Merry Christmas and a happy New Year…. time for a good read!
May all your Christmas stockings be filled with literary treats!! (And to look forward to in 2020: two more books… Read More »Merry Christmas and a happy New Year…. time for a good read!
May all your Christmas stockings be filled with literary treats!! (And to look forward to in 2020: two more books… Read More »Merry Christmas and a happy New Year…. time for a good read!
A few views of the interior – nothing soft or feminine here. Driving towards Paris this summer I stayed the night at Versailles –… Read More »The hameau at the Petit Trianon, Versailles
Today marks the anniversary of a wedding ceremony between George, Prince of Wales and his current squeeze, the Roman Catholic Maria Fitzherbert, She had originally… Read More »15 December – the anniversary of ‘the marriage which wasn’t a marriage’
On 10 December 1791 a print was published by S W Fores of 3 Piccadilly showing the apparent eagerness with which the King and Queen… Read More »10th December 1791 – The First Interview, or, the presentation of the Prussian Pearl