Great Fire

[retrocop]

Can anyone answer how many perished in the Great Fire of London? No cheating and looking it up. I am surprised at the answer.

[shaneystar2]

In that case only three.

[Jackdaw33]

Strictly speaking, only two, Jane Seymour and Catherine Parr.

[jno]

Jane and Catherines 2 and 3

[shaneystar2]

What about Catherine Howard ?

[retrocop]

//She's supposed to have fallen down the stairs and broke her neck .
Did she fall or was she pushed :) //

Definitely shaneystar wins that one for the extra correct information. :-)

[jno]

I might be wrong but I dont think his marriage to Catherine Howard was annulled.

[shaneystar2]

Anne of Cleves survived him as well.

[Jackdaw33]

His marriages to Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard were both annulled before their execution.

[Jackdaw33]

Anne of Cleves was the great survivor. She was more than happy to get rid of Henry and take his money. She live till 1557, shortly before Queen Mary I died.

[retrocop]

Good night all.
I am off to bed now. Thanks for brightening up the evening with a lot of fun and interesting contributions.
Fancy doing this on a regular basis with British History as a main theme on this site? Anyone who joined in tonight could kick off on future evenings and we all join in again with answers and questions.

[shaneystar2]

He called her the Flanders mare .
Yes ,I like a bit of history .We should do things like this more often.
In days of yore there used to be lots of light hearted threads like this on AB.
I miss the "what do you keep in your handbag" threads :))
Night all.

[DaisyNonna]

Do visit Anne of Cleves House in Lewes if you are ever in the vicinity
Now a lovely little museum
My daughter married there

[shaneystar2]

She never actually lived there though .It was just a part of the estates granted to her by Henry.

[DaisyNonna]

True, at least she survived with something !

[shaneystar2]

Yes she did alright.In modern terms she took him to the cleaners:)

[Jackdaw33]

If anyone wants to continue this thread, here's a tricky one.

With reference to the English monarchy, what specifically connects the following dates?

1154, 1216, 1714, 1901.

[retrocop]

Coronations ?

[Jackdaw33]

No those four years only.

[retrocop]

JD
Am going to have to sleep on that one and hope I can come back to you on that.
Good night.

[jno]

change of dynasty or something like that? Too tired to think this through, I'm afraid.