Baillie Ian - Stuff and Nonsense!.. (Kings and Queens)

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About the Author

Ian Baillie was born in Birmingham in 1949. He and Kathy, his wife

of forty years, have one married son, Alex. Ian too to writing light!

hearted verse about histori"al "hara"ters to entertain and edu"ate

Alex ... and it did#


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$edi"ation

%o my wife Kathy who never lost faith or &atien"e ' trying to be

funny isn(t always amusing# And to my s&e"ial son Alex who ins&ires

me.


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an Baillie

S T U F F & N O N S E N S E :

K I N G S & Q U E E N S


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A"nowledgments

%o my dear friend and editor $avid ? =ngland without whose

resear"h, en"ouragement and good sense this wor would never have

"ome to fruition.

%o )arlos $ia whose artisti" sills effortlessly &rodu"ed the

"harming "ari"atures whi"h serve to bring the "hara"ters to life.


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Stuff & NonsenseKings & Queens

What do you know of our Monarchs?

Learn here of their life and times

I promise, forsooth, every word shall be truth

Providing, of course, that it rhymes!


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William the Conqueror ¹

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%he delay wored in


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In feudalisti" fashion

or nowledge of odwin/and he lived from around 1-- until his defeat in 1-88. His father,

=dward the )onfessor, on his death bed, "hose Harold as his su""essor and he was "rowned in ?anuary 1-88. Harold had, however, in 1-84 or

1-8, sworn +under duressL/ to su&&ort


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struggle on 14th "tober 1-88,


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William #ufus ¹

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6trong willed


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%he man was &erfe"tly horrid# ⁸

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*tuff about William II

1. %he name Dufus was derived either from his red hair or from his

ruddy "om&lexion.

. Dobert later "hallenged od(s ?udgementJ a view "onfirmed when the tower of aimar, a

historian writing in 114-, albeit for the 3orman aristo"ra"y, "alled himfine P generous. +i/

More *tuff about William II

+i/ >ardiner, ?uliet, =dC %he History %oday


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