(Source: the3princesses, via 1000picsofroyalty)

For the anon that asked - this is HM’s speech in Dublin Castle.

As someone that is half Irish I was SO proud of HM for just those words in Irish. So, so proud and the media barely covered it. She took the time to learn that little bit of a very difficult language and it should have been acknowledged more.

(Source: willsandcatherine)

quatre1six:

In May of 2011, Queen Elizabeth (along with Prince Philip) made an official visit to Ireland, the first British monarch to do so in a century. At the State dinner, the Queen began her speech by saying “Úachtárain agus a chairde,” Irish for “President and friends.” Mary McAleese (right), Ireland’s president at the time, was visibly impressed. Moreover, the Queen was praised for her pronunciation.

(via 1000picsofroyalty)

At last, he wrote to the Queen, life seemed to have a purpose. “To have been spared in the war and seen victory, to have been given the chance to rest and to re-adjust myself, to have fallen in love completely and unreservedly, makes all one’s personal and even the world’s troubles seem small and petty”. [x]

(via themortalmorgensterns)

"I remember the Queen’s words as she addressed us from the tremendous parade ground at Sandhurst: “You must be courageous yet selfless, leaders yet carers, confident yet considerate.” These qualities of selflessness and duty are values that the Queen has continuously demonstrated over the last 60 years and are qualities that remain very important to me."

hellnophilippagregory:

“George Boleyn was a homosexual. That’s funny, because last time I checked, being a womanizer meant flirting with lots of women. Not men.”

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I try to be unbiased as I can but.. just, ugh. I understand she really couldn’t have said no to him but I find it so hard to see how whitewashed she is when her ‘game’ was so much more harmful - KOA had stopped bleeding, Anne had not. There was plenty of time for her to have given him a son had she not been put through the stress she was with Henry’s rather obvious interest in Jane. 

Oh, this logic has come around again.. cannot say I’ve missed it.

By this logic that means that Jane ‘stole’ him from Anne and perhaps it could be argued that Kitty ‘stole’ him from AOC. 

Except, now, this is shocking so hold onto your grey face, it was Henry that was looking for reasons to get out of all three marriages.

He was tired of KOA and wanted out for a long time, Anne just gave him a reason to pursue it more hotly. 

He was tired of Anne and her broken promises for a son and Jane gave him added reason to have her investigated and then killed.

He was tired of AOC (catching a pattern now?) and being lumbered with a ‘horse’ and Kitty caught his eye so again his desperation to rid himself of her was spurred on.

I’m kind of tired of having to defend the Boleyns and Anne from trolls - why do they get bad press when Jane played the EXACT same game and won the prize of Henry and the crown? 

I just dropped a carling beer glass on my toes and I got laughed at. 

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Michael Hirst one day we will meet and I swear on my tumblr that we will have a lengthy discussion about his decision to over sympathise a social climbing, rude, pushy snob instead of George who he’s made out to be a homosexual rapist with a anger problem.

Let us go through some things. If there was even a suggestion of George looking at a man in any sort of way that would be considered over stepping the boundaries of friendship Chapuys and all the other Boleyn enemies would have used it against him in a shot. It was considered a sin, a sin against God in fact as said by Jane Rochford in Tudors:

“It’s a sin against god! It’s a sin against nature!”

Even Eric Ives a respected historian agrees that there is no proof of his homosexuality:

Historian Eric Ives states that there is not one “scintilla” of evidence to support George as being a homosexual. In fact since the Buggery Act (outlawing sod*my) had been enacted in 1533, it is unlikely that Cromwell would not have invoked it as a cause for his arrest as he didn’t balk at the incest charge.

Through all the records of George that remain and the poetry written for him never once is there a case where he is referred to as a rapist, or even having an anger problem infact all accounts refer to him as being charm if not overly proud like these:

Some say, ‘Rochford,
haddest thou been not so proud,
For thygreat wit each man would thee bemoan,
Since as it is so, many cry aloud
It isgreat loss that thou art dead and gone. - Thomas Wyatt written after witnessing George’s execution.

Lets see if you read what I do: great wit, proud, and even that ‘many cry aloud’ hinting that he was infact popular. Popular but not feared as a man with a violent tendency would be.

My appetite was all women to devour. My study was both day and hour. - a extract of George Cavendish’s poem Metrical Visions about the Viscount.

This refers to women. His appetite was all WOMEN to devour.

God gave me grace, dame nature did her part,

Endowed me with gifts of natural qualities:Dame eloquence also taught me the art

In meter and verse to make pleasant ditties - Another extract of Metrical Visions.

Again, no mention of violence, rape or homosexuality and this was written by a supporter of the Catholic faith and someone that loathed the Boleyns and what they stood for.. surely if there was truth to the rumors he too would have used it to discredit George/and the family.. but he didn’t because there is no truth.