Yes, yes it is.
This sketch might actually be my favourite thing at the moment.
“Skills.”
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…Might have to get one of these.
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As dawn broke bright and clear on the first day of September 1666, no one dreamed they were waking to the last sunrise the old city would ever see. No one dreamed that over the next six days God would blot out the heavens, or that hell would break loose as fear and flame turned the streets of London into Armageddon. ~ from the book
One of the best, most gripping books I’ve read (or anything I’ve read) on the Great Fire of 1666. I started reading it only yesterday and I’m just 50 pages to the end. I love Restoration history anyway, and I adore Charles II. This book makes you feel like you are right there with the whole city during the fire. Tinniswood litters his narrative with eye-witness accounts - including the celebrated Samuel Pepys. Pepys! I love him too. It’s like Tinniswood is actually chasing the fire, from street to street. It actually makes you nervous.
Thought this might be of interest :)
King Charles II and Louise de Kéroualle
By Henri Gascar
This is the only ‘double portrait’ of Charles and one of his mistresses to survive (Louise is shown in the background with her attendants). It reflects as bold a statement as would have been acceptable of Louise’s enduring relationship with the King, commissioned, as presumably it was, by Louise herself.
Favorite ladies from history ⇨ Nell Gwyn
Claim to fame: Mistress to Charles II, A++ orange peddler, comedic actress extraordinaire, and my second favorite person on this list.
Why she’s on the list: Oh, my sweet Nelly, I love so much about the things you choose to be. In all honesty, Nell Gwyn holds a very special place in my heart (outranked only by Anne B.), so it’s difficult for me to put my affection for her into words. I suppose it all boils down to the fact that I never think of her as a woman who has been dead for over 300 years. She was just so incredibly vibrant and colorful and alive, and that’s why she’s my Queen.
Appearance: Reddish-brown hair, hazel eyes, and (rumor has it) great legs
Personality traits: Generous, spunky, quick-witted, and TOTALLY HILARIOUS.
Required reading: I really didn’t care for Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King, so I’m going to throw a curveball out there and recommend some historical fiction that manages to capture some of Nell’s legendary appeal: Exit the Actress by Priya Parmar.
Notable quotable: On being mistaken for the Catholic Duchess of Portsmouth: “Good people, you are mistaken; I am the Protestant whore.”
King Charles II, London 29th May 1660
The years after the Civil War and the Restoration of Charles II marked the end of the medieval and the beginning of the modern age.
Historian Dr Lucy Worsley looks through writer Samuel Pepys’ scrapbook from the period which contains portraits of Charles II’s mistresses - including the royalist Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, and the French spy Louise de Keroualle.
Dr Worsley explains that the scrapbook is an early example of a ‘gossip’ magazine and that popular print culture is not a modern day phenomenon but actually began in the 1660s.
Find out more in Harlots, Housewives & Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls on Tuesday 22 May at 21:00 BST on BBC Four.
Three stories indicate the Prince’s lightness of humour. First when he was eleven, he refused to take some medicine which he was given. His mother, at Newcastle’s request, wrote to reprimand him. His reply was to advise Newcastle that he himself would improve his health by not relying on too much physic. Secondly, when he and Newcastle played at butts together and his governor had the better of him, he remarked “What, my lord, have you invited me to play the rook [sharper] with me?” Lastly, when Charles was in Oxford during the civil war, the Earl of Berkshire was once incited to “hit him on the head with his staff” because he observed the Prince to be laughing during service time in church and exchanging pleasantries with the ladies seated near him.
The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes - Elizabeth Longford
It’s Charlie II’s birthday. So I wrote about it
Because of reasons
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHARLES!
FUCK YEAH CHARLES IICharles II was King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1660 to 1685. Also known as the Merry Monarch, he is infamous for his numerous mistresses and rowdy court- but there's a lot more to Charlie than debauchery and scandal. This blog is here to showcase every aspect of his life, with a generous dollop of humour thrown in.
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