What's your favourite historical crossover?

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I love that Anne Boleyn may or may not have met Leonardo da Vinci.

Wittgenstein was in the same primary school class as Hitler.

I have nothing to add except: cool thread!

Wow! I didn’t know that about Wittgenstein! Is it definitely the case?

There're two interesting ones on this page :Orson Welles and Hitler. T S Eliot and Groucho Marx, www.mentalfloss.com/article/30186/11-peculiar-meetings-between-famous-people

I like how Catherine of Aragon was the daughter of the catholic kings of Spain. The reigns of Henry viii and Ferdinand and Isabella interest me a lot separately, and I like the connection!

I’m not sure if this is a “crossover” but I really love that after all of Henry VIII’s beheading of wives for not giving him a son etc, Elizabeth I, the unwanted (by Henry) daughter of Anne Boleyn became one of the greatest monarchs in English history.

Great mental floss article, especially the meeting between Orson Welles and Hitler.

My absolute favourite is that Alan Bennett and Barbara Taylor Bradford were in the same nursery class.

Yes the Wittgenstein / Hitler thing is true. There's actually a class photo.

Persephone why is it curious that Henry married Catherine? He was a devout RC at this point and it maintained the anti-French Spanish alliance.

Paul Cézanne and Emile Zola were at school together too.

The guy who did the Stanford prison experiment went to school with Milgram of the Milgram experiment.

Ann Boylene and Catherine Howard were cousins. Lots of royal cousins fascinate me generally. Edward vii, Tsar Nicholas II and Kaiser Wilhelm for example. I think it was edward vii who had 2 cousins on different sides who married - it was definitely a russian tsar.