Late as I've been pottering in the garden b/c it's such a gloriously sunny day here in Derbyshire...
HEAR YE! 'Tis time for This week's topic is:
❄️⛈️☀️*Weather events in the Stuart-era*☀️⛈️❄️
Jacob Adriaensz. Bellevois, (1621 – 1676), 'Ships on a Stormy Sea'.

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James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, son of James II (VII) & Arabella Churchill, was decapitated by a cannonball 12 June 1734.
This week's theme:
💀😱😖Grisly Stuart Ends😖😱💀

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Hear ye! 'Tis time for Today's theme is the life of NELL GWYNN, a Restoration actress and royal mistress, who died 14 November 1687 (b. 1650). Portrait of Nell Gwyn, attributed to Simon Verelst, circa 1670.

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**Dangerous Beauties**
One dangerous beauty was Anna Maria Talbot (née Brudenell), Countess of Shrewsbury (1642–1702). Her adulterous liaison with 2nd Duke of Buckingham led to a duel in which her husband, Francis, was killed. 🤺⚔💔

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