espionage
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A review of The Mists of Middleham by Pauline Calkin. Reposted from the Richard III Society page. The Mists of Middleham – An Alianore Audley Novel by Brian Wainwright. Readers may remember Alianore Audley as the wise-cracking, no nonsense Yorkist Intelligence operative who gave us her first-hand account of the reigns of Edward IV…
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So, has the case of “The Man in the Iron Mask” been solved at last? The 1998 film suggested that, in accordance with Voltaire’s theory (via Dumas), he was Louis XIV‘s unknown elder twin, imprisoned since birth – in the same way that James II had a twin, Alexander, who died after a few hours.…
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Medieval (sic) Murder Mysteries
“Princes”, “Tudor” propaganda, Alexander VI, Amy Robsart, Arthur of Brittany, Berkeley Castle, Berkeleys, Borgias, Brittany, Burgundy, cancer, Deptford, Edward II, Elizabeth I, espionage, Falaise Castle, falls, Garden Tower, Geoffrey of Brittany, heresy, John, Marlowe, mysteries, Orsini family, Oxfordshire, Papacy, Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester, Rome, Sir Walter Raleigh, Tiber, UKTV, William Cecil, yesterdayThis is a six-part series, first shown on “Yesterday” (a UKTV channel) in 2015 but is available to view on their website here. The producers used pathologists, coroners, historians, barristers and other writers to form their conclusions, some of which are more reliable than others. The first episode, which surely misses the mediaeval timescale, is…
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… who Petrus Alamire was spying for but he survived possibly outwitting Henry VIII: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-29693410 Here is a little more about him: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-29693410
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