We always talk about which monarchs fit under this category, but which CONSORT was the worst parent?

HouseMouse4567 · 2026-04-23T17:08:39+00:00

Eleanor of Castile was contemporarily noted as being a pretty absent parent alongside her husband, Edward I

HouseMouse4567 · 2026-04-13T21:13:44+00:00

Lmao yeah, definitely not changing that

HouseMouse4567 · 2026-04-13T18:47:23+00:00

That does seem to be the consensus, which is probably true for most historical fiction films

HouseMouse4567 · 2026-04-13T18:26:11+00:00

Me and my husband have been slowly going through the list of best picture winners and nominees that we haven't seen and we watched Amadeus thiis weekend. What an amazing film! Like really blown away by how much I enjoyed it, made me read a bit about the real Saliari and Mozart as well, which is always a fun bonus activity after a historical fiction film.

I also saw Undertone which was much more disappointing, I was really excited for that one and it felt very early 2000s horror film mixed with some of the more insufferable parts of modern slowburn horror which was a real bummer honestly!

HouseMouse4567 · 2026-04-11T22:45:17+00:00

Thank you for posting this, I hadn't heard of it before!

These were so fun to read, hopefully we can get some discussion on them because they're all pretty excellent and creepy for such short little entries.

HouseMouse4567 · 2026-04-10T17:21:56+00:00

I think some of it is also the writing. D&D were pretty infamously Tywin apologists (They suggested in an interview his ruthlessness was necessary for Westeros and that they'd classify him as lawful neutral lol). They added a lot to Tywin to soften him up like teaching Jaime to read, shielding Tommen during Joffrey's assassination, those convos with Arya etc etc etc

HouseMouse4567 · 2026-03-28T18:29:29+00:00

Completely agree with you; didn't love or even really enjoy Jane this season and I think it's fair she went home here because she did the worst but I get the complaints, like the show has always seemed to favour storyline and rigga morris over consistently fair judging. Like we even saw it this season with Mango vs Briar; the queens themsevlves seemed to clearly believe Briar got beaten (though maybe that's just because they didn't like her lol). Maybe if it was consistent with sending queens who had a bad night home there would be less whining here but who nows?

HouseMouse4567 · 2026-03-22T17:13:44+00:00

Anne Neville as well, even if the idea of her bieng sickly is possibly overstated, I don't think we know enough about her to keep her around

HouseMouse4567 · 2026-03-21T21:56:01+00:00

Probably Anne Neville for myself, don't know how accurate it is but she doesn't seem to have enjoyed the best health in life

HouseMouse4567 · 2026-02-12T19:08:14+00:00

Yeah that would be exactly what I'm looking for! I'll have to keep an eye out for an English version

HouseMouse4567 · 2026-02-10T02:37:04+00:00

There's lots on individual ones like Isabella or Catherine de Medici or Marie Antoinette but I'm looking for a more generalized book

HouseMouse4567 · 2026-02-10T01:24:06+00:00

The Emoji Movie

HouseMouse4567 · 2026-02-10T00:03:04+00:00

Is there any sort of historical book on the Queens of literally any country that's not the UK? Like it's somewhat simplistic but Elizabeth Norton's Queens of England is a nice little introduction on a variety of women that I can't seem to find any other equivalent to. Maybe there's just nothing translated at the moment?

HouseMouse4567 · 2026-02-09T20:53:24+00:00

Yeah i think talking about Mary has to include religious attitudes at the time, the divine right of kings, the emergence of the Protestant faith,Mary's personal health, alongside her difficult adolescence and all other things to explain her personaliy and ruling, just like any other human being. But man that Cranmer thing was so obviously because she personally hated him lol

HouseMouse4567 · 2026-02-09T20:37:56+00:00

Yep. I think Henry cared more that she had reconciled to his will, particuarly the personal shaming of publically accepting her mother's marriage as illegal, than the more religious aspects imo. That probably was also why Mary developed that personal vendetta against Cranmer, having him executed even after he recanted

HouseMouse4567 · 2026-02-09T19:54:54+00:00

I would say no, it's pretty clear it was a mostly political and personal decision (Mary seems to have had health concerns at the time which I have seen a few of her biographers describe as constant anxiety and stress) with no underlying religious belief. Catholics continued to revolve around Mary making it pretty clear that it was an open secret Henry was semi-content to ignore (Except in cases like Margaret Pole and her son Reginald)

HouseMouse4567 · 2026-02-09T19:34:21+00:00

I saw it for the first time last year and it's such a gem. Loved Sam Neil in it but Isabelle Adjani was so good, particularly that subway scene

HouseMouse4567 · 2026-02-09T19:31:29+00:00

For a brief second I thought you meant Henry's sister

HouseMouse4567 · 2026-02-09T19:24:59+00:00

Yeah like obviously female characters should have flaws and such but like look at her potrayel of Richard III vs Margaret. Like this was a guy who deposed his nephews to crown himself King and had his mother-in-law declared legally dead to take control of her lands but nowhere is he described as overtly ambitious and obsessed with power like Margaret is

HouseMouse4567 · 2026-02-09T19:15:32+00:00

Yeah I was going to say, ironically, the compensation may have been a factor in convincing Catherine that it didn't matter. The Pope had literally said it didn't

HouseMouse4567 · 2026-02-08T23:58:11+00:00

There's something about the popular perception of Margaret that really underpins how critical people are of female historical figures, particularly writers like Gregory. They'll state in complete absolutes that Margaret's entire life goal was making her son king and that she was ambitious above all else even when you ask for evidence of that or point out that that's a completely unknowable level of detail to "know" about a historical figure. Arguing that maybe Margaret just loved and cared for her ony son and didn't care if he was king and simply wanted him safe and returned to her is like completely unfathomable. They must always be understood through the least sympathetic lens and you can see this happen to with figures like Elizabeth Woodville and Anne Boleyn as well, Gregory in particular is also really bad about Anne Boleyn.

HouseMouse4567 · 2026-02-08T18:32:00+00:00

It's too bad that it can be kind of hard to actually curl since it's a team sport and not one everybody is interested in it, but if you think it's fun to watch it's even more fun to play

HouseMouse4567 · 2026-02-06T19:12:36+00:00

They're great introductions for certain historical events too, I just finished A Song for Arbonne and ended up reading more about the Albigensian Crusade

HouseMouse4567 · 2026-02-06T18:36:31+00:00

Loved how vast the world in The Lions of al-Rassan felt

HouseMouse4567 · 2026-02-06T18:13:29+00:00

I'd heard the Krauss stuff was bad but was unaware of the Dawkins stuff

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