and what of my wrath?

"More lands for the traitors? I wonder if that does not make you sick."

James Norton as Ormund Hightower

Milly Alcock photographed by Nino Muñoz for Variety

James Norton as Ormund Hightower

Anne Boleyn's red yellow dress in The Tudors 2x09

British women served at the same guns with their husbands, and during a contest of many hours, never shrank from danger, but animated all around them.

—Admiral Edward Pellew, Viscount Exmouth, reporting on the Battle of Algiers 

"Not all women living in naval vessels disembarked when the crowds of prostitutes were sent ashore shortly before the ships sailed. From the late seventeenth century until the middle of the nineteenth, it was customary for wives of warrant officers to go to sea. A warrant officer was assigned to a particular ship “in constant employ,” unlike both commissioned officers and seamen, who were signed onto a vessel only for a single commission, and who were often transferred to another ship before the commission was completed. A warrant officer and his wife might continue to live in a ship even when she was taken out of commission. 

The wives of the ancient triumvirate of warrant officers—the boatswain, the gunner, and the carpenter—went to sea as a matter of course. So did wives of the purser and the master, who associated with the commissioned officers on the quarterdeck, as well as those of lower rank: the cooper, the sailmaker, and the cook. Petty officers—men who were selected from among the able seamen to direct the less skilled—and a few seamen, usually experienced men who made the navy their career, also sometimes brought their wives to sea.