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Happy Oak Apple Day everyone! Today we celebrate the restoration of Charles II, nicknamed the Oak Apple for the time he spent hiding from Roundhead soldiers in the branches of an oak tree. (James Duke of York at right) #KeepItStuart #History
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Generalissima: A Novel of #HenriettaMaria
https://t.co/lbvqvNbCeq
#CharlesI #Stuarts #WarsoftheThreeKingdoms #KeepItStuart #histfic
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Mary of Modena gave birth to Princess Louisa Maria Teresa in 1692. The girl was known as “La Consolatrice” because she soothed her father, James II and VII, in his exile at St Germain-en-Laye. #portrait JF de Troye #Jacobite #KeepItStuart
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The playwright Thomas Killigrew (aka “the King’s Jester”) served Charles I faithfully, as this 1650 portrait suggests. Post-Restoration he managed The King’s Players theatre for Charles II. #portrait Wm Sheppard #KeepItStuart
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James Duke of York was designated Lord High Admiral at the age of four. After the Royal Navy won New Netherlands from the Dutch in 1664, he gave his name to redub the colony #NewYork. Thereafter he kept a map of it in his Whitehall office. #KeepItStuart #history #swagger
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Charles I with fulsome lovelock. This Cavalier hairdo inspired “A Gagge for All Long-haired Rattle-heads who Revile Civil Round-heads” and other pamphlets c 1646 Attributed to D Mijtens #KeepItStuart
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Charles II pictured in the Royal Oak near Boscobel House, where he hid from Roundhead soldiers after the Battle of Worcester. The #Stuart king effortlessly inhabits the archetype of the Green Man. #history #KeepItStuart
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#MonumentsMonday Brass to Francis Hayes (d.1623) in stone surround St. Cuthberts, Wells, Somerset 📸: My photo #momentomori #KeepItStuart
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James Scott, Duke of Monmouth c 1659. He seemed to demonstrate the folk belief that love-сhildren are prettier. Monmouth himself clung to the rumour that his father, Charles II, had married his mother in secret. The king laughed it off #portrait S Cooper #KeepItStuart
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In 1938 Georgette Heyer wrote Royal Escape, a historical fiction about the escape of Charles II from Cromwell's armies in 1651. She visited many locations where the Stuart king hid during his flight into exile. #KeepItStuart #HistFic #LegendaryWednesday
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James II and VII’s heroic love-child, James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, aged 18. He cut his teeth as a soldier facing off against Ottoman Janissaries at Buda in 1684. portrait Pierre Mignard. #KeepItStuart
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In 2014 Pope Francis beatified Maria Cristina of Savoy, a direct descendant of Henrietta of England (seen here holding a portrait of Philippe d’Orléans). Henrietta is the source of the present #Jacobite line. #KeepItStuart #history
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One of Henrietta Maria’s first acts as Queen of England was to make a pilgrimage to Tyburn Tree in order to honour the English Martyrs, whose feast day in today. It did not endear her to the Puritans. #portrait Van Dyck c 1630 #KeepItStuart
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I'm going for a 1690s look today. See you in less than an hour for #StuartSaturdayLive! #KeepItStuart
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For #StuartSaturday some #StuartNews: Our @17thCenturyLady, Andrea Zuvich, is in Historia magazine tomorrow, writing about (who else but) Barbara Villiers! #KeepItStuart #Ravenous
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Review copies finally arrived. #Generalissima #histfic #keepitstuart #StuartSaturday #HenrietteMariedeFrance #HenriettaMaria
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The @StuartHistFest is only days away! Come #KeepItStuart with us in person in Worcester, England, OR online from anywhere in the world! https://t.co/pFol2m7V6l
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Initials carved 1714 & 1718 in Bishop Cosin's chapel at Auckland Palace. In 1604, the 3-year-old Prince Charles stayed here on his epic journey from Dunfermline to Windsor, where he rejoined his family. #KeepitStuart 📕 https://t.co/Yjf0wKsf3L
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