Mary Cole | Mary Cole
Aug.08.2012
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The Berkeleys strive to press home their advantage whilst they may...but with some opposition from above
Mrs Price stormed off to her kin in an uppity frame of mind. The dust settled upon the cornices and the spiders scuttled out from their bullet-hole webs outside the sash...
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Aug.04.2012
The Berkeleys follow the Royal Court to Weymouth and all goes according to plan...at first
In the scorching summer of 1797, His Majesty agitated to be breathing the ozone of his beloved Dorset coast and the Royal Court removed to Gloucester House in the little port of Weymouth, along with...
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Mar.12.2012
This is the third of four blogs about destiny. The first and second can be found here.
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Friedrich Schiller
Authors are becoming accustomed to promoting their own wares. We...
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Nov.20.2011
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. Jean de La Fontaine
Destiny is something we refer to casually, a big portmanteau sort of word, but what does it mean? The same thing as fate, I guess. Both words are imprecise, both loaded with nuance that delivers a...
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Aug.11.2011
When THE WOLF AND THE LAMB, Book One of the Berkeley Trilogy, was a Work in Progress, I described it as a biographical novel, a recognised genre. Several months after publication, the tag was changed to 'novelised biography'. This doesn't fit under a ready-made heading, but more...
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May.05.2011
"They shall never get the marriage chain around my neck!"
(continued from last episode )
Mr Carrington was taken aside and the plan to marry outlined. The need for reticence was stressed. Berkeley would be obliged for his services as a witness. William Tudor, who had returned from a...
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Jan.20.2011
George, Prince of Wales sinks into the slough of despond and compares notes with his intimate friend, Fred Berkeley
“The bird has flown! She is gone to France! Oh, to kiss the soil of Calais!” George, Prince of Wales, was pacing his apartments at Carlton House in great...
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Jan.14.2011
Today's announcement (January 14, 2011) that Mrs Daisy Berkeley, wife of Mrs Charles Berkeley, Director of Berkeley Castle, has given birth to a daughter, has me wavering between goosebumps and tears. They are naming her Mary.
This will be the first Mary to live there since...
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Dec.17.2010
Of all Georgian women, 'Miss Tudor' fully deserved the title she eventually acquired. She and her children could at any moment have been left destitute with no rights in a culture that had no respect for 'fallen' women.
It was the time of the equinox. They were to vacate the castle...
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Nov.21.2010
The Countess braves society in earnest at a fund-raising ball
Arundel Castle was as archaic as its cousin of Berkeley and its families were interknit. Its motte post-dated the Battle of Hastings by one year only. Never having been favoured as the chief ducal seat of the Norfolks, it...
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