goodqueenaly: I am in love with this art commission I had done by @riotarttherite! I asked if she co
goodqueenaly: I am in love with this art commission I had done by @riotarttherite! I asked if she could do Aelinor Penrose and base the face on Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg, and this is so perfect. For some reason, when I was thinking about Aelinor Penrose (toying with a fic I may or may not write), I couldn’t get the image of Sophia Charlotte out of my head (see here and here for example). Poor “Lotte”, as she was known in the family, was married off to Kaiser Wilhelm II’s second son, Prince Eitel Friedrich, specifically because his mother thought the Oldenburgs were “quiet, inoffensive, and suitable for a prince” (and because Lotte had a number of Hohenzollern connections - her mother had been a Prussian princess, and her godmother was the Kaiser’s sister Charlotte). The marriage was a failure, however: married in 1906, the couple was living apart within a decade and divorced in 1926 (though proceedings because in 1919, and reportedly would have even started before the First World War, if the Kaiser would have allowed), and the two of them had no children together. I don’t expect Aelinor’s marriage to be quite as unhappy, but a young aristocratic woman married to the king’s second son because of her close relation to the royal family, stuck in a loveless union that produces no children … well, there are certain echoes of it I could see there. There was just something sad and lost in Lotte’s eyes that I wanted to capture in Aelinor’s. Anyway, if you’re thinking about any kind of ASOIAF art commission, I definitely recommend her. Her tumblr is here, her commissions are open, and she also has a ko-fi as well! -- source link
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