Have you ever had a crush / fallen in love with an historical figure?

[NegroniLover]

This has happened to me in the most unexpected manner. I'm in my early 50s (old enough to know better) & I've developed a massive obsession / crush on a long dead writer. It's so weird & had never happened to me before.
Please tell me someone else has experienced this?

I loved Prince Rupert back in my 20s.

Mercutio, from Romeo and Juliet. So not only historical but fictional too.

My chances are slim.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Bonus: he looked like this when young.

Less crushable in an older version.

Also toothsome in his dramatised self in Desperate Romantics

Hector of Troy.

Also Jesus at one point (I am not religious).

Sir Walter Raleigh! I love a goatee… plus he bought potato’s to the uk so if it wasn’t for him I wouldn’t get my roast potatoes… but It’s definitely the goatee to be honest ! I’m Swooning just thinking about him! I suppose all Elizabethan men had goatees so to be honest if he’s male and Elizabethean I’m bound to have a crush 😆

(In both cases early teens me).

Lord Peter Wimsey. I was so jealous of Harriet Vane as a teenager.

Charles II, but in his Rufus Sewell incarnation.

Rufus Sewell shouldn’t be allowed out. He’s pure filth. Look at those eyes.

But not all would sport a goatee quite like Sir Walter (per Clive Owen in Elizabeth the Golden Age.)

I always figured the lady who dug the car park up for Richard III remains had a crush on him. The film adaptation certainly seems to take it that way.

Charles Brandon. King Arthur.

Clive own in The Last Knight! I’m drooling just thinking about him in that

Owen*

Mary Wollstonecraft

Yes! I love this channel.

All the Medici men , especially Lorenzo. STBX did not appreciate my obsession in Florence. Hence, off he goes.

James Joyce is a family obsession, brother did dissertation on him. Richard Ellman biography is the best .

Touch of Derren Brown about this picture.

For me, not historical but Yuri Gagarin. Mostly because of his lovely smile.

Gustav Mahler for me. I love a composer! Beethoven was my first crush, but Mahler took over. I called my first dog Gustav.
He was proper gorgeous too.

I mean Mahler was gorgeous, not my dog. My dog was hideous.

I am another one very fond of Anne Boleyn-I wrote my dissertation about her.

I also like Dick Turpin. He was rumoured to have had a tryst with his then wife whilst on the run in our old house (which was a converted coaching inn). Apparently he nearly got caught but jumped out of my old bedroom window to escape.

Another one for Charles II and yes I blame Jean Plaidy too

Fucking hell I recon me and James could have a lot of fun 😂

Mahler is pretty handsome too!