April32013

“The marriage that began night [of November 26 1894] remained unflawed for the rest of their lives. It was a Victorian marriage, outwardly serene and proper, bust based on intensely passionate physical love. On her wedding night, before going to bed, Alexandra wrote in her husband’s diary “At last united, bound for life, and when this life has ended, we meet again in the other world and remain there for eternity. Yours, yours.”The next morning with fresh, new emotions surging through her she wrote “Never did I believe there could be such utter happiness in this world, such a feeling of unity between two mortal beings. I love you, those three words have my life in them””

~ Nicholas and Alexandra, by Robert K. Massie

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April12013
“In the end my lords, this shall be for me sufficient: that a marble stone shall declare that this Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin!” ~ Elizabeth I, Queen of England, Ireland and France

“In the end my lords, this shall be for me sufficient: that a marble stone shall declare that this Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin!”


~ Elizabeth I, Queen of England, Ireland and France

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March242013

Elizabeth’s death scene from BBC’s 2005 the Virgin Queen staring Anne-Marie Duff as Elizabeth I. 

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March152013
“Fire burns…fire burns…the winds of destruction blow…from out of the west the winds of destruction blow down upon thee! Storms and hail shall cut down wheat, shall cut down birds and living things of earth, the heavens! And the gods themselves…” Beware the Ides of March

“Fire burns…fire burns…the winds of destruction blow…from out of the west the winds of destruction blow down upon thee! Storms and hail shall cut down wheat, shall cut down birds and living things of earth, the heavens! And the gods themselves…”


Beware the Ides of March

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tiny-librarian: There was no greater man than Julius, and the Romans left him dead on the Senate floor. Cleopatra’s Daughter - Michelle Moran

tiny-librarian:

There was no greater man than Julius, and the Romans left him dead on the Senate floor.

Cleopatra’s Daughter - Michelle Moran
March142013
“For the death or defeat of Caesar would be nothing less than that for me. I still loved him, and always would. I knew that now, and I accepted it, just as I accepted my height or the colour of my eyes. It was a given, apparently never to be shaken. A source of joy and immense pain.” The Memoirs of Cleopatra - Margaret George (via tiny-librarian)

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March132013
“For ten generations her family had styled themselves pharaohs. The Ptolemies were in fact Macedonian Greek, which makes Cleopatra approximately as Egyptian as Elizabeth Taylor. The word “honey skinned” recurs in descriptions of her relatives and would presumably applied to hers as well, despite the inexactitudes surrounding her mother and paternal grandmother. There was certainly Persian blood in the family, but even an Egyptian mistress is a rarity among the Ptolemies. She was not dark skinned.” Stacy Schiff - Cleopatra: A Life

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March92013
“…To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it. For myself I was never so much enticed with the glorious name of a King or royal authority of a Queen as delighted that God hath made me his instrument to maintain his truth and glory and to defend his kingdom as I said from peril, dishonour, tyranny and oppression. There will never Queen sit in my seat with more zeal to my country, care to my subjects and that will sooner with willingness venture her life for your good and safety than myself. For it is my desire to live nor reign no longer than my life and reign shall be for your good. And though you have had, and may have, many princes more mighty and wise sitting in this seat, yet you never had nor shall have, any that will be more careful and loving.” Exert from Queen Elizabeth I’s Golden Speech. 

“…To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it. For myself I was never so much enticed with the glorious name of a King or royal authority of a Queen as delighted that God hath made me his instrument to maintain his truth and glory and to defend his kingdom as I said from peril, dishonour, tyranny and oppression. There will never Queen sit in my seat with more zeal to my country, care to my subjects and that will sooner with willingness venture her life for your good and safety than myself. For it is my desire to live nor reign no longer than my life and reign shall be for your good. And though you have had, and may have, many princes more mighty and wise sitting in this seat, yet you never had nor shall have, any that will be more careful and loving.”


Exert from Queen Elizabeth I’s Golden Speech. 

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March82013
Knowing that Cleopatra was Greek, and was blackwashed. 

Knowing that Cleopatra was Greek, and was blackwashed. 

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February202013

I love all of you <3

Know that. 

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