the little shopgirls go to the movies

Henry VIII (2003)

Self-Portrait Holding a Portrait of Her Sister, Rosalba Carriera, 1709, pastel on paper

favorite fictional ladies | anne neville (the white queen) “I’m not the little girl you knew, Richard. I’ve grown up. Margaret of Anjou taught me not to hesitate. She told me there would be times when I have to see the best thing for myself, and take that course without fear.”

Laura Carmichael for Town & Country UK Photograph by Thomas Schenk and styled by Charlie Harrington. Laura Carmichael wears wool coat by Dior Haute Couture; comb by Jennifer Behr; earrings and ring by Van Cleef & Arpels (x)

Lorelai Gilmore:  “‘Cause I look damn good in red!”

King Henry VIII became officially betrothed to the Lady Jane Seymour at 9am, just 24 hours after the execution of his former wife and queen, Anne Boleyn.

“If it be true…, yesterday the King, immediately on receiving news of the decapitation of the [whore], entered his barge and went to the said Seymour, whom he has lodged a mile from him, in a house by the river.” –Eustace Chapuys, the Imperial ambassador.

The Gilmore Girls revival has an official name and its first teaser poster: Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. (x)

if you had to drop out of a class you are not a failure

if you had to take time off school you are not a failure

if you had to leave school for good you are not a failure

your worth is not determined by academia and this goes doubly so for disabled people and others for whom school is set against them

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Mabel Alvarez (1891 - 1985). Carmen, 1922. Oil on Canvas 30 x 25 in.

Elizabeth’s nightmare about her mother’s execution, Reign s03e14

Just touch your ex wife, Jackson!

∙ 31st May 1533 – Anne Boleyn’s Coronation Procession

∙ 19th May 1536 – The Execution of Anne Boleyn

“The crowd could…could also see beyond the humility to the silent point Anne was making. There was no public admission of sin, even in general, still less any confession that she had wronged Henry. Anne spoke firmly, ‘with a goodly smiling countenance’, and soon the news would be all round London that she had died ‘boldly’, without the acceptance of the morality of the sentence which a truly penitent adulteress would show.

“The speech done, the ermine mantle was removed, revealing the proud neck Sanuto the Venetian had noted years before, and a low collar which would present no obstacle to the sword. Then Anne herself lifted off her head-dress, and the crowd saw for the last time the brief glory of her hair as she tucked it into a cap one attendant had ready. […]

“A brief farewell to her weeping servants, a request for prayer, and Anne kneeled down, saying all the while, ‘Jesu, receive my soul; O Lord have pity on my soul.’ Continentals were amazed that she was not bound in any way […] ‘To Christ I commend my soul!’ And while her lips were still moving, it was suddenly over.” | Eric Ives