premierludwig
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I've just been looking up info on Elizabethan fashions and have found this wonderful website I wanted to share:
Elizabethan Costume Page
There are lots of detailed sections on clothes, jewelery, hats, fabric.. and even how to make a ruff! ...which I will be trying out at some point.
They also decribe all sorts of people of different status and location, and all using specific people as examples.
Unfortunately one of the examples is Lettice Knollys who I can't stand! And to wind me up more they have given her her title of Countess of Leicester. :( :( Lettice Knollys was the grandaughter of Anne Boleyn's sister and Henry VIII - so had an appearance much like Elizabeth but was younger, and she had led a much happier life so she used all her Boleyn charms in a very playful flirty manner as Elizabeth could not (with the knowledge that her mother and her mother's cousin had been killed by her father for their flirty behaviour. She had been in great danger because her sister Queen Mary's husband flirted openly with her. And a man she loved had been put to death for trying to marry her).
She deeply angered Elizabeth in many ways with her outrageous behaviour, and Elizabeth found it difficult to watch a younger image of herself wandering around flirting with her favoruites at court who Elizabeth knew she could not marry.
Eventually Lettice ended up marrying the love of Elizabeth's life - Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester - in secret, and when Elizabeth found out she was so enraged that she slapped her in full view of the whole court. Dudley had been Elizabeth's closest friend from childhood, being imprisoned in the Tower of London with her, giving her money to keep her household with when she was banished from court, risking his life in support of her and being the one friend she could trust in a very dangerous world. Unfortunately she could not marry him as she had to marry another Royal if anyone, and marrying him would have angered her people and all of the foreign royals who tried to court her. To make matters worse, his wife died falling down the stairs and everyone wondered if he had murdered her in order to be with Elizabeth.
So after all that I really hate Lettice for marrying Robert Dudley. And now she's ruining this perfectly enchanting website by being on it. :(
love, moons and starrs,
Senti.*
Elizabethan Costume Page
There are lots of detailed sections on clothes, jewelery, hats, fabric.. and even how to make a ruff! ...which I will be trying out at some point.
They also decribe all sorts of people of different status and location, and all using specific people as examples.
Unfortunately one of the examples is Lettice Knollys who I can't stand! And to wind me up more they have given her her title of Countess of Leicester. :( :( Lettice Knollys was the grandaughter of Anne Boleyn's sister and Henry VIII - so had an appearance much like Elizabeth but was younger, and she had led a much happier life so she used all her Boleyn charms in a very playful flirty manner as Elizabeth could not (with the knowledge that her mother and her mother's cousin had been killed by her father for their flirty behaviour. She had been in great danger because her sister Queen Mary's husband flirted openly with her. And a man she loved had been put to death for trying to marry her).
She deeply angered Elizabeth in many ways with her outrageous behaviour, and Elizabeth found it difficult to watch a younger image of herself wandering around flirting with her favoruites at court who Elizabeth knew she could not marry.
Eventually Lettice ended up marrying the love of Elizabeth's life - Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester - in secret, and when Elizabeth found out she was so enraged that she slapped her in full view of the whole court. Dudley had been Elizabeth's closest friend from childhood, being imprisoned in the Tower of London with her, giving her money to keep her household with when she was banished from court, risking his life in support of her and being the one friend she could trust in a very dangerous world. Unfortunately she could not marry him as she had to marry another Royal if anyone, and marrying him would have angered her people and all of the foreign royals who tried to court her. To make matters worse, his wife died falling down the stairs and everyone wondered if he had murdered her in order to be with Elizabeth.
So after all that I really hate Lettice for marrying Robert Dudley. And now she's ruining this perfectly enchanting website by being on it. :(
love, moons and starrs,
Senti.*
