400 Years of Queen Elizabeth, 1 year of Marketing Smoking Something

[eredien]

Writing has fleshed out my thesis. Yay.

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I saw today (when my mom brought in the mail) a catalog full of fine gifts--china, glassware, $100 tchotchkes to take up dust off your custom-designed mantelpiece.

There was also a great Queen Elizabeth doll--beautiful, and I found it hard to believe that come 2004 she'll have been dead 400 years. Maybe (okay, yes) I've studied too much Renaissance drama, and too much history, but I still feel like Elizabeth (I just can't bring myself to refer to her as Bess) is still here influencing everything about Western culture since her birth and beyone her death.

That's an amazing thing.

Also, there was a set of King Henry VIII and his Wives fabric Christmas ornaments. If it hadn't been incredibly expensive I would have bought it. I find the concept of decorating your tree with the wives of Henry VIII both amusing and redemptive, somehow. Though it was rather hard to tell which wife was which.
I'm bringing the catalog back to school with me, the ad is going to go up on the board. :D

Comments

[daisho.livejournal.com]

Umm... it was Henry VIII who had all the wives. His father was married only once, to Elizabeth of York.

And don't worry, most Brits never refer to Elizabeth I as "good Queen Bess" either. ;)

I am Henry the somethingth or other...um, which one?

[eredien]

Oops, left off a "I". Stupid typos. Fixed now.

[daisho.livejournal.com]

I suspected it was probably a typo, but I just couldn't let it go without a comment. ;)