Elizabeth Tudor’s Costumes in Becoming Elizabeth (2022) requested by anonymous

The world wants us at odds. We don't have to let it be that way.

Combination of portraits with young Mary I of England and Elizabeth I of England in my interpretation.

Meet the Barbies

"You make me do too much labor

All day, every day

Therapist, mother, maid

Nymph then a virgin, nurse than a servant

Just an appendage, live to attend him

So that he never lifts a finger"

Wherever the Queen went, people would flock to see her, and Elizabeth would often stop her horse or litter to talk with them. The Queen had a great way with people, always knowing the right thing to say and do, and enjoyed talking to her poor subjects as much as her rich. She had the common touch and this was something her Stuart successors lacked. Indeed, Sir Walter Raleigh once told King James I that one of the reasons Queen Elizabeth had been so popular was because she was "a queen of the poor as well as the rich". The Queen loved the pagents the poor people put on for her, even though they were not as sophisticated as the ones at court, and always appreciated their gifts, great and small. -- ElizabethI.org

-- The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir

It can't be overstated how hugely important the common touch was for royals and their success as a monarch. That's why it's no small thing that in ASOIAF we see characters like Arya, Dany, Margaery, and Alysanne going among the common people, working to understand their plight, and gaining their love.

behind all your stories, there is always . . . ♔

BECOMING ELIZABETH (2022-) | “You Cannot Keep The Birds From Flying Over Your Head” 1x02 | “To Death We Must Stoop” 1x08

ALICIA VON RITTBERG as ELIZABETH I  ↴ Either Learn Or Be Silent (1.03)

Tudor Week Day 6: Favourite portrayal of a Tudor Family Member - Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth I in Elizabeth R

The Hampden Portrait of Elizabeth I attributed to George Gower, 1567.

T H E  C O R O N A T I O N  P O R T R A I T

Elizabeth I, Queen Regnant of England and Ireland in her coronation regalia by Unknown Artist c.1600

The kids getting used to be alive (again)

Elizabeth: and there’s my mom who’s… okay, I guess? She’s nice to me at least.

Mary : really? The Anne I know tried to fistfight my mom in a Wendy’s parking lot. I don’t know what Anne did you get, but I’ll gladly trade.

Elizabeth I of England based on portrait by unknown artist (1546).

I am no mother, I am no bride, I am king…

The 1539 gift exchange roll format was a harbinger of the 1557 Marian roll, detailing the king’s family and courtiers with Henry’s added embellishment to the court ceremony. A specially prepared gift chamber with “trestles and boards for the King’s New Year gifts to stand upon” was prepared for Henry to watch during the day as servants brought gifts and received rewards for their part in delivering the gifts. There was no queen in this year, therefore the primary group of close relatives was composed of Prince Edward, Lady Mary, Lady Elizabeth, and Lady Margaret Douglas, the King’s niece. All three children received gilt plate from their father: Edward’s gift weighed 209 ounces, Mary’s gift weighed 123 5/8 ounces, and Elizabeth received 90½ ounces. The gift roll does not record Edward and Elizabeth’s gifts to the king, but Mary’s gift was a chalcedony salt with a mother of pearl lid, all garnished with gold. She gave her brother Edward an embroidered crimson coat with pansies and gold aglets and her sister Elizabeth, a kirtle of yellow satin. The bishops followed as lords spiritual and the other peers in order of their social rank and precedence as lords temporal. The final groupings were courtiers and crown servants with close access to the sovereign. Participation in the gift exchange was an obligation of office or social rank for some and a privilege for others.

— Mary’s Participation in the Ritual of the New Year’s Gift Exchange as Princess and Queen by Jane Lawson, 2022. In Mary I in Writing: Letters, Literature, and Representation, edited by Valerie Schutte and Jessica S. Hower