not respond…
Working History: No! →
workinghistory:
It is never okay to be glad that someone died. I do not care who it is. Reveling in death makes you no better than the monsters you claim to hate!
Anne Boleyn was a good woman, she did not deserve to die. But it is not okay to be happy Jane Seymour died at birth. Anne Boleyn would not respond…
Fuck Yeah, History Foes!: Robert Devereux, 2nd... →
fuckyeahhistoryfoes:
An Elizabethan political twit, not the *sparkling* court favourite he is on occasion portrayed as. Ballsed up his post as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland during the Nine Years War, that he mightily talked himself into, yet failed to deliver on. Bitched off in court because Elizabeth I took away…
हैरिसन: Even though Henry VIII was a huge... →
z0ya:
Even though Henry VIII was a huge douchebag, I can’t hate him. He was vile and destructive and selfish, but I can’t hate him. I know for a fact my English teacher loathes him. He called me amazing though~ and told the class I’ll release a best-selling book on the Tudors in 10 years because I know…
Mary Boleyn or Frances Brandon? | History... →
the-coffin-club:
Love this argument against Alison Weir’s claim that the most common Mary Boleyn portrait is Frances Brandon.
“William Carey was the second son of Sir Thomas Carey (1479–1536), of Chilton...”
– There’s something very unsettling about their lives, it’s weird.
[Also: Benedict Cumberbatch as William Carey. Yeah.]
(via rt-hon-harry-koschei-saxon)
I need to start a different blog for these damn...
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romanticillusions:
The people complaining about Joss Stone being too pretty to play Anne of Cleves have obviously been out cold for the first two and a half seasons, haven’t they?
For God’s sake, Anne Boleyn was not as gorgeous as Natalie Dormer and Annabelle Wallis is hardly plain and bony and pale, is she?
Come on, people, they obviously sexed up the show.
Not to mention it...
sixtypercentunicorns:
Henry’s anger at Anne of Cleves not looking like her portrait is the Tudor equivalent of going for an online date and then realising that their profile picture was heavily photoshopped.
My mother is watching The Other Boleyn Girl
Me: So why does Anne have a B around her neck?
Mom: Because she's a Boleyn.
Me: You sure it isn't because she is Wife B?
Mom:
Me:
Mom:
Me:
Mom: More like Grade B.
stainedourshirts:
Words between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn scrawled in the margins of a prayer book as they both took morning mass in the royal chapel
If you remember my love in your prayers as strongly as I adore you, I shall hardly be forgotten, for I am yours. Henry R forever
By daily proof you shall me find
To be to you both loving and kind. AB
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QUEEN ANNE BOLEYN ON THE DAY OF HER EXECUTION FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1536
This morning she sent for me, that I might be with her at such time as she received the good Lord, to the intent I should hear her speak as touching her innocency alway to be clear. And in the writing of this she sent for me, and at my coming she said, “Mr. Kingston, I hear I shall not die afore noon, and I am very...
Today, 476 years ago, Anne Boleyn died for crimes...
I wear a red ribbon around my neck today
workinghistory:
So that I may never forget
I did the same thing but I wore this one
I wish it went the whole way around
May 19th, 1536.
rjameson:
At dawn on 19th May 1536, Queen Anne Boleyn celebrated the Mass for the last time, receiving the Sacrament from her almoner, John Skip. She then ate breakfast and waited to hear Sir William Kingston’s footsteps outside her door.
At 8am, the Constable appeared, informing Anne that the hour of her death was near and that she should get herself ready.
(via the Anne Boleyn Files)
It really bothers me when people blame Anne Boleyn...
ladyroxton:
Furthermore, if we’re doing that stupid, slut shaming blame game of putting responsibility solely on the woman (you know for being a ~whore because men have no fucking willpower against vaginas), let’s also blame Jane Seymour.
Except neither women are to blame. Henry is to blame.
