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THE TUDORS (2007-2010)

ANITA BRIEM as JANE SEYMOUR in THE TUDORS

Jessie Buckley as Agnes Hathaway Hamnet (2025) dir. Chloé Zhao

LUCREZIA BORGIA The Borgias 2.08

Anne Boleyn's golden dress in The Tudors Season 1

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(Almost) Every Costume Per Episode + Elizabeth of York's teal cioppa with gold print in 1x05,6,7,8

Isabelle de France (1389-1409) est la fille du roi Charles VI de France et de son épouse Isabeau de Bavière. Dans un but de restaurer la paix entre la France et l’Angleterre, Isabelle est au coeur des tractations pour devenir l’épouse de Richard II d’Angleterre. Le mariage a lieu en 1396. En dépit de l'important écart d'âge avec son époux, Isabelle entretient de très bonnes relations avec Richard II jusqu'à sa déposition en 1399. Séparée de son conjoint et privée de son titre royal par le nouveau roi Henri IV, elle est retenue en Angleterre par ce dernier, qui espère la marier à son fils aîné. Pressé par Charles VI, Henri IV accepte qu'Isabelle retourne en France en 1401, sans pour autant restituer sa dot. Informée de la mort de Richard II en captivité, Isabelle réside auprès de sa mère avant de se remarier en secondes noces en 1406 avec son cousin Charles d’Orléans. Elle meurt en 1409, après trois ans de mariage, en donnant naissance à leur unique enfant.

Long before she founded her convent in Poitiers, Radegund expected to live out her days as a queen. She was born into the royal house of the Kingdom of Thuringia, in what is today central Germany. The precise year of her birth, as with so many events in her life, cannot be determined with certainty, but it fell in either the late 510s or, more likely, the early 520s. While she was still very young, Radegund lost both of her parents. Yet this tragedy was soon eclipsed by the downfall of her dynasty, and the slaughter of most members of her family, following an invasion by the Franks in 531. King Chlothar I took Radegund as his captive and later made her his bride. For several years, the young Radegund reigned as queen alongside the very man who had butchered many of her relatives, until Chlothar went one step further and caused her surviving brother to be killed. Following this unforgivable crime, Radegund took religious vows and, after living for a few years in a villa, she founded her grand convent in Poitiers during the 550s. There she remained, in pious devotion and ascetic self- denial, until her death in 587 (outliving Chlothar by more than a quarter century). In what might be considered her greatest single achievement, she obtained from the imperial court in Constantinople what were thought to be fragments of the ‘True Cross’, the wood used to crucify Jesus on the hill of Golgotha in Jerusalem. Facing down opposition from her local bishop, Radegund managed to have the relic placed within her convent, which subsequently acquired the name of ‘Holy Cross.’ — Radegund: The Trials and Triumphs of a Merovingian Queen by E.T. Dailey

Mary Stuart's grey-brown & golden cloak in Season 04, Episode 12.