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And in this post:

-[personal profile] luzula is going to tell us about the Jacobites and the '45!

-I'm going to finish reading Nancy Goldstone's book about Maria Theresia and (some of) her children Maria Christina, Maria Carolina, and Marie Antoinette, In the Shadow of the Empress, and [personal profile] selenak is going to tell us all the things wrong with the last four chapters (spoiler: in the first twenty chapters there have been many, MANY things wrong)!

-[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard is going to tell us about Charles XII of Sweden and the Great Northern War

(seriously, how did I get so lucky to have all these people Telling Me Things, this is AWESOME)

-oh, and also there will be Yuletide signups :D

Re: The Backstory for the '45

Date: 2021-10-08 08:45 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] luzula
Well, yes! OTOH, if your goal is "become king", then maybe you should adjust your expectations...

Re: The Backstory for the '45

Date: 2021-10-09 07:36 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] mildred_of_midgard
To quote Diana Gabaldon, author of the Outlander series:

[Jamie] had been born a leader, then bent and shaped further to fit such a destiny. But what of a man who had not been born to the role he was required to fill? ...[Charles Stuart] for [one].

For the first time in ten years, from this strange distance, he could find it in himself to forgive that feeble man who had once been his friend. Having so often paid the price exacted by his own gift, he could at last see the more terrible doom of having been born a king, without the gift of kingship.

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