On This Day...

1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh, once a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, is beheaded in Whitehall, London.

1964 - The union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar becomes law, forming the new state of Tanzania.

1972 - Palestinian terrorists hi-jack a German airliner and demand the release of three Arab terrorists captured during the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich.

1975 - 20 people are seriously injured in an IRA bomb attack on a restaurant in London's Mayfair district.

1986 - The world's longest bypass, the London Orbital M25, is formally opened by Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.  The motorway took 14 years to construct.

2003 - Iain Duncan Smith is ousted as leader of the Conservative Party in a no-confidence vote.

Comments

[Richard Carey]

Re: Sir Walter

His last words, after he was allowed to view the axe that would behead him, were "This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all Diseases."

Those bloody Stuarts!

[aileen]

I think the Tudors were worse. Henry VIII takes some beating in the monster stakes.

Richard

I take it "Those Bloody Stuarts" are your words not his ;o)

[Richard Carey]

Aileen,

Indeed!

re: the Tudors, I'll give you Henry VIII, and Mary who was so bloody they made a drink out of her, but be fair, good Queen Bess and her brother the little Edward earn them some points.

[aileen]

Richard

I would have liked to have thought that Sir Walter had uttered that. I have never understtod why so many in those times submitted to the axe with words like "my sweet and mercifal prince" on their lips. Anne Boyleyn should have told it like is was although she may have been thinking of Elizabeth's welfare.

Elizabeth did seem to be relativley free of bloodlust. I am angry with her for her callous indiffernce to the fate of so many of the sailors who defeated the Spanish.

As for Edward. I wonder how he may have turned out. It's possible that he would have turned out to be just the Pord version of Mary. Apart from what Henry VIII did to so many people, including his wives, the damage he did to his children is overlooked. I don't think Mary would have become a monster of not for his treatment of her. Edward by all accounts was a cold fish and that might have spelt dangers.

[aileen]

oops "Prod" version of Mary.

[Richard Carey]

Aileen,

Edward was only 15 when he died (I think) so hard to judge his character. Anything done in his reign was by his guardians.

I don't know about Elizabeth's callous indifference, but can believe it. She was remembered fondly and the Elizabethan era was looked back on as a golden age, but judging by today's standards, Henry's kids certainly had issues!

[aileen]

Richard

I wasn't thinking of the actions of his ministers but his letters and more particularly his journal.

Apparantly Elizabeth didn't see the point in paying them when the danger was over and they had ruined themselves in the nation's defence.

Re her issues. I think that there is only one mention that she ever made of her mother. I would loved to have known what she really thought of her father and what he did to her mother and her uncle (and indeed to her aunt).

[alison]

Edward certainly seeed very determined and calculating when it came to the transfer of power and from his letters seems to have been a very intelligent young man.

Elizabeth was very clever when it came to managing power in a mans world and a particularly dangerous one for a queen at that. I think she did an amazing job overall. She certainly put England on the map.

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