A Portrait Lives: Mary, Queen of Scots

I really haven't been consistent with my Portrait Lives, but I'll just do them whenever for now because I have been occupied, but I haven't forgotten!

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots had a tragic life. She was imprisoned. One time by her own people and she fled to England where she was imprisoned, found to have plotted against Queen Elizabeth I and executed. These are just a few of the facts that make her such a tragic figure.

aged about 6

aged  about 13

aged about 15

aged about 17

aged about 17-18

in her early twenties

aged about 36

aged about 33

Her execution at aged 45

Sources: 

Cathlolic Encloypedia, Mary Queen of Scots: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09764a.htm

Portrait Lives: Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.

The Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, was one of a kind. He believed in peace and only entered war when necessary. He did what was necessary for Spain and the Holy Roman Empire. Never the less, he was his ideal view of a Catholic emperor, which meant spreading Catholicism. He wanted to protect the religion, it was his primary goal and was show as such when it was unanimous he would be elected to the emperor position.

Now a Portrait Lives:

He was Born in 1500.

aged about 7

aged about 2

aged same

aged about 19

aged about 30

Aged

About 33

aged about 37

aged about 48

aged about 50

aged 50s

He died in 1558 at 58.
His last words were "Ay Jesus (!)" He was probably hoping heaven would receive him.

Sources:
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor: http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/charles5.htm
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor: http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/ReferenceDetailsPage/DocumentToolsPortletWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&jsid=73b339808e43d9133d3f7d01e6b6b599&action=2&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CK3404900201&u=dist214&zid=b25b1ff5bf4088b84760dea566efa922, a long url.

Check out

The Reign of Charles V.

You might notice his chin, that's because of his families' years of inbreeding.

Portrait Lives: Queen Victoria Part 2

It continues...

aged about 41

aged about 50.

aged about 64

aged about 68

aged about 70

aged 81

She died at 81 on 22 January 1901, she had the longest reign in English History (Elizabeth II should keep on living just to beat Victoria's record).

Check out more about

Queen Victoria: A Personal History

by Christopher Hibbert

Vicky is not amused, either you click the link or 

she will attack you with her fan.

The picture has inaccurate colors.

Source:
Timeline of the life Queen Victoria: https://www.royal.gov.uk/List%20Images/QV%20Education%20project/Timeline%20of%20the%20life%20of%20Queen%20Victoria%202.pdf
http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon58.html
Victoria: http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon58.html

Portrait Lives: Queen Victoria Part 1

If you gotta know something about me you gotta know I post late in the day. Yep, one of the bad things.

Frankly, many people know of Queen Victoria, but nothing about her (like me an hour ago). The only thing I really knew about her is that she loved her husband and was very powerful. Probably both true but that doesn't demonstrate a significant of an understanding of Victoria. She was actively involved in politics and extended over foreign and domestic innovations with her long reign of influence. She was a great monarch of her time.

Born on 24 May 1819.

aged 9

aged 4

aged 14

aged about 23

aged about 25

aged about 35

aged about 35

aged  about 40.

aged about 41

Part 2 tomorrow!

Portrait Lives: Adolf Hitler

It's Portrait Lives Saturday!
Every Saturday features a Portrait Lives, which is a weekly post showing the age progression in specific historical figures through contemporary portraits of them. 

He is always shown and thought of as worst person in history, most certainly one of the most insane political figures in history, and he was. He was responsible for over 4 million Jews being dehumanized and executed.

Here is a Portrait Lives about him:

He was born on April 20, 1889 in Austria.

Hitler as an infant, kinda cute but evil

aged about 11

Early twenties when he began serving in World War I.

Hitler in his late twenties during time
in army

in his early thirties

aged about 41. The year after this portrait he would run for
president...and lose.

Hitler aged about 38, this
is about when the Nazis
 came to power

Aged about 43, around this time he is appointed German Chancellor
 because who wants to be president (second in command)?
I bet the German people were thinking
"didn't he just lose the election
for president?"

about 44, was Chancellor now Dictator-Chancellor.
Concentration camps have
been opened, horrible large-scale
discriminating systematic war crimes.

about 47

aged about 48

A year before Hitler and Mussolini
 declared war on US, about 52.

about 56, the year he died

In 1945, he committed suicide by shooting himself in his mouth.

Sources:
Adolf Hitler: Table of Contents: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hitlertoc.html
A Madman: A sober look at Hitler's Health: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/medicating-a-madman-a-sober-look-at-hitler-s-health-a-675991.html

Extra Pictures:

British Army in Europe.

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: sheets with portraits of Hitler.

Check out

Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography

by John Toland

Hitler at a window.