Favourite Sultana Meme: 6 Relationships Nurbanu And Murad Iii

favourite sultana meme: 6 relationships ♦ nurbanu and murad iii

“It was not only in life but in death as well that Nurbanu Sultan enjoyed extraordinary honors. Contrary to the custom whereby the sultan remained in the palace during a funeral, Murad accompanied his mother’s coffin on foot, weeping as he walked, to the mosque of Mehmed the Conqueror, where funeral prayers were said."  – Leslie P. Peirce - The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire

Princess Apostle Olga. 1893 The image of the iconostasis of the southern chapel in the choirs of Vladimir Cathedral - 

Nesterov Mikhail Vasilievich 

Episode stills of Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Tamzin Merchant and Laoise Murray as Henry VIII, Katherine Howard and Elizabeth I in The Tudors.

As Elizabeth Norton puts it, Henry ‘hounded her to death’ which is also .... ? I don’t have the official tally but I don’t believe she was asked to sign the Oaths more than twice (and in fact it might have been just once); before that (from 1531- onwards, at which point Henry never saw her in person again) she was visited by his councilors often , and had things requested and demanded of her, certainly. If it counts as being ‘hounded to death’, I mean idts, I would say more ‘hounded’ to distress.

Is there a source other than Chapuys to legitimately suggest that KOA spent her final years living in something like squalor? As far as I know she was living comfortably, just not anything like a queen consort (which would have, understandably, been hard to adjust to after twenty years), but the story/popular belief that her living conditions contributed directly to her death persists.

(Almost) Every Costume Per Episode + Anne Boleyn’s light blue robe in 1x08