Gorgeous George will keep on stuffing things up and we’ve had enough. Henrietta Maria is a very sad queen and does not like king Charles but there is a big strapping English lad who can provide some comfort to her. And we’ll get to meet Lucy Hay who was the inspiration for M’Lady De Winter in the 3 Musketeers story.
And you thought Jim 1 & 6 knew all about stuffing up. Charles and George are way better than Jim was. Parliament is out for George and handily, the book the Forerunner of Revenge will come to England to help them out. Here’s a nice painting by Rubens of the late king Jim.
Time to meet our glorious new king and his beautiful Frenchie princess Henrietta Maria. She may not be as impressed as we are about Charles and she certainly will not like George. Naughty George is also sniffing around Queen Anne of France but he will do way worse than that in this episode and for the English, it’s enough. They want him out. Here’s Charles and Henrietta Maria.
Will Jim improve things in England by dying? We all hope so. Spaniards will be working on breaking up our lovers – Jim and George. And we’ll meet new player George Eglisham who has it in for George Villiers. Here’s a Rubens painting of George who wants us all to know he’s a mighty hero.
England is jumping into the corporation idea with a brand new company with huge powers. Is it a good idea? Well, no but it will take time for the English to figure out they have created a monster. George Villiers PR team will do a super job making him to be the mighty hero that is the White Duke. Raising him higher may just mean he has further to fall. Here’s a picture from the Indian Moghul showing an unhappy looking and insignificant Jim.
This week, Charles and George can show us why they are complete dickheads. We’ll be off to find Paris looking very nice with cash being spent on the city instead of a stupid civil war. Madrid though will be magnificent thanks to all the hard work from those locals in America. George will also make it into the novel by Alexander Dumas about 3 Musketeers. Here’s a picture of him. Gorgeous as always.
We’ll be having a look at Princess Elizabeth who has married Fred of the Palatinate. She and Fred will be getting a bit too ambitious for the Holy Roman Emperor of the German Sausages and that will kick off the most devastating war that Europe has seen. Here’s a picture of the princess. Nice frock.
Yes, it’s time to bid farewell forever to Sir Walter Raleigh one of those extremely rare good guys in history. There was little doubt that Jim had wanted Walter to die and judicial murder is easy to achieve at any time in human history. Plus we get to meet the sensational Pendle Witches. Evil to the core or just a bunch of confused humans – your pick as usual.
Judea from 4BCE to 130CE was not a happy place at all. This gave rise to a number of prophets and messiahs including one Jesus from Galillee who preached that Jerusalem would fall. It did, but just before it did, a rather large rock from a Roman ballista scored a direct hit on Jesus.
It’s all about king Jim’s new fancy boy and this time it looks like true love. Sadly though we’ll also be saying goodbye to Shakespeare.
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