“[Prince] Henry did have a genuine musical talent. Seeing it, his father fostered his interest by allowing him to have his own minstrel and providing him with a lute. The result was that Henry became an expert musician with a mastery of the lute, organ, and harpsichord. In later life he demonstrated his musical attainments by the composition of hymns, ballads, and two masses. His interest continued, possibly fostered by his affection for dancing and religion, which have deeply felt musical affinities. His joyous embrace of the Christian virtues taught by his tutors can best be seen in the verse in which he declares:
My mind shall be; / Virtue to use / Vice to refuse / Thus shall I use– me.”
Life at Henry VII’s Court – M.J. Tucker | Published in History Today: Volume 19, Issue 5: May 1969
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running an unpopular blog really takes a lot of energy out of me
mocking reality tv and the people that watch it…as if reality tv was not the very backbone of so much meme origin…
you mock the very throne you sit on!!
‘maybe have a piece of bread and you’ll calm down a little’ is from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills… i’m sorry you had to find out this way 
mocking reality tv and the people that watch it…as if reality tv was not the very backbone of so much meme origin…
you mock the very throne you sit on!!
why do y’all lie to yourselves…
“the Tudors are overrated”, says yet another blog primarily devoted to Tudor content, posts, header, icon, et al.
why do y’all lie to yourselves…
also…ppl that shade you constantly but also reblog from you a lot??
like…kay.
this w/ a sideblog is also a trip because i get people simultaneously:
a) reblogging my essays from sideblog
b) saying i must be ‘on crack’ for choosing a fancast i did on my main
c) making posts about how i am Unenlightened and Ignorant Binch for being interested in Henry VIII/ the Tudor era
d)…and also reblogging my posts about Henry VIII
d1) you call me an ignorant binch and yet you want to be part of the Ignorant Binch club…wyd
what is okay: being negative sometimes and posting negative posts because it is literally impossible to be positive 24/7
what isn’t okay: being assholes to people who are being positive and posting negative shit on their positive posts that they created to make themselves feel better.
what is okay: being positive and making positive posts for the sake of your own mental health and hopefully to help others
what isn’t okay: shitting on people for being negative/posting negative stuff sometimes and expecting them to be positive 24/7 (especially if theyre disabled)
“Cardinal Wolsey himself allegedly referred to Anne in 1523 as a ‘foolish girl’, while Cardinal Reginald Pole described Anne as a ‘girl’ when Henry VIII fell in love with her. In 1534, a year after her marriage, Anne was described by the Imperial ambassador Eustace Chapuys as being ‘in a state of health and of an age to have many more children’.”
— Conor Byrne, author of Katherine Howard: A New History and Queenship in England
(via autrenecherche)
