Book Meme!
Snagged from trickyfrog
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
He named the child Henry, and bestowed upon him the old Norman-French surname FitzRoy, which means 'son of the King'. News of the birth soon leaked out at court, and in due course the Queen learned of it, to her sorrow and humiliation. Henry's affair with Elizabeth Blout seems to have ended with the birth of her child, and he arranged through Wolsey to have honorably bestowed in marriage as a reward for services rendered. Late in 1519 she married Lord Tailboys, although Wolsey was savagely criticized for his part in this, and accused of encouraging you women to indulge in fornication as a means of finding a husband about their station. --Taken from "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" by Alison Weir.
Yes, I'm that big a nerd that I read historical reference books!
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
He named the child Henry, and bestowed upon him the old Norman-French surname FitzRoy, which means 'son of the King'. News of the birth soon leaked out at court, and in due course the Queen learned of it, to her sorrow and humiliation. Henry's affair with Elizabeth Blout seems to have ended with the birth of her child, and he arranged through Wolsey to have honorably bestowed in marriage as a reward for services rendered. Late in 1519 she married Lord Tailboys, although Wolsey was savagely criticized for his part in this, and accused of encouraging you women to indulge in fornication as a means of finding a husband about their station. --Taken from "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" by Alison Weir.
Yes, I'm that big a nerd that I read historical reference books!