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Mary-anne Lee
She/He - 14-15thC, 17thC, and the Arab Revolt interests - professional pigeon trainer
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Not to be dramatic but I would die for Thomas, he’s perfect ✨
I'm really bored so CALICO CRITTERS AS DOWNTON CHARACTERS!
Starting off, this is definitely Robert and Cora:
Keeping up with couples, here's Matthew and Mary:
Ok, now Anna and Bates:
Now, you know it, my favorite babygirl Thomas:
I don't know what to tell you other than he is giving William vibes:
Too cute for him but this is Carson:
Now, my girl Mary:
This is Jimmy simply because he too is a red flag:
Finally, we have master George:
thanks for coming to my ted talk, feel free to add more
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What I absolutely admire about this particular Horrible Histories special episode is that the actor (Jalaal Hartley) playing Charles II is a partially Palestinian man and me being both English AND Arab, I feel very represented when I see his character, especially me being a massive 17thC intellectual. It makes me so happy 😭🤎✨
Horrible Histories - Grisly Great Fire of London (2016)
Charles II’s court celebrates the end of 1665 and the Great Plague of London.
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STOP THINKING THERE IS A DEADLINE. THERE IS NO DEADLINE. TAKE A DEEP BREATH AND TAKE YOUR TIME.
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… WOW… I learn something new everyday. As a Blackadder fan I never thought of this to be honest. That explains why it’s famous amongst the 17thC community\
And yet again, I managed to find, and buy one of the most demanding, attention-seeking potted plants possible.
After Baby, the medinilla magnifica that died after presumably having developed a gin addiction (I wish I were kidding), I now have acquired Anna van Bloemendaal (an obscurely punny name in two ways for those who are both historically and botanically inclined), a strelitzia who won't stand up straight in her pot. Do your research before you buy plants with very specific demands, people.
I should have known; nobody sells you a 1m tall plant for, ceramic pot included, little more than a tenner. Not even the dubious Dutch plant seller with a funny, punny name that references the word hell.
If her character turns out to be anything like the (nameless) Christmas cactus who has declared a personal war on Christmas by, without a fail, always producing flowers just in time for them to be gone again by December or Guillaume, the scrunkly nest fern who simply enjoys cranking out slightly deformed leaves that always grow in the direction of Marie, the other nest fern who's been with me for the same amount of time but already significantly taller than Guillaume, I'm sure I'm going to have a lot of fun with my latest purchase...
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I can assure you it was Parliament who banned it, along with Christmas puddings, Christmas, swearing, sport, theatre, and all
Could it really be true that Oliver Cromwell was the 17th century personification of the Grinch and that he not only banned Christmas, but had a vicious vendetta against mince pies as well?
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Happy Birthday to...
Sophie von der Pfalz, Electress of Hannover, and James VII and II, born on 14 October 1630 and 1633 respectively.
James and Sophie remained in lifelong contact, and the exiled James considered her one of his few allies.
...Little did he know that Sophie was close with both William and Mary, growing particularly fond of the latter in an almost maternal capacity.
Sophie- the woman who would almost have been Queen of England twice
Originally a candidate for marrying James' brother, the recently restored Charles II, the latter settled for Catherine of Braganza instead.
Rather than as consort, Sophie later would almost have become Queen in her own right when the Act of Settlement, implemented by William III, named her as heir presumptive to the crown.
When Sophie visited The Hague with her little niece Liselotte in the winter of 1659/1660, little did she know that one day, the nine-year-old William of Nassau who romped through the Binnenhof palace with her niece would become King of England, and declare her the heir presumptive to the throne. At the time, Sophie was heavily pregnant with her son Georg Ludwig, the future George I who became King of Great Britain when Queen Anne died in 1714. Sophie, alas, had predeceased the much younger Anne by a mere handful of weeks.
Sophie on her own birthday:
In 1680, the year she turned fifty, Sophie decided to write her own memoirs, including a description of her birth and early years. Here is what she had to say on the circumstances of her birth:
Sophie, Electress of Hannover and Köcher, Adolf [Ed]: Memoiren der Herzogin Sophie nachmals Kurfürstin von Hannover, Leipzig 1879, p. 33.
They told me that I was born in the year 1630 on the 14th of October, and since I was the 12th fruit of the marriage of the King my father and the Queen my mother, I think that my birth did not cause them any other joy than that of my no longer occupying the place I previously did. They were even at a loss which name and which godparents one should give me, as all the kings and princes to be considered had already taken this trouble for the children who had preceded me. It had pleased them to put various names on slips of paper and to draw from them the name I was to receive, and chance gave me that of Sophie; and to choose godmothers for me who had that name, the King picked the Princess Palatine of Birkenfeld, Countess of Hohenlohe, the Countess of Cuylenburg and Madame de Brederode, Countess of Nassau, and as godfathers the states of Frisia.
Happy birthday, Sophie von Hannover! She may have been the 12th child of her parents, but she left us first-rate sources in the shape of her memoirs and parts of her correspondence, providing a window into 17th century life and politics.
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CHARLES II
17TH CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS
King Charles I of England and Queen Henrietta Maria of France
Their children, King Charles II and Henrietta of England, Duchess D’Orleans
King Louis XIII and Queen Anne of Austria
Their children, King Louis XIV and Philippe Duc D’Orleans
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Update on that: nah I didn’t graduate. I still have 1 more year left. Repeated 2 years but I couldn’t change it for the world 🤎
I know this isn’t Twitter but I’m graduating this year, and I’m not graduating without a picture of TE Lawrence on my head. Specifically the one wearing the traditional Arabic clothes (just the face btw), I’m still choosing which picture btw so if you guys have any idea, or any pics, please post them down below, I’ll even merge all of your ideas together
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I think I’m in love! 😍
Schloss Oranienburg
I didn't know it beforehand, but I came dressed to match the front portal. 😄
A palace to play Spot the Stuart in...
So many of them!
And in case you were ever curious what I look like and previously believed that I look like my profile picture, the friend who acconpanied me on this outing pointed at this portrait and exclaimed: "You look like her!"
... I'll think I'll get vaccinated against smallpox, then. I am rather desirous to live past 32. 😅
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I’m BACK! But this time I shall just talk about England in the 17thC
Here’s a Prince Rupert artwork I’ve drawn to begun with
#oliver cromwell#lord protector#Thomas Fairfax#new model army#english civil war#prince rupert#Charles I
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