It’s not really a mystery, but the question of who exactly QEI would have made the most advantageous marriage with is a really interesting one. Factor into there all the supposed loves of the Virgin Queen and it becomes even crazier. Robert Dudley, for all the romantic connections, was a bad political choice – it would upset the balance of power among the nobles, which held the potential for civil war. Additionally, his father and grandfather had been traitors to the crown. Bringing in a foreign prince or king would undermine England’s sovereignty. Politics 500 years after the fact are so much fun. Seriously.
Best of all, sofia, your daughter can watch Elizabeth and discover what a load of historical hooey that movie was.
There’s always the question of what disease or circumstances it was that caused Elizabeth’s father to go under as severe a personality change as he did. As a young man he was described as very personable and charming – and hot to boot. The older he got, the more irrational his thinking became. I’m in favor of the diabetes theory – Henry’s surviving siblings all died of a wasting disease similar to diabetic ketoacidosis. Henry’s later mental deterioration points to untreated diabetes as well.
Gah. I’m so excited for Bristol Faire now.
On preview, racinchikki, when breast cancer becomes very advanced, i.e.: goes without treatment as in the 16th century, tumors can form on the spine and make it very delicate, so that the slightest tumble can cause necks to break.
Mine certainly would be the Oak Island Money Pit… anytime I hear something about it I read it or I watch it. The most recent being a show sometime last year that I caught. Some of the notables who were interested in Oak Island were Franklin D. Roosevelt whose company went searching in 1909, Errol Flynn wanted to search but found that John Wayne owned the search rights…
I wonder if we’ll ever find anything there. I mean substantial, not the bits and pieces and the strange inscription.
I also used to read a lot of ghost ships and the like, but forget most of what I read (the Marie Celeste jogs something loose)
Atlantis… just about anything about Atlantis I’m willing to listen to. I even have a novel written by a woman from the perspective of one of the royal family there (and she claims to have been that woman in a former life) That I got more for the sake of an interesting story, but I did enjoy it. Don’t ask me what it’s called though as I don’t have it handy.
I’m going to have to do some reading up on the ones mentioned myself. These look interesting!
My favorite mystery is how that extra apostrophe got in Shirley’s sig line (quick, hon, dive in and edit!).
Oh, and Guin, did you read that new book (within the last year or so) that came out on the Hope Diamond?
He was the author of “THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE”-which became a great Bogat movie. Suposedly, this guy disappeared shortly after the film was shot…and nobdoy knew his real name.
Any clues?
Prester John, the mysterious priest who wrote letters to western leaders in the Middle Ages – over a period of about 300 years – describing his paradisical kingdom ‘far to the east.’ Expeditions were sent East to find him; he supplied them with maps and directions and tantylising descriptions of the fountain of youth and genstones lying scattered about on the ground as common as gravel. As a child, I hoped liked mad to be able to research as an adult what I think is the greatest Rag Week/Frat Boy prank of all time… 
No idea how you could research this, but I’ve always felt a pang when I read about someone who was well known in his lifetime, who falls right out of the history books: Catullus just disappears from history at a young age despite his contemporary fame as a poet.
And no one knows what happened to poet and criminal Francois Villon. I can’t remember if he was acquitted or escaped after his last conviction, but he vanishes from history afterwards, still a fairly young man…
Would it be ROMANCE OF ATLANTIS by Taylor Caldwell & Jess Stearn?
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We have a poster with this name and I will be damned if I can remember it, but it is a guy that has popped up for centuries, kinda like Dread Pirate Roberts. What in the heck is his name?
The count of St-Germain ?
Cecil Adams?
I love this genre which is why I read the world’s best magazine . Guess if you’re from somewhere else you might not be that interested so they have started to expand .
My favorites have been mentioned – the identity of King Arthur (I have four books that purport to tell the true identity of King Arthur. Each one has a section shredding the theories of the preceding books. Me, I’m amazed that we actually have that many candidates from the period.)
The Oak Island (Nova Scotia) Money Pit. It’s almost certainly a hoax, and the details we have are probably incorrect or romanticized. But I’d like to know the truth. The guys who wrote The Relic wrote a fictional potboiler about a thinly-disguised Oak Island pit in the book Riptide.
The correct interpretation of the symbolism of the works of Hieronymous Bosch. Most of it, I’m convinced, is way off the mark, especially Fraenger’s flighty theories.
Who carved his initials and the 1865 date into the steps of the library in my home town, and why?
And what was Greek Fire, really?
I didn’t know there was one-what’s the name of it?
Isn’t there also a legend about Blackbeard’s treasure being buried somewhere in the Outer Banks-but the owners of the property won’t allow anyone to search?
Yeah, I know . . . it sounds a bit far fetched. Basically, the theory goes that Amy’s advanced breast cancer made her bones ultra-brittle. (Apparently such a condition has been witnessed in modern times.) When Amy went down the stairs, the jarring motion of her step caused the weakened vertebre to crumble or snap, sending her sprawling.
That sounds about right. I think I picked it up at the grocery store with a book exchange thing (you drop off books that no one else would take and take some others that no one else would take lol)
On October 30th, 1938 aliens invaded America, hynotized Orson Wells who was ‘broadcasting’ the invasion into admitting it was all a hoax. The next day Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems was formed with it’s leader John Worphin and his henchmen, John BigBoote, John Smallberries and John Yaya, to name a few, who are all looking to get back to the dimension from whence they came.
God, I love that movie.
aka Count St-Germain or Comte de St-Germain
the Messiah of Elizabeth Claire Prophet’s Church Universal & Triumphant
Blue Mystery: The Story of the Hope Diamond, by Susanne Patch (1999).