The enthusiasm that surrounded her accession to the throne was, to Mary, an endorsement of her desire to restore England to a Catholic country. Mary set out to do just that. She married the Catholic King of Spain, Philip II, in 1554, to strengthen her cause. Th...
They are like old style court jesters in Shakespeare’s day who take over the throne when the King has become lost in taking himself too seriously and in folly. They talk gibberish but their role is to wake us up. What I realised Trump is waking us up to is our collective “mind chat...
But after surviving a very unhealthy, toxic, abusive relationship in my younger years ( before my husband) I developed a transparent approach to life. I am mostly an open book and if you ask I will be honest. Currently there is this tension that is persistent between advocating for myself ...
Llanymynech is half in Wales and half in England, but until lockdown laws reimposed the old border (which had largely been defined by King Offa of Mercia, way back in the 8th century AD), there had been little difference on either side; in recent years, at least. As the different ...
Milton was arrested in 1660 after Charles II came to the throne and lived out the rest of his life in the country, secluded from the world, working on his epic poem, Paradise Lost. This poem would serve as his legacy and be considered among the greatest poems ever written....
Later he traveled France,Switzerland and Italy where he heard that people’s struggle against the king might lead to war. After he returned to London,he wrote pamphlets opposing the monarchy and advocating people’s liberty.The commonwealth government gave Milton the important office of Secretary ...
strife between the Catholics and the Huguenots (French Protestants), the court of Henry III was then dominated by a tolerant faction of the Politiques (moderate Catholics, sympathizers of the Protestant King of Navarre, Henry of Bourbon, who became heir apparent to the throne of France in 1584...
Why had the king exiled him for advocating the Ekumen's cause (which seemed to be the meaning of the proclamation) if (according to the king himself) he had been doing the opposite? When had he started advising the king to steer clear of me, and why? Why was he exiled, and I let...
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