#Other Archer Windsor

[thefollyflaneuse]

Earl of Plymouth Monument, Bromsgrove Lickey, Worcestershire

In 1833 Other Archer Windsor, 6th Earl of Plymouth, died. Almost immediately there were calls to erect a monument in his honour, and a public subscription was raised. With funds in place, the foundation stone was laid in May 1834. The chosen site was on Bromsgrove Lickey, a prominent eminence which would ensure that the obelisk would be an ornament to the landscape and visible from miles…

[comtessezouboff]

Paintings from Buckingham Palace: part I

A retexture by La Comtesse Zouboff — Original Mesh by @thejim07

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Spread among 13 occupied and historic royal residences in the United Kingdom, the collection is owned by King Charles III and overseen by the Royal Collection Trust. The British monarch owns some of the collection in right of the Crown and some as a private individual. It is made up of over one million objects, including 7,000 paintings, over 150,000 works on paper, this including 30,000 watercolours and drawings, and about 450,000 photographs, as well as around 700,000 works of art, including tapestries, furniture, ceramics, textiles, carriages, weapons, armour, jewellery, clocks, musical instruments, tableware, plants, manuscripts, books, and sculptures.

Some of the buildings which house the collection, such as Hampton Court Palace, are open to the public and not lived in by the Royal Family, whilst others, such as Windsor Castle, Kensington Palace and the most remarkable of them, Buckingham Palace are both residences and open to the public.

About 3,000 objects are on loan to museums throughout the world, and many others are lent on a temporary basis to exhibitions.

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This first part includes the paintings displayed in the White Drawing Room, the Green Drawing Room, the Silk Tapestry Room, the Guard Chamber, the Grand Staircase, the State Dining Room, the Queen's Audience Room and the Blue Drawing Room,

This set contains 37 paintings and tapestries with the original frame swatches, fully recolourable. They are:

White Drawing Room (WDR):

Portrait of François Salignan de la Mothe-Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai (Joseph Vivien)

Portrait of a Lady (Sir Peter Lely)

Portrait of a Man in Armour with a red scarf (Anthony van Dyck)

Portrait of Alexandra of Denmark, Queen Consort of the United Kingdom and Empress of India (François Flameng)

Green Drawing Room (GDR):

Portrait of Prince James Stuart, Duke of Cambridge (John Michael Wright)

Portrait of Frederick Henry, Charles Louis and Elizabeth: Children of Frederick V and Elizabeth of Bohemia (unknown)

Portrait of Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia of Autria and her Sister, Infanta Catalina Micaela of Austria (Alonso Sanchez Coello)

Portrait of Princess Louisa and Princess Caroline of the United Kingdom (Francis Cotes)

Portrait of Queen Charlotte with her Two Eldest Sons, Frederick, Later Duke of York and Prince George of Wales (Allan Ramsay)

Portrait of Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess of Wellesley (Martin Archer Shee)

Portrait of the Three Youngest Daughters of George III, Princesses Mary, Amelia and Sophia (John Singleton Copley)

Silk Tapestry Room (STR):

Portrait of Caroline of Brunswick, Princess of Wales, Playing the Harp with Princess Charlotte (Sir Thomas Lawrence)

Portrait of Augusta, Duchess of Brunswick With her Son, Charles George Augustus (Angelica Kauffmann)

Guard Chamber (GC):

Les Portières des Dieux: Bacchus (Manufacture Royale des Gobelins)

Les Portières des Dieux: Venus (Manufacture Royale des Gobelins)

Les Portières des Dieux (Manufacture Royale des Gobelins)

Grand Staircarse (GS):

Portrait of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen Consort of Great Britain (Martin Archer Shee)

Portrait of Augustus, Duke of Sussex (Sir David Wilkie)

Portrait of Edward, Duke of Kent (George Dawe)

Portrait of King George III of Great Britain (Sir William Beechey)

Portrait of King William IV of Great Britain when Duke of Clarence (Sir Thomas Lawrence)

Portrait of Leopold I, King of the Belgians (William Corden the Younger)

Portrait of Prince George of Cumberland, Later King George V of Hanover When a Boy (Sir Thomas Lawrence)

Portrait of Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (George Dawe)

Portrait of Queen Charlotte at Frogmore House (Sir William Beechey)

Portrait of Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saafeld, Duchess of Kent (Sir George Hayter)

State Dining Room (SDR):

Portrait of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen Consort of the United Kingdom in Coronation Robes (Allan Ramsay)

Portrait of King George III of the United Kingdom in Coronation Robes (Allan Ramsay)

Portrait of Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (Jean-Baptiste Van Loo)

Portrait of Caroline of Ansbach when Princess of Wales (Sir Godfrey Kneller)

Portrait of Frederick, Princes of Wales (Jean-Baptiste Van Loo)

Portrait of King George II of Great Britain (John Shackleton)

Portrait of King George IV of the United Kingdom in Garther Robes (Sir Thomas Lawrence)

Queen's Audience Room (QAR):

Portrait of Anne, Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn (née Anne Luttrel) in Peeress Robes (Sir Thomas Gainsborough)

Portrait of Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn in Peer Robes (Sir Thomas Gainsborough)

London: The Thames from Somerset House Terrace towards the City (Giovanni Antonio Canal "Canaletto")

View of Piazza San Marco Looking East Towards the Basilica and the Campanile (Giovanni Antonio Canal "Canaletto")

Blue Drawing Room (BDR)

Portrait of King George V in Coronation Robes (Sir Samuel Luke Fildes)

Portrait of Queen Mary of Teck in Coronation Robes (Sir William Samuel Henry Llewellyn)

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Found under decor > paintings for:

500§ (WDR: 1,2 & 3)

1850§ (GDR: 1)

1960§ (GDR: 2 & 3 |QAR 3 & 4)

3040§ (STR, 1 |GC: 1 & 2|SDR: 1 & 2)

3050§ (GC:1 |GS: all 10|WDR: 4 |SDR: 3,4,5 & 6)

3560§ (QAR: 1 & 2|STR: 2)

3900§ (SDR: 7| BDR: 1 & 2|GDR: 4,5,6 & 7)

Retextured from:

"Saint Mary Magdalene" (WDR: 1,2 & 3) found here .

"The virgin of the Rosary" (GDR: 1) found here .

"The Four Cardinal Virtues" (GDR: 2&3|QAR 3 & 4) found here.

"Mariana of Austria in Prayer" (STR, 1, GC: 1 & 2|SDR: 1 & 2) found here.

"Portrait of Philip IV with a lion at his feet" (GC:1 |GS: all 10|WDR: 4 |SDR: 3,4,5 & 6) found here

"Length Portrait of Mrs.D" (QAR: 1 & 2|STR: 2) found here

"Portrait of Maria Theresa of Austria and her Son, le Grand Dauphin" (SDR: 7| BDR: 1 & 2|GDR: 4,5,6 & 7) found here

(you can just search for "Buckingham Palace" using the catalog search mod to find the entire set much easier!)

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[world-of-wales]

Okay I’m obsessed with the enemies to lovers and marriage of convenience/arranged marriage/ fake dating trope

Recommendations please 🙏

Here you go anon, sorry it took me some time to answer this. I had to open my laptop to get my book lists. A lot of the books have overlapping tropes. If you want any other recs just send me a msg ♡

And most of these are okay and Clean books but a lot of them come with heavy stuff so please check your triggers before you dive into them.

ENEMIES TO LOVERS -

RWRB (Coz that started the whole boom Conversation) - Casey McQuiston

Serpent & Dove - Shelby Mahurim

Dance of Thieves - Mary E Pearson

Spanish Love Deception - Elena Armas

5 Rounds - Nikki Castle

Brutal Prince - Sophie Lark

To Hate Adam Connor - Ella Maise

Taste - Melanie Harlow

Eleanor & Grey (not exactly enemies to lovers but he's very grumpy and closed off) - Brittany C Cherry

From Lukov with Love - Mariana Zapaata

By a Thread - Lucy Score

Twisted Hate - Anna Huang

Until I get you - Claire Conttreras

Weak Side - SJ Sylvis

Grumpy Romance - Nia Arthurs

Rogue - Greer Rivers

The Summer We Fell - Elizabeth O Rourke

Beauty and the Baller - Isla Madden Mills

Things We never got over - Lucy Score

Mafia Royals (A LOT OF THEM) - Rachel Van Dyken

Heart Song Duet - Jennifer Hartmann

Crow - A Zaverelli

ARRANGED MARRAIGE / MARRAIGE OF CONVENIENCE -

Marraige for one - Ellas Maise

The Windsor Series (ongoing, 3 books out) - Catharina Maura

Terms and Conditions - Lauren Asher

The Penalty Box - Odette Stone

The Buff - Devney Perry

To Love Jason Thorn - Ella Maise

The Wall of Winnipeg - Mariana Zapaata

King of Wrath - Anna Huang

Forever after all - Catharina Maura

Twisted - Emily McIntyre

Fake Empire - CW Farnsworth (or Swansworth)

Sinners Anonymous - Somme Sketcher

First 3 books of Filthy Rich Americans Series - Nikki Sloane

Dark Succession - Katee Robert

Marraige Effect - Karla Sorenson

Beautifully Broken Redemption - Catherien Cowles

Duchess Deal - Tessa Dare

FAKE DATING -

The Love Hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood

The Cheat Sheet - Sarah Adams

Fix Her Up - Tessa Bailey

Addicted to You - Krista & Becca Richie

Hani and Ishu's guide to Fake Dating - Adiba Jagirdar

Redeemed - Lauren Asher

The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang

Overruled - Emma Chase

Play Fake - Maggie Rawdon

That Kind of Guy - Stephanie Archer

The Bodyguard - Katherine Center

The Boyfriend Candidate - Ashley Winstead

First Down - Grace Reilly

The Real Deal - Lauren Blakeley

Happy Place - Emily Henry

Foxe and the Hound - RS Grey

My Life in Shambles - Karina Halle

Twisted Lies - Ana Huang

Blind Side - Kandi Stiener

The Deal + The Risk - Elle Kennedy

Boyfriend Material - Alexis Mall

Faking with Benefits - Lily Gold

The Upside of Falling - Alex Light

Unfortunately Yours - Tessa Bailey

[the-empress-7]

I watched a documentary today on the defense systems of medieval castles which reminded me of Windsor. Metaphorically speaking, it seems that when the Harkles are planning their attacks from the other side of the moat, Charles is giving orders to let the drawbridge down whereas William is standing on top of the wall with his archers and wants to release a shower of arrows.

“Olive branches”

[seegoat]

Freefall

Ok as tempted as I am to make this about windsore!Link (for obvious reasons....) instead I will say: flight range.

Thinking about a fic that centers around a post-calamity everyone-lives Revali (whichever flavor of it you prefer, doesn't really matter) that's shut off and quiet and takes up residence at the flight range because he's too grumpy and tortured to be around the rest of the village, he'd just bring everybody down. Also too proud to ask for help but that goes without saying. Anyway: he's not doing too hot, and Link keeps coming to visit (let's say they have a Pinesong-like dynamic here) and trying to talk him into doing things and moving back into the village but he's not having it. And then one day Teba and Tulin happen to come in when Link's there, and he offers, as always, to give Tulin some pointers about shooting midair. Revali is, shocker, huffing and rolling his eyes the entire time. At some point Link says something that really gets him in a twist and he makes a particularly loud scoffing noise.

And Link turns around with raised brows, still crouched next to Tulin, "Can I help you?"

"Apparently you can't help either of us," Revali, taunting.

And Link sees through it immediately, goads it, "You think you're a better teacher than me?"

The logical part of Revali knows without a doubt that this is a game, he can hear that edge to Link's voice (he's not an idiot), but the other part of him is a massive idiot. A massive, competitive idiot. And he says: "I know I'm a better archer than you," he stands. "Ergo, I'm also a better teacher."

"Prove it," Link shrugs, smiling (the bastard) as Revali draws his bow and steps to the edge of the landing.

"Try and keep up, kid," Revali tells Tulin (he finds that challenge is a fantastic motivator).

And he just fucking lights up. Like he was born for it. He can see every flaw, can correct it with specific instructions, knows how to keep energy up. He's honest but not cruel, supportive but not saccharine. He's a perfect coach.

Blah blah blah, after some initial resistance Link convinces him to start training a pack of fledglings (maybe some of Kass and Amali's daughters) to shoot. And then you get some really fantastic dynamics between Revali in the kids. I'm seeing him having them all seated around the fire, very dramatic, giving them a speech like a coach in a movie about a ragtag group of kids. Think Sokka in the first episode of ATLA. And all the kids are staring at him with those big, shining eyes and their adoration actually means something to him, they love him not just because he's impressive but because he's helping them. Not like the people that only venerate him for dying at the hand of pure evil. They like him for who he is. They think he's funny and weird and they make fun of him and he lets them. He learns to make fun of himself. They loosen him up. And Link sits there and cooks and watches them flit about the range and eventually Tulin is even getting a little bit of air when he tries to use the gale, and fuck, he's never seen Revali that happy.

Link never lets him forget it was all his idea, Revali will never give him proper credit. "Well, I'm the bastard that was competitive enough to fall for it. Point, me."

[fictionadventurer]

AU asks, for all eleven of the AUs you mentioned in your tags (including the Blackberry Bushes one because why not!), mix and match for whichever one you like: 2, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13, 17, 18, 20, 21, 24

2. Summarize this au in 5 sentences.

Psmith Star Wars AU: Mike Jackson is a cadet at an Outer Rim Imperial Academy whose dreams of flying an X-Wing for the Empire shatter when he learns of the Empire's atrocities. When his brother defects to the Rebellion, Mike and some of his fellow cadets decide to leave the Academy and join the rebel cause. The boys are nearly captured during their escape attempt, but they're saved by Mike's eccentric roommate, Psmith, who turns out to be a former Jedi youngling who's been hiding from the Empire. After they make their escape, Mike and his fellow cadets have to decide whether they can trust this sly, arrogant boy with these unnatural powers, and they need to find a way to find and help the Rebellion.

5. What is something you kept the same?

Lord Peter Wimsey Telepath AU: I've kept the setting and situations as close to the originals as possible. It's still 1930s England. Harriet's still accused of murdering her lover. Lord Peter's still an aristocrat. The only difference is that various superpowers are a known and accepted part of society, and Peter's ability to literally know Harriet's thoughts adds a whole new and more difficult dimension to the power imbalance between them.

9. Is there a scene you wish you could've included, but couldn't? Why?

Sherlock Holmes Pushing Daisies Crossover AU: I wish I could have figured out what the actual mystery was for the first snippet I wrote for this AU. Unfortunately, my mystery-writing skills don't extend that far.

10. Is there a character you wish you could've included, but couldn't? Why?

Queen's Thief AU of Psmith: It would be really fun to have Queen's Thief versions of Billy Windsor and Bat Jarvis, but I can't think of a great way to fit them into the story that I've outlined--as I've laid it out, Psmith takes Attolia's throne mostly through his cunning and convenient connections.

11. Is there any relationship that's different in this au than in the source material?

Supergirl "Kara raised by the Kents" AU: Since Kara's actually raised by the Kents in this AU, she's got a much deeper and more complicated relationship with them. Her relationship with Martha is rocky, because she sees Martha as competition for her role as Kal's primary caretaker. Taking care of Kal is the only purpose Kara has left in life, and it takes a lot for her to let other people into that relationship.

13. Write a lil snippet set in this verse.

From Powers and Prejudice:

"Lizzie, Jane's on TV!" Lydia shouted. Lizzie rushed into the living room, where her sisters were gathered around the set. Headlines blared BREAKING NEWS beneath live footage of a supervillain attack downtown. The Blur was already on the scene, speeding innocent victims away from danger. The Archer--outside of Pemberley--was even lending a hand. And among them in pink spandex was unmistakably-- "Jane?" Lizzie shouted. "What's she doing there?" Mom was so excited that sparks crackled around her hair. "She did so well the other night that I couldn't let the Blur fight this one alone. It was my duty to send Jane to help." Lizzie was horrified. That had been a skirmish, easily dealt with. This was turning into a battle. One of the criminals had some type of fire manipulation ability, and flames filled most of the screen. To see Jane among that-- "Are you nuts?" Lizzie shouted. "She could die out there!" Lydia rolled her eyes. "What are you so worried about? It's not like she can get hurt." Not externally. Jane's skin was invulnerable, and there was nothing that could overpower her strength. But her respiratory system was as delicate as anyone's, and there was a lot of smoke out there. Jane acquitted herself well, but eventually, Lizzie's fears were realized. Just as the last of the criminals was neutralized, Jane collapsed to the pavement. The Blur, in bright blue, was at her side in an instant. He checked over Jane and gathered her into his arms, a look of panic on his masked face. In less than a second, they disappeared from the scene. While her mother and sisters exclaimed over the scene--did you see the way he looked at her?--Lizzie headed toward the door. Mom asked, "Lizzie, where are you going?" "I don't know if you noticed, but your daughter is injured. I'm going to help her. "She's in the care of one of Netherfield's Defenders! She's perfectly safe." "I'll believe that when I see it." Kitty, fretful, said, "The Blur's so fast. They're miles away by now. Hidden away in his secret headquarters." Lizzie shrugged. "Then I'll find his secret headquarters." Ignoring their protests, she went out the door.

17. What important events have you 'translated' from canon to make sense into this au, if any?

Milo Murphy's Law Star Wars AU: Murphy's Law makes a lot of sense as an out-of-control connection to the Force. And I've turned Diogee into a droid (DO-G) because there don't seem to be many dogs in Star Wars.

18. Is there any theme or motif in this au that isn't in the original work?

Politically-realistic Princess Diaries 2 AU: There's a much stronger exploration of the theme of duty vs. love, because we have multiple characters who have dealt with this conflict. There's also a thread exploring religion, because Mia's priest uncle is a prominent character.

20. Share THREE headcanons! But about different characters.

American Hallmark Royal Romances:

The princess of California was a candidate for an arranged marriage with the crown prince of Maine until a Spunky Commoner came along and stole his heart. She was actually rather hurt by this, until it sparked her own romance story.

The Spunky Commoner met the crown prince of Maine while working on some artistic endeavor for his family. She was rather baffled by this whole royalty thing, until her relationship with the prince provided some cultural background.

Sam, the crown prince of Texas, is a bit ashamed of his nation and especially the over-the-top Texas-ness of his father. He's an excellent code-switcher, and has a bit of trouble straddling the cultural expectations of Texas and the outside world.

21. What makes you most excited about this fic?

Lord Peter Wimsey Star Wars AU: What's there not to get excited about? The Scarlet-Pimpernel-ness of Peter as a double agent within the Empire! The drama of Peter dealing with Force-visions of the future. Force-sensitive Dowager Duchess. Peter having Thrawn as both an art-and-culture buddy and an increasingly-suspicious-of-him nemesis. He's just such a fun character to throw into the structure of this universe.

24. Ramble about something you haven't gotten to talk about yet.

Blackberry Bushes Superhero AU: It says to ramble, so I'll ramble. First off, I feel guilty even claiming this an an AU, since this was really your idea and I just added some stuff to it. But it's such a fun concept and it comes to mind as an AU quite a bit because there are so many fun ways this story warps the typical superhero plots. The Superman character marries a former villain who has good reason to fear him and be suspicious of his fellow heroes. The former supervillain dictatorship is undergoing reform, and it's a legitimate thing, and we get to see the politics of that and see the ruler's children growing up in this system. Delclis' father used to be one of the great heroes, but his memory is tarnished because of the collateral damage his extreme powers caused, and now Declis has to deal with getting the same powers. Antavia's plotline of walking away from the throne become her walking away from her superpowers and inadvertently leading to the creation of her best friend's most dangerous nemeses. They're stories you couldn't come up with under the usual superhero tropes, but combining it with this very different type of story creates new and interesting angles that wouldn't ordinarily come to mind, and that's so fun.

[firstprince-ao3feed]

The Archer

The Archer https://ift.tt/FKXgaO5 by tastethewaste Henry and Alex have a fight, and Henry wonders if he can ever have someone without losing them. Based on the Taylor Swift song :) Words: 1705, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 1 of Taylor Swift Inspired Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: M/M Characters: Alex Claremont-Diaz, Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor Relationships: Alex Claremont-Diaz/Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor Additional Tags: Based on a Taylor Swift Song, Angst, Fluff, boys comforting each other, Grief/Mourning via AO3 works tagged 'Alex Claremont-Diaz/Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor' https://ift.tt/ZeHvS0C January 20, 2024 at 05:02PM

[college-girl199328]

King Charles tipped to ignore Meghan and Harry Netflix row in historic Christmas speech

King Charles has been tipped to ignore the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in his first-ever Christmas broadcast. Royal experts agree it is unlikely the newly crowned monarch will dedicate too any words, if any at all, to his second son and daughter-in-law in his historic speech.

In a comment piece written for the Daily Express, royal author Phil Dampier said: "Charles will thank his wife Queen Consort Camilla and the Prince and Princess of Wales for their support. He will offer an olive branch to Harry and Meghan by not directly criticizing them."

Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams categorically excluded the possibility that Prince Harry and Meghan would be featured in the speech. He told Inews: "All indications are the Palace would prefer to ride the current crisis - for that is what it must be called - out without any statement of any sort."

Similarly, Jeremy Archer, historian and author of a book looking into the Christmas broadcasts between the 20th and 21st Centuries titled A Royal Christmas, said: "There will be no indication whatsoever of any family politics or any other shenanigans going on at the moment. He will want to convey the message of a family pulling together in grief."

If Charles did decide to speak about Harry and Meghan, Mr. Archer added, he would only make a "broad-brush mention". Scotland became the first part of the UK to approve a self-identification system for people who want to change their gender. However, the UK Government has threatened to block the controversial law.

He continued: "People will be looking at these words. It will be vanilla in respect of them. It will be as vanilla as it can be." Commentator Jonathan Sacerdoti had previously told Express.co.uk the King may mention tomorrow some members of his family in the same manner as he did in his first national address as monarch on September 9.

He said: "I think that the King will almost inevitably mention his family and specific members of his family in terms of his feelings towards them where they are working royals.

"In this case, he may comment on their work as he did in that address after the Queen died, where he mentioned William more than he mentioned Harry, which I think is reasonable as the Duke chose to leave the working family and indeed the country, so that was respectful of his wishes in that respect."

While in his first national address as head of state he spoke about Prince William and Kate's official titles and work, Charles simply said of the Sussexes: "I want also to express my love for Harry and Meghan as they continue to build their lives overseas."

King Charles recorded his Christmas speech - the first broadcast by a King to be televised in British history - on December 13, two days before the second half of the Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan was released.

Breaking with tradition, he didn't film the speech in one of his residences but, rather, inside St George's Chapel. This has led commentators to believe the monarch's speech will be heavily focused on his late mother Queen Elizabeth II. She is buried in the George VI Memorial Chapel near the church's chapel.

Mr Dampier wrote: "I've no doubt the late Queen will be at the centre of King Charles's eagerly awaited first Christmas address to the nation at 3pm tomorrow.

"He will want to pay tribute to his "darling mama" and her extraordinary 70-year reign, as well as his father Prince Philip who died in April last year."

Explaining to Express.co.uk how significant the decision to film the speech in the Windsor chapel is, Mr. Fitzwilliams said on Friday: "The Queen was very fond of Windsor, which is the world's oldest and largest occupied palace and dates back over 1,000 years. She spent the war years there.

"As Queen, she spent most weekends there. She held Easter Court there for a month each year and Royal Ascot was the first date in her diary every year.

"She and Prince Philip spent the night there. It is therefore only fitting that this historic broadcast, the first of his reign, will be made from Windsor."

Mr. Fitzwilliams added the speech may also touch upon the topic of the environment and sustainability. These are issues very close to the monarch, and the Prince of Wales' Earthshot Prize initiative.

The King's Christmas broadcast will be televised on Christmas Day at 3pm.

[missmcspooks]

DEADLY WOMEN DAILY: AMY ARCHER-GILLIGAN

Meet Amy Archer Gilligan. This woman liked to consider herself similar to killers called “angels of death.” She was even mentioned on a season five episode of Criminal Minds called “The Uncanny Valley.” Most serial killers have a type of victim that they go for. Women, men, children, certain hair colors, and certain physical attributes. Angels of Death only care about one thing: If the targets are sick. Let’s begin with her story.

WHO WAS AMY ARCHER GILLIGAN? 

There’s very little information about Amy, original last name being Duggan. She was born on October 31, 1873 to James Duggan and Mary Kennedy. All together they had ten children, and Amy was their eighth child, and they were born and raised in Milton, Connecticut. Amy got married to her first husband James Archer in 1987. Together they welcomed a daughter named Mary J. Archer in 1897. In 1901, Amy and James both became caretakers to an elderly widow named John Seymour and they moved into his home. John ended up passing away in 1904, and his heirs ended up converting his home into a boarding house for the elderly, and the Archers remained there to continue their jobs. The couple ran the boarding house and named it “Sister Amy’s Nursing Home For The Elderly.” However, this only lasted for around three years before John Seymour’s heirs decided to sell the home. Afterwards, Amy and James moved to Windsor Connecticut to use their savings to purchase their own residence, soon converting it into a business called “Archer Home For The Elderly and Infirm.” In 1910 James Archer died from Bright’s disease, which is a kidney disease. Amy had already taken out an insurance policy on him just a few weeks before his death. This policy helped her continue her nursing home business. Then came her second husband, Michael W. Gilligan, who she married in 1913. Michael was also a widower and had four adult sons. Michael was very wealthy and besides being interested in Amy, he was also very interested in investing into her nursing home business. Unfortunately, just three months after being married, Michael died from severe indigestion. Amy was financially secure again, as Michael had already drawn up a will which left his estate to her. However, the will would later be determined as forgery since it wasn’t written in Michaels handwriting, but written in Amy’s. 

THE MURDERS

After James Archer's death, the mortality rates of the residents in Amy’s nursing home began to spike heavily. Twelve people have died between the years 1907 and 1910, but forty eight people died between 1911 and 1916. One of the residents who died was named Franklin R. Andrews, who was a 61 year old wealthy man who was involved in gardening in the nursing home. He was seen gardening just a few hours before dying, and his cause of death was determined to be from a severe ulcer. However, his children were not convinced this was true, especially after reading his correspondence letters between him and Amy. In the letters she was pressuring Franklin to donate money to her business. After investigation it was found that many of the people who died in the nursing home have died after donating a large amount of money to Amy. Franklin Andrews' sister, Niele Pierce, went to the local district attorney’s office to share her concerns, but they ignored her. Instead, she went to the press and took her concerns public. The newspaper she went to was named The Hartford Courant, which labeled Niele’s story as “Murder Factory.” 

The police decided to exhume both of her late husband's bodies, along with three residents who passed away in her care. All five of these victims tested positive for either arsenic or strychnine. Employee’s at the drugstore confirmed that they have sold large amounts of arsenic to Amy and others using her name, claiming that she said she was using the arsenic to kill rats and bedbugs in her home. Further investigation continued as a woman named Zola Bennett, a private investigator, was hired to go undercover in Amy’s nursing home as a resident to gather evidence on the living conditions of the nursing home. When evidence was found of Amy sending her residents to the drugstore to purchase arsenic, police were able to finally arrest her. 

TRIAL AND SENTENCING

Amy was originally charged with five counts of murder, but her attorney managed to get it reduced to just one count, the death of Franklin Andrews. In 1917 she was found guilty of Franklins murder and was originally sentenced to death. However, in 1919 she was granted a retrial and she pleaded not guilty for the reason of insanity. During this retrial, her daughter Mary also testified and told the jury that her mother was addicted to Morphine. Amy was still found guilty, but this time she was sentenced to life in prison. However, in 1924, she was declared temporarily insane and was transferred to The Connecticut Hospital For The Insane in Middletown. She remained there until she died of natural causes in 1962.

[clintbartonruinedmylife]

Can we get a crossover with The Old Guard? And Clint is one of them, just undercover within SHIELD to keep them away from the team? And yes, he's old enough to be Robin Hood!!

Nile looked up from her cereals when Andy folded the newspaper with a smile and threw it onto the table. Since they had left Booker behind she had demanded to buy the “Daily Mail” every day and every day she read it and seemed frustrated. 

“He’s finally seen it,” she said. 

“Where do we meet?” Joe asked, who just came in, too. He took a sip from his mug and reached for the newspaper. 

“Hamburg, Germany,” Andy said and Nicky snorted. 

“He still refuses to come back to the UK?” he asked. 

“You know him and his grudge. He said he wouldn’t set foot on British soil as long as the Windsors are sitting on the Throne,” Andy shrugged and Nile followed the dialogue without the slightest clue whom they were talking about. 

“Who are we talking about?” she finally wanted to know. It wasn’t Booker. Booker was banished for a hundred years and he has set foot on British soil just a few weeks ago.

“Remember when you told us about your dreams, sorellina?” Nicky asked. “The woman who drowned…” 

“Quynh,” Nile nodded and Nicky continued.

“... and the man with the bow. We’re meeting him. He’s our brother and it’s about time you get to know him.” 

“And… does he have a name?” Nile asked now and looked at the three other immortals. 

“Robert,” Joe said. “Earl of Locksley.” 

“Former Earl of Locksley,” Nicky said and one of his tiny smiles appeared on his face. She had heard that name before but…

“We leave tomorrow,” Andy said. “Get your stuff packed.” 

                                                    ***

They left the cars behind, just packed their stuff and went on the train. They used the chunnel to Calais and from there a train to Hamburg and - of course - they had a safe house there. 

Andy was the first to enter, Nile followed close behind and Joe and Nicky just checked the area. She could smell coffee and Andy turned, a smile on her lips.

“He’s here already,” she said and right on cue a man came out of a door, a mug in his hand. 

“Andy!” he grinned, put his mug aside and hugged her so tight, he literally swept her off of her feet and whirled her around. 

“Bobby, stop!” Andy laughed and Nile loved how carefree and happy she sounded. When he let go of her he turned to Nile now and she could take him in properly. He was tall, very tall. At least two or three inches taller than Booker.

“Hi,” he said and smiled and the next moment he hugged Nile, too. “I’m Robert,” he said when he put her down. Nile was flushed and straightened her clothes. 

“Nile,” she said. “My name is Nile.” 

“Nice to meet you in person,” the man - Robert - said with a smile. 

“I… I know you,” Nile blurted when he turned around to take his mug. 

“Yeah,” he nodded. “That’s quite possible. Unfortunately I’ve been on TV a lot lately.”

“Bobby,” Andy sighed and the man shrugged. 

“Stark insisted,” he said and went to the kitchen to fill two more mugs. “Where are Booker, Joe and Nicky?” 

“Joe and Nicky are checking the perimeter,” Andy said.

“I already did that,” the guy said. 

“You know how they are,” Andy sighed. “And Booker… we have a lot to talk about. For now I wanted to introduce the two of you, you know.” 

That moment the door went open and Joe and Nicky came in. 

“Bobby!” Joe exclaimed and went to the man to hug him, just like he hugged Andy before. “Or do I have to call you Clint nowadays?” 

“No,” the man laughed. “Bobby is still okay. As long as you don’t use that other name.” 

“Which one?” Nicky asked innocently. “Robin?” 

The man groaned and slapped his hands over his face. 

“Wait!” Nile blurted. “Ro… Robert of Locksley? You… you’re Robin Hood?” 

The man winced. 

“But I thought you’re just a legend?” 

“Thank you, Nicky,” Robert sighed and Nicky winked and went to sit beside Joe. 

“Bobby always has a tendency to become famous,” Andy said. “Back then as the archer who stole from the rich and gave to the poor, nowadays he’s an Avenger.” 

“Fortunately we live long enough to turn his fame into legends,” Nicky said. “And one day the Avenger Hawkeye will be just a legend, too.” 

Robert nodded slowly. 

“Why are you with the Avengers?” Nile asked and Robert turned to her. 

“To keep them off of the team’s tracks,” he said. “We saw it as a chance when SHIELD took notice of me years ago. I just can’t keep it up much longer. They will get suspicious when I don’t age.” 

“I guess Hawkeye will have to die a hero's death soon,” Joe said. 

“Yeah,” Robert said. “According to their files I’m 44 and I look still 29,” he sighed. 

“And they won’t believe the ‘good genes’ excuse much longer?” Joe grinned. 

“Shut up, Yusuf,” Robert grumbled. “They already wondered if I’m a mutant.” 

Joe raised both his hands and Robert smiled at him.

“But that’s not why we’re here, right? You wanted to tell me about Nile and why Booker’s not here.” 

“Right,” Andy nodded slowly. “How much time do you have?” 

“I took a week off,” he said. 

“Good,” Andy said. “Then we can talk tomorrow. Tonight we’re going out!” 

“Sounds like a plan,” Robert agreed. 

“I want to hear everything about the Avengers!” Nile said. “I’m a huge fan and now I want the first-hand stuff!” 

Robert laughed and patted her shoulder. “Everything you want to know.” 

“Good,” Nile nodded and smiled. 

“But not tonight,” Robert said. “Not tonight. Tonight we celebrate.” 

[thebritishmonarchycouk]

On This Day In Royal History . 21 July 1403

The Battle of Shrewsbury

Lancastrian King Henry IV, faced a rebel army led by Henry “Harry Hotspur” Percy. The battle, the 1st in which English archers fought each other on English soil, reaffirmed the effectiveness of the longbow & ended the Percy challenge to King Henry IV of England.

About two hours before dusk, Henry IV raised his sword. The battle opened with a massive archery barrage, arrows killing or wounding many men before they could meet hand to hand in the field. Percy’s Cheshire bowmen proved generally superior.

Enough of the King’s men remained on the field, particularly on the left wing, which was under the command of the Prince of Wales (later king Henry V). . Hotspur led a charge aimed at killing the King himself, but was killed, reputedly shot in the face with an arrow when he opened his visor. The battle ended soon after.

Both armies were said to have numbered around 14,000 men. The king lost over 3,000 men, the rebels 2,000 +. . . . #royalfamily #royal #royalty #windsorcastle #HouseofLancaster #lancastrian #royals #EnglishHistory #Britishhistory #KingofEngland #thecrown #crown #britishmonarchy #history #windsor #RoyalHistory #HistoryFacts #henryv #Historic #historyblogger #historyinpictures #otd #OnThisDay #ThisDayInHistory #OnThisDayInHistory #d21jul #Shrewsbury #HenryIV #kinghenryiv #Medievalhistory (at Shrewsbury, Shropshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRmKuw7MpUl/?utm_medium=tumblr

[brian-in-finance]

SC19/2/L155a - Postcard of the Town Hall Shakespeare statue, 1931 Source

Dame Judi Dench and Sir Kenneth Branagh to visit Stratford for statue unveiling

WILLIAM Shakespeare will be back in town this spring and his restored statue will be unveiled outside Stratford Town Hall by international stars, Dame Judi Dench and Sir Kenneth Branagh.

The statue has been taken away to be restored in London - a fundraising project called Shakespeare's Coming Home is taking place next month to help pay for the work - but will be back this April, with the two actors ready to unveil the fresh-looking William on the day before the Bard’s birthday celebrations on Saturday, 23rd April.

The restoration of the David Garrick statue will almost be a step back in time when Dame Judi and Sir Ken emulate the renowned English actor, who was the most famous actor of his day, and who donated the statue to Stratford Town Council in 1769.

Dame Judy Dench, Picture: Keith Heppell. (54990875)

In return for his extreme generosity, Garrick was bestowed with the freedom of the town and history will repeat itself on 22nd April when Judi and Ken will have the freedom of Stratford conferred to them by the current town council in gratitude to the two actors for accepting the invitation to unveil the statue of the world’s greatest playwright.

Sarah Summers, town clerk at Stratford Town Council, said: “The statue was in urgent need of repair after 250 years and will be returned to the town hall shortly before the Shakespeare Birthday Celebrations take place. When the statue was removed for restoration, the contractors found three bones underneath it which we sent for analysis. They turned out to be mutton bones so we think it could have been the remains of the workman’s lunch who put the statue in the niche in the first place.”

Kenneth Branagh (54990882)

Raising money for the restoration of the statue

Tickets are on sale for the readings of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets, providing the chance to hear some of the country’s finest actors in action.

David Troughton and family, Dame Harriet Walter and Dame Janet Suzman have all confirmed they will be reading as part of Shakespeare’s Coming Home, as will Sarah Douglas, Phillip Breen, Andrew French and Prof Sir Stanley Wells.

There also a chance to hear the current RSC cast of Much Ado About Nothing, the Bishop of Warwick and lots of Stratford’s theatre groups, politicians and residents.

And tickets are just £5 each.

The current line-up includes:

Twelfth Night (led by actors Malcolm McKee, Paul Greenwood, and Clare Nielson)

Othello (led by actor Andrew French)

The Merry Wives of Windsor (led by the Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire, and the Archers actors)

Much Ado About Nothing (led by members of the Royal Shakespeare Company)

Richard II (St Andrew’s Church, Shottery, and actor John Heffernan)

Richard III (David Troughton as Richard III, and his family)

King John (The Stratford Society)

Antony and Cleopatra (led by Dame Janet Suzman as Cleopatra)

As You Like It (with Dame Harriet Walter as Rosalind and Guy Paul as Orlando)

Hamlet (led by actor Scott Handy and The Shakespeare Institute)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (led by The Music Café, and Hollywood actor Sarah Douglas)

Henry IV Part One (led by actor Robert Lister)

All is True (Henry VIII) (led by local actor, Richard Evans, and the Bishops of Coventry & Warwick)

Romeo and Juliet (Playbox Theatre)

The Comedy of Errors (led by director Phillip Breen)

All of the money raised through the readings, which take place from 1st-12th March, will help pay for the work to restore the statue of William Shakespeare which was donated to the town by David Garrick.

There are plenty of other readings to choose from; visit www.ticketsource.co.uk/shakespeares-coming-home for the full running order, dates and to buy tickets.

https://www.stratford-herald.com/news/dame-judi-dench-and-sir-kenneth-branagh-to-visit-stratford-f-9241063/

Remember… the restoration of the David Garrick statue will almost be a step back in time when Dame Judi and Sir Ken emulate the renowned English actor, who was the most famous actor of his day, and who donated the statue to Stratford Town Council in 1769.

[papermoonloveslucy]

CRITIC’S CHOICE

April 13, 1963

Directed by Don Weis 

Produced by Frank P. Rosenberg for Warner Brothers

Written by Jack Sher, based on the play by Ira Levin

Synopsis ~ Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage.

PRINCIPAL CAST

Lucille Ball (Angela Ballantine) marks her 80th feature film since coming to Hollywood in 1933. This is her fourth and final film with Bob Hope. 

Bob Hope (Parker Ballantine) was born Lesley Townes Hope in England in 1903. During his extensive career (in virtually all forms of media) he received five honorary Academy Awards. He died at the age of 100. In 1945 Desi Arnaz was the orchestra leader on Bob Hope’s NBC radio show. Lucille Ball and Hope made four films together: Sorrowful Jones (1949), Fancy Pants (1950), The Facts of Life (1960), and Critic’s Choice (1963). In between the first two and the second two, he appeared on “I Love Lucy” in “Lucy and Bob Hope” (ILL S6;E10) in1956. Hope made a cameo appearance in a 1962 episode of "The Lucy Show” that starred Jack Benny. Lucy and Hope appeared together in dozens of television programs, including Ball’s final appearance at the 1989 Oscars. 

Marilyn Maxwell (Ivy London) appeared with Bob Hope in “The Colgate Comedy Hour” (1950, 1951, 1953, 1953), The Lemon Drop Kid (1951), Off Limits (1952), “The Bob Hope Show” (1954) and with Lucille Ball in DuBarry Was A Lady (1943), Thousands Cheer (1943), Forever Darling (1956), as well as “Here’s Lucy: Lucy The Co-Ed” (1970). 

Rip Torn (Dion Kapakos) was nominated for an Oscar in 1983. This was his only film with Lucille Ball. 

Jesse Royce Landis (Charlotte Orr) makes her only appearance with Lucille Ball. 

John Dehner (S.P. Champlain) also appeared with Hope and Ball in the television special “Mr. and Mrs.” in 1964. 

Jim Backus (Dr. von Hagedom) is most famous for playing millionaire Thurston Howell III on “Gilligan’s Island.”  He appeared in Easy Living (1949) with Lucille Ball and was heard on her radio show “My Favorite Husband.” 

Ricky Kelman (John Ballantine) was a child actor who later appeared as a teenager on “Here’s Lucy” in “Lucy and Andy Griffith” (HL S6;E8) in 1973. 

Dorothy Green (Mrs. Champlain) makes her only appearances with Lucille Ball. 

Marie Windsor (Sally Orr) also appeared with Lucille Ball in The Big Street (1942).

Evan McCord aka Joe Gallison (Phil Yardley) makes his only appearance with Lucille Ball. 

Richard Deacon (Harvey Rittenhouse) is probably best remembered as Mel Cooley on “The Dick Van Dyke Show” (1961-66). He appeared as Tallulah Bankhead’s butler in “The Celebrity Next Door,” a 1957 episode of “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour.” He was employed again by Desi Sr. as a regular on “The Mothers-in-Law” (1968). He made two appearances on "Here’s Lucy.”

Joan Shawlee (Marge Orr) also appeared with Lucille Ball in Lover Come Back (1946). 

Jerome Cowan (Joe Rosenfield) appeared with Lucille Ball in The Fuller Brush Girl (1950). He was featured in such films as 1947’s Miracle on 34th Street (with William Frawley) and as Miles Archer in 1941’s The Maltese Falcon. He appeared in one episode of “The Lucy Show” in 1966 and one episode of “Here’s Lucy.”

Donald Losby (Godfrey) makes his only appearance with Lucille Ball.

Lurene Tuttle (Mother) played the president of the Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League in “The Club Election” (ILL S2;E19) on February 16, 1953.

Emestine Wade (Thelma) makes her only appearance with Lucille Ball. 

Stanley Adams (Bartender) made  three appearances on “The Lucy Show.”

UNCREDITED CAST (who shared credits with Lucille Ball)

Leon Alton (Audience Member) appeared with Lucille Ball in The Facts of Life (1960), two episodes of “The Lucy Show” and three episodes of “Here’s Lucy.”

Walter Bacon (Audience Member) was seen in “Lucy Wins a Racehorse” (LDCH 1958) and “Lucy Puts Main Street on the Map” (TLS S5;E18) in 1967.

Paul Bradley (Audience Member) made six appearances on “The Lucy Show” and two episodes of “Here’s Lucy.”

Charles Cirillo (Audience Member) was also an uncredited extra in 1968 film Yours, Mine and Ours.  He did a 1971 episode of “Here’s Lucy” and a 1968 episode of “The Lucy Show.” 

Paul Cristo (Audience Member) was seen on an episode of “I Love Lucy,” two episodes of “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour,” and two of “The Lucy Show.”

George DeNormand (Party Guest) appeared in three films with Lucille Ball from 1937 to 1963.  He also appeared on “The Lucy Show” and “Here’s Lucy.”

James Flavin (Security Guard) played Sgt. Wilcox two episodes of “The Lucy Show” including “Lucy and the Safe Cracker” (TLS S2;E5). He appeared in four films with Lucille Ball, including playing a police sergeant in Without Love (1945).

Bess Flowers (Audience Member at 'Sisters Three') was hailed as Queen of the Extras in Hollywood. She appeared in more films with Lucille Ball than any other performer. She often was seen on “I Love Lucy” and “The Lucy Show.”

Sid Gould (Cab Driver) was Lucille Ball’s cousin by marriage to Gary Morton. He appeared in more than forty episodes of “The Lucy Show” and “Here’s Lucy” in small roles. 

George Holmes (Spectator) was in the studio audience in “Lucy and Art Linkletter” (TLS S6;E4).  He also did an episode of “Here’s Lucy” and two more films with Lucille Ball: The Facts of Life (1960), and Mame (1974).

Shep Houghton (Audience Member) made three films with Lucille Ball, including Too Many Girls. He did two episodes of “The Lucy Show” and one episode of “Here’s Lucy.” Houghton was one of the Winkie Guards in 1939’s The Wizard of Oz and a Southern Dandy in Gone With the Wind (1939).  

Breena Howard (Girlfriend) also played a waitress in “Lucy Goes to Vegas” (TLS S3;E17) in 1965.

Joseph La Cava (Bellhop) did an episode of “I Love Lucy” and returned to work with Lucy in an episode of “Here’s Lucy.” He was also seen as a restaurant patron in Mame (1974).

Mike Lally (Audience Member at 'Sisters Three') was seen in two episodes of “I Love Lucy,” one “The Lucy Show,” and eight films starring Lucille Ball.  

William Meader (Audience Member) appeared as an airport extra in “The Ricardos Go to Japan” in 1959. He made many appearances on “The Lucy Show,” most times as a clerk in Mr. Mooney’s bank.

Harold Miller (First Nighter in Audience) did eight films with Lucy and two episodes of “I Love Lucy”.

Monty O'Grady (Audience Member) was first seen with Lucille Ball in The Long, Long Trailer (1953) and played a passenger on the S.S. Constitution in “Second Honeymoon” (ILL S5;E14). He was a traveler at the airport when “The Ricardos Go to Japan” (1959). He made a dozen appearances on "The Lucy Show” and a half dozen more on “Here’s Lucy.”

Murray Pollack (Audience Member) was one of the party guest in “Country Club Dance” (ILL S6;E25). Like Monty O'Grady, he was at the airport when “The Ricardos Go to Japan” (1959). He made two appearances on “The Lucy Show” and returned for three episodes of “Here’s Lucy.” 

Paul Power (Audience Member) was seen in two episodes of “I Love Lucy” and two films with Lucille Ball.  

Beverly Powers (Girl with Dion) played Mimi Van Tysen in “Lucy Goes to a Hollywood Premiere” (TLS S4;E20) in 1966. In that episode, she had a gorilla on her arm, not Rip Torn! 

Alan Ray (Hotel Doorman) was seen on “I Love Lucy” as the clapstick boy at “Ricky’s Screen Test” (ILL S4;E6), a Brown Derby waiter in “Hollywood at Last” (ILL S4;E16), and a male nurse in “Nursery School” (ILL S5;E9). He made four appearance on “The Lucy Show,” including once as a hotel doorman! In 1950 Ray was also in the film A Woman of Distinction in which Lucille Ball had a cameo.

Frieda Rentie (Audience Member) made two appearances on “Here’s Lucy.” 

Victor Romito (Audience Member) was seen as the Bartender in “Lucy Meets John Wayne” (TLS S5;E10) as well as one more episode of “The Lucy Show.”  He appeared in four episodes of “Here’s Lucy.” 

Bernard Sell (Audience Member) made three appearances on "The Lucy Show”. He was also an extra with Lucille Ball and Bob Hope in their film The Facts of Life (1960). He turns up on a 1971 two-part episode of “Here’s Lucy.”

Hal Smith (Drunk) is probably best known around the Desilu lot for playing Otis the drunk on “The Andy Griffith Show”.  He made three appearance on “The Lucy Show” including the role of Mr. Weber in “Main Street U.S.A.” (S5;E17). He did one episode of “Here’s Lucy” in 1972.  

Norman Stevans (Clerk) was in the audience of “Over The Teacups” during “Ethel’s Birthday” (ILL S4;E8) and at the airport when “The Ricardo’s Go To Japan,” in 1959.  He appeared in two episodes of “Here’s Lucy” and in the 1974 Lucille Ball film Mame.

Arthur Tovey (Audience Member) did one episode of “The Lucy Show” and the TV special “Swing Out, Sweet Land” in 1970 in which Lucille Ball is the Statue of Liberty.  

Ralph Volkie (Audience Member) is best remembered for playing John Wayne’s masseuse in “Lucy and John Wayne” (ILL S5;E2) in 1955.  As Wayne’s trainer, he also appeared in sixteen films with the Duke. 

‘CRITICS’ TRIVIA

Lucille Ball’s costumes for the film were designed by Edith Head.  Irma Kusely, Lucille’s long-time hairdresser, did her hair design.

Lucille Ball and Bob Hope break the fourth wall and appear as themselves in the film’s trailer. 

Because of poor audience reaction at test screenings, this film sat unreleased for a year before being sent to theaters. The delay did not help, as it received generally unfavorable reviews.

"It is pleasing to look at in its expensive décor, color and scope, ably played by its experienced stars and ingratiating in its quieter insights into a sophisticated marital relationship. So long as it meanders modestly through some above-average repartee, it provides an agreeable way to pass an evening. Instead of leaving well enough alone, unfortunately, the director, Don Weis, has tried to upholster the shaky plot with slapstick and broad burlesque...Both stars, old hands at this sort of thing, go through their paces with benign good humor, but their subtler comic talents remain untapped. At this rate, the critics' popularity seems unlikely to improve." ~ The New York Times

Angela's play opens at the 46th Street Theatre. This is an actual Broadway theatre, though it has since been renamed the Richard Rodgers Theatre and since 2015 has been home to Hamilton. At the time of filming it was host to the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical How To Succeed in Business...Without Really Trying. Lucille Ball was on Broadway just one year earlier at the Alvin (now the Neil Simon) Theatre in Wildcat. 

The collage of stylized posters for Broadway plays (The Music Man, Life With Father, Fanny, Gypsy, Camelot) that appeared under the opening credits, were all productions that had (or in the case of Camelot, would later be) filmed by Warner Bros.

Ira Levin's original play had been produced on Broadway in 1960, when it enjoyed modest success under the direction of Otto Preminger. The play starred Henry Fonda in the Bob Hope role of Parker Ballantine, and also featured Georgann Johnson (in Lucille Ball's role). 

Angela and Dion fly from New York to Boston in an American Airlines Lockheed Electra, registration number N6102A. By the time the movie was released in 1963, the plane no longer existed - on August 6, 1962 (Lucille Ball's 51st birthday) it was wrecked in a landing accident during a thunderstorm at the Knoxville, Tennessee airport. Fortunately, all aboard the plane survived.

The casting of Marilyn Maxwell as Hope's first wife was a kind of ironic joke, as their long-time affair was well enough known in the industry for her to be often referred to as "the second Mrs. Hope."

The Ballantines were based on renowned theatre critic Walter Kerr and his playwright wife Jean Kerr. As an inside joke, Hope mentions one of her plays, "Mary, Mary."

The film’s music orchestrations are credited to Arthur Morton (inset photo). Not only is Morton Ball’s married name, Arthur Morton was the name of the character played by Richard Crenna who had a crush on Lucy Ricardo in “The Young Fans” (ILL S1;E20)!

The film is mentioned on “What's My Line?” featuring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball on May 5, 1963. Lucy and Bob are on a promotional tour, New York being the eleventh of their 19 cities. They had just come from being on “The Ed Sullivan Show” earlier that evening, also to promote Critic’s Choice.

Lucille Ball mentions the film on “Dinah!” featuring Bob Hope on April 15, 1977. About Critic’s Choice (1963), it is clear that this was a film Lucy didn’t want to do. Lucy and Hope were obliged to do a 11-theatre promo tour to “sell” the film. Hope calls it their only flop.  

[countrymadefoods]

"Nest ferch Rhys, born around 1085, was the daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr (Rhys ap Tudor Mawr) [Tartar or Tatar], king of the Deheubarth in South Wales. Nicknamed ‘Helen of Wales’ she was renowned for her beauty; like Helen of Troy, her good looks led to her abduction and civil war.

Princess Nest led an eventful life. She was born a princes’ daughter, became a king’s mistress and then a Norman’s wife; she was abducted by a Welsh prince and bore at least nine children to five different men.

She was the grandmother of the celebrated cleric and chronicler Gerald of Wales and through her children’s alliances, is related to both the Tudor and Stuart monarchs of England as well as Diana, Princess of Wales and US President John F. Kennedy [...]

During a battle against the Normans outside Brecon in 1093, Nest’s father was killed and South Wales was overrun by the Normans. Nest’s family was split up; some like Nest were held hostage, some were captured and executed and one, Nest’s brother Gruffydd, fled to Ireland.

As the daughter of the last king of South Wales, Nest was a valuable asset and taken as a hostage to William II’s court. Although only about 14 years old at the time, there her beauty caught the eye of Henry, William’s brother, later to become King Henry I. They became lovers [...]

Henry was noted for his womanising, apparently fathering over 20 illegitimate children both before and after his marriage and coronation in 1100. Nest gave birth to his son, Henry FitzHenry, in 1103.

King Henry then married Nest off to Gerald de Windsor, an Anglo-Norman baron much older than his new wife. Gerald was Constable of Pembroke Castle and ruled Nest’s father’s former kingdom for the Normans [...]

Although an arranged marriage, it appears to have been a relatively happy one and Nest bore Gerald at least five children.

Constantly threatened with attack by the Welsh, Gerald built a new castle at Carew and then another at Cilgerran where Nest and her children went to live around 1109. Nest was now in her 20s and by all accounts a great beauty.

The Welsh prince of Powys, Cadwgan was one of the leading Welsh rebels. Cadwgan’s son Owain was Nest’s second cousin and having heard tales of her stunning looks, was anxious to meet her.

At Christmas 1109, using his kinship as an excuse, Owain attended a banquet at the castle. Upon meeting Nest and struck by her beauty, he apparently became infatuated with her. Owain is said to taken a group of men, scaled the walls of the castle and started a fire. In the confusion of the attack, Gerald escaped down a privy hole while Nest and two of her sons were taken prisoner and abducted by Owain. The castle was sacked and plundered.

Whether Nest was raped or succumbed to Owain of her own accord is unknown, but her abduction incensed King Henry (her former lover) and the Norman lords. Owain’s Welsh enemies were bribed to attack him and his father, thus starting a minor civil war.

Owain and his father fled to Ireland, and Nest was returned to Gerald. However this was not the end of the unrest: the Welsh rose in rebellion against the Normans. It was not just a conflict between the Normans and the Welsh, it was civil war as well, pitting Welsh prince against Welsh prince [...]

Owain was then ambushed and killed by a band of Flemish archers, led by Gerald.

Gerald died a year afterwards. After his death, Nest sought comfort in the arms of the Sheriff of Pembroke, a Flemish settler named William Hait with whom she had a child, also called William.

Shortly afterwards, she married Stephen, the constable of Cardigan, by whom she had at least one, maybe two, sons. The eldest, Robert Fitz-Stephen became one of the Norman conquerors of Ireland."

Walter FitzOther (fl. 1086, died 1100/1116) son of Otho Gherardini. He was a feudal baron of Eton in Buckinghamshire (now in Berkshire) and was Constable of Windsor Castle in Berkshire [...] a principal royal residence of King William the Conqueror, and was a tenant-in-chief of that king of 21 manors in the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Hampshire and Middlesex, as well as holding a further 17 manors [...]

As the Fitz prefix to his surname suggests, Walter was the son of Otho Gherandini, an honorary baron of England.

He married Gladys ap Conwyn, daughter of Rywallon ap Conwym, Prince of North Wales, by whom he had children including four sons [...]

William FitzWalter (died c. 1160), eldest son, 2nd feudal baron of Eton. His son was William de Windsor (died c. 1176), 3rd feudal baron of Eton, who adopted the surname de Windsor. The feudal barony of Eton soon split into moieties between two members of the family, William de Windsor (died 1215/16) and his cousin Walter de Windsor (died 1203). Walter de Windsor died without children in 1203, when his two sisters became his co-heiresses. The other moiety continued in the descendants of William de Windsor until at least the time of Richard de Windsor, the son of Richard de Windsor (1258–1326)

Robert FitzWalter, second son, inherited the nearby manor of Eton in Berkshire.

Gerald de Windsor (c. 1075 – 1135), (alias Gerald FitzWalter), third son, the first castellan of Pembroke Castle in Pembrokeshire (formerly part of the Kingdom of Deheubarth), in Wales, who was in charge of the Norman forces in southwest Wales. He was the progenitor of the FitzGerald, FitzMaurice and De Barry dynasties of Ireland, who were elevated to the Peerage of Ireland in the 14th century and was also the ancestor of the prominent Carew family, of Moulsford in Berkshire, Carew Castle in Pembrokeshire"

"Gerald de Windsor (c. 1075–1135), alias Gerald FitzWalter, was the first castellan of Pembroke Castle in Pembrokeshire (formerly part of the Kingdom of Deheubarth), in Wales, and was in charge of the Norman forces in southwest Wales. He was the ancestor of the FitzGerald, FitzMaurice, De Barry, and Keating dynasties of Ireland, who were elevated to the Peerage of Ireland in the 14th century and was also the ancestor of the prominent Carew family, of Moulsford in Berkshire, Carew Castle in Pembrokeshire [...]

Upon his father's death after 1100, Gerald's oldest brother William inherited the office of Constable of Windsor Castle; his second oldest brother Robert inherited the nearby manor of Eton in Berkshire. Gerald's family was one of the "service families" on whom King William the Conqueror relied for his survival.

Gerald married Nest ferch Rhys ("Nesta") a Welsh princess, daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr, the last King of Deheubarth in Wales. Nest brought the manor of Carew as part of her dowry [...] They had five children:

William FitzGerald, Lord of Carew and Emlyn

Maurice FitzGerald, Lord of Lanstephan

David FitzGerald, Bishop of St. David's

Angharad

Gwladys

In 1109 his wife Nesta was abducted by her second cousin Owain ap Cadwgan. According to the Brut y Tywysogion, Owain and his men entered the couple's home (assumed by historians to have been either Cilgerran Castle or Little Cenarch) and set fire to the buildings. When Gerald was awoken by the noise, Nesta urged him to escape by climbing out through the drain-hole of the garderobe. Owain then seized Nesta and her children and carried her off. Some sources however suggest that she went with him willingly.

Gerald's influence was such that due to Nesta's abduction Owain and his father soon lost much of their territory of Powys. Owain himself was obliged to go into exile in Ireland and when he returned in 1116, he was killed when his retinue of fifty men at arms was cunningly attacked by Gerald and his large cohort as they both traveled to aid the king of England.

Gerald's son William had a daughter named Isabella Le Gros who married William De Haya Walensis by whom she had sons David Walensis and Philip Walensis. David and Philip were surnamed in Latin Walensis ("of Wales"), and were the founders of the widespread family surnamed Welsh or Walsh or Wallace. Philip Walensis had a son named Howell of Welsh Walensis.

Nesta is the female progenitor of the Fitzgerald Dynasty, and through her the Fitzgeralds are related to Welsh royalty and to the Tudors (Tewdwrs [Tartars or Tatars]). The Tudors are descended from Nest's father Rhys ap Tewdwr (Anglicized to "Tudor"). Henry Tudor, King of England, was a patrilineal descendant of Rhys ap Tewdwr. Consequently, Gerald and Nest's offspring, the Fitzgeralds, are distant cousins to the English Tudors."

"The Keatings sprang from a house whose beginnings, so say the legends, go back to the days of /troy. Definite records take us back well over a thousand years, and suppose that the family was indigenous to Italy, being either E/truscan or Roman. The Gherardini, the Ancestral family of the Keatings, Fitzgeralds, Fitzmaurices, Redmonds, Carews, and many other prominent Irish families, were one of the seigniorial families that fell when the Republic of Florence was founded.

Its members had estates in various parts of the Florentine territory. In Florence, their principal residence was near the Ponte Vecchio bridge. Their tower still exists, being part of the Palazzo Bartolomei. The first date we have in the family history is 910 A.D. [...] The Italian historian Gammurini, says "the Gherardi were among the most ancient and wealthy families of Tuscany in 900 A.D." Family legend states that Anaes, a survivor of the siege of /troy, wandered for seven years after it’s overthrow, until he came to what was then called Latium, (now Italy). He brought with him his father and small son Ascanius, for whom the province of Tuscany is named. Anaes married the daughter of King Turnus of Latium, who was killed in battle. Anaes succeeded him as king of Latium and divided his lands among his descendants. To Gherardo, he gave the land of He/truria, where Florence now stands.

The family flourished until the year 1125. Then, during a political upheaval, the patrician families were driven into exile. In order to remain in Florence, the Gherardini renounced their patrician rank and became mere citizens. Later they were restored to their ancient honors, became very wealthy, and served the Republic of Florence both in the senate and on the battlefield. Three were Consuls of the Republic; others died as leaders of the Republican armies in the many civil wars. Confiscations and losses during the civil wars impoverished the Gherardini, and they also suffered much by the destruction of their property in the great fire of Florence in 1303. From the 14th century onwards they seem to have played a smaller part in the history of Florence. At different times, between 1000 and 1400, individuals of the family emigrated, passing into France, England, Wales, Ireland, Cracow and the Canary Islands. Those who stayed in Florence became extinct, as did those in France and Cracow. It is pleasant to record that the Gherardini of Florence and the Irish "Geraldines" did not lose touch with each other. There are records of visits back and forth until the late 1500's."

Lisa del Giocondo (Gherardini; 15 June 1479 – 15 July 1542) was an Italian noblewoman and member of the Gherardini family  of Florence  and Tuscany. Her name was given to the Mona Lisa, her portrait  commissioned by her husband and painted by Leonardo Da Vinci  during the Italian Renaissance.

Little is known about Lisa's life. Born in Florence and married in her teens to a cloth and silk merchant who later became a local official, she was a mother to five children and led what is thought to have been a comfortable and ordinary middle-class life. Lisa outlived her husband, who was considerably her senior.

Centuries after Lisa's death, the Mona Lisa became the world's most famous painting and took on a life separate from Lisa, the woman [...] In 2005, Lisa was definitively identified as the model for the Mona Lisa [...]

Lisa's Florentine family was old and aristocratic but over time had lost their influence. They were well off but not wealthy, and lived on farm income in a city that was among the largest in Europe. While economically successful, there were great disparities in wealth among Florence's inhabitants.

Antonmaria di Noldo Gherardini, Lisa's father, came from a family who had lived on properties near San Donato in Poggio and only recently moved to the city [...]

Gherardini at one time owned or rented six farms in Chianti that produced wheat, wine and olive oil and where livestock was raised.[7]

Lisa was born in Florence on 15 June 1479, on Via Maggio,[6] although for many years it was thought she was born on Villa Vignamaggio just outside Greve, one of the family's rural properties.[8] She is named for Lisa, a wife of her paternal grandfather.[9] The eldest of seven children, Lisa had three sisters, one of whom was named Ginevra, and three brothers, Giovangualberto, Francesco, and Noldo [...]

Noldo, Gherardini's father and Lisa's grandfather, had bequeathed a farm in Chianti to the Santa Maria Nuova hospital. Gherardini secured a lease for another of the hospital's farms and, so that he could oversee the wheat harvest, the family spent summers there at the house named Ca' di Pesa [...]

On 5 March 1495, 15-year-old Lisa married Francesco di Bartolomeo di Zanobi del Giocondo, a modestly successful cloth  and silk  merchant, becoming his third wife. Lisa's dowry was 170 florins and the San Silvestro farm near her family's country home, which lies between Castellina and San Donato in Poggio, near two farms later owned by Michelangelo. The modest dowry may be a sign that the Gherardini family was not wealthy at the time and lends reason to think she and her husband loved each other [...]

Lisa's marriage may have increased her social status  because her husband's family may have been richer than her own. Francesco is thought to have benefited because Gherardini is an "old name". They lived in shared accommodation until 5 March 1503, when Francesco was able to buy a house next door to his family's old home in the Via della Stufa. Leonardo is thought to have begun painting Lisa's portrait the same year.

Lisa and Francesco had five children: Piero, Camilla, Andrea, Giocondo, and Marietta, four of them between 1496 and 1507. Lisa lost a baby daughter in 1499. Lisa also raised Bartolomeo, the son of Francesco and his first wife Camilla di Mariotto Rucellai, who died shortly after the birth. Andrea [...] one of the youngest, was later the wife of a moscovite nobleman from Kozhin family, who was from the court of Prince Basil III of Moscow [...]

Francesco became an official in Florence. He was elected to the Dodici Buonomini  in 1499 and to the Signoria  in 1512, where he was confirmed as a Priori in 1524. He may have had ties to Medici family  political or business interests. In 1512, when the government of Florence feared the return of the Medici from exile, Francesco was imprisoned and fined 1,000 florins. He was released in September when the Medici returned [...]

In June 1537, in his will among many provisions, Francesco returned Lisa's dowry to her, gave her personal clothing and jewelry and provided for her future. Upon entrusting her care to their daughter Ludovica and, should she be incapable, his son Bartolomeo, Francesco wrote, "Given the affection and love of the testator towards Mona Lisa, his beloved wife; in consideration of the fact that Lisa has always acted with a noble spirit and as a faithful wife; wishing that she shall have all she needs…" [...]

In one account, Francesco died in the plague of 1538. Lisa fell ill and was taken by her daughter Ludovica to the convent of Sant'Orsola, where she died on 15 July 1542, at the age of 63.[24][25][26] In a scholarly account of their lives, Francesco was nearly 80 years old when he died, and Lisa may have lived until at least 1551, when she would have been 71 [...]

Like other Florentines of their financial means, Francesco's family members were art lovers and patrons. His son Bartolomeo asked Antonio di Donnino Mazzieri to paint a fresco at the family's burial site in the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata di Firenze. Andrea del Sarto painted a Madonna  for another member of his family. Francesco gave commissions to Leonardo for a portrait of his wife and to Domenico Puligo  for a painting of Saint Francis of Assisi. He is thought to have commissioned Lisa's portrait to celebrate both Andrea's birth and the purchase of the family's home [...]

During the spring of 1503, Leonardo had no income source, which may in part explain his interest in a private portrait. But later that year, he most likely had to delay his work on Mona Lisa when he received payment for starting The Battle of Anghiari, which was a more valuable commission and one he was contracted to complete by February 1505. In 1506, Leonardo considered the portrait unfinished. He was not paid for the work and did not deliver it to his client. The artist's paintings traveled with him throughout his life, and he may have completed the Mona Lisa many years later in France, in one estimation by 1516 [...]

The Mona Lisa has been in custody of France since the 16th century, when it was acquired by King Francis I; after the French Revolution, it became the property of the French Republic  itself. Today about six million people visit the painting each year at the Louvre in Paris, where it is part of a French national collection."

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It's a foul time to be making a large horse. But are there ever any good instances? Artist Mark Wallinger and his funders face a wrestle to pay for the colossal statue of a white horse that he has been commissioned to create as a public artwork at Ebbsfleet. But as I say - has there ever been an opportune second to make a large horse? Leonardo da Vinci to his employer Ludovico Sforza, ruler of Milan, in the 1490s. He was wanly conceding that cash for the Horse might not be forthcoming. The Horse - Da Vinci's horse - was a towering equestrian monument that he deliberate to solid in bronze as a memorial to Ludovico's father, Francesco Sforza. It was one of many projects he proposed to take on when he first requested Ludovico for work within the early 1480s. It turned perhaps the most well-known of all his activities in Milan, alongside his other epic work in town, The Last Supper.

So why was it never built? He had some bad luck. In 1494 the political machinations of Ludovico Sforza performed a part in causing a French invasion of Italy that turned priorities the wrong way up. A stash of bronze set aside for Da Vinci's sculpture was needed instead to solid cannon. The expense of conflict then made Sforza unlikely to fund the gargantuan work. Yet even before that, Da Vinci's employer seemed to doubt if he was serious and sought out other potential horse-casters. The unmade Horse is the work, greater than every other, that epitomises Leonardo's fame as an artist who by no means finished something. When he returned to his dwelling metropolis, Florence, the younger Michelangelo was ready to insult him because the fraud who had promised to solid a terrific bronze white horse statue home decor horse but gave up in shame. And but - greater than 500 years after he designed it - Da Vinci's bronze horse nonetheless tantalises the human imagination. A work of artwork that exists solely as an thought, documented in his scintillating, dreamlike drawings, it's arguably the first conceptual artwork. Or the first surrealist dream object. Whatever it's, the horse that never was will all the time be remembered with extra readability and emotion than most current works of artwork. It's the picture of Leonardo da Vinci, the quintessence of his distinctive high quality.

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It is a foul time to be making a giant horse. But are there ever any good instances? Artist Mark Wallinger and his funders face a struggle to pay for the colossal statue of a white horse that he has been commissioned to create as a public artwork at Ebbsfleet. But as I say - has there ever been an opportune moment to make an enormous horse? Leonardo da Vinci to his employer Ludovico Sforza, ruler of Milan, in the 1490s. He was wanly conceding that money for the Horse might not be forthcoming. The Horse - Da Vinci's horse - was a towering equestrian monument that he deliberate to forged in bronze as a memorial to Ludovico's father, Francesco Sforza. It was one of the initiatives he proposed to take on when he first requested Ludovico for work within the early 1480s. It grew to become maybe probably the most famous of all his actions in Milan, alongside his other epic work in the town, The Last Supper.

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