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comtessezouboff · 1 year

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The Windsor Beauties Set

A retexture by La Comtesse Zouboff — Original Mesh by @thejim07

The Windsor Beauties are a set of portrait paintings, still in the Royal Collection, by Sir Peter Lely and his workshop, produced in the early to mid-1660s, that depict ladies of the court of King Charles II, some of whom were his mistresses. The name stems from the location of the collection, which was at Windsor Castle.

Originally commissioned by Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, the first mention of the paintings is by Samuel Pepys, describing them in his diary as being hung in "the Duke of York's room" in 1668. A 1674 inventory lists them as in the ducal rooms at St. James Palace and by 1688 they had moved to the "Princess's dressing room" at Windsor Castle. Moved to the castle's state rooms during the 18th century, the Windsor Beauties were transferred to Hampton Court at some time prior to 1835.

They are considered the pinnacle of restoration art and are regarded as one of Lely's most exquisite work.

The set includes 13 portraits, with the original frame swatches, fully recolorable. The portraits are of:

Anne Digby, Countess of Sunderland

Anne Hyde, Duchess of York and Albany

Barbara Palmer, Ist Duchess of Cleveland and Countess of Castlemaine as Minerva

Barbara Palmer, Ist Duchess of Cleveland and Countess of Castlemaine as St. Catherine of Alexandria.

Elizabeth Bagot, Countess of Falmouth

Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess de Gramont as Saint Catherine

Elizabeth Wriothesley, Countess of Northumberland

Frances Theresa Stewart, duchess of Richmond and Lennox

Henrietta Anne of England, Duchess of Orléans

Henrietta Hyde, Countess of Rochester

Jane Needham, Lady Middleton

Margaret Brooke, Lady Denham

The Honourable Frances Brook, Lady Whitmore

Found under Decor > Paintings for 1.650 §

Retextured from "Portrait of Cardinal de Mazarin" found here

Chairs, stools, side table and bronze "Pendule á Cercles Tournants" by @joojconverts

Walls, floor, torchere, girandole and table by @thejim07

Tea pot, milk jugar, sugar bowl and teacup by @aroundthesims

White vase by @martassimsbookcc

Rug by me (to be released)

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venicepearl · 1 year

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Elizabeth, comtesse de Gramont (née Hamilton; 1641–1708), was an Irish-born courtier, first after the Restoration at the court of Charles II of England in Whitehall and later, after her marriage to Philibert de Gramont, at the court of Louis XIV where she was a lady-in-waiting to the French queen, Maria Theresa of Spain.

Known as "la belle Hamilton", she was one of the Windsor Beauties painted by Peter Lely. She appears prominently in the Mémoires du comte de Grammont, written by her brother Anthony.

#Elizabeth Hamilton #Elizabeth Comtesse de Gramont #XVII century #XVIII century #people #portrait #paintings #art #arte #Windsor Beauties #Peter Lely

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largepeachicedtea · 9 months

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"i thought maybe next summer, we could come back here for like, a couple weeks."

#rwrb #rwrb movie #red white and royal blue #alex claremont diaz #henry fox mountchristen windsor #firstprince #rwrb movie spoilers #dailylgbtq #dailyflicks #filmtvcentral #my stuff #mlmsource #my gifs #aka a scene where tzp's beauty took my breath away are you KIDDING me look at him

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almightaylor · 18 days

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We don’t talk enough about the fact that alex had a literal canon crush on shaan lmfao i wanna see zahra’s reaction to this!! Alex is really out there calling henry’s dad a total babe and crushing on his equerry this is too funny i can imagine henry’s eye rolls and “I BEG YOU TO NOT”

And also, him gossiping about shaan and zahra to henry… he’s a relatable chaotic mess I CAN’T

#rwrb #red white and royal blue #firstprince #rwrb movie #taylor zakhar perez #alex claremont diaz #henry fox mountchristen windsor #nicholas galitzine #useralmightaylor #shaan is too mysterious and beautiful

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rockingtheorange · 5 months

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From @/mekhiturner on Twitter

#i literally started crying #i need a moment #he's so beautiful?????#i don't mean just objectively beautiful #His aura and charm is beautiful #I think I'm in love with a picture #speechless #nicholas galitzine #henry fox mountchristen windsor #rwrb movie #rwrb #red white and royal blue #gq men of the year #gq magazine #gq

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emeraldexplorer2 · 3 days

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Melinda Windsor 1962

#beauty #vintage #vintage women #gorgeous women #beautiful women #glamour #1962 #melinda windsor #playboy magazine #playboy playmate

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flawswelove · 8 months

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#so beautiful #rwrb #red white and royal blue #rwrb movie #red white and royal blue movie #alex claremont diaz #henry mountchristen windsor #Henry fox #firstprince #nicolas galitzine #taylor zakhar perez

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k-wame · 9 months

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Nicholas Galitzine as Prince Henry 2023 · Red, White & Royal Blue · RomCom · dir. Matthew López

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k3ithsk0gane · 9 months

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PSA:

With RWRB being a well loved and well known book and people actively watching the movie right now I think it should be said that if you didn’t like the film or didn’t like parts of the film that doesn’t give you ANY right to shit on someone who loved and adored this film and thought it was the best book to movie adaptation ever.

LET PEOPLE ENJOY WHAT THEY ENJOY

#if I start seeing discourse I’m gonna be SO upset #bc yes it wasn’t exactly the book BUT IF U WENT INTO THE MOVIE EXPECTING THAT ITS ON U #it was beautiful #and heartwarming #and I can’t wait to watch it again and again #red white and royal blue movie #rwrb movie #rwrb #red white and royal blue #alex claremont diaz #henry fox mountchristen windsor #firstprince #nicholas galitzine #taylor zakhar perez

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fshmgtn · 2 months

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Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beauty (Some call it love, some call it God, but, uh)

#red white and royal blue #rwrb movie #rwrb #alex and henry #alex claremont diaz #prince henry of wales #henry fox mountchristen windsor #henry hanover stuart fox #nicholas galitzine #taylor zakhar perez #firstprince #henry and alex #alex x henry #lgbtq #beautyful beauti

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beautifulhigh · 8 months

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Welcome to the next edition of Jen's meta ramblings

I have watched the movie at least once a day since it came out and I kid you not, I see something new every time. The fact that this is Matthew López's first directoral debut is just... I'm in awe. And you can tell how much he loves the story because of the way things like this are set up and played out

In the novel, Henry and Alex are skinny dipping in the lake at night, and so I absolutely got the change in both time of day and also attire. But let's talk about that little island shall we?

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea

Every single one of us is not meant to be alone, without connection and without a link to someone else. We are parts of a whole and if we lose that... well. It's not good.

Henry is on that island, our prince who belongs to Britain and Henry Fox who thinks he has to belong to himself. The prince is forced into status and circumstance, of appearances and mindless ribbon cuttings. When he does something that means something - like the trip to the cancer ward - then he doesn't do it with cameras. I'd argue he's not the prince there, he's Henry Fox. The man who lost his father to cancer.

But this is not that meta.

Henry has shut himself off, shut himself away. He doesn't date the people he's interested in, he doesn't live his truth (and for very good and valid reasons). He has decided that while Prince Henry belongs to Britain, Henry Fox is an island.

And look who is swimming up to that island. Look who is coming out to Henry, having realised the night before that oh yeah, I do feel forever about him and so Alex swims out to that island.

And the first thing he does? He makes Henry laugh. He is silly and fun and the complete antithesis of the composed and collected Prince of Wales. And then he joins Henry, on his island.

This gorgeous overhead shot shows us that Alex is putting himself on Henry's right (protocol or his good side?) but he's also in the centre of the island. He's not on the edge of it. In the metaphor of Henry Fox's island, Alex is putting himself at the heart of it all. RIght before he lays out his heart to Henry.

The shot that broke our hearts too, along with Henry's. Because we can see the shore in the background now. We're reminded that islands are not - they cannot be fully independent. People cannot be islands and even though Alex is literally and metaphorically planting himself at Henry's side, Henry knows that this island he's formed for himself in his heart and his sense of self cannot stand if Alex is there. If Alex is with him then he is no longer an island. Henry Fox will not belong to himself and the sense of protection and self-preservation we see coming out in the Storming of Kensington is under threat.

So he bails.

The island is submerged, like the mythical Atlantis, because how do you render land useless? Drown it. How do you deal with water? Drain it away. He abandons his island and flees back to the only other space he has left - Kensington Palace - in an attempt to regroup. He drains his life of Alex and what he brings. He has to return to being the Prince of Wales because Henry Fox got too close. Because Henry Fox realised he was being loved by a man who would literally swim out to where he is.

Moment of appreciation for the shot. Matthew, you have a fucking talent and I cannot wait to see what else you do. Because our #imtaller boy looks so small here. So lost. When else have we seen someone look so small and lost?

Oh. Yeah.

When he's curling in on himself in an almost last-ditch attempt to protect himself and his boundaries from what is coming. You can see that he's no longer dry, that Alex's "shower time" has changed him. Alex brought laughter and love and water onto his island and Henry has just realised what this means. This isn't a visitor's visa. This is immigration.

Which is what makes THIS so much more. Back to our boy, drenched from the storm, plaintively asking Henry to talk to him.

Because yes, the Storming of Kensington happens during an actual storm, but by now you know I overead into everything... so once again we have Alex "swimming" out to Henry. He's dived right in and gone are the jokes, gone is the humour. He is here and he is asking to be let in and daring Henry to send him away.

This is Alex, serious and in love and following Henry to whatever landmass he is setting foot on. Henry is trying to be an island and Alex is out here going, "I'll just build another boat you fucker". A true 'ship if you will. He swam out to an island on a lake, he flew to a tiny island across an ocean. He is standing at Henry's borders and he isn't launching an offensive. He's just saying that if Henry wants to be cut off from everything then he needs to do the cutting himself.

Prince Henry felt like he belonged to Britain, Henry Fox felt like he had to belong to himself, and Alex turned up and went "nope. Mine now". (Insert additional historical quip about the English being colonised for once.) But there is still some truth in that: the Prince is part of England, and we should all belong to ourselves even in relationships. Henry just learns that the different parts of him can co-exist. Bit like how water and land can co-exist without one destroying the other.

Henry is Alex's North Star but he's also his solid ground. Insert quip about Alex colonising Henry and claiming him for his own, planting of flag, your innuendo of choice goes here. Pyramus wished there wasn't a wall - Alex straight up scaled Henry's.

There's a divergence between Prince Henry and Henry Fox, but at the heart of them both there's Henry. And this is the man that Alex sees, this is the man that Alex loves. Alex swims out to the island for Henry Fox, Alex pushes through the rain for Prince Henry. Alex holds steady in the storm of talking with King James/Queen Mary and the public.

And it started with Alex literally making his way out to Henry on an island: be that England for the Royal Wedding, a pontoon island on a lake, or knocking down Henry's walls.

To this moment. Which is very hard to grab a screenshot of, but Alex asks Henry to "take a walk" with him. This time it's Henry going to/with Alex. The fact that he's there is one thing (and a rant rather than a meta) but at this point they have each other. They belong to each other. Where one of them goes, the other one follows. Independent, together, co-existing.

Anyway. I'm sure there will be more bullshit ramblings and metas at some point. Follow me if you want more of that (but be warned: blank and empty blogs are blocked on sight) because we are not islands in this metaphorical storm of life. Let us swim out to one another, dry off with one another, and live a life with broken down borders and walls.

ETA: I now have another name to add to the thanks. Stephen Goldblatt, from the bottom of my soul, thank you

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letmebefrankwithyou · 9 months

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post movie thoughts

#red white & royal blue #rwrb #alex claremont diaz #henry fox mountchristen windsor #red white and royal blue #taylor zakhar perez #nicholas galitzine #rwarb #red white and royal blue textpost #rwrb textpost #nora holleran #rachel hilson #can't believe this movie #the premiere was fun af if anyone was wondering #early screening or whatever it's called #they gave us cupcakes #truly a beautiful performance from nicholas galitzine and taylor zakhar perez #textpost

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venicepearl · 1 year

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Henrietta Hyde, Countess of Rochester (née Boyle; 1646 – 12 April 1687) was an Anglo-Irish noblewoman. She was one of the Windsor Beauties painted by Sir Peter Lely.

She was born in Wiltshire, England to Sir Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork and Elizabeth Boyle, Countess of Cork. In 1665, she married Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, son of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon and Frances Aylesbury. Henrietta had four children.

Like most of the Boyle dynasty, who in the space of two generations had become almost all-powerful in the south of Ireland, Henrietta was strong-minded and acquisitive, and could be ruthless in asserting her rights. During the last two years of her life, when her husband was Chief Minister to his brother-in-law King James II, Henrietta took full advantage of his power to claim every possible privilege. She clashed bitterly with her husband's niece, the future Queen Anne, over who should have the best apartments in Whitehall Palace. Anne, who could herself be a formidable opponent, complained bitterly of her aunt's "peevishness" to her.

#Henrietta Hyde #Henrietta Boyle #Windsor Beauties #XVII century #people #portrait #paintings #art #arte

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meraki-yao · 7 months

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I just wanna say, Taylor as Alex's "God damn I love him" face is so fucking powerful

This promo still came out two days before the movie

And just by looking at this photo, WITHOUT EVEN WATCHING THE MOVIE, I felt so much love from how he looks at Henry that I JUST STARTED TO CRY

Then you have moments like this, which makes me want to scream, he looks at Henry like he's the greatest wonder in the world

And then for maximum insanity there's this compilation/edit of all moments of Alex looking at Henry which again MADE ME LITERALLY SOB (I'm tempted to share a list of my fav RWRB edits on YouTube)

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I swear Taylor read the line "Alex is so in love that he could die" from the book and carved that line into his brain, look at him. That is that line personified. What the fuck.

I need to hand it to Taylor and the boys' chemistry, he made me cry for like five minutes straight with a SINGLE LOOK

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firenati0n · 18 days

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a leap of faith 🪶✨

art by @geonbaeeee for my fic, and all i can taste is this moment, and all i can breathe is your life

He turns to head to the kitchen when he nearly jumps out of his fucking skin. There’s a man in his kitchen. There’s a man in his kitchen just watching him with the saddest eyes Alex has ever seen on a person. He’s wearing a long, calf-length blue overcoat, the color of his sad fucking eyes. His hair is blonde and soft-looking, resting in a light wave above a face that could rival that of the best Renaissance statues, all angles and cheekbones and sharp jawlines and sloped noses. He’s otherworldly, untouchable, stunning. And he’s also in Alex’s flat, where he definitely shouldn’t be.

this blew me away, and I am so incredibly grateful to pinko for this gorgeous art. sad angel!henry is soooooooo personal to me. thank you thank you thank you. the wings, the sky, the coat, the colors, the falling feathers, the sad fucking eyes, the pose. it's like pinko lifted angel!henry from my brain. much love for you, my friend.

#red white and royal blue #rwrb #henry fox mountchristen windsor #fic: angel au #rwrb art #rwrb fanart #rwrb movie #alternate universe #angel!henry #god he is so fucking beautiful #pinko you are a fucking genius and i love you #thank you #digital painting

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xxbeyondangelsxx · 8 months

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Alex & Henry ● Henry's overwhelmingly deep feelings for Alex.

Source: Red, White, & Royal Blue/Amazon Prime

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