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Archaeologists are DNA testing some bones they've found to see if they might be the remains of Richard III. Are there any other members of the Royal Family....

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seeker · 12/09/2012 13:19

where DNA testing might produce interesting results?

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LRDtheFeministDragon · 13/09/2012 21:54

I cross posted with you mad. Whew! It always occurs to me, just too late, that if my supervisor stumbles over this thread she will tease me mercilessly.

LRDtheFeministDragon · 13/09/2012 21:53

schmaltzing - that reminds me of the dramatic bit in Braveheart where Wallace storms down from Scotland and takes York by nightfall - all of which comes as a great shock to Edward Longshanks, whose crack team of spies somehow failed to notice the large army of Scots making their way down more than 150 miles of Northern England and past several large towns ...

I have realized that lots of non-British people who've seen the film but wouldn't know UK geography think that York is a town on the Scottish border.

MadBusLady · 13/09/2012 21:50

LRD Grin No I doubt it, I've been out of that whole world a while now and I was always more into the constitutional/political side of things. Don't actually know anything much about Handlyng Synne beyond the title!

CassandraApprentice · 13/09/2012 21:43

Wow - I really don't blame Juliane.

CassandraApprentice · 13/09/2012 21:41

I've found an obscure reference to Edward I keeping Robert the Bruce sister in a cage which had privies, and him and his cronies biting of a man's ear when he was young - but he also forgave his daughter and husband when the eloped and seems to have been kind to his wives.

ProphetOfDoom · 13/09/2012 21:40

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CassandraApprentice · 13/09/2012 21:29

Well it brought up who they married and the DC they had but nothing about him blinding them.

CassandraApprentice · 13/09/2012 21:28

I'm intrigue to about Edward I nieces google search didn't being anything related up.

Hawise · 13/09/2012 21:23

fanjodisfunction - I read Lady of the English and would recommend it. I am now working my way through all of Elizabeth Chadwick's books and am really loving them.

LRDtheFeministDragon · 13/09/2012 21:12

I'll say thanks on behalf of Elizabeth Knyvett, then! Grin

Socknickingpixie · 13/09/2012 21:09

ive been lurking reading this with almost manic intrest, but now have to reveal my lurking to say lrd that has got to be the funnyest post ive seen in ages Grin

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TunipTheVegemal · 13/09/2012 21:04

I assumed because Fitzroy was his first son to live and so the one that proved he was capable of fathering healthy boys.

agedknees · 13/09/2012 21:04

Why did Edward 1 have his nieces blinded? Was it to do with succession?

Just loving this thread.

happybirthdayHiggs · 13/09/2012 21:04

I've read Lady of the English fanjo. It's a good read, although Matilda (Maude) isn't a very likeable character, it's hard to feel much sympathy for her dilemma.
I prefer Chadwick to either Penman or Gregory to be honest. The Greatest Knight and The Scarlet Lion are among my all time rave about books.

LRDtheFeministDragon · 13/09/2012 21:01

I think because he was a boy. Sad

I read somewhere he was really sad when he died. I wonder what would have happened if he'd lived, if Henry would have legitimized him in the end? Or even if he could have?

Vagaceratops · 13/09/2012 21:01

Sorry Fanjo.

Vagaceratops · 13/09/2012 20:58

One of the other things I always wonder about is why Henry part recognised Henry FitzRoy but none of his other illegitimate children.

Was it just that he had real feelings for Bessie Blount, or because he was a boy?

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fanjodisfunction · 13/09/2012 20:54

thanks vagaceratops i will have a look but I think thats about her grandmother, I mean Matilda Henry II 's child. But I will probably read this one too, love this period of history.

happybirthdayHiggs · 13/09/2012 20:54

poets Seems to me you've done the hardest bit, letting your 'famous' peers see your work. Well done you!
I don't know anything about poetry publication. Do they prefer you submit to only one publishing house at a time?
Come on. Summon up that courage and get it sent off. We'll be here to hold your hand.

CassandraApprentice · 13/09/2012 20:52

Its in the The Other Boleyn Girl - with her brother.

I though most had been proven to be false so its assumed the rest are?

No hint before Henry had enough - she'd lost a series of babies last one late enough to know it was a boy so she was conceiving, Katerine was dead so new Queen and new DC would have no legitimacy problems like Ann DC could have, Jane Seymore was around playing hard to get, Ann was difficult and Henry found her increasingly annoying.

So very convenient to Henry.

LRDtheFeministDragon · 13/09/2012 20:51

No way, mad?!

Oh, god, I am excited and now paranoid. Do you know me?

A chapter of my PhD is on Handlyng Synne. I love it to bits.

tunip - yes, completely agree about Mantel vs. Gregory.

LRDtheFeministDragon · 13/09/2012 20:49

Sorry, happy, that was sort of an aside to seeker as I'm assuming she is reading her own thread. She was making the point on another thread that it's annoying when people on MN start insulting mothers-in-law on threads.

But yes, true, not a good insult really!

poets - ah, but you have to go for it now, you've told us about it! Grin