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The book on Catherine Willoughby is very interesting (though for me, who's studied her a bit, nothing much new). She had a fascinating life! I encourage everyone to check it out. I wish they put in more of her funny letters and commentary about other people at court. I read some of them in college and I found her insults laugh out loud funny.
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I just finished "17 Carnations" about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Before that I read "Queen Victoria's Granddaughters"
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I just finished "17 Carnations" about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Before that I read "Queen Victoria's Granddaughters"
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Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. Clementine Paddleford Fiction is the Truth inside a Lie. Stephen King. 
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Well, Morton certainly maks a persuasive case that W and E were passing information to Von Ribbentrop, et al. The 17 carnations is from Von Ribbentrops constant, identical flowers sent to Wallis...supposedly to honor the 17 times they had spent the night.
But he is no George rr Martin!
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Interesting, thank you Duchess. Oh and long story short, I'm starting to regret my username  |
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Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. Clementine Paddleford Fiction is the Truth inside a Lie. Stephen King.
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I am awaiting the next two installments! Fire and blood, baby!
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I am awaiting the next two installments! Fire and blood, baby!
So am I. Just wanted another username, that's all. |
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Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. Clementine Paddleford Fiction is the Truth inside a Lie. Stephen King.
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I just finished "17 Carnations" about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Before that I read "Queen Victoria's Granddaughters"
17 Carnations was good, well researched, but I liked Queen Victoria's Granddaughters better. |
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Princess Margaret? Arrogant and capricious. Edward? Dull. Charles? Turning into a cyclops. In majestically mischievous diaries, SIR ROY STRONG takes a rapier to his royal encounters By SIR ROY STRONG FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY PUBLISHED: 16:02 EST, 15 October 2016 | UPDATED: 17:51 EST, 15 October 2016 For nearly 50 years Sir Roy Strong, the waspish art historian, landscape gardener and director of London?s Victoria and Albert Museum from 1973 to 1987, has been at the heart of the Establishment, a regular at State occasions and a favourite guest of the great and the good. Now he has finally released his diaries - which include witty, irreverent and sometimes excoriating views on the House of Windsor, and a beautiful Princess destroyed by ?50 years of fags and whisky?? Rest of the article at: http://www.dailymail.co.u...ier-royal-encounters.html |
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The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.
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