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1 day ago · Theresa Earenfight’s new book, Queenship in Medieval Europe, stresses that the medieval royal court could be a woman’s world as much as a man’s.Responding to historiography that has largely identified the concepts of ‘monarchy’ and ‘sovereignty’ as male dominated, Earenfight argues that the indirect and often passive power of a queen ‘could be just as powerful as official ...
3 days ago · In 1972, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark succeeded her father, King Frederick IX, becoming the first female Danish monarch in centuries. (The last was Margrethe I, who ruled the Scandinavian ...
5 days ago · The name of the youth in favour of whom Margaret of Anjou wrote to her cousin Maria of Aragon, sending her a little present of “an ambling hobby,” was Reynold Chicheley, who came of so good a city family that in 1411 and 1421 it supplied London with the Lord Mayors of those two years, having previously provided Canterbury with an archbishop ...
2 days ago · Margaret would always defend her lover, later saying: “I said I would marry him before and I still stand by him. “My heart is with Harry. People can talk but I still love Harry.” Days before his death, Burnett wrote to Margaret, saying: “Well, my darling, you will be wondering why I did not kill you up in Skene Terrace.
3 days ago · Henry II (5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189), also known as Henry Fitzempress and Henry Curtmantle, was King of England from 1154 until his death in 1189. During his reign he controlled England, substantial parts of Wales and Ireland, and much of France (including Normandy, Anjou, and Aquitaine), an area that altogether was later called the Angevin Empire, and also held power over Scotland and the ...
- 19 December 1154 – 6 July 1189
- Empress Matilda
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4 days ago · Margrethe credits her family history and the wider monarchy as the inspiration for many of her looks. In an interview with Vogue, Danish designer Julie Brøgger indicates that one of the Queen’s best looks, a yellow silk brocade dress from Bender with a fur-trimmed overcoat, was ‘inspired by an old painting of a relative’.
5 days ago · Summary. Bone Tomahawk 's shocking death scene is a testament to director Zahler's skillful slow-burn storytelling. The gruesome execution of Nick hits hard due to the lack of extreme violence prior in the film. The genre-bending horror-Western blends elements of mystery, action, and shocking brutality effectively.
