[quote=""cookie""]I have a copy of The White Queen .. I just hope it's much better than The Other Queen which was downright boring.[/quote]
I couldn't get through TOQ.
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The White Queen
[quote=""Andromeda_Organa""]I couldn't get through TOQ.[/quote]
You werent the only one. Like I said TWQ is a library book for sure!
You werent the only one. Like I said TWQ is a library book for sure!
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[quote=""cookie""]I have a copy of The White Queen .. I just hope it's much better than The Other Queen which was downright boring.[/quote]
I just finished TWQ last night and I thought it was a lot better than The Other Queen (which I agree was booooring). I'll be posting some more detailed thoughts on it in the next day or so.
I just finished TWQ last night and I thought it was a lot better than The Other Queen (which I agree was booooring). I'll be posting some more detailed thoughts on it in the next day or so.
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Here is a link to my review: http://shelfandstuff.blogspot.com/2009/ ... egory.html
I was going to copy and paste it into it's own thread in the review section, but for some reason my computer won't copy it. Sorry.
I was going to copy and paste it into it's own thread in the review section, but for some reason my computer won't copy it. Sorry.
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[quote=""Tanzanite""]Here is a link to my review: http://shelfandstuff.blogspot.com/2009/ ... egory.html
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Thank you Tanzanite, looking forward to TWQ a bit more now.
Hey, though, I have a question. I quote:
"Elizabeths mother Jacquetta is descended from the water goddess Melusine."
Weren't the Plantagenets descended from Melusine too, through the Lusignan family? So shouldn't all the women of Edward's family be witches too? Hope I'm not unwittingly spoiling everyone...
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Thank you Tanzanite, looking forward to TWQ a bit more now.
Hey, though, I have a question. I quote:
"Elizabeths mother Jacquetta is descended from the water goddess Melusine."
Weren't the Plantagenets descended from Melusine too, through the Lusignan family? So shouldn't all the women of Edward's family be witches too? Hope I'm not unwittingly spoiling everyone...
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[quote=""Miss Moppet""]Thank you Tanzanite, looking forward to TWQ a bit more now.
Hey, though, I have a question. I quote:
"Elizabeths mother Jacquetta is descended from the water goddess Melusine."
Weren't the Plantagenets descended from Melusine too, through the Lusignan family? So shouldn't all the women of Edward's family be witches too? Hope I'm not unwittingly spoiling everyone...[/quote]
I was looking through Ralph Turner's new biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine the other day and thinking the same thing!
Hey, though, I have a question. I quote:
"Elizabeths mother Jacquetta is descended from the water goddess Melusine."
Weren't the Plantagenets descended from Melusine too, through the Lusignan family? So shouldn't all the women of Edward's family be witches too? Hope I'm not unwittingly spoiling everyone...[/quote]
I was looking through Ralph Turner's new biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine the other day and thinking the same thing!
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There were several Melusine legends that connected European royalty with her. The Wikipedia entry on Melusine summarizes a couple of legends about her. According to one, Siegfried of the Ardennes, the founder of the line of rulers of Luxembourg, married Melusine and then lost her when he couldn't resist peeking at her (and seeing her fish tail) while she was bathing. Jacquetta was descended from the royalty of Luxembourg, I believe. Another story has Guy de Lusignan, Count of Poitou, marrying Melusine and, again, peeking at her in her bath, upon which she turns into a dragon and flies away. Guy de Lusignan was a contemporary of Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Poitou was at that time a part of Aquitaine, so I'm inclined to think the story connecting him with Melusine emerged a bit later. But there may be other, earlier connections in Eleanor's family that aren't mentioned in Wikpedia.
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