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beau–brummell:
english-history-trip:
english-history-trip:
tiny-librarian:
beau–brummell:
beau–brummell:
Okay but you all know that Charles II cleaned up Catherine of Braganza’s vomit once, right? She was really sick and he was there for her the whole time, borderline nursing her and she vomited and before anyone else could clean it up before him, Charles was in there, wiping it off his wife and wiping it off the sheets.
I’m not sure if this was in 1663 when she became seriously ill after miscarrying or in the 1670s, when anti-Catholic sentiment and the Popish Plot signalled in on her and her household specifically and she was scared for her life (and worried that someone would convince Charles to divorce her. As we know, he told everyone who did to fuuuuuck offfff) and thus became seriously sick and incapacitated again. As it is, following her miscarriage in 1663, she was so ill that her fever caused her to become delusional and she believed she had in fact given birth. Charles sat with her and comforted her by saying that, yes, she had given birth. They had two sons and two daughters, he said. And he described them to her until she fell asleep. Kill me as fuck :)
That’s why it’s particuarly touching that in most (if not all) of the engravings that depict the pair together, they are holding hands or touching tenderly in some way. Pour example:
This is so sweet.
Had to draw it.
A perfect, perfect edition to my post! Thank you, these are super and sweet! 💞
beau–brummell:
english-history-trip:
english-history-trip:
tiny-librarian:
beau–brummell:
beau–brummell:
Okay but you all know that Charles II cleaned up Catherine of Braganza’s vomit once, right? She was really sick and he was there for her the whole time, borderline nursing her and she vomited and before anyone else could clean it up before him, Charles was in there, wiping it off his wife and wiping it off the sheets.
I’m not sure if this was in 1663 when she became seriously ill after miscarrying or in the 1670s, when anti-Catholic sentiment and the Popish Plot signalled in on her and her household specifically and she was scared for her life (and worried that someone would convince Charles to divorce her. As we know, he told everyone who did to fuuuuuck offfff) and thus became seriously sick and incapacitated again. As it is, following her miscarriage in 1663, she was so ill that her fever caused her to become delusional and she believed she had in fact given birth. Charles sat with her and comforted her by saying that, yes, she had given birth. They had two sons and two daughters, he said. And he described them to her until she fell asleep. Kill me as fuck :)
That’s why it’s particuarly touching that in most (if not all) of the engravings that depict the pair together, they are holding hands or touching tenderly in some way. Pour example:
This is so sweet.
Had to draw it.
A perfect, perfect edition to my post! Thank you, these are super and sweet! 💞
