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TIE-BREAKER!

The last post ended in a tie, with the Tudor sisters (ironically) receiving an equal number of votes.

So today is a tie-breaker! Simply vote for either Mary I or Elizabeth I to decide who will be The High Priestess.

Who is our High Priestess? 👑📜🌙

Literal meaning: The highest-ranking female priest; a woman who leads religious rituals or holds the highest religious authority.

Traditional tarot meaning/symbolism: Wisdom, intuition, mystery, hidden knowledge, and secrets.

Of course, you're welcome to use your own interpretation, as long as your reasoning makes sense!

Everybody's opinion is valid, so please keep the discussion civil!

Voting clarification

Since a few people have asked about this, here's a quick clarification:

Upvotes do not count as votes.

One comment = one vote.

Only one vote per user is counted. If the same user leaves multiple comments, it still counts as one vote.

If a user votes for two different monarchs, their vote will not be counted.

If you change your mind, you may change your vote within the 24-hour voting period by editing or deleting your original comment and posting a new one. Your most recent valid vote within those 24 hours will be counted.

To vote, simply comment the name of one monarch (except for The Lovers, where you may nominate a pair).

This has been the voting system since the beginning of the series.

The girl in question being Mary II.
Originally from r/historymemes
Who are you taking the salt from? 😂

For me, I think it's&/I like this painting of George I.

Henry VIII expressly forbade Brandon from pursuing Queen Mary Tudor after she was widowed in France. Despite these orders, Suffolk married the widowed Queen in a clandestine ceremony and in a stroke made himself the King’s brother in law while also committing treason. He even managed to secure the quiet moral support of Francis I of France despite the fact that the widowed Queen could have been a substitute wife for the French king in the event that he chose to repudiate Claude of Brittany.

Henry executed two wives and divorced two over less, so how did the Duke of Suffolk walk away from the incident alive?

Why did Diana have to fall? She didn’t deserve to die💔🫣✨

On 30 January 1649, King Charles I was executed outside the Banqueting House in Whitehall. His final words were taken down independently by two separate witnesses on the scaffold — his chaplain, and an army secretary ordered there specifically to produce an accurate record. Both versions survive. They agree closely.
In that speech, Charles said: “I am the martyr of the people.”
He did not mean religious martyrdom. His own words, moments earlier, explain exactly what he meant: “It is not for having share in government, sirs. That is nothing pertaining to them. A subject and a sovereign are clean different things.” He was claiming to die defending a specific model of law and monarchy — not claiming sainthood.
Nine days later, a book appeared claiming to be his own spiritual autobiography. It went through 36 editions in a year. Its authorship is still disputed — a clergyman later claimed he wrote it himself.
Two years after the monarchy was restored, the Church of England added Charles’s name to the prayer book calendar as a martyr and saint. That religious framing is what most people now associate with “the martyr of the people” — a phrase Charles actually used to make a political argument, not a religious one.
Also worth noting: of 135 men named to try him, only 68 ever sat in judgment, and just 59 signed the death warrant. One signatory later claimed Cromwell physically forced his hand — a claim that saved his life in 1660, and cannot be verified against his own signature, which shows no sign of a struggle.

Full case at The Black Archive — link in profile.

My favourite were the two eldest- Vicky and Alice.

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The last post ended in a tie, with King Henry VII and King Charles II receiving the same number of votes.

So today is a tie-breaker! Simply vote for either Henry VII or Charles II to decide who will be The Magician.

Who is our Magician? 🪄🔮

Literal meaning: A person who performs magic or illusions; a sorcerer, wizard, or witch.

Traditional tarot meaning/symbolism: Skill, talent, willpower, resourcefulness, and action.

Of course, you're also welcome to use your own interpretation, as long as your reasoning makes sense!

Everybody's opinion is valid and keep the discussion civil!

there are some people who say she was a terrible mother, especially with her two eldest, and i understand completely, but i personally think she did the best she could, though that doesnt mean she was an entirely good parent. her attempts to fix wilhelms withered arm were done out of deep guilt and desperation for him to get better, not out of rejection, even if those treatments were actual hell on earth jesus christ

charlotte was an unfortunate one, with her disinterest for education and the same bitterness for her strict mother, i understand too however, vicky was rather blunt about her "stupidity" and openly disapproving of her. i get both sides to be honest. vicky also misunderstood her charlottes symptoms from porphyria as disobedience which further drove the rift, but again its understandable, how could she have known that her behavior was signs of something that didn't exist to people back then

at least her relationship with her youngest daughters were far better due to having much more lax and affectionate childhoods. its sad the bond between her, wilhelm and charlotte were irreparable though

Been interested in doing a ranking series for a while like many other subs did, so thought we could try to rank Frankish/French monarchs from worst to best daily. Comment which monarchs should be disqualified from this ranking due to lack of information, lacking any time to make significant decisions, etc.

Rules:

1. Comment the monarch that you want to see removed, preferably with some justification for your choice (convinces more people to support your nomination)
2. If someone else has already commented the monarch you want, upvote, downvote and reply accordingly, you can also write a comment explaining why someone should stay longer
3. The most upvoted monarch by this time tomorrow will be removed based on highest voted comment
4. Try to avoid spreading complete misinformation or changing nominations after your comment has gotten traction

For the sake of simplicity and the general lack of resources, only Merovingians who ruled as the sole King of the Franks will be included. Middle and East Carolingian rulers that did not rule West Francia are not included. Only monarchs with a clear, undisputed claim and rule are included.

 

The Duke of Porto on his father’s side is the grandson of Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza (1907-1976) and his wife Princess Maria Francisca of Orléans-Braganza (1914-1968).

Interestingly the late Duchess of Braganza’s mother (Dinis’s great-grandmother) was an Austrian Countess herself: Elisabeth of Dobrzensky von Dobrzenicz (1875-1951) was from Bohemian Nobility.