The Four Musketeers (1974)

Tony Curran and Nicholas Galitzine as King James VI and I and George Villiers, The Duke of Buckingham in Mary & George (2024)

Happy Valentine's Day to the George Villiers only

Hm,my sexy duke...

Still trying to figure out what they’re trying to say with this doublet!! I’m thinking they ran out of silver fabric because I have never in all my years seen a Jacobean doublet cut with this type of chest line that creates this weird princess type neckline 😂 (I spent several years working with a Jacobean painting collection including portraits of George Villiers so I’m pretty knowledgeable when it comes to Jacobean fashion!)

Maybe all will be revealed when I actually get to watch the show but for now I remain bemused!!

Loving the choice to give George a predominantly blue wardrobe though and I will be fan hurling over the cuffs and ruffs for a while because they’re all looking great

Ok

On the topic of buckrich lesbian situationships here are a few they remind me of

(I don’t mind elaborating)

Also this is about both anime and Shakespeare

(Shakespeare)

(Anime)

(A mix of both)

(Shakespeare)

(Shakespeare)

(anime)

Ik it’s similar to mizuena

(Mix of both)

NICHOLAS GALITZINE: George Villiers in Mary & George.

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In the Devil's grasp, and he in mine.

old stuff i didn't post here part 3

some dudes being guys

Anne of Austria & Duke of Buckingham - Les Trois Mousquetaries: D'Artagnan, 2023

Nicholas Galitzine as the 1st Duke of Buckingham in Mary and George (2024).

Internet: there’s a new biography of Buckingham coming out in October 24

Me: sounds interesting - can’t be worst than The Kings Assassin, blimey that was terrible.

Internet: it’s by Lucy Hughes Hallett - she wrote that book about that fascist dude and on Cleopatra throughout history

Me: sounds interesting, I did like that Cleopatra book

Internet: it’s titled The Scapegoat

Me: so, maybe not a hatchet job? Feeling cautious excitement

Internet: here’s the blurb -

From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a stunning biography of one of the most flamboyant and enigmatic seventeenth-century Englishmen at the heart of political and royal life.

George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham (1592-1628), was loved by three monarchs. King James I of England, whose bed-fellow he was, called him Steenie, after St Stephen whose face 'was as the face of an angel'. James's son, later King Charles I, equally enthralled by Buckingham's glamour, made him his best friend and mentor. Anne of Austria, the Queen of France, confessed that 'if an honest woman might love someone other than her husband' then Buckingham would have been her choice. Many believed that he was her lover. Buckingham was a dazzling figure. On horse-back, or cutting capers, he displayed a figure whose grace not even his worst enemies could refuse to acknowledge. He was also a skilful player of the political game, who rapidly transformed the influence his beauty gave him into immense wealth and power. When he travelled to Paris to fetch home Charles's bride, Queen Henrietta Maria, he wore a pearl-encrusted suit worth enough to pay and equip a sizable army. By the time he was thirty-three he had been first minister to two successive kings.

He lived in dangerous and complicated times, an era where witch hunts coexisted with Descartian rationality. Buckingham stood at its centre both culturally and politically. To the House of Commons Buckingham was 'the chief cause' of all the 'evils and mischiefs with which the country is afflicted'. When he was assassinated in 1628, at the age of thirty-six, King Charles said that he himself, and the monarchy he represented, had been 'wounded through the Duke's sides'.

All of Lucy Hughes-Hallett's books have explored the interface between actual events in the world of politics, war and international relations, and the operations of imagination and desire. Buckingham will, first and foremost, be a compelling story, but it is also story rich in significance, with deep resonance for today.

Me: aww crap 💩

Cabal Ministry of Charles... but I headcanonned. a lot.

Lauderdale is like the only accurate one asfgdhsfjsjhdid (and yes I did spell Lau*n*derdale wrong pls ignore that)

These designs for them were all made (except buckingham) without knowledge of how they looked but ngl once I saw how fugly some of them are I was like yeah no its fine just stick with the headcanons and make them hotter than they could ever because I can't draw anything but the generic hot white guy face (these drawings are on the cartoonier side of my artstyle anyway so :P)

+the bug trio awwwwww

Clearly I haven’t been on history tumblr in a while because who the hell was going to tell me they’re making a lavishly gay period drama series about King James I and the Duke of Buckingham (who’s played by Nicholas Galitzine!!) that’s coming out next year?!

IT’S ABOUT TIME!

The long-dormant Stuart history buff in me has awakened and is feeling incredibly vindicated right now.

I NEED HIM BIBLICALLY I NEED HIM IN A WAY THATS CONCERNING TO FEMINISM