Victorian Spirit Collection expressing Richard III

A couple of years ago I designed and created a collection around the theme "My Victorian Spirit".

It has continued to develop, now taking on an expression of Richard III.

I'll entertain a score or

two of tailors to study

fashions to adorn my body.

Shine out. fair sun, till I have

Bought a glass, that I may

See my shadow as I pass.

Now is the winter

of our discontent

made glorious summer

by this sun of York.

(Richard, Duke of Gloucester)

What means this

armed guard?

G of Edward's heir the murderer shall be

(George, Duke of Clarence and 3 guards)

Arise dissembler:

though I wise thy death

I will not be thy executioner

(Lady Anne Neville, widow of Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales)

Have patience, Madame

There's no doubt his majesty

will soon recover his accustomed

health.

The heavens have blessed you

with a goodly son.

(Queen Elizabeth, wife of Edward IV and brother Lord Rivers and sons Lord Grey and Marquess Dorset)

Here come the Lords of

Buckingham and Stanley

Madam, Good Hope, this

Grace speaks

cheerfully.

(Duke of Buckingham and Lord Stanley)

A husband and a son thou

owest to me.

And all the pleasures you

usurp are mine

(Queen Margaret, widow of Henry VI)

I am in this commanded to

deliver the noble Duke of Clarence

to your hands. I will not reason what

is meant hereby, because I will be guiltless of the meaning.

(Keeper in the Tower)

Why do you wring your

hands and cry "O Clarence

my unhappy son?"

(Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury, young daughter of Clarence)

Thou art a widow, yet thou

hast the comfort of thy children left thee

But death hath snatched my husband and

plucked two crutches from my feeble limbs,

Clarence and Edward.

(Duchess of York)

My Uncle Clarence's

angry ghost. My grandmother told me he was

murdered there.

I fear no uncles dead

(Edward, Prince of Wales and Richard, Duke of York. The Princes in the Tower.)

Where is my Lord,

The Duke of Gloucester?

I have sent for these strawberries.

(John Morton, Bishop of Ely)

Ha! Am I King?

But Edward lives

(Richard III)

You have a daughter called Elizabeth

Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious

Fellows in Arms

and my most loving friends,

bruised underneath the yoke

Of tyranny.

(Richmond, Henry, Earl of Richmond and soldiers)

A horse

My kingdom for a horse!

(Richard III)