Dr Estelle Paranque
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✍🏻 Author 📚Historian 👩🏼🎓 Assoc Professor 🎬 YouTuber 🧐 RF @RenWarwick . Author and editor of 6 books. Latest book: THORNS LUST & GLORY. All views my own.
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PUBLICATION DAY 🙌🏻
It took me years of sacrifices, learning AND mastering another language, living far away from loved ones, living in a 12am for 6 years, eating apples and pasta because it’s all I could afford, countless amount of tears, dealing with very ill-intended people…
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I am beyond happy to announce that I have been working with the team that decoded the lost letters of Mary Stuart in March 2023 alongside my brilliant colleagues Dr Alex Courtney and Professor Michael Questier (who has been serving as consultant) /1
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Today my grandmother would have been 104 years. My mum’s mother was a French resistant during the war, hiding Jewish families in Lyon and given them French passports with Christian names.
2ys ago I commissioned the talented
@marinamaral2
to colourise that picture for my mum! 🥰🙏
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Hearing my 2 and a half yo son telling my 6-month-old daughter who was crying “you’re ok. I’m here. Mummy is in the kitchen and she’s coming back” has completely melted my heart in ways I would have never imagined… 🥺🥺🥺🫶🏻
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My year in one picture.
Which also explains my silence…
Wrote a book.
Got engaged.
Had a son.
🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍
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Still one of my favourite stories and objects of the sixteenth century:
It’s not exactly musical chairs, but this Renaissance-era cutlery can carry a tune at any table setting. Dating back to the 16th century, these extremely rare knives are engraved with musical scores
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The Musical Knives of the Sixteenth Century.
It turns out that Renaissance diners in Italy enjoyed a little music with their feasts. And they kept their musical scores recorded in an unexpected location—their knives. This means that aside from carving up meat
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I COULD NOT BE HAPPIER TO FINALLY SHARE THIS NEWS WITH YOU ALL!
.
@EburyPublishing
signs joint biography of Elizabeth 1 and Catherine de Medici - Blood, Fire and Gold is by lecturer and historian Dr Estelle Paranque (
@DrEstellePrnq
)
(£)
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Some personal news…
If I owe you an email, a message, any sort of reply, if you find me forgetful, less focused at times… I’m sorry but this is why and I couldn’t be happier.
🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
PS: I will reply to you (eventually) 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😘
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I am thrilled to share with you all that I’ve been promoted Associate Professor in History at Northeastern University London!
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😊
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In January 1536, she miscarried. After that, her husband openly pursued someone else. She’s on her own.
Months later, ludicrous accusations are made against her.
She was beheaded on this day at the Tower of London.
This book that I’m writing on her is going to make me cry..
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Personal post.
A few days ago, I’ve lost my fifth family member this year (4 COVID related).
This year is truly challenging.
Don’t know when I’ll see family again. Don’t know who will be next &leave all of us. Forever.
Hug your loved ones. Tell them you love them. Be kind. Now.
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A snapshot of the little-known history of black Tudor women
The majority of the migrants that are traversing across Europe are men. It is men who go forth and the wives and sisters and children that follow.
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My dad took this picture of the sky last night… NGC7000
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Has it changed my mind on Mary Stuart?
Yes it has.
But maybe not as much as you think it did.
These letters show Mary in a new light.
She writes without hiding her true feelings and ambitions.
She’s her own mistress.
You will love reading these letters!
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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It's official. From 21 August 2019 I will be permanent lecturer (full-time) in early modern history
@NCHLondon
at Northeastern.
It's been a very hard and long journey. Thank you to all of you who have supported me.
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When people ask me what I do on holidays. I play trains with my dad 😂😂😂👌
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Oh my god! I thought she nailed Elizabeth but look at what she did for Anne Boleyn!!! I’m in awe!!!
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
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These letters will be published in 2027 by
@routledgebooks
making them accessible. We are finalising the transcriptions and discovered contamination of codes (how fun!) and we will be working on the translation. The book will also provide chapters focusing on historical context
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Yay!!! I’ve been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society!!
🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌😊
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In the next few months I’m going to give you very small sneak peak of my forthcoming book BLOOD FIRE AND GOLD with also videos of why I chose to write about these two women…
Watch this space. 😊😊😊
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Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche (May 26, 1886 – April 15, 1912) was a Haitian engineer. He was one of only three passengers of known African ancestry on the ill-fated voyage of RMS Titanic.
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My next book will be published by
@EburyPublishing
on 2 May 2024.
It’s the story of Anne Boleyn and the French Betrayal.
Please share widely and consider pre-ordering… 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 I really put my heart and soul into this book…
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I woke up to ‘X’ and I have to say it feels so wrong and I miss the blue bird…😞
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🙌🙌🙌🎉🎉🎉🙌🙌🙌
IT IS OFFICIAL: MY FIRST MONOGRAPH IS OUT!
On this very important day,
#ArmisticeCentenary
I could not be prouder and happier to have received the hardback version of my book!
😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
And happy commemoration to all of us! Let’s not forget!
#EU4ever
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These letters are mind blowing.
Being one of the 3 historians who have had access to the full set has really humbled me.
Being entrusted in the task of making these letters available to everyone is an honour. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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Happy 9th anniversary to me and London.
I left everything I had 9 years ago. I wasn’t bilingual. I was lost and scared. But one thing I knew: I wanted to become a historian specialised in Elizabeth I and queens.
Follow your dreams. They do come true.
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My fur baby is 6!! 💛💛💛
Charlie saved my life more than once. We have been through a lot of struggles together.
I’m glad I could keep my promise when we were in this 15sqm studio that one day we would have a house.
Joyeux anniversaire, Charlie bear! 💙
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So very pleased to share that I have passed my probation and that I will continue as a permanent member of staff at NCH. 🙌🙌🙌
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Beyond delighted to announce that from this fall I’ll be teaching a course on queens for our MA in Historical Research and Public History!
Come and join me to learn about their political, diplomatic, religious roles at court and beyond.
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Ok... I’m crying!
Wow.
Vive l’Europe!
"Now we are friends."
"We are more than that ... we are brothers."
They were prepared to kill each other on D-Day - now a British and a German soldier meet for the first time.
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My maternity leave has started (at 38 weeks pregnant)… so I’ll be slower at replying and posting.
People, thank you for your support and love for my work, I’m the one who’s grateful and appreciate of you all. I could not do any of this without you.
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And Elizabethan politics.
Other chapters will focus on the methods used by the computer scientists team.
This is a true interdisciplinary project which shows how computer science and history can work well together.
🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
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I am SO grateful for all the lovely messages and comments I have received. It really means the world.
I can’t reply right now but mostly because things have been difficult.
From being diagnosed with possible pre-eclampsia to emergency c-section and lots in between.. /1
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On this day, 416 years ago, Elizabeth I of England died.
She had ruled over 44 years. Never married. And truly had “the heart and stomach of a king”.
Shameless promotion: want to know more about her relations with the Valois and the French ambassadors? More in my book 📚😁👌
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🧵 7 years ago I handed in my PhD thesis on my dad’s birthday.
Since then, 3 edited collections, 2 journal articles, 1 academic monograph, 1 trade book and soon (enough) an announcement to be made on what comes next.
Since then I’ve also realised that academia wasn’t what ../1
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I came to the UK 10 years ago. I was not bilingual and struggled to understand fully what was being said. I was a French language assistant and under the new
#immigration
scheme I would not have been able to come to the UK. Since then, PhD at UCL and FT permanent history lecturer
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3 years ago I submitted my PhD. A lot has happened since then. 3 books out, +1 out in 2 months, secured a permanent position staring end of August, supervised BA and MA dissertations, been asked to be PhD supervisor four times, creating a new MA in Queenship for 2020. Time flies.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but here it is:
Social media is NOT real life. Always be kind you don’t know what people are going through despite their apparent “success”.
Always be kind. Don’t compare yourself to Twitter/IG accounts or other people. You’ll get through this
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Ok. If anyone is waiting a reply to an email or a message, I’m sorry. I caught COVID ten days ago and had to rest. I’m still quite unwell but I think I’m on the path of recovery! I’ll get to your message/email as soon as I can. Bear with me. I am not ignoring you.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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#PubDay
#BloodFireGold
I’m beyond happy to be sharing years of research with you.
I started compiling their letters in 2014.
These women have taught my valuable life lessons.
I have chosen to write it as narrative fiction. What does it mean? It is written like fiction but
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Yay!! My “Catherine de Medici’s grandmotherhood” article has been published as early view with Renaissance Studies Journal! 🙌🙌🙌😊
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It’s official!! My full-time permanent contract is starting today!!
So happy!!!
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14 years ago I came to 🇬🇧 without mastering the language, with no family, no network, no patronage.
14 years later I’m living my dream life.
If I could do it, so can you… I’m not special. I’m determined.
If you come to me for help and I can help, I WILL! 🤗🤗🤗
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You know what’s crazy?
The other day I thought about the two times I gave birth and if it had been in the sixteenth century let’s say, I would have died both times. And my kids too.
But then we expect mothers to bounce back after giving birth? Insane…
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So
@FernRiddell
was a total bitch who was single because arrogance and PhDs don’t attract men and
@PriyamvadaGopal
is an upper-class Indian bitch
In common: both are Drs. Both want respect. Both speak up against sexism and racism.
#immodestwomen
always and forever!
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LOOK AT THAT 👇
"An ornately carved oak bed that spent 15 years in the honeymoon suite of a hotel in Chester, in the United Kingdom, had a remarkable hidden history: Experts recently found that it is likely to be a long-lost royal marriage bed dating to the 15th century.
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@marinamaral2
is a genius.
Here my grandmother, Henriette Comte, 3 August 1917-19 December 1974. 4 children. Rescued and hid dozens of Jewish families in Lyon. Providing them with fake passports.
Here during the war with her eldest daughter, my auntie, Josiane.
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Happy Caturday and birthday to me!
Let’s celebrate 🎉
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I’m honestly disappointed in the ending that it is it: mystery solved.
Errr no…
I mean they’ve done an amazing job at researching and that they’ve advanced the field.
But the evidence shown here needs to be further analysed and we need more letters…
For all those who wonder why the
#PrincesintheTower
is trending, it is because a book has just been published by Philippa Langley with credible evidence that both boys survived.
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Working hard on BLOOD FIRE AND GOLD The story of Elizabeth I of England and Catherine de Medici!
I hope you’ll like it! 🥰🥰🥰
Pictures:
@royalty_now_
on IG!
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“The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family” coming soon on BBC TWO
Other contributors include:
@Regina_Saba
@rentravailer
@garethrussell1
@DrOwenEmmerson
@ENortonHistory
and others!!
Trailer here:
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Affiliated with the University of Toronto, the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library houses more rare books than any other collection in Canada. The collection includes unique artifacts
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My thoughts on what I’m experiencing… solidarity to everyone else who have been or are going through similar issues… 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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On this day in 1519, Catherine de Medici was born.
Orphan of Florence, Nieces of two Popes, Dauphine of France, Queen Consort of France, Mother of three kings and two queens and one duchess, grandmother of a governor, more on her extraordinary fate?
👇👇
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#otd
11 years ago I moved to this country with only one luggage and one backpack. I came here with a dream: becoming a historian and completing a PhD. I needed to improve my English ASAP if I wanted to make it come true. I did.
But this post is not about me. It is about you:
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9 years ago, I was finishing my MA second dissertation (an MA is two years in France with two dissertations), packing for London, and preparing for my new job at QMUL...
Summer 2019, I can take a picture with my four books.
I’ll make a series, like the one with the /1
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And I am HAPPY (beyond happy) to share with you the COVER of my first monograph ! I AM SO SO HAPPY!
Forthcoming end of 2018.
@PalgraveHistory
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Happy to announce that I have now INDEFINITE LEAVE IN THE UK! (Settled status!)
🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
I guess I’m not going anywhere ;)
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🎉🎉🎉🎉10K FOLLOWERS GIVEAWAY 🎉🎉🎉🎉
First, THANK YOU SO MUCH! I hope you’ll keep enjoying my tweets on history and cats (one day dogs!).
For this giveaway, a winner will get ALL MY ACADEMIC BOOKS (price range between £30-£80 each book).
To enter:
1- follow this account
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At the moment my days evolve around this so perfect tiny little human…
And as I walk with him I can’t help but feel an immense feeling of gratitude… gratitude towards my bonne étoile who has looked over me for many years.
I had nothing but one suitcase when I arrived in the
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I was told by one of my MA supervisors that I wasn’t smart enough to do a PhD.
I might not be smart enough to do much I am, however, bloody determined and hard working.
I also swore to myself to always support and believe in my students.
Be a good supervisor, be a good human!
My (now ex) husband abruptly ended our marriage & reported me as illegally in the UK so I would be deported. I had no job, no money. He & his lawyers called me a “failed writer.” I wrote a proposal for
#TheButcheringArt
& months later sold it in a six-figure book deal.
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My son’s great grandmother (therefore my fiancé’s grandmother) is 100 years old today.
She received the royal card from King Charles III and Queen Camilla.
She has incredible memories of her youth during WWII. And it’s just an immense privilege to know her and call her family.
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You know what people, you are all amazing!
When I arrived in this country 11 years ago I truly wished that one day I’ll be able to show my passion and love for history on BBC.
Little did I know that the best part of it would be to be sharing the screen with other amazing
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I have received the copies of my 4th book!!
So so happy and thrilled!! 🙌🙌🙌😊
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My favourite castle of all time is CHENONCEAU.
Why? Because this is where two of my favourite queens have lived.
Catherine de Medici and Louise de Lorraine Vaudémont.
Want to know more about this castle?
Keep reading!
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3 years ago I was revealing the cover of my first (academic) monograph which was published at the end of 2018.
In a few weeks, I’ll be revealing the cover of my next book. My first commercial non-fiction book BLOOD FIRE AND GOLD. And guys trust me when I say YOU WILL LOVE IT! 🙏
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Three Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I Displayed Together for First Time
The free exhibition starts today in London, inside the 17th-century Palladian villa, the same site where Queen Elizabeth I was born
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I don’t want to spam you with cat pictures but these two are so scrumptious, I had to share!
Happy Thursday people! ☺️🙏
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To celebrate the paperback version of my first monograph, I’m giving a copy away to one lucky person (signed, obviously!)
All you have to do is:
1- follow this account
2- retweet this tweet
3- state who’s your favourite female leader of all time! (Can be a queen or not)
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This small ivory carving conveys one of the most profound themes of the late Middle Ages, serving as a memento mori, a reminder of the transitory nature of life and the inevitability of death.
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2 years ago.
And in 7 weeks, I'll have a permanent position in the heart of London.
I've overcome even more darkness these last two years but I knew I could do this. When I left my country, I knew it would be hard. I knew I didn't have the level but I believed I could so I did.
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My first monograph is two years old and will be published in paperback in a month or two with
@PalgraveHistory
!!! 🥰🥰🥰
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A bit more about Mary’s decoded letters.
A 🧵
In March 2023, George Lasry and his team have published an article on their recent discovery:
They had decoded 57 letters of Mary Queen of Scots from 1578 to 1583/4
In their article, they offered a summary of these letters BUT
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Enjoying the sunshine with my little one 💛
Happy weekend everyone!
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Each time I see 15:33 on the clock I think of the birth of Elizabeth I. I think I don’t classify as normal... 😂😂😂😅
Anyone else look at their watch sometimes, see it’s 14:53 and think “fall of Constantinople”, or are you normal instead.
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I'll never say it enough but A HISTORICAL TOPIC DOESNT BELONG TO ANYONE!
Let's share, let's work together, let's promote one another, let's combine our ideas/research
Collaboration is the only way to do a topic justice...
🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝
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VERY PLEASED.
My next book (edited volume) Remembering Queens and Kings in Early Modern England and France: Reputation, Reinterpretation, and Reincarnation got great reviewers’ reports and will be sent out for production on 1 May! & this image has been approved for the cover 🙌
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A 🧵
Twitter is becoming a very unpleasant platform… under the disguise of freedom of speech what we have is lies, misinformation and pure hatred..
Lots of good people have already chosen to delete the the app but I’ve decided to stay and spam you with positivity and history
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How awful it is that the media (the obsession with the royal family) has forced this young woman to reveal her condition… when she clearly didn’t want to.
Not everyone is comfortable sharing with the world what they’re going through and that should be respected
#KateMiddleton
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Ten years ago I was making the decision to leave my native country for London and pursue my dream. Today I have achieved one of my wildest dreams. I cannot share it with you yet but I’m so happy! I cannot wait to be able to share it with you all!
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The new Netflix show on Anne Boleyn reveals more than just Henry and Anne’s toxic passion.
More incredibly, these lust letters from H to A and how they ended up in the Vatican archives and who actually consulted them in the centuries that followed tell us a very different story.
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PROOFS OF BLOOD FIRE AND GOLD ARE IN!!
Cover reveal to come very soon!!!
I cannot wait to share this with all of you!
I am so grateful for all your support and cannot thank you enough.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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