I’m agape...

I am 3 iPads away from that being true:)

It was. None of her offspring were especially attractive...in a conventional way

I don’t know about having a real life, but recently I’ve been working from home a lot (when I’ve been working) and have been able to spend lots of quality time on this site.

I could easily watch all 7 minutes. Of course, I sit here and think, when was the last time anybody wore one of those ridiculous helmets into battle? What kind of feathers are those? Then off into a reverie about how horses have to be trained to pull carriages just like they have to learn to carry a rider. But it’s a…

This isn’t my absolute favorite sketch show, That Mitchell and Webb look. I believe the first two seasons are available on Hulu, and the third and fourth are available via internet sleuthing. Its such a good show!

What is that from? Want to watch more.

Dame Diana Riggs who played Olenna is in the show Victoria as the Duchess of Burcle and she is as sassy and wonderful if not more so than GOT. Amazing show check it out if this type of thing interests you.

You are me.

Only 10? I will admit that I’ve spent hours just figuring out which 1st cousins are actually related to me by blood (Queen of Sweden! Hi Honey!).

(still not flirting with you)

If this interview is a taste of the book, gimme.

Please know that I was kidding. I wouldn’t call my worst enemy AJ.

Lots of documentaries that weren’t released in the US are on YouTube. I just watched one about Fair Isle knitting and stranded colorwork.

Of all the Fake News! in the world, I’ll take this one.

Read it. Loved it. It marked my transition from Nancy Drew to actual books. (and 1966 here, if we’re being honest and forthcoming, which history never is)

Fake news! The Guns of August starts out with Edward VII’s funeral, which would make sense since that was 1910.

The book was written in 1962 (year of my birth). I first read it in 1976.

Her doctor wrote in his journal that he once walked in on her with John Brown and Brown was lifting up his kilt asking “is it under here?” And her responding “no, I think it’s under here” while lifting her skirts.

She said that babies were ugly and resembled frogs. Personally, I think that froggy look was a Hanoverian trait.