Henri II
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While I am no Marilyn Monroe, nor ever have been, in one respect I am just like her….beneath my (faux!) fur coat, I am likely to only be wearing one perfume. In her case Chanel Number Five; in mine Diorissimo. I have worn it since I was sixteen and still love it. It’s been…
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With all the recent publicity and very real worry over the head injuries that are part and parcel of physical sports such as boxing, football and rugby, I’ve been prompted to consider similar injuries that must have happened in earlier periods of our history, when activities such as tourneying were very much the…
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Yet another target for the Cairo dwellers
Admiral Thomas Seymour, Antoine de Noaillles, Chris Skidmore, Christine Hartweg, denialists, Edward II, Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset, Edward VI, executions, flowers, French embassy, Henri II, Hester Chapman, Isabella de Valois, Jacqueline Reiter, John Dudley Duke of Northumberland, John Earl of Chatham, Kathryn Warner, Lord High Admiral, Lord Protector of the Realm, National Archives, Paul Doherty, plants, Richard III, VictoriaLast autumn, we reblogged posts to illustrate that the denialists of the history world, quite apart from their antics with respect to Richard III, quoted an obviously non-existent part of a document about Edward II and cited a book on botany, with reference to John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham, that he couldn’t have owned…
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Genealogy Francois I of France died in the first quarter of 1547, after a reign of over thirty years, leaving only one legitimate son, Henri II. Whilst thought of as a cultured monarch, a patron of the arts and a linguistic reformer, he took an ambiguous approach to religious reform, (in which his sister Marguerite…
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