Leanda de Lisle
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Historian, writer, broadcaster and podcaster of 10 Minute Tudors. By lines with the Times, the Spectator, the Literary Review etc.
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This is where Christopher Columbus met Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile
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St Winefride’s Well, the longest continuous site of Pilgrimage in the UK
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@chrisshipitv
FFS - for the umpteenth time, here is a shrub in my garden 2.5 hours north of Windsor. Yes shrubs etc are in leaf. Why don’t you go for a walk in the park?
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@StAustellAdam
@Peston
@BorisJohnson
What utter balls. He has always been a liar - long before the issue of Brexit.
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Charles I is said to have worn this ring on the scaffold. It is in private hands. Mine, but only for lunch
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@GMB
@chrisshipitv
@Tessadunlop
We shld demonstrate kindness. Someone - William, his wife or one of his children - evidently were sufficiently distressed or unwell that he was unable to go. It’s not something you do bcase lazy or spoilt
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@chiefrabbi
The monarchy has a bloody history, but it has developed, as we as a nation have developed. Leaving behind religious and ethnic persecution is part of this.
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17th century gloves, reputed to have belonged to Charles 1: private collection.
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Not found at bottom of my stocking but in a field : Edward IV gold coin
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A dress belonging the Grand Duchess Xenia, after whom I was named ( my middle name) … don’t suppose I can borrow it for my Christmas lunch entrance
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This portrait of Margaret Beaufort by Maynard Werwyck confirmed as oldest large scale portrait of an Englishwoman
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I see the horror bullying of the Prince and Princess of Wales is underway again. A man who lost his mother as a child. A mother of young children undergoing chemotherapy. Is there anything we can do to stop it?
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@DrProudman
I think it is safe to say they are not trying to evoke sympathy for this serial killer. It’s just the usual astonishment about the banality of evil
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The ghost of a masturbating ape haunts the hallways of a 15th c house in Dorset
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Chucking out old papers and found the letter recruiting me to MI6 ( and no I did not become a spy, though I did enjoy the interview!)
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All smiles today! I have the honour of being elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society!! Behind me is ‘Beau’ Dillon, an Irish freind of Marie Anoinette. He avoided the guillotine - not all his family were so spared
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@g_gosden
She could make a great MP. Stand girl, stand!! ‘It’s starts with your neighbour’. That’s the slogan
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@ShakeLS
Obviously it’s serious - the recovery time makes that clear. But I don’t suppose they want to frighten their children. So we just have to keep our noses out of
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For sale!
@philipmould
says he has never found an Elizabethan portrait in such perfect condition.
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@SussexHenryVIII
Amazingly she was thinking about her children, and waiting for the school holidays.
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Thanks to Chatto for all the work they did on the cover of my new book and to
@jdmccafferty
for posting her book of poetry and so providing inspiration!
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@TIME
And what about all the pictures ever taken of celebs? It’s going to be a big cull. What utter hypocrisy and cruelty
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Isn’t my granddaughter beautiful with her still dark blue eyes? 7 months old
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@sandiptodg
One wonders if a woman would have celebrated the judicial murder of a woman who spent her last days listening to the screams of her young son, tortured in another room
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@Matthew82069336
Why are you wickedly bullying a mother with cancer? She is seen at, for example, children’s school, sees her family. She just doesn’t want public attention. It’s not hard to grasp you absolute horror of a human being
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A little print of Mary, Queen of Scots, inherited with stuff from my parents house
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So my father in law showing me books from his library. What on earth is this first page?
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St Winefride’s chapel, said to have been built by Margaret Beaufort, bears the Stanley arms
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Louis XIII made his bro watch execution of an ally. It took 30 blows to cut his head off with an adze. They don’t make quarrelling princes like they used to🐶👑🫅🍲
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Ooo def want to go to Holbein exhibition at Buckingham palace - over 100 portraits from Henry VIII will be on display! Opens 10 Nov
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Grandma meets Cosima for first time, instead of handing in my draft mss due this weekend
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Had a Tudor moment. Am off to Antwerp and was asked what country that is in. I frowned, suddenly uncertain it was Belgium. Of the Spanish Netherlands I felt more confident
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Came across old photo of me in Country Life mags house tweed when I wrote the Belvedere column ( their first). It was made by Burberry before they became cool
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@TudorChick1501
As I understand it, the British police will provide security as and when needed, but not for eg private events? Harry can pay for private security but the police force is not for sale. I think focus needs to be on what defines as and when.
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The phone box my future husband rang me from when I stood him up on our first date. He still hasn’t forgotten or quite forgiven
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I am going to bed with this. Maybe it is age but I am happy
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My parents looking impossibly glam in Capri 1958. I still have the Pucci shirt
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Drum roll! My Henrietta Maria been been shortlisted for Elizabeth Longford Biog prize!! the Rl2023 Shortlist - ELHB - so proud !
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@piersmorgan
There is no excuse for abuse. But isn’t it time Tatchell was asked some hard questions on TV?
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A gift from the film company that bought rights to my next book! Will save for my birthday 24 December
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Direct ancestor of King Charles drowned his brother in a vat of Malmsey wine. Another direct ancestor started a witch burning craze in Scotland which he then brought to England.
Direct ancestors of King Charles had people hanged almost to the point of death, cut down, castrated, disembowelled, beheaded, cut into quarters and stuck on spikes
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Preparing for my talk on Henrietta Maria at the Guildhall, Leicester. The panelling and fireplace were installed in 1637
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The Arms of Henry VIII with other members of the Order of the Golden Fleece in the cathedral Barcelona
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I am not sure anyone who reads or writes Tudor history isn’t aware that Henry VIII was a monster
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Granddaughter’s first crawl…. My son’s comment on this, ‘We’re so screwed’.
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Elizabeth raised an eyebrow: the Queen’s House, Greenwich
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I am aghast to hear that the term bi-weekly is used instead of fortnightly. Why? And in any case it surely means twice a week?
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Prince Philip in Peru 1962, horse lent by my husband’s grandfather who gave him the hat
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Happy St George’s Day from my newly christened granddaughter Georgina
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@chrisshipitv
If the princess is distressed - as she may well be after major surgery - he may not want to leave her. He may also be v stressed that his wife and father r seriously ill. Poor chap
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@quantick
My mother danced with George Harrison at Annabel’s night club in the 60s & asked what he did. ‘I’m a Beetle’ he replied.
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Fantastic to see that my Henrietta Maria is a Spectator Book of the Year!
@allan_mallinson
@Pegasus_Books
@ChattoBooks
@penguinrandom
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The house in Vannes occupied by Henrietta Maria after she fled England in 1644
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Slightly scary photo of my great grandfather ( far left) at the London Highland Society in the 1930s.
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The great thing about a Christmas Eve birthday is the presents begin early and all for me - this from my father in law (no not painted. But a lot of thought & ❤️ went into it)
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I won! I never crossed my mind I would. I am usually as tough as old leather. 😱
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A gift from Charles II - Memento Mori of CI on my hand and in original box. Owner a rival aristo to that of last CI ring I showed you!
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@HumansOfJudaism
My father in law was hidden by nuns with his mother and a Jewish lady who sadly died shortly after liberation. My father in law says ‘ of happiness’. He was only 5
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One day to publication! ‘Mesmerising, superb scholarship, totally immersive..a total game changer’ thank you
@KateWilliamsme
!
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Look at my wild flower meadow! It’s only taken me three years … I think I am considered a bit Marie Antoinette by the farming side of the family ( as in husband)
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@DrProudman
The princess comes from a selfmade family. I feel sorry she is taking flak for APs views. It was brave to appear before millions while undergoing chemotherapy, and she has only ever expressed solidarity with other cancer sufferers
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@PaulEmbery
My favourite is the Minister writing a marginal note on a brief he thinks is bollocks, ‘ round objects’. SirHumphrey later sees it and asks , ‘who is Round and to what does he object?’
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The dinner party I went to last night suggests the Cons party is facing an extinction level event. Life long Tories aged 6O+ and major fundraisers won’t vote or will do so elsewhere.
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@moolie61
@KiszelyPhilip
His cruelty to the 20 year Georgina Baillie - which was very public - exposed him as a bully and a misogynist a long time ago
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Learning how to write formal letters at my convent school c 1970
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And this is a gift from Charles II with image of himself! Has anyone seen anything similar? Rock those diamonds
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Went to the wonderful Sargent exhibition at the Tate and enjoyed the Marie de Medici style collars and compositions in style of old masters M/F
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@timothy_stanley
What purpose would it serve? Execution for reasons beyond self defence ( eg treason, as that is a threat to the nation) corrupts us all, but not least the executioner
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Cool picture of my aunt Valerie on her way to Ascot races 1962
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After Charles I was executed his head was stitched back on his neck so his body could be displayed. The man who did it compared it to sewing a head back on a goose
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Cabbies playing homage to Prince Philip who I think ( from memory) used to have his own cab...
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These Tudor shoes belong to a friend - I want a pair and may knock her off her pins to get them
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Here is the iconic passport I want to go back to. Inspired cover of White King
#iconicbluepassort
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