Death by enema; yeah, that's a new one for me. One of the things I always wonder about is, how the fuck did they ever even learn about that? Like what, were people just sitting around the table saying, "yeah, let's shove this up our ass and see what happens?" Plus, I mean, dude, eat a salad FFS.
The "Lady" Somerset was a little outside the time frame of my readings, but the only people whose fingerprints are more deeply imprinted upon English history of the 16th C. than the Howards were the Tudors themselves.
It took me a moment to track (in my own mind) who "Prince Henry" was -- my library of 16th C. history is among those books that are packed away. It finally hit me: The son -- eldest son, in fact -- of James I, who by all accounts was a fairly dashing fellow of real intellect. And he would have been king except that for all of his brains and charm he went swimming in the Thames and ended of dying from (as I recall) one of the "Ty's" (Typhus, Typhoid; nasty.) One of the few people who could stand up to his father, had he lived he might also have been able to save the life of Walter "Wat" Raleigh. Instead, "Water" (As QE1 affectionately teased him, due to his heavy, Devonshire accent) went to the block because James 1 was a self-righteous prick. His next-in-line son, Charles, began the long and tedious demonstration of why Stuarts were never meant to be Kings of England. (After a century of going back and forth with it, the English ultimately went to Hanover, Germany, just to get anyone else, and Bonny Charley was left in France.)
You see, this is EXACTLY why you and I are friends, Gary. There are few others in this world who have retained this much geeky knowledge of the Tudors and Stuarts right off the cuff like that. I'm so impressed. Everything you just said is as familiar to me as it is to you because we are THOSE nerds.
Except for the dates, I wrote this article without any other reference material. That's how much I love this stuff.
I got into Ren Faire because I got into 16th C. history. I wanted to know what it felt like to dress that way, carry that stuff around etc. For instance, it requires a whole different form of spatial awareness when you're walking through a crowd with a 4 ft. kitchen knife hanging at your side. Part of the point of a swagger is so that idiots don't trip over your rapier.
By the bye, I had to double check the dates, so I'm not sure but I suspect the Robert Devereux above is the 4th Earl of Essex, making him the grandson of Elizabeth I's one time favorite "Robin" (whom she ultimately beheaded because the arrogant, incompetent fool kept overstepping his bounds and over estimating his power and importance.)
Great read! Fascinating, sordid and delicious. Frances was quite the tart, toxic radiance emitting from her eyes whilst her stilettos are gouged in her victims eyes so to speak. Shit, this bitch came to party! And poor Overbury was at the butt end of her sinister dalliances with Carr. Ouch!
I also balked at Prince Henry, and had to resort to wikipedia's account of James I's offspring. Thank you. That was very interesting and I had not read about her before.
Have you considered writing about other female villainesses? Countess Báthory, or Madame LaLaurie?
It absolutely needed to be clarified. I haven't thought about doing biops of other villainesses, but now that you mention it, that would probably be fun. Poor Prince Henry. The fate of the entire monarchy would have been different had he lived.
Yeah, I was busy swimming upstream as well, though I'm a little old to be spawning....
Rich. Spoiled. Entitled. Mercenary. And why not? When had she ever been denied anything of consequence?
The rich have always played, and been judged by, very different rules.
Quelle surprise.
LOL! But the spawning is the best part!
There’s some truth in that. 😝
Death by enema; yeah, that's a new one for me. One of the things I always wonder about is, how the fuck did they ever even learn about that? Like what, were people just sitting around the table saying, "yeah, let's shove this up our ass and see what happens?" Plus, I mean, dude, eat a salad FFS.
The "Lady" Somerset was a little outside the time frame of my readings, but the only people whose fingerprints are more deeply imprinted upon English history of the 16th C. than the Howards were the Tudors themselves.
It took me a moment to track (in my own mind) who "Prince Henry" was -- my library of 16th C. history is among those books that are packed away. It finally hit me: The son -- eldest son, in fact -- of James I, who by all accounts was a fairly dashing fellow of real intellect. And he would have been king except that for all of his brains and charm he went swimming in the Thames and ended of dying from (as I recall) one of the "Ty's" (Typhus, Typhoid; nasty.) One of the few people who could stand up to his father, had he lived he might also have been able to save the life of Walter "Wat" Raleigh. Instead, "Water" (As QE1 affectionately teased him, due to his heavy, Devonshire accent) went to the block because James 1 was a self-righteous prick. His next-in-line son, Charles, began the long and tedious demonstration of why Stuarts were never meant to be Kings of England. (After a century of going back and forth with it, the English ultimately went to Hanover, Germany, just to get anyone else, and Bonny Charley was left in France.)
You see, this is EXACTLY why you and I are friends, Gary. There are few others in this world who have retained this much geeky knowledge of the Tudors and Stuarts right off the cuff like that. I'm so impressed. Everything you just said is as familiar to me as it is to you because we are THOSE nerds.
Except for the dates, I wrote this article without any other reference material. That's how much I love this stuff.
I got into Ren Faire because I got into 16th C. history. I wanted to know what it felt like to dress that way, carry that stuff around etc. For instance, it requires a whole different form of spatial awareness when you're walking through a crowd with a 4 ft. kitchen knife hanging at your side. Part of the point of a swagger is so that idiots don't trip over your rapier.
By the bye, I had to double check the dates, so I'm not sure but I suspect the Robert Devereux above is the 4th Earl of Essex, making him the grandson of Elizabeth I's one time favorite "Robin" (whom she ultimately beheaded because the arrogant, incompetent fool kept overstepping his bounds and over estimating his power and importance.)
Great read! Fascinating, sordid and delicious. Frances was quite the tart, toxic radiance emitting from her eyes whilst her stilettos are gouged in her victims eyes so to speak. Shit, this bitch came to party! And poor Overbury was at the butt end of her sinister dalliances with Carr. Ouch!
I also balked at Prince Henry, and had to resort to wikipedia's account of James I's offspring. Thank you. That was very interesting and I had not read about her before.
Have you considered writing about other female villainesses? Countess Báthory, or Madame LaLaurie?
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It absolutely needed to be clarified. I haven't thought about doing biops of other villainesses, but now that you mention it, that would probably be fun. Poor Prince Henry. The fate of the entire monarchy would have been different had he lived.
Well, Prince Henry could not possibly have been as big a fool as Charles I.