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Post by annis » Wed October 14th, 2009, 4:50 am

14 October, 1066, the last great Viking invasion takes place when Duke William of Normandy invades England and defeats King Harold Godwinsson at the Battle of Hastings.

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Post by diamondlil » Wed October 14th, 2009, 9:16 am

[quote=""MLE""]

1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.[/quote]

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Post by Susan » Thu October 15th, 2009, 1:18 am

Today in royal history:

October 15, 1527 – Birth of Maria Manuela of Portugal, first wife of Philip II of Spain
Maria Manuela died from childbirth complications before Philip became king.

October 15, 1795 – Birth of Frederick William IV of Prussia

October 15, 1874 – Birth of Prince Alfred of Edinburgh, grandson of Queen Victoria, at Buckingham Palace,
Alfred was the son of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia

October 15, 1893 – Birth of Carol II of Romania

October 15, 1959 - Birth of Sarah Ferguson at 27 Welbeck Street, Marylebone, London

October 15, 2005 – Birth of Prince Christian of Denmark, son of Crown Prince Frederik
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Post by Susan » Fri October 16th, 2009, 12:00 am

Today in royal history:

October 16, 1430 - Birth of James II of Scotland

October 16, 1751 – Birth of Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, second wife of Frederick William II of Prussia

October 16, 1793 - Execution of Marie Antoinette of France at the Place de la Révolution, Paris; originally buried in a mass grave near the location of today's La Madeleine church, reburied at the Basilica of St. Denis

October 16, 1914 - Birth of Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan
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Post by Miss Moppet » Fri October 16th, 2009, 8:54 pm

October 16, 1919: Kathleen Winsor, author, was born in Olivia, Minnesota.

October 16, 1944: on KW's twenty-fifth birthday, Macmillan and Company launched Forever Amber, her first and best-known novel, with a tea party in their New York boardroom.

Winsor's youth and beauty caused a stir and one reporter even snipped a lock of her hair "to paste in his memory book" (Madonne H. Miner, Insatiable Appetites: Twentieth Century American Women's Bestsellers)

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Post by annis » Fri October 16th, 2009, 9:52 pm

Wow- I'd never seen a picture of KW before- she looks a bit like a young Rita Hayworth, doesn't she?

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Post by Miss Moppet » Fri October 16th, 2009, 10:15 pm

[quote=""annis""]Wow- I'd never seen a picture of KW before- she looks a bit like a young Rita Hayworth, doesn't she?[/quote]

Yes - or Jane Russell.

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Post by Susan » Sat October 17th, 2009, 10:13 pm

Today in royal history:

October 18, 1216 - Death of King John at Newark Castle; buried at Worcester Cathedral

October 18, 1469 - Wedding of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile

October 18, 1538 – Death of Germaine of Foix, second wife of Ferdinand II of Aragon; buried at the Convent San Miguel de los Reyes in Valencia

October 18, 1541 - Death of Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII, wife of James IV of Scotland, Archibald Douglas and Henry Stewart and sister of Henry VIII, at Methven Castle, Perthshire, Scotland; buried at the Carthusian Abbey of St John, Perth, Scotland
The current British Royal Family and many European royal families are descendants of Margaret Tudor.

October 18, 1831 - Birth of Frederick III, German Emperor and King of Prussia, husband of Princess Victoria, Princess Royal, at Neues Palais, Potsdam, Germany
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Post by Miss Moppet » Sun October 18th, 2009, 1:05 am

[quote=""Susan""]Today in royal history:

October 18, 1216 - Death of King John at Newark Castle; buried at Worcester Cathedral [/quote]

Described thus by one of the chroniclers (sorry can't find which one):

"…at midnight, a whirlwind swept over Newark with such violence that the townsfolk thought that all their houses would fall - and in that hour of elemental disturbance and human terror the King passed away."

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Post by annis » Sun October 18th, 2009, 3:43 am

Posted by Miss Moppett
"…at midnight, a whirlwind swept over Newark with such violence that the townsfolk thought that all their houses would fall - and in that hour of elemental disturbance and human terror the King passed away."
This piece appears in Kate Norgate's book "John Lackland" see pg 285 - whether she took it from elsewhere I'm not sure, though she does provide references. EC did an interesting article on her Living the History blog about Newark, the town where John died and mentions the storm at the time of his death. Such a dramatic exit seems very appropriate! It seems that John was deserted by his servants after his death- they all absconded with any moveable goods they could grab, even leaving his body without a cover. This sounds almost an exact repeat of what happened at the death of John's father, King Henry II. I guess royal servants never knew whether they'd get paid or not after their master died.
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