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Post by chonies on Jul 20, 2013 21:13:20 GMT -4
In the Duchess of Cambridge thread, NappingAthena wrote Any possibility of following that up here? I'm kind of dying to discuss this further. Any examples to demonstrate this?
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NappingAthena
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Post by NappingAthena on Jul 20, 2013 22:15:33 GMT -4
In the Duchess of Cambridge thread, NappingAthena wrote Any possibility of following that up here? I'm kind of dying to discuss this further. Any examples to demonstrate this? No, I was thinking on how with a lot of names my first thought was on history, because I'm way into that stuff. But I don't know if the Cambridges would be like 'well, Princess Charlotte died in childbirth' or 'obviously we could never have a Louis because it's too French'
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Post by chonies on Jul 20, 2013 22:29:33 GMT -4
Oh, boo. I had a tiny hope of some royal or other being caught on a live mic doing a full Nancy Kerrigan or Dick Cheney about royal history. That would have made my day.
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Post by chonies on Aug 18, 2013 13:35:43 GMT -4
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iClaudia
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Post by iClaudia on Aug 18, 2013 16:09:00 GMT -4
I don't know anything about this family so I did a little Googling. She seems to be the only one of her sisters to have ended up in such bad shape. An exiled European Princess who marries some dude in a chapel in Reno and ends up busted for cockfighting? There's got to be a bad lifetime TV movie in there somewhere. Her oldest sister, Margareta, is quite striking. She reminds me of Julie Andrews.
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Post by Auroranorth on Aug 19, 2013 11:34:53 GMT -4
I had to hunt down a list to figure out where King Michael stood regarding the British throne. He's ineligible due to marrying a Catholic, but his daughters are still in line. However, they're somewhere around 90 people out, so their odds are pretty low.
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Post by chonies on Jan 11, 2014 19:00:19 GMT -4
I just learned that the children of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Sophie were arrested in the Anschluss and spent WWII in Dachau. I have so many questions but in the meantime, does anyone have a recommendation for a good biography about the younger Sophie, or even Maximilian and Ernst?
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ladytrentham
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Post by ladytrentham on Jan 11, 2014 23:11:39 GMT -4
Chonies, whatever books you're reading or PBS/History Channel shows you're watching--I wanna read/watch, too.
BTW, I'm in the middle of The Creation of Anne Boleyn by Susan Bordo and it's very good. I'm now giving Weir & Starkey, & Co. the side eye. I've also ordered the Ives book from Amazon since it's been years since I've read it.
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Post by chonies on Jan 11, 2014 23:43:28 GMT -4
Chonies, whatever books you're reading or PBS/History Channel shows you're watching--I wanna read/watch, too. BTW, I'm in the middle of The Creation of Anne Boleyn by Susan Bordo and it's very good. I'm now giving Weir & Starkey, & Co. the side eye. I've also ordered the Ives book from Amazon since it's been years since I've read it. Hey, thanks! <hair toss>The Franz Ferdinand children thing came out of a colossal duuuhhhh? moment because I realized that I wasn't entirely sure what his official title was, and I fell down a tiny rabbit hole. The information about Princess Sophie is kind of sketchy--noted as 'citation needed' in Wikipedia, but not mentioned at all on her German page. It seems to be established fact that her brothers Max and Ernst were there, though. But last night I caught an episode of Queen Victoria's Children: Princes Will Be Princes, and I really had only a slim grasp on Bertie, and next to no information about Affie and the other ones (Leopold and Arthur), but hot damn. I knew Victoria was not always a good person, but this gave a great character analysis while avoiding things like armchair diagnoses. It was scholars discussing their areas of expertise on the childhoods and adult lives of the princes, and it was really illuminating, and told in a gripping way. It's a BBC production, but I was watching the local PBS channel.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2014 2:52:51 GMT -4
Susan Bordo was my mentor in college!
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