Weekend Links

 

Happy Sunday, everyone!  It's been a while since I popped in here (this hot summer is making me lazy!  Plus I started a new day job, working for the Museum Foundation, and am dabbling in a new mystery series...)  I hope you're all staying cool and reading great books, watching great movie, chilling at the pool.

And here are a few more things to read that caught my fancy this month!  (Plus, don't forget to pre-order The Dollar Princess Dilemma, out August 26!!!)

11 Audrey Hepburn movies to watch before the biopics

5 cursed pieces of royal jewelry (I love a cursed jewel!)

Jane Austen died July 18, 1817 (sob)

And Anne of Cleves died July 16, 1557 (the luckiest of Henry's wives!  She lived a prosperous, fairly independent life and died of natural causes in her own bed)

The eternal appeal of a Jane Austen adaptation

Why we can't quit Mr. Darcy

We all need a "book-cation"

Weekend Links and a Discount Book Code

 Happy Sunday, everyone!  I can't believe how fast summer is slipping away.  Just one more week of Opera here in Santa Fe, plus school started Friday and Indian Market is next weekend.  Eeek!  But, as much as I love my summer dresses and cocktails on patios, not to mention the gorgeous flowers all around town, I'm looking forward to cooler evenings, Halloween, and getting some hygge coziness in the house.

In the meantime, if you'd like to dive into Millicent Rogers and her glam world, I have a discount link for a hard copy.  Perfect for end-of-summer reading!   You can find it here

And here's a few things to keep us distracted on this hot summer day!!

On August 9 in 1588, Elizabeth I gave her famous speech to the troops at Tillbury...

After decades in storage, an 18th century tapestry goes on view at Blenheim

More about the mysteries of the Voynich Manuscript

On August 9, 1902 was the coronation of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra

On August 4, 1557, Anne of Cleves (aka the luckiest of the the six wives) was buried at Westminster Abbey

Ryan Speedo Green in Santa Fe Opera's "Die Walkure" (I thought it was great!)

A "sorcesses' kit" found in the ashes of Pompeii

On August 3, 1553, Mary I made her triumphant entry into London as Queen, after defeating the forces of Jane Grey (this seems to be quite the Tudor month!)

Millicent Rogers' daughter-in-law's NYC apartment up for sale!

Love story of two Edwardian servants on display

Literary tourism

What are we all thinking about "The Gilded Age"???

Or the new Downton Abbey movie???

 

See you next week!

 

Portrait Friday

This week's Portrait Friday is Holbein's famous Anne of Cleves, because I've been feeling very Tudor-ish lately! Last year when I was at the Louvre, I spent the morning seeing the "highlights" (Mona Lisa, check; Venus de Milo, check; David's Coronation of Napleon, check--btw, that one has some seriously fab gowns to stare at!), then I had lunch and just wandered through some of the quieter galleries. It was wonderful, especially when I turned a corner and saw this staring back at me. I hadn't even known it was at the Louvre. I said (too loudly) "Ohmigosh, it's Anne of Cleves!" and rushed over to it. It's gorgeous.