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royal-hair · 2 years

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Tiara hair predictions

As you all know (and if not, now you know) we have 3...3! tiara debuts this friday at Princess Igrid Alexandra’s 18th birthday gala: the celebrated girl Ingrid Alexandra, Princess Elisabeth and Princess Catharina-Amalia. And as I am pretty excited for this moment, I’ll try to predict their tiara hair (or do a “what I see them going for”)

As always, I’m not an expert, so I don’t really know what works better for their faces and all that stuff, I just like hair and that’s what I share here with you, so don’t read too much into these predictions.

Let’s start with the oldest of the three, the one we’ve been dying to see in a tiara and made us wait almost 3 years.

Princess Elisabeth of Belgium, Duchess of Brabant.

Tiara: I think she will wear her mother’s laurel wreath. It’s a good starter tiara, it’s pretty, it has significance and I’m not gonna lie, it’s one of my faves and I want her to wear it.

Hair: I seer going for something like the Christmas concert in 2019, something like a half updo or a low chignon on the side.

Now the second oldest. She didn’t make us wait that much, but know how much the dutch royals love a party, I was sad we didn’t get a birthday party like Ingrid Alexandra’s.

Princess Catharina Amalia of The Netherlands, Princess of Orange.

Tiara: My guess, as I said previously in a comment in a @victorysp post about Amalia’s predictions, is that she will wear something small, something like the base of the antique pearl like her mom at Haakon&Mette-Marit’s wedding or the star tiara.

Hair: We always see her with her hair down, so I guess that’s why I saw people saying she’ll wear her hair like that but we saw her at the Feria de Abril with an updo and I can see her wearing something similar on friday. (or something more polished like Máxima’s, I linked it in case you wanna check)

And last but not least, the protagonist of the event, the reason of this madness, the bithday girl.

Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway.

Tiara: It is said that she will wear the pearl circle as it was given to her as a birthday gift by Ragnhild’s children, but as @tiaramania posted here, there’s the possibility of Harald gifting her a new tiara, so I’ll go with that one, the surprising new (?) tiara hahaha.

Hair: I.don’t.know. I honestly don’t know. It’s her gala, she will be the star and I could see her with a low chignon, but I also see her with a half updo and her hair down, so I don’t really know what to say here. Just something like any of these but in a glam & teenager version.

(I don’t wanna leave her without a picture, so there’s one with the most reacent and some kind of updo that we’ve seen her in)

#hair talk #tiara talk #princess elisabeth #duchess of brabant #princess catharina amalia #princess of orange #princess ingrid alexandra #belgian royal family #dutch royal family #norwegian royal family

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snapheart1536 · 2 years

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The best argument for the 1507 birth date.

#Anne Boleyn #Gareth Russell

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arty-e · 4 years

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Introducing the final ‘lady-in-waiting’ in this six the kids! Jane Dormer was Mary I lady in waiting during her reign and the two became close and good friends until Mary’s death. She married a Spanish lord and moved to Spain shortly after Mary’s death and played a huge role in helping exiled catholic English people during Elizabeth’s reign. She actually remained in contact with Elizabeth during this time as well (wether they had a good or friendly relationship I’m not sure)

#my art #six #six the musical #six the kids #six kids #Jane dormer #duchess of Feria #six lady in waiting #lady in waiting #mary i #mary tudor #elizabeth i #elizabeth tudor #design #six design #piano keyboard #the whole crew is now complete #I was really strugggling to think of a lady in waiting for Mary but someone suggested Jane and I thought she was perfect

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heavyarethecrowns · 3 years

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Laura Vecino de Acha

Regal Weddings - Part 1

#laura vecino de acha #duchess of feria #wedding #regalwedding

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royaltyandpomp · 5 years

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THE COVER

#the cover #naty abascal #duchess of feria #duquesa de feria #smoda #elpais #spain #españa #spanish aristocracy #spanish nobility #royal #royals #royalty #royaltyedit #magazine #cover page

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widvile-blog · 7 years

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Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria (6 January 1538 - 13 January 1612)

#jane dormer #duchess of feria #daughter of sir william dormer #wife of gomez suarez de figueroa y cordoba 1st duke of feria #history #women in history #art

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gracie-bird · 3 years

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This year not only marks the 65th wedding anniversary of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier of Monaco, but also the 55th anniversary of the 1966's April fair in Seville, Spain.

The princes of Monaco and Jacqueline Kennedy were invited by the Duchess of Alba to promote the fair in the world. Princess Grace and Prince Rainier stayed at the historic Alfonso XIII hotel in the town centre and Mrs Kennedy at the Duchess of Alba's palace.

Grace and Rainier of Monaco were also celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary that week.

Photo courtesy Spanish Diario ABC archives.

#grace kelly #princess grace #sevilla #españa #feria de abril #feria de sevilla #feria del caballo #april's fair #seville fair #duchess of alba #gracia de monaco #jacqueline kennedy #jackie kennedy #abc

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duchess-of-lara · 4 years

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The Duke and Duchess of Huéscar through the years at the Feria de Abril in Seville, Spain.

The Duke and Duchess of Huéscar spam 12/?

#fernando fitz-james stuart #Sofia Palazuelo #Casa de Alba #House of Alba #Duchess of Alba #Duquesa de Alba #Duke of Alba #Duque de Alba #Couple goals #Feria de Abril #Sevilla #Seville #spanish nobility

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thecatalogueofroyalfashion · 7 years

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Laura Vecino, The Duchess of Feria || Giambattista Valli

#Duchess of Feria #Giambattista Valli #wedding dress

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thefreelancehistorywriter · 4 years

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Susan Clarenceau, Tudor Courtier

There is no known portrait of Susan Clarenceau. This is an unidentified English Lady by Hans Holbein the Younger

Susan Clarenceau served in the household of Queen Mary Tudor. Even before she was queen, Mary considered her a trusted friend as well as a servant. Although Clarenceau never had any titles, she garnered a great deal of property and income during her tenure. She acted as a…

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jeannepompadour · 3 years

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Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria by Alonso Sanchez Coello, 1563

#1563 #1560s #16th century #mdp16th c.#spain #16th c. spain #alonso sanchez coello #saya

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queenetoilewrites · 3 years

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Survival Guide For Ladies/Maids in Waiting

So you're a noblewoman at the imperial/royal court, when you and your family receive word that you've been selected to become a lady/maid-in-waiting for the Empress/Queen/Princess by the Emperor/Empress. Problem is, you have an idea of what the job entails, but no idea how to survive and hang on to your position at court. According to @inky-duchess (thanks for the help!), the key is to remember the acronym LOCS: Loyalty, Obedience, Comportment, and Secrecy. Be loyal to your mistress, know how to follow orders and directions (she says jump and you ask "How high, your majesty/highness?"), know how to behave, and always keep your mistress' confidence. Follow these basics of being a lady in waiting and your female character will quickly become a favorite of her mistress and hold her position for a long time.

Know your place: There’s a pecking order for a reason

Even among the ladies/maids in waiting, there’s an established hierarchy that you're required to follow without question, this hierarchy governs who gives orders to who and who has permanent access to the empress/queen. The textbook ambitious lady will use it as an excuse to kick up a major fuss about precedence when she feels that her treasured position as the favorite is being threatened by a newcomer. For example, the hierarchy for the ladies/maids-in-waiting tasked with serving the Queen of France/Empress of the French goes:

Mistress of the Robes

First lady of honor

Dame d'atour

Dame d'honneur/Dame du Palais

Filles d'honneur/Demoiselles d'honneur (maids of honor)

Première femme de Chambre ('First Chamber Maid')

While the mistress of the robes was the highest ranking in the hierarchy of the ladies serving the Queen, the first chamber maid was the only woman in the queen’s household aside from the maid of honor allowed to have the keys to the queen’s rooms and permanent access to the queen. This gave her the opportunity to filter requests of meetings, audiences and messages to the queen and made her a de facto powerful person at court, where she was often flattered and bribed by the courtiers. Any lady or maid-in-waiting worth her salt will know that she has to be clever and useful to her mistress in order to get far at the imperial/royal court, and willing to know when to concede to those above her in the pecking order. Many court ladies in my WIP have received the honor of being promoted to where she directly served the Empress Consort because she either proved herself to be clever or demonstrated loyalty to the imperial family.

Loyalty: Don't be like Littlefinger

A lady/maid must always be loyal to her mistress, otherwise she could experience a major fall from grace, even more so if her mistress the empress/queen/princess is on the exact same page as her husband the emperor/king/prince and she's not his mistress. That means absolutely no following orders from anyone outside of the imperial/royal household, she was hired to serve the empress/queen/princess only. Without royal favor you are just as expendable as anyone else in the service of the imperial/royal family, they can easily replace you with a new favorite if they discover that you've been disloyal, and if you don't like that and have the audacity to try and read the empress/queen/princess then there's being reassigned to lower in the hierarchy under the excuse that you're still technically serving the empress/queen/princess. Loyalty can earn you honors, jewelry, or an advantageous marriage. Being disloyal could earn you being distanced from the inner circle of the empress/queen/princess. Good examples of ladies/maids in waiting (and good inspirations for a loyal lady-in-waiting character) who were loyal ride or dies to their mistress include Catherine Champernowne of Kat (Kat Ashley; lady in waiting to Queen Elizabeth I), Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria (lady in waiting to Queen Mary I), and Maria de Salinas, Countess Willoughby (lady in waiting to Catherine of Aragon).

Obedience: No, that wasn't a request

A lady/maid is required to obey her mistress regardless of what her mistress asks of her, even if her orders are ridiculous or dangerous, her maid/lady could be asked to jump and her response is required to be: "How high, your majesty/highness?" Your character does what her mistress asks, when her mistress asks it of her. No back talk, and no refusing, otherwise she'll fall from favor. She speaks when her mistress tells her to speak, and she doesn't speak out of turn. Once again unless she's the mistress to the emperor/king, has an influential family that her mistress' husband the emperor/king doesn't want to alienate, or she can't be banished from her mistress' inner circle for a reason (such as the husband of her mistress using her as leverage against her family because he suspects them of plotting treason), she's just a mere lady/maid who can easily be replaced with a new favorite who will obey her orders without any questions.

But sometimes obedience can lead her to the execution block. If her mistress is sneaking a lover into her bed, and she had a hand in getting the lover there to begin with, she had better pray that her mistress or her lover don't implicate her as thanks for her help because saying "The queen (or empress) was the one who commanded me to help her sneak him in and I couldn't deny her request!" doesn't absolve her of her integral part in helping her mistress cheat on the emperor/king and potentially muddying the royal bloodline since people are going to doubt that the king's kids are truly his if his wife had an affair. If her mistress wanted to make her and her fellow ladies into spies whom she slips into the beds of her enemies to gain intel like Catherine de' Medici did with the Flying Squadron, guess what she’s doing?

Comportment: Mind your Ps and Qs at all times

A lady/maid has to know how to behave herself both in public and in private with her mistress. She can be friendly with the royal she's serving, but she can't hang off her or call her mistress names then claim that she was "just joking" when her mistress takes offense to her behavior, being friendly is okay until you cross the line. The Empress/Queen must be respected even by her best friends, especially if they are in public. Think of it as like being friends with the wife of your boss, you can be playful with her, but up to a certain point. While the lady might be a subject to the monarch or his mistress, her mistress is his legal wife and the crowned Empress/Queen (especially if her husband is the type of man to reproach his mistress for flagrantly disrespecting his wife and her position), you have to play nice with her in order to retain the favor of the Emperor/King. Now if the Empress/Queen is a monarch in her own right, this complicates the matter because she’s not just disrespecting her mistress, she’s basically disrespecting the monarch of another country.

Do not let her behave like Sarah Churchill did to Queen Anne (your husband writing in a letter to you that the Queen “should make good political use” of his victory in battle isn’t a good excuse). A lady/maid is not allowed to verbally abuse her mistress or tell her to shut up about jewels and unlike Sarah, she would (and should) know better. Anyone else would have dropped her from her inner circle on the spot the very first time she verbally abused her. She can argue with her mistress, but only to a certain point. It should never, ever elevate to a shouting match for any reason, especially if the empress/queen is ruling in her own right. Any empress/queen who is ruling in her own right can ultimately spell the end of your social and political advancement, seeing as her favor depends solely on the Empress/Queen.

Secrecy: Don't spill the tea sis!

A lady/maid will be expected to keep secrets for her mistress, no matter what the secret is, even if she doesn't approve of it. The empress/queen has just found out that she's pregnant with a son and wants to keep it a secret so her husband's mistress can't sabotage the pregnancy since the son of the crowned empress/queen will be the heir regardless of if his mistress has a son? Is she planning to switch her seven children to the school that traditionally educates the Imperial/royal family because the former best friends of her eldest daughter have all turned on her and the girl behind it all tried and failed to get her expelled? Has she confided to you that she's worried that if the prime minister finds out about her plan, he might intervene in his capacity as friend to the monarch and convince her husband that it wouldn't be in the best interest of the crown prince and his siblings to abruptly transfer them out halfway through the school year over one child having problems with her friends? She had better keep that secret, otherwise the empress/queen can and will hold you personally responsible for the loss of her son and the long-awaited heir to the throne or if the prime minister does intervene with her husband. This involves anything like leaking letters alluding to a love affair (looking @ you, Sarah Churchill; you’re lucky you weren’t around for Henry VIII) between her and her mistress or anyone else.

The trust of your empress/queen is like a mirror, once you crack it you can put it back together with but her trust in you won’t be the same and she will begin to confide in another lady/maid about her personal matters, seeing as her former confidant has already proven that she cannot be trusted. Her loose lips make her a massive liability to the monarch and the state and any emperor/empress/king/queen who is worth their salt will recognize this and put her in a position where she is virtually useless to those seeking intel on the monarch from the get go.

He's not worth it: Don't bang her husband if she's calling the shots

Listen to what I'm about to say very closely: It doesn't matter how hot the prince consort is, or how nice he is to her, not one bit. If he takes her as his mistress and parades her around openly, the reigning empress/queen will not be very amused with her, and will definitely make sure she doesn't progress socially or in regards to precedence. He may lavish her with money and gifts, but he can't do much aside from that without openly insulting his wife. Yes, he's allowed to see her as the apple of his eye, but she's still banging the husband of her monarch. Everyone at court will ostracize her for disrespecting the monarch, even more so if she's being a pain in the ass for the imperial/royal court and kicking up a fuss about precedence and favoritism. Her lofty position as mistress/favorite to the prince consort only lasts as long as he's consort to the monarch. Once one of his children succeed their mother as monarch, they have no real reason to extend their father the money to keep his mistress once they hold the purse strings, unless they stand to gain something from it.

It's even worse for the lady/maid if her mistress is the reigning monarch in her own right and he's her consort, seeing as if her husband is only her consort, she can only get so far on his favor alone since his wife is the monarch. She's the ruler of the country, and he's nothing at court without being married to her. If she's the mistress/side piece to the prince consort, she'll be openly ostracized by everyone at court save for the prince consort seeing as she's being a pain in the ass and openly disrespecting her monarch/mistress by hopping into bed with her husband. The more powerful people at court (who are favored by the empress/queen herself) will not hesitate to throw shade at her family seeing as the prince consort can’t really come to their defense on account of the fact that doing so would be an open/major insult to his wife.

#ladies in waiting #writing tips #writing advice #writing help #writing reference #writing resources

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maximumphilosopheranchor · 3 years

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Do you think Mary I really came to think Elizabeth I was the daughter of Mark Smeaton? Or was just some kind of petty but politically-oriented commentary to exclude her sister from the succession? People usually dismiss it as a non-important comment made by an angry sister, but Henry VIII had this ability to end up believing his own lies, and Mary could have inherited it...

First, I would like to talk a bit about the origins of this commentary. It comes from “The Life of Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria” written in the 17th century by one Henry Clifford who had served the duchess for some time. It’s thought that he began working on it after the duchess’s death in 1612. So despite the duchess being Mary’s friend this work was created long after Mary’s death and the author himself wasn’t an eyewitness to the events of Mary’s life.

The relevant passage goes like this:

“We see how different were the mothers of these two queens, and of the latter the father might be doubted, for Queen Mary would never call her sister, nor be persuaded she was her father’s daughter. She would say she had the face and countenance of Mark Smeaton, who was a very handsome man.”

https://archive.org/details/lifejanedormerd00stevgoog/page/n107/mode/2up?q=sweton

Now, the statement “Queen Mary would never call her sister“ to me rings as an exaggeration at best and false at worst because I’m pretty sure that there are accounts from Mary’s lifetime of Mary referring to Elizabeth as sister. And if this is not entirely true then how can we know that Mary indeed had said the rest? Because although Mary was reported calling Elizabeth illegitimate and a bastard it appears (correct me if I’m wrong!) that there’s no other source that would corroborate this particular claim, like this is the only source that says that Mary doubted Elizabeth’s paternity and has her saying that her father was someone else than Henry. Honestly, it always baffles me why historians so easily take this claim as a fact because to me it seems very possible that Jane Dormer/Henry Clifford out of their own desire to put down Elizabeth might have ascribed to Mary more than she actually said, especially since Mary herself has long been dead when this work was written. In other words, I’m far from sure that Mary ever said it.

On the other hand, the ambassadors (for example, Simon Renard and the Venetians) during Mary’s reign consistently reported of Mary’s hatred towards Elizabeth and Mary considered to declare Margaret Douglas as her successor so I think she was capable of making such a comment in some spiteful outburst. But even if she did say it I don’t think that she really believed it.

P. S. Also, that phrase “she would say she had the face and countenance of Mark Smeaton, who was a very handsome man“ kind of amuses me because it seems to implicate that Mary/Jane Dormer/Henry Clifford found Elizabeth too beautiful to be Henry’s daughter?

#Anonymous #ask #Elizabeth I #Mary I of England #Jane Dormer #Henry Clifford #Mark Smeaton

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