Here Lieth A Phoenix, By Whose Death. Another Phoenix Life Gave Breath: It Is To Be Lamented Much. The

                                              Here lieth a Phoenix, by whose death.                                                   Another Phoenix life gave breath:                                                          It is to be lamented much.                                              The world at once ne'er knew two such

Anonymous, Portrait of an Elegant Lady (1790′s). Oil on canvas.

“Thanks be to God, my own darling; you are saved and the plague is abated. The legate which we most desire arrived at Paris on Sunday or Monday last. I trust by next Monday to hear of his arrival in Calais and then I trust within a while to enjoy that which I have so longed for, to God’s pleasure and our own.  No more to you now, my darling, for lack of time; but that I would you were in my arms or I in yours, for I think it long since I kissed you.”

I have received a letter from a cousin of mine. He is Duke Philip of Bavaria and he would like to come to England to pay court to you…

The Tudors | The Undoing of Cromwell

“The Portrait of Mrs. Ettinger” by Samuel Hirszenberg (Polish-Jewish,1865-1908; Museum of Jewish Art and History, Paris.

I do kind of have a chuckle at the idea that Cromwell would refer to KoA’s lack of male issue as ‘a great tragedy’ though, like .... would he really call it that when it was what enabled his rise ?