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Just read a biography of Katherine Parr.

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Started 1 year ago by rikkor
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rikkor

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It should have been divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, died of boredom.

Posted 1 year ago #
The All New Jeni B

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I didn't realise she had a book out.
Did she write it herself, or get a ghost writer to help?

Posted 1 year ago #
rikkor

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Bwahah! Yeah. Kind of like "The Autobiography Of Alice B. Toklas" with less facial hair but more BO.

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Al OPecia

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No it was a Courtobiography.

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doggone

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Which sad bastard had nothing better to do than write a Bio of an old woman from yonks ago

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Ironduke

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Not a lot of people know this, but John Parr, singer of the consumate eighties soft-rock tune 'St Elmo's Fire'(Man in Motion) is her descendant.

http://members.fortunecity.com/ceugev/lyrics2/j008.htm

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bonjonelson

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Which sad bastard had nothing better to do than read a Bio of an old woman from yonks ago

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rikkor

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ID, you must have children who reproduced (and on and on) to have descendants. She didn't. Doggone/Bonjo (any others?), sad people like that are also called "educated" and "lots better than you".

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Ironduke

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I suppose, on reflection, the one person NOT to seek to bluff on an obscure linkage to a minor figure in medieval history is the person who has just sat through their entire biography, which might reasonably be expected to include details of any progeny.

Whoops.

However, I have been humming 'St Elmo's fire' all evening, so alls well that ends well.

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rikkor

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ID (you bitch), same prob w/"St. Elmo's Fire". Katherine Howard would be even a shorter and more obscure biography. Probably abouy 20 years old when her brief reign was cut short.

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waylandsmithy

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Katherine Howard? She was Frankie Howerd's great, great, great, great grandmother. It's why he did so much comedy about history. And why he refused to wet-shave.

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Stan Laurel

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And Jane Seymour is a distant ancestor of our very own Seymour Totti ....

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button

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And Ann Boleyn is the auntie of 1980s synth based pop band Berlin.

Posted 1 year ago #
riesler

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Wasn't Catherine of Aragon in Lord of the Rings?

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Stan Laurel

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Not forgetting Ann of Cleeves, whose surname was Widdecombe. I understand the marriage wasn't consumated.

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