Did You Know..........? A Bit Of French History.

tiggerblue10 | 21:48 Sun 16th Jan 2022 | History

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Going along the theme of did you knows.....

Duchess de Polignac, one of Marie Antoinette's best friends, was the great, great, great grandmother of Prince Rainier III of Monaco. She and the Polignac family managed to escape the guillotine by travelling around Europe in exile in 1789 and eventually to Austria where she died of illness the same year as the Queen.

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Well, I opted for geography rather than history when at school and then realised a couple of years later that I enjoyed history more. When I was 21 I took two afternoons off a week from work and went to study history GCSE at college. Got B out of it but only because it was Russian, American, Chinese, WW1 and WW2 history. Might've got an A if it was just British based history.

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Tigger, Henry VII's mother married Edmund Tudor when she was 12 and was only 13 when she had Henry. She had no more children, presumably because her body was damaged.

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Yes, Jno, such a horrible childhood, poor girl. But if it's to be believed, she fought hard for her son to be king.

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she was very active in Tudor politics. Those were nervous days, Henry was always terrified a Plantagenet would turn up with a claim to the throne: his own was a little remote. He was descended from Edward III, the same as Danny Dyer, but also from Katherine of Valois, who married Henry V after Agincourt. After his death she married Owen Tudor. She was buried in Westminster Abbey but only halfway - the top half of her body, half-mummified, was visible and Pepys even managed to kiss her on the lips and write it up in his diary. Rather gross.

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Oh, I didn't know about the Pepys thing. So gross!