After submitting my Habil thesis I have finally time to read other stuff, as this essay collection on the wedding of Charles I and Henrietta Maria. It's waiting for me to review for... too long.
So, far I'm really enjoying it. As it's about a royal wedding there's also lots of #emdiplomacy going on.
The King of England lies dying and one of his sons has been exiled. A princess has vanished. Plague stalks the land and the Treasury has been plundered.
NOW is the time for strange women lying in ponds to distribute swords to form the basis of government.
Today in Labor History February 1, 1908: Republicans and members of the Carbonaria killed King Carlos I of Portugal and his heir apparent in the Lisbon Regicide. As a result of the assassinations and the anti-monarchy protests that followed, the constitutional monarchy ended several months later.