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Jacqueline Reiter

Yet another target for the Cairo dwellers

Jun 23, 2018

anniversaries, sources

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, Victoria

Last 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…
More than one target for the Cairo dwellers?

Sep 21, 2017

anniversaries, buildings

“Monarchy”, Barrie Williams, Berkeley Castle, Channel Four, David Starkey, denialists, documents, Edward II, Jacqueline Reiter, John Ashdown-Hill, John Earl of Chatham, Kathryn Warner, Paul Doherty, Richard III, royal mysteries, sources

21 September 1327 is the traditional date of death for Edward II at Berkeley Castle and various myths about it and his life have passed through these 690 years almost unquestioned. They are repeated by quite a few notable people without real evidence as well. If this sounds familiar, it is because certain individuals have…