Trooping The Colour 🇬🇧
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Federico Chiesa in Juventus-Sassuolo, 16 Gennaio 2024
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sir, can you please not pt.2
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The twenty-five months from April 1469 to May 1471 are one of the most dramatic periods of English history. Edward IV had suffered insurrection, disloyalty, imprisonment, and exile, while Elizabeth had experienced the murder of her father and brother, the birth of her son in sanctuary, and had been besieged in the Tower while her husband hazarded his life in battle. There is no evidence that, throughout all this, she behaved with anything but a queenly dignity which won the admiration of loyal contemporaries. No writer saw fit to criticise her, and William Alyngton, the Speaker of the Commons, ‘declared before the Kinge and his noble and sadde counsell, thentente and desyre of his Comyns, specially in the comendacion on the womanly behaveur and the greate constance of the Quene, he beinge beyonde the See’.
Her devotion to Edward was obvious and she had fulfilled her role impeccably. Her beauty had not occasioned any scandal (in striking contrast to two of Henry VIII’s English consorts), and those who has feared the worst in those now far-off days of the 1460s had learned to respect, and admire, a lady who had proved herself to be everything an English queen should be.
- David Baldwin, Elizabeth Woodville
He [Edward IV] was clearly a man of considerable intelligence, equipped with a particularly retentive memory. He had considerable personal charm and affability and by temperament was generous, good-natured and even-tempered. Consistently courageous, he had great confidence in himself and the capacity to inspire it in others, and from early in his career showed natural gifts of leadership.
- Charles D. Ross, Edward IV
Edward IV had ruled England wisely, and despite his warlike upbringing, had devoted himself to peaceful pursuits. He had encouraged commerce and declined war with France, while wisely keeping the money voted by Parliament for the purpose, and at the same time accepting a large sum from Louis XI to leave French soil…
- L. G. Pine, Princes of Wales
Happy Birthday, Irina! @edwardslovelyelizabeth
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The Prince of Wales and Princess Charlotte of Wales after attending the Christmas Day service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, Norfolk. — 25 December 2023
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*Jesse and steps* a collection by Luce.
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~ gonna need more behind the scenes upstead to make it until january 6 ~
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