What A Way To Go.

[j.sabourn]

The following is a news snippet of a Retirement Village Newspaper and may give some idea how peoples brains experience and superior knowledge advances with age....Here it is : Non Regal deaths of some of the Kings and Queens of England..
William the Conqueror ; Received an injury in battle from which he died, unfortunately he had grown somewhat large toward the end of his life and was forced into a sarcophagus causing the body to burst filling the church with a foul odour.
William 11; Struck by an arrow while hunting, lack of forensics means it was never proven to be an accident, or otherwise.

Henry 1; Died from a surfeit of lampreys ( an eel like aquatic vertebrate with a sucker mouth )

Edward 11; His jailers were ordered to leave no mark on his body and having failed to starve him to death, thrust a red hot spit into his bowels, which did the job.

Henry V; Following his great victory at Agincourt it is a pity to be reminded the fact that it was dysentery that sent this noble king to his death.

Richard 111; After killing the Princes in the tower and uttering " A horse, a horse, My kingdom for a horse". He became the last English monarch to die in battle when killed by Henry V11.

Mary : Her heart and bowels were buried in the Chapel Royal at St. James and the rest of her corpse at Westminster Abbey.

Charles 1; Famously beheaded outside Whitehall Palace by Oliver Cromwell ( cant trust these politicians )

James 11; "A silly man" over sexed and a poor judge of character , he continued to hunt and philander until he died of a stroke ( perhaps not so silly)

William and Mary: Queen Mary died of Smallpox in 1694, William 8 years later.

George 11; For several years he had suffered from constipation and his exertions to overcome this brought on a fatal heart heart attack and he died sitting on the loo. He was the last monarch to lead an army into battle....The war of Austrian Succession.

George 111; Farmer George , a good man and a good king ended up an old man blind and probably mad wandering the halls of Windsor castle in a violet robe with the order of the garter pinned to his chest.

Victoria ; When she died there was nobody around to know what to do as nobody under the age of 70 could remember another monarch.

So you see some of these so called old fogeys know their History.

JS

[happy daze john in oz]

I wonder, were any of them gay or is that just a modern day event?

But there were a few Queens, no not that kind, who lost their heads.

Lady Jane Grey, Anne Bolyn, Catherine Howard.

Henry 8 it is said died of Syphilis, too many females maybe.

[j.sabourn]

#2 Another replica of Henry 8 th. Athough not a monarch was Churchill’s father. JS

[Des Taff Jenkins]

He must have been needling someone,
Des

[Lewis McColl]

who knows to what this drinking toast is referring to? “here's to the little gentleman in black velvet waist coat"

[j hardy]

mole.

[happy daze john in oz]

But poor old Henry, started with Catherine of Aragon his brothers wife, he had popped his clogs so Henry took her on.
Then the Pope said no to divorce so Henry started his own church, well you could in those days.
RC said he was an adulterer when he married Anne, no boys from her so off with her head.
On to Jane Seymor, still an adulterer according to Rome, but who cares, poor girl dies so he picks up with Ann a krout.
Meets for the first time at the wedding and is horrified, so bloody ugly. Only seen a painting prior to this, obviously a fake one, and allegedly never consumated the marriage. She was sent to Hampton court where she was known as a 'sister' to the king.
So on to another Catherine, young lady who liked a bit now and then. Henry not up to it so she went elsewhere, never do it on your door step comes to mind.
She got the chop not long after that.
Then onto number six another Catherine who was obviously at Parr, she was smart enough to out live him and marry a Cromwell, the ggggf of Oliver maybe.
Sounds a bit like life at sea for some guys, something about a girl in every port, and some of them got syphilis.

Funny thing there has never been a ship named SS. Phylis.

[Lewis McColl]

mole.

Yes but why is it a toast in Ireland and Scotland?

[Captain Kong]

On TV last week was a series about Ann Boleyn
She was a Black African.

this is how History becomes distorted

[cappy]

On TV last week was a series about Ann Boleyn
She was a Black African.

this is how History becomes distorted

and what an uproar if a white person was acting as nelson mandela