rebeccalouisaferguson
New/old promotional pictures for The White Queen featuring Rebecca Ferguson, Faye Marsay, Amanda Hale and Janet McTeer
Big thanks to @katherynparr for sending them our way
kathrynhoward
THE WHITE QUEEN (2013)
beardofkamenev
“Having given Edmund a hurried burial in front of the high altar at the Greyfriars in Carmarthen, Margaret [Beaufort] now had to consider what to do next. Thirteen years old, pregnant and alone in a remote region of Wales, she would surely have liked to return home. But icy rains could turn the roads to mud in hours and with her baby due in less than two months, she was in no state to travel to her mother in the Midlands. Instead, as soon as she was able, Margaret began making her way to Pembroke Castle, held by her brother-in-law and guardian, Jasper Tudor. Margaret was terrified that the plague which had killed Edmund would follow her. Happily it did not. She found safety within the castle’s massive walls, where Jasper joined her as soon as he had permission to leave the king’s side. In January, when Margaret’s pregnancy entered its last weeks, she withdrew into a tower room overlooking the river. This was the traditional period of confinement, in which the expectant mother rested before her labour. When it came the pain was terrifying. As her later friend and confessor John Fisher, the Bishop of Rochester, recalled, Margaret was never ‘a woman of great stature’ and ‘she was so much smaller at that stage’. The birth of her son on 28 January 1457 left her immature body so damaged that she would never be able to bear another child. He was given a Lancastrian rather than a Tudor name, the same name as her cousin the king: Henry.”
— Leanda de Lisle, Tudor: The Family Story (2013)
glorianas
“You may stay down on your knees. I am the king’s mother, and you shall kneel to me as to a queen.“
“Of course I understand. My cause is holy, my purpose divine. I have devoted my life to it.“
cesareeborgia
history + the wars of the roses
♔ the ladies throughout the series
ladybabington
‘it’s a fool who is afraid of nothing,’ i say. ‘and a brave man is one who knows fear and rides out and faces it.’
THE WHITE QUEEN | 2013
♔ women of britain’s bloodiest dynasty & britain’s bloody crown
rebeccapearson
the white queen meme: [8/10] characters - margaret beaufort
You may stay down on your knees. I am the King’s mother and you shall kneel to me as to a queen.