Royal Scots Grey
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What is the grossest/most horrifying royal assassination you have ever read about?
I guess mine would have to be the death of Mary Queen of Scots. It took the fool-axeman three chops to get it right--the first one hit her in the shoulder and made her scream, the second one carved halfway through her neck, and the final blow finished the job (her dog, which she had brought with her to the block beneath her petticoats, was so injured by her writhing trunk that it died the same day). When the axeman picked up her head to show it to the gallery, he seems to have accidentally pulled off its wig to reveal the mats of gray beneath it. What horror.
Please describe the assassination in detail rather than just making a reference to it--it will make the postings more interesting and be a greater test of writing.
Edward II of England died a brutal and horrible death.
September 1327: it was a dark night. Edward was being held prisoner in Berkeley Castle. Suddenly the inhabitants of the castle and the villagers heard the most unearthly screams issuing into the air.
The Brut Chronicles tell us that
"when that night the king had gone to bed and was asleep, the traitors, against their homage and their fealty, went quietly into his chamber and laid a large table on his stomach and with other men's help pressed him down. At this he woke and in fear of his life, turned himself upside down. The tyrants, false traitors, then took a horn and put it into his fundament [backside] as deep as they could, and took a pit [rod] of burning copper, and put it through the horn into his body, and oftentimes rolled therewith his bowels, and so they killed their lord and nothing was perceived."
This is the origin of the story that Edward II died from having a red hot poker inserted into his rectum and that he was killed in this manner in order that "no appearance of any wound or hurt outwardly might be once perceived".
There is another theory that the king was just suffocated, but the above story may have been made up because Edward had male favourites - a fitting death?
To this day, it is said, the screams can still be heard from Berkeley Castle.
Another horrific death, though not of a monarch, is that of the Countess of Salisbury. According to some accounts, the countess, who was 67 years old, frail and ill, was dragged to the block, but refused to lay her head on it, having to be forced down. As she struggled, the inexperienced executioner's first blow made a gash in her shoulder rather than her neck. Several additional blows were required to complete the execution. A less reputable account states that Margaret leapt from the block after the first clumsy blow and ran, pursued by the executioner, being struck eleven times before she died. Whatever the account, it is agreed that she died a hard death.
She, too is said to haunt the Tower of London on the anniversary of her execution.
Incidentally, while Mary's head was on the block, she was repeating, "In manuas tuas, Domine", and after the fatal blow her lips continued to move for another fifteen minutes.
http://www.tudorhistory.org/primary/exmary.html
Fotheringhay Castle is now a ruin. A part of the staircase was moved to an inn at Oundle, and occasionally a ghostly sad lady is still seen there.
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| Toy Soldiers- Royal Scots Greys Band 6 Pieces (Round, America, 3 inches) | | | US $75.00 | 23d 27m |
| MARX SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE 14MA "ROYAL SCOTS GREYS" EX | | | US $16.00 | 22d 18h 40m |
| BRITAINS TOY SOLDIERS #32: ROYAL SCOTS GREYS | | | US $175.00 | 25d 1h 36m |
| British Royal Scots Greys Metal Soldiers Lot of Six | | | US $54.99 | 13d 1h 34m |
| William Britain Britains 40200 Royal Scots Grey Mounted Figure | | | US $97.99 | 39m |
| Britains 1971 Detail Waterloo Royal Scots Greys x3 | | 0 Bid | US $15.70 | 6d 54m |
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55022 Royal Scots Grey The Cornish Explorer
Is it true that the 2nd Royal Scots Greys in the Battle of Waterloo charges the French?
I heard that they literally didn't have time to charge to the French as not depicted in Lady Butler's painting of 1881.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Butler_Lady_Scotland_for_Ever.jpg
yes, it is true.
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Incidentally, the picture on top of this doesn't look like the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava but more like Dragoons at Waterloo. Charge of Royal Scots Greys? They look a bit HEAVY to me but isn't that some sort of Scots beer mixture? Answers on a beermat please.
Best wishes,
Richard