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Amy Humphries 🌱🌸
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PhD Student at Liverpool University looking at the royal women of the early Georgian court. Plant lover. Foodie. Happiest by the sea. 🌊🍄🪴| She/Her
Royals are notoriously hard to buy for. What do you get people who have everything? When in doubt, do what Admiral Boscawen did in April 1750 for Frederick, Prince of Wales and get the royal in your life a 476lb tortoise. 🐢

#18thCentury #Hanoverians #Georgians
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
An interesting note in the London Evening Post for 1-3 April 1740: the death of Mr Earnest, a Page of the Back Stairs to the Prince of Wales whose likeness was taken for the figure of Merlin that featured in Merlin's Cave, built in 1735 for Queen Caroline of Ansbach in the gardens of Richmond Lodge.
September 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Back with the newspapers today, looking at mentions of the Prince and Princess of Wales in 1738. Of course, there's more there than just Frederick and Augusta. The papers yield unexpected gems like this one, from 29 September. A reminder that humans have always, always been messy and ridiculous:
June 6, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Celebrities being declared dead by the media is not a new thing! Check out this newspaper snippet from the London Daily Post and General Advertiser from 14 October 1738. The poor Earl of Darnley, despite being killed off by the papers, has turned up fit and healthy at Prince Frederick's court! 😂
June 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
#OnThisDay in 1738, John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont noted in his diary that 'The Princess of Wales was brought to bed of a boy, which the same night received private baptism, there being doubt if he would live'. This baby was the future George III, one of Britain's longest reigning monarchs.
June 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Starting the weekend right (and indulgently) with a cuppa and a cinnamon bun. 😋
January 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
My Duolingo streak is now so long that the Wars of the Roses have started! ⚔️
January 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Started the first Saturday of the New Year right and picked up some books at the library this morning. 📚

Looking forward to getting stuck into these after I’ve finished Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy! 🕵🏻‍♀️

What’s on your reading list this year? 📖

#libraries #reading #books
January 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM