“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
Anyone who knows their Agatha Christie, KNOWS this book. The David Suchet episode was actually filmed at Greenway, Agatha’s home in Devon. Synopsis : Ariadne Oliver, Writer of Crime Fiction, has been invited to write, plan, execute a Murder Mystery Hunt at Nasse House, ancestral home of the Folliat family. Not to give the plot […]
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MS Media says that the Stone of Scone was recovered by 1953, just in time for B. Windsor to be crowned. Uurm. Some disagree with this (!!) And if you know the history of The Stone of Destiny aka Jacob’s Pillow aka The Stone of Scone – you’ll understand the significance of this. How many […]
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I really love this film. Despite everything! For some strange reason (shrug) I found myself in a conversation this morning with someone who has been “researching” Edward I (Longshanks) and is now of the opinion that he was a thoroughly good bean after all. Mmmn! I might’ve grown up a bit and mastered my hair […]
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To everyone else it looks like I’m having a lazy day today. This is the last of this channel’s videos that I’ve watched over the past few days. The first 2 or 3 I cut short of the last half hour’s ramble but I’ve since learned that I was wrong to do this. To my […]
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TY, Ms. Tatar. I’m loving your work but it’s just a little too heavy for my one functioning brainy cell today :o( Sigh.
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Was a major character in my novel. I spent many years researching her. She was the second wife of Henri Quatre, mother of Louis XIII (husband of Anne of Austria), Gaston d’Orleans (husband of Marie de Montpensier), Elisabeth (wife of Felipe IV of Spain), Chrestienne (wife of Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy) and Henriette […]
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OK. I understand now why Maria Tatar came to me a few days ago. I’ve download a sample of the image above book. When I can earn a living from living – I will buy said book. Maria Tatar cites Bruno Bettleheim —- Uses of Enchantment. A book that I bought many years ago and […]
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If only I had known – 20 years ago – when I first wrote this beginning. When I first chose the Maxim to use, that today, here, now, I’d be standing in Marie de Rohan’s shoes. Exiled. Disgraced. And Mourning. SMH!
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Mmmn! I have several problems with the video below. Not least – the fact that (according to MS History) Henri II de Montmorency was “beheaded” in 1632 by a guillotine. Henri de Montmorency But then…he was the Governor of the Languedoc (CATHAR COUNTRY) and he HAD to die. Like his ancestors in the Albigensian Crusade. […]
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Just before the year 1000 a young Viking named Thorvald the Far-farer turned his back on the pagan gods of his fathers to preach the Christian gospel, travelling to Jerusalem, the golden heart of all medieval world maps. A thousand years later Victoria Clark retraces his epic voyage to discover how the dramatic events of […]
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Emperor Zero? Fiddle verb (CHEAT) UK informal : to ACT Dishonestly in order to get something for yourself, or to change something dishonestly, especially to your advantage. P.S. Been there. Done that. Seen them. Palatine Hill is amazing!
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A Heaven sent gift for me (?) Thank you. I’ll be reading her books very soon! Maria Magdalene Tatar
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Hidden History Research 