tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post9070231286645838189..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: Royal River Pageants by Eve EdwardsMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-33158327600891321162012-06-04T17:39:34.509+01:002012-06-04T17:39:34.509+01:00A posts most suitable for the day and the weekend....A posts most suitable for the day and the weekend. <br /><br />After wearing new shoes for a couple of special and important events, I have every sympathy with Her Maj for getting others to wear your shoes in for you. How practical - and a gentler thought than the earlier Liz's over-flowing loos.Penny Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16386668303428008498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-37149640492061286992012-06-03T10:53:57.789+01:002012-06-03T10:53:57.789+01:00Thanks indeed! And I've also got in mind Cleo...Thanks indeed! And I've also got in mind Cleopatra on the Cydnus:<br /><br />The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,<br />Burnt on the water. The poop was beaten gold,<br />Purple the sails, and so perfumèd that<br />The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver,<br />Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made<br />The water which they beat to follow faster,<br />As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,<br />It beggar'd all description: she did lie<br />In her pavilion—cloth of gold, of tissue—<br />O'er-picturing that Venus where we see<br />The fancy outwork nature.<br /><br /><br />Could it be an Elizabethan river pageant Shakespeare had in mind?Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-86616561536013742142012-06-03T09:38:29.964+01:002012-06-03T09:38:29.964+01:00Thanks for this, Eve.Fascinating stuff and I will ...Thanks for this, Eve.Fascinating stuff and I will enjoy the Pageant whatever the weather. Hope she can manage to keep nice and warm on that river!adelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15826710558292792068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-16137145321505245832012-06-03T09:31:29.801+01:002012-06-03T09:31:29.801+01:00It is always interesting to see how "Bess&quo...It is always interesting to see how "Bess" is portrayed in history. Her temper is usually mentioned.<br />Queen Elizabeth II is not often (at least in my reading) mentioned in books but I think she might be portrayed rather differently!catdownunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06959328192182156574noreply@blogger.com