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scotianostra · 2 years

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On April 25th 1058 Malcolm III of Scotland was crowned at Scone.

A lengthy post, but this era laid many foundations for future generations of royalty.

King Malcolm is a very important figure in not just Scottish, but British history, not least because one of his descendants is the current Queen. His nickname, “Canmore” applied after his death, means great chief, derived from the Gaelic ceann mòr.

Canmore was also the first man to be described as King of Scotland as opposed to the usual designation of King of Scots, although the latter is most favoured throughout history.

At the beginning of the 11th century, the House of MacAlpin provided the Kings of Alba, the main kingdom in Scotland. At that time the Northern and Western Isles were in Norse hands, Moray and the lands north of it were held by a Mormaer, or Earl, and Strathclyde was a Brythonic kingdom that extended all the way through Cumbria and modern Lancashire.

Malcolm III’s father was King Duncan I who was crowned King of Scots in 1034. Thanks to William Shakespeare and his misleading interpretation of events, most people believe that Duncan was murdered in his bed by the Mormaer of Moray, Macbeth. In fact Macbeth’s Moray army defeated Duncan’s Alba troops in battle near Elgin in August 1040, the conflict being joined because Macbeth sought revenge for Duncan invading his land. The few chronicles of the time suggest Macbeth was ‘dux’, meaning prince or duke but also war leader.

Macbeth reigned for 17 years and he appears to have been a good king accepted internationally, even visiting Rome on pilgrimage. Malcolm had been just nine when his father was killed, and he had escaped south where he was brought up by the Earl of Northumbria, Siward Biornsson, before moving to the English court of King Edward the Confessor.

Malcolm was determined to avenge his father’s death and in 1053 or 1054 he invaded Scotland with an army provided mainly by Earl Siward. After Siward’s son Osbern was killed in battle with the Scots near Dunsinane, that first invasion petered out, but when Malcolm came back to Scotland in 1057 he was joined by leading figures from what is now southern Scotland and most chroniclers agree that Malcolm slew Macbeth at the Battle of Lumphanan in August of that year.

The followers of Macbeth installed his stepson Lulach mac Gille Coemgáin as King of Scots, and there is an account of him being crowned at Scone. He is known to history as Lulach the Unfortunate or Foolish, his reign lasting just six months before Malcolm assassinated him and claimed the crown for himself.

Thus began the long rule of the House of Dunkeld which had been the family’s power base.

According to the chronicler John of Fordun, Malcolm III was crowned at Scone on April 25, 1058, and by another account, he then went to the court of Edward the Confessor to arrange a dynastic marriage with Margaret, the Hungarian-born sister of Edward’s would-be heir Edgar Aethling. That report is considered doubful because Malcolm definitely married Ingibiorg Finnsdottir, the widow of the Earl of Orkney. They had at least two sons, including the boy who would become King Duncan II. Ingibiorg is presumed to have died around 1068.

Malcolm invaded England to try and gain the kingdoms of Northumbria and Cumbria, but was beaten back. Then in 1066, William the Conqueror arrived with his Norman army and Edgar was never crowned king.

In 1068, William allowed Edgar Aethling and his family to take refuge in Scotland – tradition is that they were blown ashore in a storm while fleeing to the Continent, but it was more likely that Edgar came to Scotland seeking Malcolm III’s help to get back “his” throne. In any case, Malcolm married Margaret and to add to his two surviving sons by Ingibiorg, the royal couple had eight children with three of their sons becoming Kings of Scotland, the greatest of them being David I, while Edith, in her new name as Matilda or Maud, married King Henry I of England.

Margaret was noted for her piety and she encouraged the building of religious establishments such as her own chapel in Edinburgh Castle, while she had a civilising influence on Malcolm, modernising the Scottish court in Dunfermline where Malcolm introduced Anglo-Saxon alongside Gaelic. All their children were given Anglo-Saxon names, showing how much Malcolm was in love with, or in thrall to, his saintly wife.

Malcolm’s assistance to the Aethling family extended to invading the north of England, though more likely he was trying to expand his kingdom. William the Conqueror invaded Scotland in retaliation and in 1072 Malcolm was forced to sign the Treaty of Abernethy acknowledging William as his overlord after the Norman knights smashed his small army. He was also forced to expel Edgar from his court and in return he was given lands in Cumbria which is why his son David was first known as Prince of the Cumbrians.

That Treaty of Abernethy was to cause trouble for Scotland over the next 200 years, as it gave credence to English claims of overlordship, but Malcolm ignored it entirely once King William Rufus, came to the throne of England. He invaded Northumbria in 1091, but was forced back to Scotland by William’s large army, signing a peace treaty rather than go into battle.

Two years later Malcolm resumed raiding into England but went one castle too far when he besieged Alnwick Castle. Outside its walls a full-scale battle developed on November 13th, 1093, in which both Malcolm and his son and heir Edward were both killed.

On being told the dreadful news, Queen Margaret took to her bed and died a few days later.

#Scotland #scottish #england #english #Monarchy.#history

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thebritishmonarchycouk · 3 years

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#otd 23 April 1151 – Adeliza of Louvain died (b.1103) . Adeliza was Queen of England from 1121 to 1135, as the second wife of King Henry I. . She was the daughter of Godfrey I, Count of Louvain. . Henry I was some 35 years older than his bride, who was about 18 when they married. He already had children, though no surviving son, from his first marriage to Matilda of Scotland, as well as several illegitimate ones. As his second marriage produced no children, the decision was made to leave the throne to his daughter, the Empress Matilda; an oath was sworn by the clergy, members of the royal family, including Adeliza, as well as English nobles to recognise Matilda as Henry’s heir upon his death. After his death Adeliza spent three years based in a convent, then married again & had seven children by William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel. But a year before her death at the age of forty-eight she left her husband to move to the Affligem Abbey in Brabant, where she died in 1151. . Adeliza’s royal marriage seems to have been successful, apart from the failure to produce a new heir. The flow of Henry’s illegitimate children seems already to have ceased by the time of the marriage, & they spent most of their marriage together, which was by no means inevitable in royal marriages of the period. She seems to have been influential in the promotion of French poetry & other arts at court, but played little part in politics. . (I don’t know why but I just love the name Adeliza ❤️) . . . #QueenofEngland #Royalhistory #Adeliza #history #HenryI #QueenConsort #d23apr #onthisdayinhistory #thisdayinhistory #OnThisDay #Louvain #historyinpictures #MedievalArt #Monarchy #Brabant #Britishhistory #historyofbritain #EnglishHistory #queen #Royalty #kinghenry #kinghenryi #medievaltimes #medievalage #historyinpictures #medievalhistory #RoyalFamily #BritishMonarchy (at Affligem Abbey) https://www.instagram.com/p/COBkqXZjgNz/?igshid=1u37ld6rj2qcl

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redladydeath · 4 years

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Mmmm, every English queen, but Sixed

The order is *INHALE*...

Image one: Matilda of Flanders (insp. Ella Fitzgerald), Matilda of Scotland (insp. Jewel), Adeliza of Louvain (insp. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu), Empress Matilda (insp. Cardi B), Matilda of Boulogne (insp. Lana Del Rey) Image two: Eleanor of Aquitaine (insp. Marina), Berengaria of Navarre (insp. Mary J. Blige), Isabelle of Angouleme (insp. Camila Cabello), Eleanor of Provence (insp. Meghan Trainor), Eleanor of Castile (insp. Kelly Clarkson) Image three: Margaret of France (insp. Carly Rae Jepsen), Isabella of France (insp. Haley Williams), Philippa of Hainault (insp. Mariah Carey), Anne of Bohemia (insp. Alanis Morissette), Isabella of Valois (insp. Willow Smith)

Image four: Joan of Navarre (insp. Amy Winehouse), Catherine of Valois (insp. Charli XCX), Margaret of Anjou (insp. Blondie), Elizabeth Woodville (insp. Olivia Newton-John), Anne Neville (insp. Ellie Goulding) Image five: Margaret Beaufort (insp. Carole King), Elizabeth of York (insp. Selene Dion), Catharine of Aragon (insp. Beyonce), Anne Boleyn (insp. Avril Lavigne), Jane Seymour (insp. Adele) Image six: Anna of Cleves (insp. Rihanna), Katherine Howard (insp. Britney Spears), Catherine Parr (insp. Alicia Keys), Jane Grey (insp. young Taylor Swift), Mary I (insp. P!nk)

Image seven: Elizabeth I (insp. Lady Gaga), Mary Queen of Scots (insp. Katy Perry), Anne of Denmark (insp. Cyndi Lauper), Henrietta Maria of France (insp. Janelle Monae), Catherine of Braganza (insp. Elle King) Image eight: Mary of Modena (insp. Florence Welch), Mary II (insp. Carrie Underwood), Queen Anne (insp. Halsey), Caroline of Ansbach (insp. Lorde), Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (insp. Whitney Houston) Image nine: Caroline of Brunswick (insp. Lizzo), Adelaide of Saxe-Meinigen (insp. Demi Lovato), and Queen Victoria (insp. Billie Eilish)

#six the musical #redlady speaks #okay done #didn't do the 20th-21st century ones cause that's weird #(yes i know beaufort and scots weren't queens of england #i just /could not/ leave them out)#peyton's six posts #six oc hell

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fizzingwizard · 4 years

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So I watched Enola Holmes!

As a long time Sherlock Holmes book nerd, I... didn’t actually know if I was going to bother watching it. I pretty much avoid any published Sherlock Holmes fanfiction. It’s not because I think it’s all wrong or bad (there are some pretty famous successful ones out there after all). It just those stories always makes me wish I was reading the originals, I think because my own vision of that world is so strong.

But I also like Millie Bobby Brown, and also, honestly, I just wanted to see what a Henry Cavill Holmes would be like. Because as much as I like Henry Cavill, he’s very much not the guy I’d cast as Holmes.

That’s point number one: Sherlock Holmes is not that important in Enola Holmes. He’s a prop that holds up her story, but not much more. That was clear from the trailer, so I wasn’t expecting him to be anyway.

I also didn’t know that Enola was based on a book series, though I did assume so because of the way they have Enola address the audience directly or sometimes just stare into the camera. It seemed like a way to stylize a first person novel that has a lot of exposition. I haven’t read the books, and I’m not going to, so maybe I’m off on how its written, but anyway, I was right that the movie is based on books.

So as I started watching, I quickly felt concerned over these questions:

Why Sherlock Holmes at all?

Why make Mycroft such a bad guy?

Will Enola be interesting by herself or am I expected to find her interesting just because she’s a Holmes and a feminist?

Where is John Watson?

Now understanding that the movie is based on books, the answers to all these questions are obvious. But I didn’t want spoilers, so I didn’t look it up. Fortunately, the movie answers each question itself anyway.

So I can say it was a fun little movie. Millie Bobby Brown did a really good job. It’s not going to be the next blockbuster, but the quirky Holmes women, as well as the other quirky characters, were more than just entertaining to me. And I enjoyed the specific way they painted the backdrop of the women’s suffrage movement. In school you’re pretty much taught that it happened. It’s things like these - books and movies, etc - which may take creative liberties with history, but also showcase the details and grittiness that textbooks wash out.

And I did like Enola for herself. She’s like Anne of Green Gables if her hobby were puzzles instead of daydreams. I liked The Boy too (sorry I can’t be bothered to type his name! let’s call him Tooks). He was pleasantly ridiculous while being any teenage girl’s dreamboat. Does he qualify as a himbo?

The relationship between Enola and Tooks was cute and didn’t distract from everything else. I loved the framing of Enola’s injury tryng to rescue the sheep with her trying to rescue Tooks. At first, it was just sweet, but that scene at the end where we find out that she succeeded at rescuing the sheep totally cinched it for me. Although it’s the typical thing for a young heroine to do - go against her mother’s advice because she hasn’t experienced life enough to become so careful and calculating, and do the selfless thing - it also meant that Enola’s not just her mother’s puppet, she makes her own choices.

We’re seeing the dynamic of competent-woman-idiot-male-sidekick a bit more often, and the thing that always stands out is how rarely the male sidekick is ever really an idiot. Like Tooks, usually they get chances to be cool. So it’s not quite the same as the old trope of “hero rescues damsel in distress.” But honestly, nowadays, who’d want it to be? A totally passive character is boring. You rarely remember the damsel, only that the hero won her. Women actually like romance, we want to like and remember the love interest. :P And even then. The true hero/damsel trope appears rather historically that people think. Because, guess what, most writers like to write characters, not tropes.

The flip side of all this is that there is also a theme that’s becoming more and more common about feminism where the woman still ends up in a relationship, and it still being feminist. Like the recent Little Women movie, where Jo has to suffer and wrestle with herself for so long in her journey to achieve her dreams and in the end discovers marriage is part of her dream. None of this is wrong, but it is interesting how we see “lone feminist” as someone cold and sad about being alone, and are so quick to embrace the feminist who wants to be in a romantic relationship with men. The feminist can’t be whole if she’s sacrificed her ability to love for feminism. Meanwhile, in Enola, Sherlock Holmes, a man, is right there, being unmarried and uninterested in love and happy anyway.

None of this is Enola Holmes’s fault, it’s just a trend that I keep seeing in modern, uncomplicated feminist stories.

In sum, I liked Enola, I liked Tooks, the movie didn’t blow me out of the water or anything but I wasn’t expecting it too... I’m pretty sure this is for kids? In which case it’s fun and interesting the way Matilda or Pippi Longstocking are fun and interesting. As for the other questions...

Why Sherlock Holmes? Because he’s Sherlock Holmes. If you want to write about a female detective, and you want to do it against the backdrop of women’s suffrage in Victorian England, I think it’s only natural to make her a Holmes. That being said, Henry Cavill... is great, but not Sherlock Holmes. Bahaha. He has way too much chin. Who was that person, not Sherlock. RDJ was a more convincing Sherlock (and RDJ is not a convincing Sherlock!). That doesn’t mean I didn’t like him (I like RDJ too), it’s just a reminder that this is not a Sherlock Holmes movie. That’s why he doesn’t act much like Sherlock Holmes. Inspecting some coal dust does not a Sherlock Holmes make.

Why make Mycroft such a bad guy? Because Mycroft represents England. In the same way the assassin Enola kills says his employer is “England,” Mycroft’s job means the way he feels about Enola reflects the way England feels at the time about what a woman’s role should be. Why they made him such an idiot compared to Sherlock, though... Even after I answered these questions, I sometimes couldn’t help feeling “but it all feels so pointless when you’re just going to change so much of canon!”

Where the heck is John Watson? This one stumped me, but it is answered in the movie as well. I missed it because it wasn’t answered in a way I found satisfying. Pretty much, there’s no Watson because Holmes in Enola hasn’t met him yet. This makes no sense in terms of canon - timewise they’d have met a couple years ago, but canon Waston isn’t the best with dates, so I could overlook that - but Holmes is becoming popular. Holmes is becoming famous. Watson does that. Before Watson, Holmes is well known at Scotland Yard, but he’s more infamous than famous, and he’s not in many headlines partly because he makes an effort not to be. So Enola Holmes shouldn’t be well known at all if there’s no Watson praising him from the hilltops. I was half-expecting the movie to end with “pssst... Enola is the real Watson!” but I’m glad it didn’t. It sounds like Watson is a background character in the books so all of this was just “we couldn’t think of anything for Watson to do so we cut him.” But as weird as it is to ever see Holmes without Watson for me, if he’d been included he probably would have had like a couple stupid pro-patriarchy comments to make and that’s it. The Sherlockian me is baffled, but the wiser me thinks his absence is for the best.

#sherlock holmes #enola holmes

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theeyelinermanifesto · 5 years

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Thanks so much to @quartocreates for the beautiful copy of this epic #truecrime case from #victorianengland . . • It has been meticulously researched by #sinclairmckay . . • Number 4 Euston Square was a respectable boarding house, well-kept and hospitable, like many others in Victorian London. But beneath this very ordinary veneer, there was a murderous darkness at its heart. On 8th May 1879, the corpse of former resident, Matilda Hacker, was uncovered by chance in the coal cellar. The investigation that followed this macabre discovery stripped bare the shadow-side of Victorian domesticity, throwing the lives of everyone within into an extraordinary and destructive maelstrom. For someone in Number 4 Euston Square must have had full knowledge of what had happened to Matilda Hacker. Someone in that house had killed her. How could the murderer prove so amazingly elusive? Bestselling author, Sinclair McKay delves into this intriguing story and sheds light on a mystery that eluded the detectives of Scotland Yard. . . #quartopublishing #truecrimecommunity #victoriancrime #victorianlondon #whodunnit #matildahacker #bookish #bookstagram #booknerdigans #libraryofinstagram #readordie #booklover #epicreads #bookdragon #booknerd #booklove #bookblog #readersofinstagram #instabook #readersgonnaread #bookreviewer #bookster #currentlyreading #bookcommunity #booktography https://www.instagram.com/p/BqC2mThnKrS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=o8apznyhb5jt

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waveypedia · 6 years

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Another Duck Hamilton AU but with Della

whoa look at that another project I won’t be able to work on until after school’s out

I just wanna get my thoughts down though

it’s messy and it needs work which I will get to... LATER!!! :D

Della is hamilton obviously

When Hortense and Quackmore died she and Don worked hard to make ends meet and to contact their Aunt Matilda in Scotland. They lived with Elvira and Gladstone, but Elvira couldn’t support them all.

While Donald and Gladstone were just focused on surviving, Della’s biggest ambition was to get off the island. She performed stunts that got more and more dangerous, trying to get enough money to move to America or Scotland

one of these stunts got the attention of her Uncle Scrooge in America, who sent for Della

She wouldn’t leave Donald, so he came too

Launchpad is Eliza (because DELPAD!!!)

Scrooge is Washington, but the ‘stop doing reckless things you’re gonna die’ comes from Donald

Magica is a combination of Angelica, Burr, and Maria. Angelica because she’s also in love with Della (DelSpell!!) and she’s so much smarter and more like Della than Launchpad, and so their letters and rapidfire wit come from that. I’m not sure yet why she’d back off Launchpad, though. She’s Burr because she’s also one of Della’s greatest enemies (through Scrooge, kinda, but here they’re more each other’s nemesises) and they keep jostling each other out of the same political spots and stuff. And she’s Maria because they’re the ones that have an affair (although it was always Magica’s idea, James Reynolds is either Poe or someone she conjured up out of magic because she wants revenge on Della and Scrooge, and she’s in love with Della, so win-win for her. Also, I really want Say No to This with Della and Magica.

Donald is a mix of roles, and it kinda makes his own role. Like I said earlier, he’s the outwardly protective part of Washington, and he’s the one urging Della to come back from the war when she’s pregnant. He’s also kind of Burr, because he’s Della’s opposite. Until we know what happened to Della in canon, I don’t want to assign her killer yet (for this AU I’m just gonna rest that on Magica for now, but it’s not set in stone), but Your Obedient Servant and Wait for It are both Donald. He’s fed up with all the attention Della gets from Scrooge and he’s really worried about her, but it’s Donald and he expresses it via madness.

The Spear of Selene incident in this AU, for now, is Donald’s Your Obedient Servant rant driving her to accept a challenge from Magica to duel with magic. Della uses a dangerous artifact she and Scrooge found on a recent adventure called the Spear of Selene (yeah, I know it’s not an artifact according to Webby, but this is just a placeholder until we know what happened to Della), but Magica did something to it and her magic backfired, killing her. Also maybe Magica put a spell on Donald to make him say things to Della that would hurt her enough to duel Magica

The ending of The World is Wide Enough is Magica being like fuck I killed my one true love and then she realizes the world will never forgive her, so she casts a spell to make herself go shadow, haunts her baby niece Lena, and plans her revenge on Della’s family

‘Best of Husbands and Best of Men’ (*sobs*)

Here’s where it gets kind of confusing: Your Obedient Servant/The World Was Wide Enough take place before Stay Alive Reprise/Blow Us All Away/It’s Quiet Uptown. That’s because Della still dies when HDL are kids, and then the rest is Donald and Scrooge trying to cope.

we get Della’s death and the rest of the world is wide enough and then timeskip cut to teen Dewey Duck walking down the street and whistling

Dear Theodosia is Della with HDL, but when she sings “You’ll blow us all away, someday, someday” she’s only holding Dewey because evil plot foreshadowing Louie’s sucking on something shiny and Huey is examining a book or something, they’re busy ;)

Burr’s part of Dear Theodosia is Magica singing to Lena

ooh I just thought of this :P but maybe The Election of 1800 is Donald who’s fed up with Scrooge comparing him to Della who wants to run for president (but is currently incapacitated by Magica taunting her ;) ) finally runs for president, not expecting to win, surprisingly ties with whoever Jefferson is. People go to Della for their vote (and somehow don’t expect her to back her brother, idk, maybe they’re not on the best of terms anymore). She backs whoever Jefferson is and Donald has had it.

As for whoever Jefferson, Madison, Mulligan, Laurens, and Lafayette are, we don’t know enough about Della’s younger social life to give them a role. I was thinking maybe if Gladstone came along later he could be Mulligan, since he and Della were friends and he’d be lucky enough to get a job where he can spy on the British and never get caught (and give luck to the revolution), but idk. I want to put Fethry in there but I don’t know him well enough

also maybe Gladstone is Theodosia sr. because of Magicstone (I have so many ships sorry :P)

that wouldn’t make sense because of the Reynolds stuff? idk. I’ll work it out somehow.

Maybe one of them is Drake? I like the headcanon of Drake and Della being friends

and then maybe it’s Drake who moves to London (St. Canard) with Morgana since Magica won’t be doing that :P and he takes on the protective older sister role of Launchpad when the news about Say No to This leaks out

even though I ship Drake and Launchpad so hard it’s painful

okay that settles it Drake is also Angelica I came up with that on the spot :P

Loopy is Peggy because she’s Launchpad’s sister

The Reynolds Pamphlet comes either right before or right after Della’s death. It’s her Spear of Selene note, which Scrooge can’t keep under wraps here

especially if it’s after her death, Angelica lecturing Hamilton in The Reynolds Pamphlet is Donald lecturing Scrooge

It’s Quiet Uptown is Donald and Scrooge reuniting and coming to terms with Della’s death

Stay Alive (reprise) is Donald and Scrooge again, but I’m not sure whether it would be with Dewey or Della

In Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Eliza’s orphanage bit is Donald explaining how he took in HDL as well as Webby (I really badly want to give Webby and Beakley roles in this AU, but idk where they’d be) and Lena, and then maybe he starts an orphanage when they’re grown?

ya know what that’s a new headcanon for DT17 overall - Donald starting an orphanage @meiloorun-notthefruit it’s like your Dadnald AU but bigger ;) (which makes sense because I LOVE that AU go check it out)

Phillip is Dewey (I really want him to live just barely actually because it feels so wrong to kill off a single triplet and the death stuff in Stay Alive Reprise and It’s Quiet Uptown could very well be for Della, but idk)

in Blow Us All Away he goes to Donald and Scrooge for his duelling tips

also maybe Huey and Louie, but with them he might not be as vocal about what he’s doing because I’m drawing parallels to the Spear of Selene research

maybe I can also slide in something about him having researched Della with Webby? I feel like she’d be pretty famous here though

Eacker is maybe Lena, or one of the Beagle Boys

also, Beakley is president. That’s the note I’m ending on. I don’t know where or when, but she’s definitely president. That’s her role in this AU. #PresidentBeakley2k18

yeahhhhh like I said it’s pretty messy. If you have any questions or ideas feel free to talk to me! I’d love to know what y’all think!

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christalpepsi · 3 years

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https://uquiz.com/quiz/r671Ol?p=79464

Matilda of Scotland, Queen of EnglandMatilda was intelligent, rebellious, and well loved by her subjects. She was a wife of Henry the I, who often refused to do what was asked of her. It is said that Matilda's aunt tried to get her to wear a veil to protect Matilda's modesty but that Matilda would often take it off and throw it on the ground. She spoke and read several languages and was a lover of reading. As a Queen, she focused on the arts, building many of the Norman style buildings and fostering growth of the arts such as music and poetry. She was also charitable, founding several hospitals and washing/cleaning the feet of the sick and the poor. overall, she was intelligent, educated, charitable, rebellious and fun loving- which was almost unheard of at the time.

#uquiz

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peachhoneii · 7 years

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Scrooge’s Grief for Della Duck (An Essay):

A.K.A. Scrooge McDuck grieves and misses his niece Della, but has tried to bury that pain for the past ten years.

DuckTales handled Scrooge’s grief for Della wonderfully for me.

His grief isn’t apparent like Donald’s, or the consequences of her disappearance aren’t obviously shown as it is with Donald. His overprotectiveness comes from losing his sister.

Scrooge’s a man constantly on guard with his feelings. It’s like pulling teeth out when it concerns him opening emotionally. He doesn’t want to appear vulnerable, and this is a feature from the comics. Pride and fear keeps his emotions close and under his heart. His hidden grief for Della, or rather her absence, and the subsequent rift it caused in his family, is in-character.

But this could be guilt as well. I have the opinion he may believe he’s responsible for TSPoS incident despite what he tells Donald.

This essay is currently over 2,000 words long, so I understand if you’re not interested in reading. These are my personal observations after rewatching the pilot movie on Youtube (it’s DisneyXD’s official channel), and from my personal readings of Don Rosa and Carl Barks’ comics, which have been a while. I plan to reread Carl Barks as soon as I can as well as catch up with the European comics.

Disney isn’t holding any punches for this show. It was a 23 hour marathon for the pilot movie. Thanks, Disney.

First reference goes back to Donald and Scrooge’s exchange after a decade

Donald: “Can you do that without losing them?”

Scrooge: “Of course I can!”

Donald isn’t a fan of Scrooge. He doesn’t hold any punches when it comes to Scrooge.

The first viewing is sad and funny. It’s sad since we the viewers (also comic readers) know Scrooge and Donald have had a falling out. We know they used to be close. We don’t know why. It’s hilarious because of the shade they throw at each other, and Donald is straight up cold to Scrooge. It is funny.

Scrooge’s reaction to this line is what gets me. Scrooge is offended, but there is hurt and exasperation. He didn’t have to react this way. He was caught in the emotion of trying to defend himself to Donald. Yes, the comedic pendulum swings back in full force when he realizes what he’s signed up for, but the expression was of genuine hurt that his nephew would say that to him.

The Newspaper Clipping:

What we know at this point is that Scrooge has settled into the life of a businessman. He has retired from globetrotting. We don’t know the reason.

DuckTales provides us some context, and this is the first case of legitimate foreshadowing in the series. An old treasure room filled with paintings of his greatest adventures and old newspaper clippers reveal this little gem lying on the floor.

“McDuck hangs up spats after -,”

The rest is cut off. It’s extremely telling this is the clipping the show wanted us to see. If not, there wouldn’t have been a close up. It hints something happened to Scrooge that led to early retirement.

We suspect it’s related to Della. It makes sense it is. We’re still in the first episode, and we haven’t seen the painting yet.

Little known fact: In Don Rosa’s Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Scrooge ends up wallowing in his mansion for years without adventures and swimming in his money bin due to a family estrangement he was the direct cause of.

He grew greedy, ambitious, and cruel. He destroyed an African village for financial gain, and his sisters shamed him, leaving him in Africa to return to America. When he returned after an extended period of time, they tried to reconcile, and Scrooge angrily pushed them away. After that, there was no joy in his life. He ceased his global adventure. He didn’t swim in his money bin. He deeply regretted this estrangement, and saw no point in moving forward.

As readers, this is obvious to us, but he doesn’t admit this until Don Rosa’s A Letter From Home where he reconciles with Matilda McDuck. I highly recommend both. These are great stories.

It cements the fact that Scrooge McDuck values family. He’s a family man. He loves his parents, sisters, nephews, and in DuckTales, this extends to his niece Della.

Now, the newspaper clipping is extraordinary, but opens several implications:

Della’s disappearance isn’t a family secret. The city of Duckburg knew Della Duck went missing during an expedition.

Potentially, a random Duckburg resident would know about Della because Scrooge’s money is what makes Duckburg the metropolis it is. I think it’d be common knowledge at the time that the niece of the city’s richest resident went missing during an expedition he led.

Reinforces that Donald definitely kept HDL in the dark about Della’s disappearance; they know of her but enough to know what happened to her.

Highly suspect Webby knows of Della Duck. I don’t think Scrooge and Mrs. Beakley could bleach history for her. McDuck family history is her personal hobby, and she’s tactful not to bring Della up.

If this is true, if Della’s disappearance (like Amelia Earhart) was local/possible national news, then HDL had no idea about it for the past ten years.

It was in a newspaper with a high chance of it being a Duckburg city paper. This was, at least, local news.

Donald kept this from them. It will likely cause an emotional confrontation. We know Donald did this to protect them, but he probably couldn’t handle rehashing his grief to the boys.

Scrooge could’ve told the boys. He didn’t. He never mentions Della around them or to them. It’s possible he’s aware Donald hasn’t told the truth, and he doesn’t want to be the person to do so, along with respecting Donald’s wishes.

He also may not want to rehash his own grief and guilt.

HDL ask him a lot of questions, but one that might have also struck a nerve was, “What happened between you and Uncle Donald.”

Good boy, Huey, asking the important questions, and this is in-character for him. He’s asking about the major mystery in their family that everyone else may potentially know already.

Scrooge’s Paintings (and Portraits):

Scrooge is a fan of artwork. His mansion is filled with artwork depicting some of his greatest adventures. They are absolutely beautiful since many of them are directly taken from Carl Barks’ oil paintings of the Duck family. I saw one when he walks to Dawson, and yes, this is the oil painting featuring Goldie. You don’t see Goldie, but you know she’s there.

He has no problem showing off his accomplishments. He’s also fond of displaying his family members in paintings as well.

His parents, Downy and Fergus, have a portrait in the dining room. A picture of Quackmore is on a mantle.

Webby must’ve gotten the pictures of Quackmore and Hortense somewhere in the house, so I’m assuming there are more of them around.

But the painting depicting Scrooge, Donald, and Della’s adventure with the ghost pirate and his minions isn’t anywhere in the mansion. It’s in the garage.

Why would Scrooge McDuck do this? Why would a duck who prizes on showing off his accomplishments and family hide this particular painting in the garage? During its time in the garage or maybe a little bit before a part of it has been ripped.

The painting itself is another foreshadowing trick as well as being the revealer of THE SECOND COMING OF DELLA DUCK.

The paintings in Scrooge’s mansion work as a narrative device to reveal aspects to Scrooge’s character. He’s a prideful duck that values family, and this painting combines his love of adventure with his family.

It’s also symbolic. Della’s part in the painting is ripped.

Her leg isn’t immediately visible on the first watching. I didn’t even notice it, but I did notice Donald’s attention wasn’t on Scrooge. His eyes were cast upward. Oh gosh, look at how happy he looks. The poor man; look at what’s been ripped from him.

Della’s disappearance ripped her family apart. Donald blamed Scrooge, and possibly extends this blame to himself. Scrooge possibly blames himself as well. Their decade long rift ended because Donald needed someone to babysit.

Having seen a number of Scrooge’s portraits and paintings in his mansion and money bin combined, seeing how displayed they are (even in darkness when he enters a dark room), the fact the only painting with Della in it is placed in the garage where there’s no visible light and left to come to harm (the rip) demonstrates this isn’t a painting or portrait Scrooge can look back on fondly.

He pushes it to the back, and leaves it there. He isn’t a happy, proud duck.

Family’s Nothing But Trouble!

This is tricky, and filled with conjecture. Feel free to disagree.

When Scrooge originally says this to Beakley it belongs to a sad attempt to boost his own confidence. He wants the world to remember the duck he used to be. He wants to be the duck he used to be.

Scrooge’s personal history includes a lot of isolation. He left Scotland at thirteen to travel to America alone, and the majority of his youthful travels were done in isolation. He did this to provide for his family. Having his family, people he could trust, during his adventures meant a lot to him.

From Life and Times, Scrooge’s family keeps him emotionally and physically afloat. When his sisters depart, following Scrooge’s destruction of an African village, he became harder and meaner, and when he lost them after he returned to Duckburg, this made him lose his drive for adventure and money bin swimming.

In DuckTales, losing Della and Donald cost him the same thing. He lost his drive for exploration, and became colder, harder, and grumpier. He isn’t at LaT’s level, but it’s similar.

HDL + W helped him rebuild. He knows he needs his family. He loves them, and I think the original line was said in a moment of desperate self-reassurance. He made it far without anyone at his side. He could make it far without anyone at his side again.

But the truth was, he made it even further with someone at his side.

Because when Dewey throws it back at him in a sassy, completely deserved line; Scrooge reacts poorly:

This post gives a great description of what was going on. Much better than I could.

From this, I say he’s projecting. He’s projecting his guilt, shame, and anger onto the kids, and it led to this brief blowout. He hasn’t shown his family love and affection for a decade. You have to nurture the bonds, Scrooge, and he knows it.

He’s a proud duck. He isn’t going to admit it. He isn’t going to admit it to a sassy child, but he knows it. Dewey’s wrong. Family is trouble, but it’s the trouble Scrooge loves. He tells him this, more or less, and it’s a great way how he puts on the positive spin of this statement.

Insinuating Scrooge McDuck doesn’t value his family is like setting off a bomb, so a piece of that comes with this too.

Although this post is meant to highlight Scrooge’s grief and reaction to Della’s disappearance, I don’t think you can’t discuss the effects without referring back to Donald.

In spite of the visible strain in their relationship, Scrooge loves his nephew.

He tries to respect Donald’s instructions to keep the boys out of trouble. He respects him as the boys’ father and legal guardian. I bet he sees a lot of Della and Donald in HDL, and I believe he fully intended to maintain the no trouble rule.

But the dying spark is revived with the new generation, and Scrooge wants to nurture these new relationships the only way he knows how.

By going on a dangerous exploration to Atlantis.

There is guilt. There’s guilt surrounding the TSoS incident.

Keeping the truth from Donald:

“And nobody tell your Uncle Donald!” This part kills me every time. He’s just so happy and excited!

As funny as it sounds, he knows he’s tip toeing around Donald to see these kids. Donald doesn’t like him right now, and having him find out won’t make it better.

Well, it does, but I digress.

Donald getting held hostage:

Admittedly, when he realizes Donald is down there, Dewey immediately goes after. So it could be he’s worried for both of his nephews, and honestly, this poor old man can’t afford to lose anymore family.

When Donald is captured, Scrooge showcases some of his best glares in the two episodes.

Both of these exhibit a concerned and pissed off Scrooge. It’s the same for Donald, and I didn’t spot it originally.

The Spear of Selene:

“I was NOT responsible for The Spear of Selene!”

Scrooge says it, but I highly doubt he 100% believes it. I’m 75% sure he feels responsible for TSoS.

An event of this magnitude may not be held down on one person’s shoulders. DuckTales may prove me wrong, but I believe other factors came into play. Della, Donald, Scrooge, and possibly an otherworldly element that hasn’t been revealed yet.

But as a group, each of them contributed to this dismal adventure. The fault won’t completely lie on one person’s shoulders, or I hope it won’t.

This post and its subsequent reblog offered a pretty reasonable theory to what happened to Della Duck. I posted this about Della being a pilot to Donald’s sailor. Her potential story is drawing a lot of similarities to Amelia Earhart.

This scene appears to be another instance of his projection of guilt onto another person. He has lived with the possibility he caused Della to disappear during one of HIS adventures. He deprived Donald of his sister, HDL of their mother, and Della of her family. He deprived himself of his niece.

In the comics, it’s implied Hortense and Quackmore are deceased and have been for some time. It’s also implied Donald and Della were raised primarily by their paternal grandmother, Elvira Duck. If this is the case in DuckTales, then Scrooge has already lost his baby sister. Now, he’s lost her daughter.

Scrooge holds himself accountable. He’s told himself he isn’t responsible for the past ten years. He probably pushed Della too far. He wanted that goal so badly he put his niece in incredibly danger she couldn’t fly from, and this potentially cost her her life.

Take a look at his defensive stance.

He is 100% defense mode. His delivery of the line is different from his original interaction with Donald. No matter how you put it, there’s strong, almost raw emotion in his delivery. Scrooge feels strongly about this.

The Reconciliation:

It’s a shorter part since there isn’t much to say. Scrooge admits he was wrong in not following Donald’s instruction, but immediately shuts up when Donald speaks to him. It’s a soft, sweet moment, but I think it’s amazing for the physical touches in the scene.

Donald initiates a family hug with his boys.

And Scrooge initiates physical contact with his boy.

Conclusion:

I can’t say with absolute certainty the mystery of Della Duck will be revealed at the end of this season. I can’t say she will make a physical appearance at the end of this season.

But I will say this, DuckTales, in the first two episodes portrayed the sentimental and harder aspects of Scrooge’s character beautifully. His estrangement lies on two fronts; Della and Donald.

The children are a catalyst to reuniting their family.

Scrooge McDuck really loves his family. He’s a family kind of duck. He does mourn/grieve for Della. DuckTales hints at this early on but far more carefully than it does with Donald to keep Scrooge in-character. It works.

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Somebody recently suggested that I should re-introduce myself and what I do, so here goes: . My name is Matilda. Born in Scotland but currently living in the Netherlands where I am in the middle of a PhD in archaeology. My research focuses on microwear analysis (ie; the microscope analysis of how things were made and used) of bone, antler, and ivory tools from prehistoric Arctic cultures. I am also nearly finished with a postgraduate diploma in journalism, which I hope to use in my goal to make archaeological (and other scientific) research more approachable to the general public, thus making sure that our research remains relevant in modern society. . This account originally focused on the creations I made through my company Stone Age Monkey, which produced jewellery and accessories inspired by prehistory. Now, I use it to focus on archaeological topics and points of academic life, but I also regularly feature interesting artists and crafters as well as the homemade creations that my husband and I make for ourselves and our friends. . Was trying to find a non-ridiculous photo of me showing my full face and this was the most recent one I could find! It isfrom my last research trip in November last year, when I spent three weeks in Cambridge at the museum depot, analysing Paleo-Inuit collections from the Foxe Basin region of the Canadian Arctic. It was the last work trip of a very busy year of data collection, but considering the current travel restrictions and future uncertainty I'm very happy that I travelled around so much last year and don't have to do any more data collection this year! . So anyway that's me 😊 Feel free to ask any questions, and I hope you enjoy my mini blog here. . #thisisme #hello #PhD #PhDlife #academia #academic #academicsofinstagram #academiclife #craft #crafty #cambridge #research https://www.instagram.com/p/B-6VVcen0yf/?igshid=zcn3zdcgsaff

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♕ Scottish Princesses who became Queen Consorts in another kingdom

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:) Daniel was the youngest of ten children born to Calaway and Lucinda Matilda Daniel. He was of Scots-Irish, Scottish, and Welsh descent; his grandfather, Joseph "Job" Daniel, was born in Wales, while his grandmother, Elizabeth Calaway, was born in Scotland. His paternal grandparents immigrated to the United States in the late 18th century. Daniel died from blood poisoning in Lynchburg on October 9, 1911. . From Wikipedia (at Milano City) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8ed8lUnrtG/?igshid=yw10yfyp1e9m

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The age of the Anglo-Saxon kings has passed, so now we move on to the Conqueror that I’m sure you’ve heard of? 🙂 . William the Conqueror (or William I) ______________ . Reign: 25 December 1066 – 9 September 1087 Coronation: 25 December 1066.

Born: about 1028, Falaise, Duchy of Normandy. Parents: Robert the Magnificent (1000 – 1035), Duke of Normandy & Herleva of Falaise. House of: Normandy. _______________ . Marriage & children; . William married Matilda of Flanders in 1051/52. Matilda of Flanders (c. 1031 – 2 November 1083). Matilda was born into the House of Flanders, the second daughter of Count Baldwin V of Flanders & Adela of France. . They had at least nine children. The birth order of the sons is clear, but no source gives the relative order of birth of the daughters. . Robert Curthouse was born between 1051 & 1054, died in 1134. Duke of Normandy, married Sybilla, daughter of Geoffrey, Count of Conversano. . Richard was born before 1056, died around 1075. . William was born between 1056 & 1060, died 2 August 1100. King of England. . Henry was born in late 1068, died 1 December 1135. King of England, married Edith, daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland. His second wife was Adeliza of Louvain. . Adeliza (or Adelida, Adelaide) died before 1113, reportedly betrothed to Harold Godwinson, probably a nun of Saint Léger at Préaux. . Cecilia (or Cecily) was born before 1066, died 1127, Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen. . Matilda was born around 1061, died perhaps about 1086. Mentioned in Domesday Book as a daughter of William. . Constance died 1090, married Alan IV, Duke of Brittany.

Adela died 1137, married Stephen, Count of Blois. (Possibly) Agatha, the betrothed of Alfonso VI of León & Castile ____________________ . Died: 9 September 1087 (aged about 59), Priory of Saint Gervase, Rouen, Duchy of Normandy. Burial: Saint-Étienne de Caen, Normandy. . Successor: William II (son) . Use the following hashtag to view the full set posted so far #kingsandqueensofgreatbritain 👍 . Swipe to see what’s new in our British Monarchy Blog Shop 👀 . . . #WilliamI #WilliamtheConqueror #Royalhistory #Britishmonarchy #Normans (at Normandy, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRrk43BMzcA/?utm_medium=tumblr

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New Post has been published on http://www.tempi-dispari.it/2019/09/18/i-primi-50-anni-di-carriera-di-rod-stewart-festeggiati-con-la-royal-philharmonic-orchestra/

I primi 50 anni di carriera di Rod Stewart festeggiati con la Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Sir Rod Stewart (nominato cavaliere nel 2016) festeggia 50 anni da solista quest’anno. Il leggendario cantautore è uno degli artisti con maggiore successo di tutti i tempi, con più di 250 milioni di dischi venduti in tutto il mondo durante la sua carriera stellare che include i nove album numero 1 e 26 singoli rientrati nella top 10 nel Regno Unito. In più, 17 album top 10 e 16 singoli top 10 negli Stati Uniti. Rhino renderà onore al leggendario cantautore con un nuovo album che permette ai fan di ascoltare le più grandi hit di Stewart in un modo del tutto nuovo.

YOU’RE IN MY HEART: ROD STEWART WITH THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA unisce le emblematiche tracce vocali delle sue canzoni più famose con nuovi arrangiamenti eseguiti dalla Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Il risultato è un album senza tempo che conserva la potenza, il soul e la passione che hanno alimentato l’eredità di questo artista fin dall’inizio. L’album contiene inoltre una nuova versione della hit “It Takes Two” con Robbie Williams ed una nuova canzone “Stop Loving Her Today” di Rod Stewart. L’album sarà pubblicato il 22 novembre in formato 1CD e 2CD e contiene gli arrangiamenti orchestrali integrali. La musica sarà inoltre disponibile nelle piattaforme digitali download e streaming.

Prodotto da Trevor Horn, YOU’RE IN MY HEART include nuove versioni orchestrali delle hit top 10 di Stewart: Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright) (a #1 smash in the U.S.), “The Killing of Georgie (Part I and II),” “You’re In My Heart (The Final Acclaim),” “I Was Only Joking,” “What Am I Gonna Do (I’m So In Love With You),” “Every Beat Of My Heart,” “Downtown Train,” “Rhythm Of My Heart” e una cover di Tom Waits “Tom Traubert’s Blues (Waltzing Matilda).”

In aggiunta alle più conosciute ci sono le preferite dei fan come “Young Turks,” “Forever Young,” “If We Fall In Love Tonight,” una versione di “Handbags And Gladrags” dal suo album multiplatino acustico, Unplugged…and Seated e “Stay With Me”, una hit top 40 che ha registrato con i Faces nel 1971.

Dopo un trionfante tour negli stadi quest’estate, la pubblicazione di YOU’RE IN MY HEART coincide con la continuazione del più grande tour inglese di Rod Stewart che lo vede esibirsi live a novembre e dicembre. In più, ritornerà al Caesar Palace a Las Vegas e terrà uno show questo settembre all’Hollywood Bowl in un’emblematica riunione con il suo precedente compagno di band Jeff Beck.

YOU’RE IN MY HEART: ROD STEWART WITH THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Track Listing:

1CD:

Maggie May

It Takes Two (with Robbie Williams)

Sailing

Reason To Believe

Handbags and Gladrags

Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright)

I Don’t Want To Talk About It

The First Cut Is The Deepest

You’re In My Heart (The Final Acclaim)

I Was Only Joking

Young Turks

Forever Young

Rhythm Of My Heart

Have I Told You Lately

Stop Loving Her Today

2CD Deluxe Edition

CD1:

Maggie May

Reason To Believe

Handbags & Gladrags

Sailing

Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright)

The Killing Of Georgie (Part I and II)

I Don’t Want To Talk About It

The First Cut Is The Deepest

You’re In My Heart (The Final Acclaim)

I Was Only Joking

CD2:

It Takes Two (with Robbie Williams)

Stay With Me (with Faces)

Young Turks

What Am I Gonna Do (I’m So In Love With You)

Every Beat Of My Heart

Forever Young

Downtown Train

Rhythm Of My Heart

Have I Told You Lately

Tom Traubert’s Blues (Waltzing Matilda)

If We Fall In Love Tonight

Stop Loving Her Today

2019 TOUR DATES

September

18 Las Vegas, NV – The Colosseum At Caesars Palace

20 Las Vegas, NV – The Colosseum At Caesars Palace

21 Las Vegas, NV – The Colosseum At Caesars Palace

24 Las Vegas, NV – The Colosseum At Caesars Palace

27 Los Angeles, CA – The Hollywood Bowl with Jeff Beck

28 Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl

30 Las Vegas, NV – The Colosseum At Caesars Palace

October

2 Las Vegas, NV – The Colosseum At Caesars Palace

4 Las Vegas, NV – The Colosseum At Caesars Palace

5 Las Vegas, NV – The Colosseum At Caesars Palace

November

23 Manchester, England – Manchester Arena

26 Glasgow, Scotland – SSE Hydro

28 Glasgow, Scotland – SSE Hydro

30 Glasgow, Scotland – SSE Hydro

December

2 Belfast, Ireland – SSE Arena

4 Dublin, Ireland – 3ARENA

5 Dublin, Ireland – 3ARENA

7 Aberdeen, Scotland – P&J Live

10 Liverpool, England – Echo Arena

11 Leeds, England – Leeds Direct Arena

13 Birmingham, England – Arena Birmingham

17 London, England – The O2 Arena

19 London, England – The O2 Arena

20 London, England – The O2 Arena

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3, 12, and 19 for the history thing!

Thank you very much for asking! :) Let me see...3. Talk about - A historical theory, trope, or misconception you HATEOh my goodness, as someone with a mediaeval history degree I have a LOT of these. I suppose a misconception that really bothers me is the misconception that women in the mediaeval period had no power whatsoever. Of course, in comparison to men, it could appear that way initially, but women actually had a great deal of power, whether as merchants, abbesses, brewers and all sorts of other roles, and noble women didn’t just sit around looking pretty and sewing all day, they had to run their estates when their husbands were away. Also, queens. Queen Mary of Guelders, for example, she was the regent for her son James III from 1460 to 1463, while Queen Isabella and Queen Margaret of Anjou led armies! I probably could say more about this but speaking of Queen Mary reminds me I should be working on my play about her, and shouldn’t be on tumblr. :P12. Somewhere historical you’ve been.I have a lot of options for this one! I’ve decided eventually to say a little bit about St Andrews, the town where I did my undergraduate degree. The university there was founded in 1411 or 1413, depending on who you ask (in 1411 it obtained a charter of incorporation from the Bishop of St Andrews, but was granted University status in 1413 with a series of six Papal bulls) and it’s still going strong all these years later. It’s had a turbulent history though; in 1470 some masters and students were expelled for attacking the Dean with bows and arrows! The town is famous for more than just the university though; it used to be a renowned site for pilgrims in the Middle Ages, travelling to the cathedral to view the relics of St Andrew. The town is also famous for the death of the first Protestant martyr in Scotland, Patrick Hamilton; he burned at the stake for six hours, and was only 24 when he died! I would go into more detail but I’m planning to write a play about him so don’t want to give the whole story away!19. Historical dinner party (who would you invite, who would you seat next to each other, what would you talk about- GO)Oooooh boy, this is a tricky question. Off the top of my head I would invite King Richard III, William Shakespeare, Queen Margaret of Anjou, King Edward II (probably with Piers Gaveston as a plus one), Empress Matilda, Lucrezia Borgia, Patrick Hamilton, Geoffrey Chaucer... I’m going to stop there because this party is already too big for my house (when I eventually own my own castle, however...). I would not sit Shakespeare next to Richard III or Queen Margaret because they’d probably just end up arguing about his portrayals of them; I’d probably sit Shakespeare and Chaucer next to each other, and Margaret and Matilda. I’m not entirely sure where poor Edward II and Patrick Hamilton would fit in to the seating arrangements, but I would love to dispel some of the myths about Edward II, while I would love to discuss religion and belief with Hamilton, as he was so certain of his beliefs he actually went back to Scotland, of his own free will, and was arrested and executed afterwards! I’m sure Lucrezia, Matilda, Margaret and I would have a fantastic discussion about powerful women in the mediaeval and Renaissance periods, and that Shakespeare and Chaucer would provide some top notch after dinner entertainment with some sonnets and stories.

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