➡️Part 1➡️Part 2 In 1780, when she was fifteen, Amy or Emy Lyon met twenty-six-year old Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh, a good friend of the Prince of Wales (later King George IV), who hired her to entertain his guests at the many parties he hosted at his country house. Here she had her own suite of… Read More Lady Hamilton’s Youth (Part 3)
Lord Nelson‘s great love was Emma, a lady who had a quite remarkable past. Emma Hamilton, born Amy Lyon on 26 April 1765, was the daughter a poor Cheshire blacksmith who died when she was only two months old. She was raised by her mother, and grandmother, without receiving a formal education.Little is known of… Read More Lady Hamilton’s Youth (Part 1)
Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, was born on 29 September 1758. He was a British officer in the Royal Navy, which, under his leadership, proved its supremacy over the French, during the Napoleonic Wars (1797–1815). He is regarded as one of the greatest naval commanders in history.He died on 21 October 1805 at… Read More Horatio Nelson
During her reign, Elizabeth I became an icon to worship, the Protestant object of a “royal cult” intended, according to some critics, to “clash with and contest the Catholic worship of the Virgin Mary”. This cult emphasized her virginity and beauty: she was never seen without her whitened ‘mask of youth’.Some historians believe she may… Read More Queen Elizabeth I’s Death
During the Elizabethan age, the ‘golden age in English history’, the Queen was an icon of the beauty of the time with an impact never surpassed by any other English queen. Besides using the dangerous Venetian ceruse, (see here) Elizabeth I loved lipstick and on her death, also her lips were encrusted with a layer… Read More Queen Elizabeth I’s Lipstick
In 1562, Elizabeth I contracted smallpox which left her face pockmarked (see here). Since the queen had always been proud of her beauty, she feared this would spoil her image, showing a flawlessly fair skin, the typical look of the upper class, nobility and earthly perfection.Since she was aware that as the queen, she couldn’t… Read More Queen Elizabeth I & Venetian Ceruse (part 2)
During the Elizabethan era, white skin was highly desired by women as it symbolized youthfulness and an elevated social class. When Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) one of the greatest English monarchs in history, was 29, in 1562, she was struck by what was initially believed to be a violent fever. Therefore she was ordered by… Read More Queen Elizabeth I & Venetian Ceruse (part 1)
➡️First part➡️Second part➡️Third part➡️ Fourth part In the cottage shared with her partner Madge Burnand, Pamela Travers succumbed to a bout of pleurisy in the winter of 1933. It was during her recovery that she began writing “Mary Poppins”, a character that had already appeared in a 1926 short story.The secluded life in the countryside… Read More P.L. Travers: Mary Poppins’ Mother (5)
On 22 June 1535, the execution of Bishop John Fisher, advisor to Queen Katherine of Aragon, was carried out at the Tower of London only a few days before that of Sir Thomas More (see here), who was executed for the same reason. Both of them were Catholics and opposed the annulment of King Henry… Read More Executions at the Tower
Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), was an English statesman, lawyer, and writer.In 1504 More was elected to parliament and years later he entered the king’s service and was knighted.Meanwhile, in 1516, he wrote his famous book Utopia, about an ideal republic in which institutions and policies were entirely governed by reason.Utopia… Read More Thomas More/1
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