☕️ buzzfeed should recompensate the blogs they’ve taken screenshots of and gotten ad revenue from in their list ‘articles’ and if they can’t they should honestly just delete those articles and STOP ‘writing’ them. it’s, of course, technically legal to do so as long as you add the source; but it’s disrespectful to operate on the assumption that everyone is ok with the ‘promotion’ of their content with no pay, when they KNOW buzzfeed is making money off their posts.

marieduplessis:

100 PERCENT AGREE…… they’re a bunch of leeches

Do you know why Elizabeth didn’t get Hever Caste after Anne of Cleves died? From what I’ve gathered Mary I decided to gift it to some random knight in 1557, but that seems so incredibly petty, that I have to wonder if there wasn’t a reason for her not letting the Careys or Elizabeth get it. He could have gotten any random castle (and he did seem to get another one as well), but she decided to give him Hever.

Oh, I didn’t know about that. 

AOC had at first refused to attend Catholic Mass, along with Elizabeth, during the first part of Mary’s reign. Perhaps there was still some resentment there about that.

Elizabeth didn’t seem to try to get it back when she became Queen, tho, she left it to the son of Sir Edward Waldegrave:

“When Anne of Cleves died in 1557 the Hever estate reverted to the Crown. In that year Sir Edward Waldegrave, a member of Mary Tudor’s Council, had been appointed one of the Commissioners for the sale of Crown land and promptly assigned himself the Castle and estate of Hever. When the Catholic Queen Mary died and the Protestant Elizabeth I came to the throne, Sir Edward was deprived of his appointments and was arrested for allowing Mass to be celebrated in his house. Sir Edward was sent to the Tower of London and remained there until his death in 1561.

Edward’s son, Charles, had risen in the world with his father, becoming a Privy Councillor and Master of the Queen’s Horse. However, with the downfall of his father, Charles lost all his appointments and retired to Hever Castle with his wife Jeronyma. As a Catholic, he could play no further part in national affairs and so he spent time refurbishing the Castle.”

They were lessons she swallowed whole. For the rest of her life, she remained devoted to the niceties. Few things seemed to cause her greater stress or anguish than the fear that she might make a mistake in public. She seldom did. Compliments on her polite gracefulness followed her into the grave. This decorum subjugated and elevated Catherine, for while it kept her firmly kowtowing at the feet of her guardian, it also affirmed her superior position to those around her.

Young & Damned & Fair by Gareth Russell (via queenbessofyork)