Lady Eleanor Talbot
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(This letter, of which a version was published in the September 2018 Bulletin, was in response to Bryan Dunleavy’s article about Edward IV and Elizabeth Wydville.) The article in the latest Ricardian Bulletin by Bryan Dunleavy is interesting, and also provocative, given that the bulk of readers of the publication are, by definition, Ricardians. However…
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The following article is from here. It is a light-hearted look at the things our medieval sisters did to make themselves look beautiful:- Longing to know how to hide your devil’s marks and dissolve your hairline? Step this way! Strictly speaking, the Middle Ages extend from the 5th to the 15th century, but here,…
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Yet another case
Audley case, BBC2, Bontems, Canale Plus, denialists, Duc de St. Simon, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, Fontainebleau, France, Harlay Archbishop of Paris, Jacquetta of Luxembourg, John Ashdown-Hill, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Louis XIV, Marquise de Maintenon, marriage law, morganatic marriage, Pere la Chaise, Richard Earl Rivers, Royal Marriage Secrets, Saudi Arabia, secret marriage, VersaillesThis year’s third series of “Versailles” reminded me of a further instance of secret marriage, even though some people maintain that nobody ever married in secret despite this case, that spawned two whole books, this one and this just decades ago, let alone Edward IV and Elizabeth Wydeville or her parents. In 1683 or 1684,…
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As we mentioned here, Ashdown-Hill’s biography of Richard’s mother was published in April. Whilst his latest, to which we shall return later, was released today, we shall concentrate on Cecily here. This is the book that summarises Cecily’s life by delineating her full and half-siblings, demonstrating that portraits (right) previously assumed to be of her and…
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The King’s bishop? What did John Russell know in 1483?
“Beauforts”, “Princes”, “Tudor” propaganda, AJ Pollard, Alison Hanham, Armstrong, Battle of Bosworth, Bishops, British Library, Chancery Court, Charles Ross, conspiracies, Crowland Chronicle, Dr. John Argentine, Earl of Northumberland, Edward IV, Francis Lovell, George Cely, Great Seal, Harleian Manuscript 433, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VII, Hicks, illegitimacy, Jane Shore, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, John Morton, John Russell, John Shirwood, John Smith, John Stow, judiciary, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lady Margaret Beaufort, letters, Lincoln, Louise Gill, Ludgate, Mancini, Minster Lovell, More, oyer and terminer, Pamela Tudor-Craig, Paul Murray Kendall, Peter Hammond, regicide?, Richard III, Robert Russe, Robert Stillington, Rosemary Horrox, Royal Household, Sherlock Holmes, Simon Stallworth, Sir Anthony Wydeville, Sir William Stonor, Stephen Ireland, theories, Thomas Langton, Thomas Lynom, Titulus Regius, Tower of London, treason, Vatican City, Viscount Welles, Westminster Abbey, William Davey, Wydevilles“ ‘Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?’ ‘To the curious incident of the dog in the night time’ ‘The dog did nothing in the night time’ ‘That is the curious incident ‘ remarked Sherlock Holmes.”[1] By applying his reasoning to this simple observation, the world’s…
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Yes, indeed, there is a lot to enjoy at Sudeley this summer. From Richard’s modelled head and information about Lady Eleanor Talbot, to Marie Antoinette’s bed hangings, Charles I’s enormous four-poster bed, and the Octagon Tower, down the stairs of which George III took a tumble. Plus, of course, there are the castle’s ruins and…
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This site provides the text of Titulus Regius in full – in understandable English! Worth a look.
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