Thank you very much…
And thank you also to @Kellan Sullivan for having nominated this TL for the Turtledoves… and I would be really grateful if someone seconded the nomination
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A destiny fulfilled - An Eleanor of Austria TL
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And thank you also to @Kellan Sullivan for having nominated this TL for the Turtledoves… and I would be really grateful if someone seconded the nomination
Nothing. Just not sure if the need that is all. But it’s your timeline. If anything I hope to see more.
Well, most of them have very little in portraits and still less with secure attribution. Plus almost all of them here married very differently than OTL… If you are not interested in them please ignore them, if you want more do not worry as they will arrive soon…
1519 - Letters
Isabella, Duchess of Milan was reading the latest letters from her relatives and friends: she could not help to feel sorry for the young Empress Anna, as looked who the pregnancy of the fifteen years old girl was taking a big toll on her but at least was doing some good for their grandfather’s moods as looked who the Emperor right now was too busy to overworry for his young bride’s health and cursing himself for not having been more careful, for continuing to think about his death, at least from what Charles has written in a letter after his last visit in Austria, without Marie, who had become far too attached to the nursery after little Maximilian’s birth (but considering her past depression, Charles was more than willing to comply as he was seeing that as a progress and both herself and their sister Eleanor agreed with him on that) and had found their grandfather greatly changed. Luckily Anna was not cursing Maximilian (as looked who she had pushed for consummating the wedding earlier than Maximilian had planned, likely scared for her future) and was more than willing to be the object of her husband’s newest obsession as evidently she preferred this new obsession to the previous one…
Looking at her little Ludovico made strange think who she would have an uncle younger than her son (and to think who Eleanor at this point had already four children, Charles two and also Ferdinand would soon become father), but she felt stranger thinking who her son, who had a little more than a year, had already a prospective bride in little Isabella of Poland, as the Queen of Poland had birthed an healthy girl in the second half of January and called her after her own mother, the Duchess of Bari, who had immediately started to suggest her granddaughter as bride for the little Count of Pavia, something to which both Massimiliano and Isabella were favourable, but any engagement would require an agreement about Bari’s possession between Isabella and Bona on one side and Francesco, the younger brother of Massimiliano, on the other as her brother-in-law was claiming Bari as his own and everyone knew who the cession of Bari to the current Duchess Isabella was quite shady, but that was neither the only or the first move of that kind done by the late Duke Ludovico (still the fact who Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Bari, do not complained about that duplicity, was telling about the fact who her own father, grandfather and father-in-law had been much worse than Duke Ludovico).
Eleanor’s last letter had made her much happy as her favorite’s sister had fully recovered from the birth of the twins (and Isabella truly hoped to not have twins in any of her future pregnancies) and returned to her place at the centre of the Court and to deal with some ladies-in-waiting who she disliked but could not yet dismiss, and that made Isabella wondering if the two elder Stafford sisters, married to the Earls of Westmorland and Surrey, and their new sister-in-law, Mary Talbot, were really so insufferable and arrogant as Eleanor depicted them or her sister was exaggerating (Isabella feared to have been guilty of that last thing in describing the Dowager Marchioness of Mantua to her sister), but at least they were around Eleanor’s age and not close relative of her husband. Another thing from that letter who had made her smile was the fact who her sister had a plan to secure the happiness of their Anne Boleyn as she remembered the girl with fondness and had been shocked to heard about her sister‘s scandal.
The last letter who she had to read was a very short one, and at the same time the one who gave her the greatest joy as that few lines were from the Duchess of Ferrara, who announced the birth of her new daughter, Isabella Maria, and the fact who she was recovering… Isabella was unable to not laugh at the point in which Lucrezia had written who for herself the name was in honour of the Duchess of Milan and the Dowager Queen of Naples and absolutely not for the harpy, whatever her husband wished…
Looking at her little Ludovico made strange think who she would have an uncle younger than her son (and to think who Eleanor at this point had already four children, Charles two and also Ferdinand would soon become father), but she felt stranger thinking who her son, who had a little more than a year, had already a prospective bride in little Isabella of Poland, as the Queen of Poland had birthed an healthy girl in the second half of January and called her after her own mother, the Duchess of Bari, who had immediately started to suggest her granddaughter as bride for the little Count of Pavia, something to which both Massimiliano and Isabella were favourable, but any engagement would require an agreement about Bari’s possession between Isabella and Bona on one side and Francesco, the younger brother of Massimiliano, on the other as her brother-in-law was claiming Bari as his own and everyone knew who the cession of Bari to the current Duchess Isabella was quite shady, but that was neither the only or the first move of that kind done by the late Duke Ludovico (still the fact who Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Bari, do not complained about that duplicity, was telling about the fact who her own father, grandfather and father-in-law had been much worse than Duke Ludovico).
Eleanor’s last letter had made her much happy as her favorite’s sister had fully recovered from the birth of the twins (and Isabella truly hoped to not have twins in any of her future pregnancies) and returned to her place at the centre of the Court and to deal with some ladies-in-waiting who she disliked but could not yet dismiss, and that made Isabella wondering if the two elder Stafford sisters, married to the Earls of Westmorland and Surrey, and their new sister-in-law, Mary Talbot, were really so insufferable and arrogant as Eleanor depicted them or her sister was exaggerating (Isabella feared to have been guilty of that last thing in describing the Dowager Marchioness of Mantua to her sister), but at least they were around Eleanor’s age and not close relative of her husband. Another thing from that letter who had made her smile was the fact who her sister had a plan to secure the happiness of their Anne Boleyn as she remembered the girl with fondness and had been shocked to heard about her sister‘s scandal.
The last letter who she had to read was a very short one, and at the same time the one who gave her the greatest joy as that few lines were from the Duchess of Ferrara, who announced the birth of her new daughter, Isabella Maria, and the fact who she was recovering… Isabella was unable to not laugh at the point in which Lucrezia had written who for herself the name was in honour of the Duchess of Milan and the Dowager Queen of Naples and absolutely not for the harpy, whatever her husband wished…
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Ooh good, the match with Isabella of Poland is both prestigious and helps tie up claims in Bari...
Not so prestigious but is nevertheless a good match with a royal princess and will reunite the bloodlines of the Sforza. Unluckily it would not tie the claims to Bari as little Isabella’s mother is heiress to one but the other belong to the uncle of young Ludovico. Still the match could help to get to an agreement about it or crash over the Bari issue
At the moment you have nothing to worry for her. She is fine, only a little young so being pregnant is not exactly easy for her. Add to that the stress related to her position (and the incessant court gossips), her worries for her brother and the fact who being married to Maximilian is not easy at all and keep in mind who Isabella (and Eleanor) has never meet Anne and can only make assumptions and right now their sources on Anne’s state are Charles, their sister Mary and Maximilian himself (and neither of them is a good judge) and not Anne herself who has written nothing about her state/health
Portraits - Margaret and Marie Tudor
A new round of portraits
Margaret Tudor, Dowager Queen of Scotland and now Duchess of Suffolk
Marie Tudor, Queen of the Romans, Queen of Lorraine and Duchess of Burgundy
and as bonus the ATL version of the Sittow portrait who had made fall Charles in love with her (and do not worry, as while the portrait is always in Charles’ bedroom, he love more the real Marie)
Margaret Tudor, Dowager Queen of Scotland and now Duchess of Suffolk
Marie Tudor, Queen of the Romans, Queen of Lorraine and Duchess of Burgundy
and as bonus the ATL version of the Sittow portrait who had made fall Charles in love with her (and do not worry, as while the portrait is always in Charles’ bedroom, he love more the real Marie)
What ai generator do you use for the portraits? I use https://www.img2go.com/ai-art-generator, because they are more realistic.
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I like freepik a lot too. I used img2go as well, but I find that though they're more "realistic" the faces tend to be the exact same no matter what prompt you use. You can also get freepic to emulate renaissance portraits by mentioning artists and people from the period.
Portraits - Philiberta of Savoy and Lucrezia Borgia
Another round of portraits, this time the Italian women: Starting with Philiberta of Savoy de’ Medici, Duchess of Nemours and Lady of Florence
and then the last (and newest) Italian narrator, Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara
and then the last (and newest) Italian narrator, Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara
Portraits - Isabella del Balzo and her daughters Giulia and Isabella of Naples
And for ending the portraits for now (among the main female characters only Anne Boleyn is missing but her portraits will arrive later):
first Isabella del Balzo, Dowager Queen of Naples
and then her daughters: Giulia of Aragon-Naples, Duchess of Bisceglie and Andria and Princess of Taranto
and for last Isabella of Aragon-Naples, Princess of Montferrat
first Isabella del Balzo, Dowager Queen of Naples
and then her daughters: Giulia of Aragon-Naples, Duchess of Bisceglie and Andria and Princess of Taranto
and for last Isabella of Aragon-Naples, Princess of Montferrat
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