Word: gwyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NELL GWYN: ROYAL MISTRESS (309 pp.) John H. Wilson-Pellegrini & Cudahy...
...summer's morning in 1669, Queen Catherine of England popped so inconsiderately into the bedchamber of her spouse, Charles II, that there was scarcely time for Nell Gwyn to pop out of the merry monarch's bed and slip behind the arras. The moment the good queen spied Nell's dainty slipper on the floor, she tumbled to the situation, of course, and delicately repaired her breach of court etiquette with a hasty exit and a solicitous hope that the lady might not "take cold...
...Wives of Charles II." In this series of historical mores she is able to show the character of the Merry Monarch entirely through the personalities of the men in his life. In succession, Miss Skinner played Charles' mother, a Dutch tavern girl, Lady Chartlemaine, Louise de Queroalle, Nell Gwyn, and Katherine of Braganza. As Nell, the London orange girl who became Drary Lane's leading lady, and then in Nell's own words, "danced her way into the royal bed," she displayed much of the good-natured, earthy charm that must have fascinated Charles. The intensity of the next...
Farmer Evan Thomas ran to the scene. Said he later: "The smoke of the engines was curling from the wreckage. Through it walked two men. They were the only things that moved." The two survivors Farmer Thomas saw were Gwyn Anthony, 26, and his brother-in-law, Handel Rogers, 32, both of Llanelly. They had been sitting in the tail. Said Gwyn Anthony: "The nose seemed suddenly to go up and then there was a crash ... I heard a cry. It was Handel. We called to each other and found we were both alive...