I wish I lived in the time of the Tudors. It was exciting in the 1400s. One false move and blammo! There goes your head. It would make life much more taut! and tight! No? Every day would have a bit more sizzle, an urgency to it that lacks in today’s world, where everyone walks around like zombies unless you’re in the audience of Oprah’s favorite things episode, in which case you are crying and confused and screaming and generally going completely out of your mind. I love watching those people, it’s so rare seeing genuine, unfiltered emotion. It’s alarming to witness! Which says a lot about how contrived everything else is. where am I going with this. I don’t know… but anyway, they also seemed to have a lot more money back then. They made houses out of gold and forks had emeralds stuck all over them. I wouldn’t mind that, not a bit. No one does stuff like that today.
I’m very interested right now in the family Monarchies. Because they’re all very weird. They’re much more human and relatable to me than any modern monarch or celebrity around now. I’m reading right now about Joanna the Mad, who was the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain (who sent Columbus over here) and the sister of Katherine of Aragon, King Henry VIII’s first wife, who by the way was an all around Perfect 10 of a woman, FYI. She gets knocked to the wayside by Ann Boleyn in the history books, but KofA was apparently a mega-hot red-head and really brilliant. Joanna the Mad, not so much.
God, it must suck to go down in history with that nickname.
PS i have no photos to illustrate this rather random post so I'm just going to slap on a bunch of even more random photos on it, to really make sure this in no way makes sense.
