DerekG
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Wed Sep-07-05 06:23 PM
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Name some of your favorite tumultuous, *historical* marriages |
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You know: possession, betrayal, dementia, maybe a murder/suicide here or there. I'm talkin' about the kind of marriages/romances that would belong in Graves's I, CLAUDIUS. A few Lady Macbeths would be welcome.
One of my faves: Sonia and Leo Tolstoy. Not a monster, to be sure, but Sonia did conspire with Tsar Nicholas I to censor her husband's radical polemics, transcribed the private, tortured thoughts from his diary, and returned his misgivings with histrionics and threats of suicide.
It's all dreadfully romantic.
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Wed Sep-07-05 06:31 PM
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1. Anne Boleyn and Henry the VIII |
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Henry the VIII and his wives fascinate me...all those marriages just so he could have a son...and Anne Boleyn's daughter would become one of England's greatest monarchs...the irony is delicious.
Phillipa Gregory wrote an awesome novel called "The Other Boleyn Girl" which is told in the point of view of Mary Boleyn, Anne's sister. The follow-up novels, "The Queen's Fool" (chronicles the reign of Mary I and Elizabeth's rise to power) and "The Virgin's Lover" (the relationship between Elizabeth and Robert Dudley) are weaker, but "The Other Boleyn Girl" was really good.
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Wed Sep-07-05 06:39 PM
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2. Henry II and Eleanor of Acquitaine. |
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Theirs was the apotheosis of the tumultuous marriage.
Watch "The Lion In Winter" sometime to get an idea. You've never seen two people who loved and despised each other so much.
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Wed Sep-07-05 06:43 PM
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