Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 39

[cahn]

Last post, along with the usual 18th-century suspects, included the Ottonians; changing ideas of conception and women's sexual pleasure; Isabella of Parma (the one who fell in love, and vice versa, with her husband's sister); Henry IV and Bertha (and Henry's second wife divorcing him for "unspeakable sexual acts"). (Okay, Isabella of Parma was 18th century.)

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Re: Nancy Goldstone has nothing on this one...

[selenak]

You know which Stuart would be the most mortified by this? Not even James VI/I but his daughter Elizabeth the Winter Queen. Which brings ups back to people not knowing anything about the Thirty Years War. :)

A Mary Queen of Scots who actually raises her son and raises him Catholic can reside next to an FW who puts up with a younger gay son not wanting to marry and only for that reason lets the older one leave Küstrin after all...

Re: Nancy Goldstone has nothing on this one...

[mildred_of_midgard]

I didn't know who the Winter Queen was at the time, but now that I do, I whole-heartedly agree with you!

A Mary Queen of Scots who actually raises her son and raises him Catholic can reside next to an FW who puts up with a younger gay son not wanting to marry and only for that reason lets the older one leave Küstrin after all...

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