tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post6718427044604742056..comments2024-03-28T22:50:02.315+11:00Comments on ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly: Prince Edward and his first mistress, Marguerite AlibertHelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-2120229125762579892020-07-03T11:10:19.111+10:002020-07-03T11:10:19.111+10:00Pipistrello
Good to see you :) Blogspot has chang...Pipistrello<br /><br />Good to see you :) Blogspot has changed its structure and I am not sure what will happen to my blog in the future. I need my grandchildren to help me.<br /><br />Now back to the business at hand. Well worth reading, even if I am never sure how much scandalous stories are based on verifiable facts. But I am certain that Edward Prince of Wales was more than a goose.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-13525675969288997172020-07-03T09:31:58.801+10:002020-07-03T09:31:58.801+10:00Hels,
The lives of strangers can be endlessly fas...Hels,<br /><br />The lives of strangers can be endlessly fascinating, that's for sure. I do quite enjoy these scandal-mongering biographies for their truth-is-stranger qualities, if nothing else, and might put the book on My List. I like the small details like what the courtesan wore to her trial, which would evidently come from the journalists of the day, who will always know what the braying public want to know :) Albert, on the other hand, was a royal goose from start to finish and we of the Commonwealth dodged a bullet there!Pipistrellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07904613196101010022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-50172895235943118242020-07-02T18:09:38.857+10:002020-07-02T18:09:38.857+10:00Andrew
normally criminals are largely assumed to ...Andrew<br /><br />normally criminals are largely assumed to come from the working classes, the unemployed and immigrants from other countries. But I would suggest that an equal amount of immorality and nastiness comes from royals, parliamentarians, judges, senior policemen, senior army officers and church bishops.<br /><br />Are you really connected to the Marquess of Lorne? They need a family member for a genetic test :)Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-67960668778926956072020-07-02T17:24:03.834+10:002020-07-02T17:24:03.834+10:00I became a little confused by Marguerite's two...I became a little confused by Marguerite's two names but I worked it out. All quite fascinating and I like your reply to Parnassus. Just as well there aren't sleaze bags in the royal family now......ah, oh dear. What you wrote rather sums up my feelings. I have a very distant family connection to the Marquess of Lorne, or so family lore goes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-70292214802206988672020-07-01T18:11:10.932+10:002020-07-01T18:11:10.932+10:00Hilary
I got to this particular royal secret thro...Hilary<br /><br />I got to this particular royal secret through another royal secret that I DID know about. <br /><br />Princess Louise, Queen Victoria’s most feminist daughter, married the Marquess of Lorne in 1871 although there were no children. But did Princess Louise have an illegitimate child earlier? The son of Sir Charles Lacock, Queen Victoria’s obstetrician, Frederick Lacock and his wife adopted a boy in 1867. The Lacock family still believe that was Princess Louise’s baby. Poor Louise.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-17950680277271982452020-07-01T17:18:36.027+10:002020-07-01T17:18:36.027+10:00Hi Hels - I hadn't heard this story ... but so...Hi Hels - I hadn't heard this story ... but sounds like an interesting book - to say the least. Take care - HilaryHilary Melton-Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17596532480645510678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-39547093545739337032020-07-01T14:20:20.336+10:002020-07-01T14:20:20.336+10:00Fun60
me either. Until historian Andrew Rose did ...Fun60<br /><br />me either. Until historian Andrew Rose did years of research and writing, I imagine very few people on this earth would have remembered the story.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-63338119461358834382020-07-01T14:15:27.827+10:002020-07-01T14:15:27.827+10:00Parnassus
This was far from the worst case of a r...Parnassus<br /><br />This was far from the worst case of a royal getting away with lawlessness and immorality. And it won't be the last. But to show you that a sense of entitlement affects a wider range of powerful people, we have an ex-judge of the High Court of Australia (our highest court) who had been sexually assaulting his female court colleagues since the 1990s. Despite an internal High Court inquiry has found that the judge had indeed sexually harassed at least six women on his staff, I believe the judge will never be gaoled or fined.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-3375520141785934082020-07-01T13:54:37.109+10:002020-07-01T13:54:37.109+10:00LMK
Edward Prince of Wales was young the first ti...LMK<br /><br />Edward Prince of Wales was young the first time, a long way from home and in the midst of a horrible war. He would have fallen in love with the first woman who looked at him, even knowing she was a classy courtesan. <br /><br />After that he made really bad decisions, but it seems that none was more ridiculous than his relationship with Mrs Simpson.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-38474352988735023882020-07-01T01:58:33.408+10:002020-07-01T01:58:33.408+10:00I knew none of this although not surprised. A fasc...I knew none of this although not surprised. A fascinating post. Fun60https://www.blogger.com/profile/08084441984556826917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-17787586046525797372020-07-01T00:25:39.239+10:002020-07-01T00:25:39.239+10:00Hello Hels, And we were just exclaiming that the ...Hello Hels, And we were just exclaiming that the Kray twins were low-lifes! You already know my feelings about Edward, and this is just one more piece of ammunition against him--actually, one of the least damning ones, compared to the enormity of his other activities. I hate it when people use either brutal strength or society position to get away with lawlessness and immorality, riding roughshod over whomever they please.<br />--Jim Parnassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08958901307538141468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-51841161095382719552020-06-30T22:47:00.378+10:002020-06-30T22:47:00.378+10:00Prince Edward didn't select his partners very ...Prince Edward didn't select his partners very sensibly, did he?LMKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-17840200174076837782020-06-30T20:25:41.058+10:002020-06-30T20:25:41.058+10:00bazza
I am not much of a royalist either, but _no...bazza<br /><br />I am not much of a royalist either, but _not_ because various princes and princesses were shockingly getting their knickers off, before and after they were properly married. <br /><br />If Prince Edward had a passionate love affair that eventually ended, that was not a reason to use of the army in WW1 to protect the prince's love life, to use their own blackmail and pay off other peoples' blackmail, to pervert justice in the courts, to exploit upper class women who were married to other people etc etc. What a creep :(Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-30607251158767898862020-06-30T19:31:14.924+10:002020-06-30T19:31:14.924+10:00I've never been much of a Royalist. This just ...I've never been much of a Royalist. This just another push towards not wanting them at all. However, I am not blind to the way in which the stability of our current Monarch has helped to steady the ship on occasions.<br />I am certain that in time this delicious story will reach Hollywood!<br /><b><a href="http://todiscoverice.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"> CLICK HERE for Bazza’s reassuringly rhadamanthine Blog ‘To Discover Ice’</a></b>bazzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794010156639774028noreply@blogger.com