Reblogged
no one appreciates that i could be a million times worse
Reblogged darlingdormer
Natalie Dormer as Anne Boleyn in The Tudors
Reblogged
Effie Gray John Ruskin wrote the fantasy novel The King of the Golden River for Gray in 1841, when she was 12 and he was 21. Gray’s family knew Ruskin’s father and encouraged a match between the two when she had matured. She ended up marrying Ruskin, after an initially unsteady courtship, when she was 20 years old on 10 April 1848.
Reblogged
Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly (1508 – 1580) was chief mistress of Francis I of France. She became Francis’ mistress following his return from captivity in 1526. Anne enriched her family and friends through her courtly influence and after Francis’ death was banished from court and temporarily imprisoned in her husband’s castle. She would spend her later years ensuring the fortune of her family. Anne died in 1580.
Source: Wikipedia
Reblogged
Thomas Gainsborough, The Hon. Frances Duncombe, 2.3 metres x 1.6 metres (92" x 61"), oil on canvas, 1777
Reblogged capncuddles3
obsessed with stories where the message is that you can’t bring someone back from the dead even if you can bring someone back from the dead
Don’t you dare leave this in the tags!
Reblogged
History Moodboards // Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia
“Had her life run its natural course, she would have graced many a ball, but with the advent of World War I, Tatiana would instead find herself laboring long hours with her mother and Olga in hospitals, caring for the wounded.”