#historicaledit

"December 1, 1627 My father has four wives, but I am the daughter of the one he loves most, Arjumand Banu Begum. I, too, am a Begum, a princess. My name is Jahanara, great-granddaughter of Akbar, the greatest Moghul ruler if India... I have diamonds the size of beetles, and I have thirty servants and eight elephants trained especially for me. I have everything except freedom. We are all of us imprisoned: my mother, my father, my younger brothers, and my younger sister. In tents hung with gold cloth, we drink from emerald-studded chalices and yet we are prisoners."

badass women of history ↝ ahed tamimi, the lioness of palestine

Initially, the princess's life would have been a simple one, based in the old palace of Placentia at Greenwich. Nothing remains now of the buildings Elizabeth would have known there as a child, which would be demolished and rebuilt by her future husband, Henry VII.