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lonelyqueenofhearts · 2 months

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someone talk to me the way henry talks about fanny <33

"'...with such unpretending gentleness, so much as if it were a matter of course that she was not to have a moment at her own command, her hair arranged as neatly as it always is, and one little curl falling forward as she wrote, which she now and then shook back, and in the midst of all this, still speaking at intervals to /me/, or listening, and as if she liked to listen, to what I said. Had you seen her so, Mary, you would not have implied the possibility of her power over my heart ever ceasing.'"

i literally ceased to exist

"'I could so wholly and absolutely confide in her,' said he;' and /that/ is what I want.'"

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lonelyqueenofhearts · 8 months

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Six Wives as Taylor Swift songs

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lonelyqueenofhearts · 8 months

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𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓯𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝔀𝓲𝓿𝓮𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓟𝓱𝓲𝓵𝓲𝓹 𝓘𝓘

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Philip IV of Spain and Elisabeth of France

When Elisabeth of France, the eldest daughter of King Henri IV and Marie de Medici, arrived at the Spanish court, Elisabeth under went significant change from a carefree young girl to a serious politician in her own right, acquiring political experience that would serve the crown well during the last years of her life. As the political situation grew more complicated, Elisabeth responded competently to the important matters that Philip IV gradually began to delegate to her. Elisabeth of France’s period of governance came at a crucial moment for the Spanish Monarchy, from 1642 to 1644, when it was undergoing an intense economic, military, and political crisis. At this same time, the king’s favourite and minister Count-Duke of Olivares fell from power,creating a vacuum that the queen hurried to fill, and her political influence notably increased after January 1643.

Even though the power she wielded was necessarily delegated by Philip IV, in times of political crisis, her role crucially influenced the Spanish government. While Olivares’s fall had facilitated her assuming this role, it was the queen’s extraordinary political skills and, in particular, her success in negotiating financial support and military maneuvers that proved she was equal to the task of governing in the king’s absence. The first time the queen had been given power were the years 1626 and 1632, when the king left Madrid to summon the Cortes or Parliaments of Aragon, Valencia, and Catalonia.

In August 1627, the queen’s role took on greater importance, as the king became seriously ill, precipitating one of the most critical moments of his reign. Given what seemed to be the likelihood of his death, Philip wrote a will and testament according to which Elisabeth, who was pregnant at the time, would become regent until the unborn child, if a son, would reach majority. If a daughter, she was to marry her paternal uncle, the infante Carlos, and the couple would inherit the crown. The king recovered the first week of September.

The revolt of Catalonia, which began on June 7, 1640, was followed by the revolt of Portugal in December that same year. These unprecedented rebellions within the Iberian peninsula coincided with other armed conflicts through out Europe in which Spain participated. France had declared war on Spain just five years earlier, and since then, Philip IV had mentioned several times that he wished to go to the battlefront. News that Louis XIII had visited the French troops in March 1642 caused Philip to visit his as well. He departed from Madrid in April 1642, leaving Elisabeth and her son, Baltasar Carlos, in tears. In addition to her activities with the Junta de Gobierno, the queen attended council meetings and royal ceremonies in the company of Baltasar Carlos, who had just turned thirteen. Her actions as head of government served as an example to the young prince. The queen took charge of the government for nearly eight months, until the king returned in early December.

Elisabeth had two main concerns during her final year as governor: first, she had to find the monies to supply the armies fighting both the Catalonian rebels and the French; and second, she had to secure funds for the defense of the Portuguese border. In both cases she was assisted by Chumacero, the Council president, with whom she consulted daily. Thanks in part to her efforts, the army at long last achieved several victories in 1644. Philip and Elisabeth wrote to each other regarding government affairs, just as Charles V and Empress Isabel had done a century earlier. Elisabeth of France retained an active role in governance until September 1644, when the first symptoms of erysipelas, the disease that would eventually lead to her death, first appeared. A few days after his wife’s death, in a letter to the queen’s close friend, the Countess of Paredes, the king wrote,

“Countess, you may judge how I have reached this point; in one day I have lost my wife, my friend, my helper and counselor in all my labors. Surely I must be made of bronze, for I have not lost my mind or my life.”

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Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez, Isabel de Borbón and the Governance of the Spanish Monarchy

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lonelyqueenofhearts · 1 year

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Edit of one of my favorite couples from

Carlos Rey Emperador. Maria & Maximilian.

#Maximilian ii #Maria of austria #Maria of austria and portugal #carlos rey emperador #Charles v #period drama edit #period drama #historical edit #Alvaro cervantes #infanta maria #maximiliano ii #house of habsburg #habsburg #Youtube

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lonelyqueenofhearts · 1 year

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Don Carlos: If I had a nickle for every time my father got married to my fiance I would have two nickles. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

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lonelyqueenofhearts · 1 year

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My fancast for the role of King Felipe II of Spain ...

Patrick Criado

Carles Francino

Carlos Hipólito

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lonelyqueenofhearts · 1 year

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𝒟𝒶𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝑜𝒻: 𝒫𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒾𝓅 𝐼𝐼 𝑜𝒻 𝒮𝓅𝒶𝒾𝓃:

-𝐼𝓈𝒶𝒷𝑒𝓁 𝒞𝓁𝒶𝓇𝒶 𝐸𝓊𝑔𝑒𝓃𝒾𝒶 (𝟣𝟧𝟨𝟨-𝟣𝟨𝟥𝟥)

-𝒞𝒶𝓉𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓃𝒶 𝑀𝒾𝒸𝒶𝑒𝓁𝒶 (𝟣𝟧𝟨𝟩-𝟣𝟧𝟫𝟩)

-𝑀𝒶𝓇í𝒶 (𝟣𝟧𝟪𝟢-𝟣𝟧𝟪𝟥)

#philip ii of spain #isabel clara eugenia #catalina micaela #isabel de valois #maria de austria #ana de austria #elisabeth of valois #anna of austria #felipe ii #felipe ii de españa #aura garrido #pilar lopez de ayala

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lonelyqueenofhearts · 1 year

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Will we ever see a young, blond and gorgeously dressed Philip II of Spain onscreen? Not counting Carlos Rey Emperador.

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𝘐𝘴𝘢𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘦, 𝘍𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘯, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯 + 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴

#isabella of castile #ferdinand ii of aragon #Isabel #Isabella of aragon #joanna the mad #joanna of castile #philip the handsome #catherine of aragon #henry viii #John of aragon #Maria of aragon #Manuel i of portugal #Michelle Jenner #Catalina de Aragon #Youtube

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lonelyqueenofhearts · 1 year

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Don't mind me, I'm just thinking about how Joanna I of Castile named three daughters after her sisters and wanted to name her firstborn son after her brother.

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lonelyqueenofhearts · 2 years

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The funniest part of the whole conflict about paternity that was raised in this episode is that it is literally pointless for two distinct reasons:

1. Rhaenyra’s children are not bastards.

2. Regardless of the paternity, Rhaenyra’s children are still Targaryens.

So lets break this down.

Number 1: The bastard question

Alicent is pissed that Rhaenyra is “committing treason” or whatever by having kids with someone else but… her kids aren’t bastards. And I don’t mean that in a “hey Alicent your kids suck but Nyra’s are chill” kind of way, I mean that literally. If we (the viewers) were going to label them, then we would say they were some combination of either being conceived through surrogacy (for Laenor? but meh not really) or that they were more or less adopted.

Typically, “bastard” refers to the child born from the union of a married man (lets call him A) and a woman that he is not married to (we’ll call her C). Because the child is born to C, someone not part of the marriage between A and B, the child is not recognized as part of their lineage, and is not claimed by both A and B. For one, it is a lot harder to pass off a child as your own if you just suddenly seem to have the baby overnight, without either member of the couple ever visibly appearing pregnant. And for another reason, most women probably wouldn’t want to claim a child that their husband had while engaging in an affair. (Of course, this does not include questions of surrogacy or non cis hetero couples, but that would be a much longer discussion).

Number 2: Fire and Blood

Alicent, and everyone else in the episode, keeps saying that it is a “grave accusation” or whatever that Rhaenyra’s kids aren’t biologically related to Laenor but it truly just? Doesn’t matter?? Laenor’s family isn’t the ruling family. Rhaenyra’s is. So, like she tells her son, the only thing that matters is that they are Targaryens.

If Alicent were to cheat, if her children’s paternity were questioned, that would be treasonous. Because she married into the Targaryen house. She has no claim to the throne on her own- her only connection to it is through her husband. So if her kids didn’t biologically belong to Viserys, then they wouldn’t have a claim because they wouldn’t be Targaryens, and they could not sit on the throne. (This is why its considered such a big deal that Cersei’s children are not Robert’s biologically in season 1 of Game of Thrones.)

But that just doesn’t matter for Nyra because she does have a claim to the throne in her own right and as a Targaryen, and any children she gives birth to are going to have Targaryen blood.

It is fascinating to me that this is such a sticking point, not just for Alicent but for everyone in court, because it shows that so many of them still haven’t fully accepted that Rhaenyra really is the heir. The Targaryen dynasty flows through her bloodline, not her husband’s, so it doesn’t matter who the father is as long as she is the mother. And the council and court haven’t really accepted that, or maybe they have and they just don’t realize that because Nyra is the heir, their understanding of how things work has to change.

So Alicent is acting as though she is someone fighting for honor and duty and the maintenance of bloodlines, when her reasoning is completely unsound and based on false equivalency. So instead she just comes across as this holier-than-thou purity-culture warrior trying to restrain Rhaenyra under the same rules that she herself is trapped by.

Conclusion:

The paternity of Jacaerys, Lucerys, and Joffrey Velaryon does not matter.

Because a) they have been claimed by both Rhaenyra (and House Targaryen) and Laenor (and House Velaryon), and because b), regardless of who their biological father is, they were born to Rhaenyra, their blood is still Targaryen.

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lonelyqueenofhearts · 2 years

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