dynastic nonsense
I swear to god, real political dynasties are so complicated & disbelief-suspending that if you wrote them people would be like OH HOW CONVENIENT.
For example, I’m reading about Joanna I of Naples. Joanna’s grandfather was the 3rd son, never intended to inherit anything, except he and his next oldest and next youngest brother got sent away to be hostages and treated brutally for 7 years just before he returned his oldest brother died and his next oldest brother who had been imprisoned with him...
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Deirdre
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May 12, 2014 02:45AM
how interesting, loved the fact that with the Lisbon Earthquake one of the royal daughters saved the family by wanting to go away from Lisbon on the day. That would also be OH HOW CONVENIENT. Also fascinated that the Spanish Arch was hit in Galway by the tsunami, didn't know that...
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Deirdre wrote: "how interesting, loved the fact that with the Lisbon Earthquake one of the royal daughters saved the family by wanting to go away from Lisbon on the day. That would also be OH HOW CONVENIENT. Als..."Yes! OH HOW CONVENIENT! Seriously! If you wrote this stuff people would just be like COME ON GET REAL HERE FOLKS! :)
C.E. wrote:Yes! OH HOW CONVENIENT! Seriously! If you wrote this stuff people would just be like COME ON GET REAL HERE FOLKS! :) THAT DOESN'T EVER HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE!!!
