The musings and meandering thoughts of a crotchety old man as he observes life in the world and in a small, rural town in South East Nebraska. My Pledge-Nulla dies sine linea-Not a day with out a line.
12 December 2024
The Queen’s Dwarf & the Giant Pie ~ the Life of Jeffrey Hudson
Seventeenth century England produced an awful lot of wonderful characters. In this video I recount the life story of Jeffrey Hudson, a man from a humble background, who due to his development of proportional dwarfism in childhood would find himself at the very epicentre of the court life on the eve of the English Civil War. His life story, includes such japes and frivolities of being baked in a pie, and being put inside a giant's sandwich, for the entertainment of the court, but it had a darker side. He killed a man in duel, he was twice being captured by pirates, he spent decades in slavery, and eventually time in prison in London. The life of Jeffrey Judson seems almost too far-fetched to be true, but sometimes fact is indeed stranger than fiction!
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Comments are subject to deletion if they are not germane. I have no problem with a bit of colourful language, but blasphemy or depraved profanity will not be allowed. Attacks on the Catholic Faith will not be tolerated. Comments will be deleted that are republican (Yanks! Note the lower case 'r'!), attacks on the legitimacy of Pope Francis as the Vicar of Christ (I know he's a material heretic and a Protector of Perverts, and I definitely want him gone yesterday! However, he is Pope, and I pray for him every day.), the legitimacy of the House of Windsor or of the claims of the Elder Line of the House of France, or attacks on the legitimacy of any of the currently ruling Houses of Europe.