roses with thorns

𝐇𝐄𝐍𝐑𝐘 𝐂𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐋𝐋 as 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐄𝐒 𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐎𝐍

"We will cut Henry’s men down and all these years of Tudor filth will seem like nothing at all."

Eleanor, acting as her husband’s agent at Angers from spring 1165 to summer 1166, was again in close contact with her Poitevin subjects, and she learned first-hand of their dissatisfaction. She heard from her cousin Ralph de Faye and others that the nobles were threatening to withdraw their allegiance from Henry “because of his pruning of their liberties.” Dissatisfaction mounted to such a level that the Poitevin bishops sought to end the English king’s rule over them by challenging the legitimacy of his marriage to their duchess. When papal legates arrived in Poitou to confer with the Poitevin clergy about the Becket conflict, the prelates drafted a document to present to them detailing the couple’s genealogies to demonstrate that the marriage was unlawful because of their relationship within the Church’s prohibited degrees of kinship.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers as King Henry VIII in The Tudors —S01E03 'Wolsey, Wolsey, Wolsey!'

+bonus— Henry VII in the afterlife:

THE WHITE QUEEN (2013)

dir. james kent,jamie payne,colin teague

♚ @dailytudors: TUDOR WEEK 2025 ♚

day six | best Tudor firsts or lasts in history

The coronation of Anne Boleyn as the Queen of England on the 1st of June 1533 was to be the last independent English (and in turn British) coronation of a consort. There were plans to crown her immediate successor but these fell through and further successors were either crowned with their husbands or part of the crowning ceremony of their wives on their joint ascension to their roles (though there are exceptions to the rule), or, acknowledged as the consort of the reigning monarch on occasion of their marriage.

“There was some fun in it.”

silver's all-time favourite movies: 2/30

The Lion in Winter (1969) dir. Anthony Harvey