hidden and patient

CRIMSON PEAK (2015) dir. Guillermo del Toro

"The new Queen processed with such gravity and grace that she seemed born to the purple. Though small in stature, she carried herself so upright in her gold mantle that all remarked how she outshone even the jewels of her crown." — Calendar of State Papers, Venetian, Vol. 2 (1867), ed. Rawdon Brown, p. 2 (Andrea Badoer to the Signory, July 1509)

SQUID GAME | 2x04 | Yeoseos Gaeui Dali

Lee Byung-hun as Hwang In-ho SQUID GAME Season 2 | Created by Hwang Dong-hyuk

SQUID GAME | 1x09 | Unsu Joeun Nal

GIHUN x INHO (FRONTMAN) Squid Game | Season 2

FAYE MARSAY as ANNE NEVILLE THE WHITE QUEEN Episode 9 The Princes in the Tower

SAI BENNETT as MARY 'ROSE' TUDOR THE SPANISH PRINCESS 2.03 Grief

What remains is my love for you. You are what sustains me in battle. You are my home.

Winona Ryder in Dracula (1992) dir. Francis Ford Coppola

SQUID GAME | 2x03 | 001

“Haseki-i sani” (Second haseki) of Sultan İbrahim, mother of Ahmed II. Hatice Muazzez was also called Hatice Sultan. Her nationality, place, and date of birth are unknown. The oldest document, dated 9 August 1642, containing her name, is a order of Sultan İbrahim to bring goods from the Tersane Mansion to furnish her room in the Harem. It can be estimated that “Haseki-i Sani Hatice Muazzez” was 18-20 years old when she gave birth to İbrahim’s third prince, Ahmed. In the History of Naima it is stated that she is the second haseki of Sultan İbrahim, and on 6 Zilhijce 1052 (February 25, 1643), “Haseki-i sani Mu'azzez Hanım was delivered of a prince named Sultan Ahmed to His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim”. – Necdet Sakaoğlu, Bu Mülkün Kadın Sultanları 

requested: Turhan, Saliha Dilasub, Hatice Muazzez + stereotypes

The presence of more than one haseki was a significant change in the reigns of Murad and Ibrahim, signaling that the age of the favorite was coming to an end. In this period the meaning of the title haseki begins to shift from a single “favorite” to something more general like “royal consort,” similar to the earlier khatun. This title deflation was a sign of the return of an earlier principle of royal reproduction, that of a number of concubines roughly equal in status. That other concubines were no longer consigned to languish in the shadow of a favorite is suggested not only by the fact that each was endowed with the title haseki but also that their stipends were on the whole equal. — Leslie P. Peirce, The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire

↳ died at the age of 62 years and a half years before the death of his son