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You all remember when the British press threw a fit over Harry flying home to Meghan asap after that military exercise in Norway? They said it was because he wanted to spend their first Valentine's day as a married couple together. Turns out it's because his pregnant wife was fucking SUICIDAL and he didn't want to leave her alone.

jameego submitted to medievalpoc:

Portrait of Francis Williams, The Jamaican Scholar

England (c. 1745)

[placard reads: Francis Williams (about 1710-about 1770) was a mathemetician and poet, who may have been educated in England. He set up a school in Spanish Town and his portrait shows him as a scholar in a study. This is a convention also used in the ivory relief of Matthew Rapet, shown nearby.]

From the Victoria and Albert Museum:

Francis Williams was born around 1700 to John and Dorothy Williams, a free black couple in Jamaica. John Williams had been freed by the will of his former master and within ten years was able to acquire property. As free blacks the Williams family were increasingly in the minority as Jamaica’s sugar industry, which relied on the labour of enslaved Africans, grew over the course of the 18th century. Even less common were educated black people. However, John Williams’ independent wealth ensured that Francis and his brothers received an education.

❝ ‘Henry VII’s devout and rather awesome mother’, was the description the historian Neville Williams offered of Margaret Beaufort in his 1973 biography of the King. Both adjectives in this statement are true, but neither do full justice to the woman who forms the subject of this book. William’s assessment does, however, accurately summarize the way in which Margaret has often been portrayed: a religious fanatic who was obsessively ambitious on her son’s behalf and dominated his court, an image compounded by the effigy upon her tomb as well as the surviving portraits, which show her wearing widow’s weeds and a barbed wimple, on her knees in prayer. This is an image often conjured up when the name Margaret Beaufort is mentioned. Yet it is two-dimensional as the paintings themselves, frequently used as a convenient short-hand when relating the tales of the period. Margaret’s own story and her true character as a living, breathing woman are a far cry from such flat representations.Nicola Tallis, Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch.

King Richard III had the 'Princes in the Tower' murdered, historian finds

New clues may resolve a royal murder mystery dating to more than 500 years ago — and the conclusion is: The king did it.

Richard III was crowned King of England in 1483, and many have long suspected that he gained the throne through the cold-blooded assassination of two young nephews who stood in his way — Edward V, age 12, and Richard, Duke of York, age 9. After King Edward IV’s death, Richard III seized power and imprisoned the youngsters in the Tower of London. “They were never seen alive again,” according to the United Kingdom’s Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) website.

Rumors abounded that Richard ordered the princes’ deaths, and the discovery of a previously unknown “inside source” strengthens the most damning account of the monarch’s guilt, Tim Thornton, a professor of history in the Department of History, English, Linguistics and Music at the University of Huddersfield in England, wrote in a new study. Read more.

(the latest US gun massacre was at a community college in Oregon .. more here)