Holmesbury

Holmesbury is the het ship between Enola Holmes and Lord Tewkesbury from The Enola Holmes Mysteries fandom.

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Enola Holmes and Viscount Tewkesbury meet each other after Enola discovers Tewkesbury hiding in a luggage bag onboard a train while he was hiding from a man named Linthorn who was hunting him. Together, they escaped the train and made their way to London where they went their separate ways. Some time later, Enola gets dragged back into Tewkesbury’s case when Linthorn caught up to her and interrogated her about Tewkesbury's whereabouts.

Enola eventually manages to uncover and foil a plot by Tewkesbury’s own grandmother as she wanted to kill him in order to prevent him from taking up his seat in the House of Lords as she disagreed with his reformist political views. Finally, Enola and Tewkesbury say goodbye to one another and go their separate ways.

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Enola still has lingering feelings for Tewkesbury, but in an effort to stand on her own two feet, she tries to suppress her emotions about him. The two of them eventually bump into each other again in a park, while Tewkesbury is commuting to the House of Lords and it quickly emerges that Enola has regularly visited the park to keep an eye out for him.

Their paths cross again later when Enola attends a ball in the hopes of questioning a man named William Lyon about her current investigation but in order to speak with him, she will have to dance with him. A problem presents for her there, because she can’t dance. However, luckily for Enola, Tewkesbury was also present at the event and, during an impromptu dance lesson, the two of them get close and share an intimate moment, staring into one another's eyes as they dance.

After getting herself into trouble with the police, Enola takes refuge with Tewkesbury and during this latest meeting, the two of them finally admit their feelings for one another. As Enola continues her investigation, Tewkesbury accompanies her and proves to be a huge help in pointing both Enola and Sherlock in the right direction. During a carriage ride to the theatre where the final showdown takes place, Enola and Tewkesbury finally share a kiss after Tewkesbury asked Enola to teach him how to fight.

After all of the case’s loose ends are tied up, Tewkesbury brings Enola flowers before they take a stroll through London, arm in arm and joking about an upcoming ball that Tewkesbury has been invited to.

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is one of the most popular ships within the Enola Holmes fandom. This is due to the fact that they are the main couple of the series. Although Enola hasn't shown any romantic interest in anyone in the book series, the Netflix movie adaptation gave her one in Tewkesbury and fans loved the ship ever since it was hinted in the first movie. Fans of the ship love the equal respect the two of them have of each other and how the relationship developed as a slow burn romance, with Tewkesbury respecting Enola's job and her times, which leads to the fandom talking about how they embody the "girlboss/malewife" trope. Fans of the ship also love the "sunshine/tough one", "soft one/hard one" dynamic they share with Enola being the "tough one", while Tewksbury is the "soft one" of the two.

The ship is commonly shipped alongside the Sherlock Holmes/John Watson ship, with people joking about how at the end of the second movie, Enola "got herself a boyfriend" and got her brother a boyfriend too.

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