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ArleynAmadrowix10 января 2014 г.Though the marriage caused a constitutional crisis for the British monarchy, Edward's abdication saved Britain from having a supporter of Nazi Germany on the throne during World War II. Edward, a fan of all things German and fluent in the language, was frequently seen to give a limp Nazi salute on the streets of London throughout the 1930s. When Hitler heard of the abdication he groaned, "I've lost a friend to my cause!"
0192- ArleynAmadrowix10 января 2014 г.
As the monarch was the personification of a people and a nation, his disdain for ancient rules and traditions would taint them all.
037 - ArleynAmadrowix10 января 2014 г.
The world of past centuries was not round but pyramid-shaped, and the higher up one found oneself, the more tightly one was bound by religion and etiquette. Sitting at the apex, the king was so tightly constrained that he had little room to maneuver. Any monarch attempting to break through the conventions was soon engulfed in an international roar of derision.
011 - ArleynAmadrowix10 января 2014 г.
"If anyone call either of you son of a whore you must bear it, for you are so, but if they call you bastards, fighter till you die; for you are an honest man's sons."
011 - ArleynAmadrowix10 января 2014 г.Читать далее
Early in the reign of George I of England, three ancient royal mistresses of dead kings ran into each other at the English court. The duchesses of Portsmouth, Dorchester, and Orkney, mistresses of Charles II, James II, and William III, respectively, had beaten the odds and lived into a healthy old age. Like a trio of barnacled old scows bobbing in the harbor, the elderly dames looked at each other. Suddenly the plucky duchess of Orkney crowed, "Who would have thought that we three old whores would meet here?"
013 - ArleynAmadrowix10 января 2014 г.
But James was lost in the fog of thought that descends when one is about to become king.
08 - ArleynAmadrowix10 января 2014 г.
One day Nell's carriage was encircled by a mob who thought it belonged to Louise de Keroualle and threatened to overturn it. Nell stuck her head out the window and cried, "Pray, good people , be civil, I am the Protestant whore." In response, the laughing mob blessed her and bid her be on her way .
08 - ArleynAmadrowix9 января 2014 г.
"Monsieur de Maurepas, you are turning the King yellow. Good day to you, Monsieur de Maurepas."
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