I want to be queen

asymptometry:

myqueenkhaleesi:

The story goes something like this: after nearly six years of abstaining from sexual relations until she could be certain it would lead to marriage, Anne Boleyn finally allowed Henry VIII into her bed sometime around November 1532. The couple first slept together at the end of a state visit to Calais, on the voyage back across the Channel or, at the latest possible date, in Dover Castle shortly after their return to England. For years, Henry had been stuck in interminable battles with Rome and Spain to try and divorce his post-menopausal Spanish queen, Katherine of Aragon. Now, with the backing of the English clergy and the French monarchy apparently within her grasp, Anne Boleyn at last felt confident enough to abandon her much-vaunted moral principles and have sex with the man she’d famously been saying “no” to since 1527.

Whether she did this because she finally felt secure in her position as queen-to-be or because she planned to use her sexuality to manipulate Henry into speeding up his plan to break with Rome for her sake is still a matter of debate. Either way, some time around Christmas or New Year, Anne must have realised that her new found sex life has resulted in pregnancy. Panicked at the prospect of his longed-for heir being born out of wedlock, Henry rushed ahead to make Anne his wife, by fair means or foul. In the pre-dawn darkness he, Anne and a few of their closest confidantes gathered in a small chapel in Anne’s splendid new palace at Whitehall and were secretly married.

_{A Royal Affair (2012)}

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sassymajesty:

_{TWENTY DAY CHALLENGE
↳} Two characters you wish would interact

Princess Aurora meeting young Regina
_{“I’m not going to say it’s easy, losing your true love. It is not. It’s the hardest thing one will ever face. It breaks your very soul and the world loses all of its colors. But it also defines you. And right now, Regina, you’re the only one in charge of your future. You can grow bitter, hating people who did nothing to deserve all of it. Or you can try to find the strength you need to forgive. It’s in your heart, I know it is – you just have to search a bit deeper to find it. And if you want to, you can be free. But first, you have to let go of all this anger, Regina.”}

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darlingdukeofsuffolk:

The Tudors Meme

Three Outfits ♣ Anne of Cleves’s Christmas dress [3/3]

Captain Picard Day?

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lacedinfortheride:

waistedlives:

jyakettami:

Hey out there. I bet that some of you may like wearing corsets. I think they are delicate and elegant, perfect for a lady. However, watch out if you wear them every single day. Wearing a corset was a death cause in the 18th century.

MAJOR LE SIGH

These (pretty anatomically incorrect) drawings and claims brought to you by the same doctors who said “Masturbation makes you go blind” and “Math makes a woman’s brain go pop”. They also didn’t know what germ was.

Also daily corset wear doesn’t necessarily mean waist training, which is what creates the extreme shapes and has the highest risks of health problems.

Thank you!

velvetsoul:

Hypatia - Agora

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