Britain's Bloody Crown + Costumes
Margaret Beaufort's blue & golden wedding dress in Episode 04.
// requested by @garnetbutterflysblog
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Tell me, Lady Margaret. How shall we find the strength to bear the wrongs people do us? George and Warwick murdered my father and brother in cold blood, so why should George fare any better?
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Elizabeth of York, fashion character design c. 1473-1474.
If you dare to think that I have developed some kind of obsession with little Elizabeth of York, I must tell you...
… you are right.
P.S. My mom told me she looks like a historical Tinkerbell and now I can't stop thinking about it lol
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Reminder that contemporaries believed that 13/14-year-old girls were too young to give birth.
Reminder that contemporaries were amazed that Margaret Beaufort and her son survived childbirth: ‘It seemed a miracle that, at that age, and of so little a personage, anyone should have been born at all’ (from Margaret’s funeral eulogy).
Reminder that Henry VII’s family expressed concern at marrying his daughter too young because they feared '[the groom] would not wait, but injure her, and endanger her health’.
The old “it was like this back then” saying does not apply in this case.
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