I watched every one.  it was the story line not the Totty with heaving bosoms! That held me transfixed 

Absolutely! Snappy story lines, and Ryan Gage as Kingie did a wonderful job as naive, loopy, randy, very loopy, murderous and then a bit more loopy.

The heaving bosoms did help though.

Quote from: fsn on 05 April 2015, 07:29:15 PM
Absolutely! Snappy story lines, and Ryan Gage as Kingie did a wonderful job as naive, loopy, randy, very loopy, murderous and then a bit more loopy.

The heaving bosoms did help though.

Its all that inbreeding that makes Royalty loopy.

Quote from: Ithoriel on 05 April 2015, 04:22:26 PM
2nd Company of the musketeers reported to Richelieu and then, on his death, to Cardinal Mazarin. Mazarin eventually disbanded them, iirc.

The two companies of Mousquetaires du Roi (the grey and the black, after the colour of their horses) were still part of the Maison du Roi at Ramilles in 1706. The corps survived through to 1814. 

Finally bothered to go look this up - as I should have done in the first place!

From Wikipedia:

They were founded in 1622 when Louis XIII furnished a company of light cavalry (the carabins, created by Louis' father Henry IV) with muskets. The Musketeers fought in battle both on foot (infantry) and on horseback (cavalry). They formed the royal guard for the king while he was outside of the royal residences (within the royal residences, the king's guard was the Garde du corps and the Gardes suisses). The Musketeers of the Guard wore an early type of military uniform with a tabard (known as soubreveste), indicating that they "belonged" to the King, and an embroidered white cross denoting the fact that they were formed during the Huguenot rebellions in support of the Catholic cause.

Shortly after the Musketeers were established and then a second company was founded to report to Cardinal Richelieu. At the cardinal's death in 1642, the company passed to his successor Cardinal Mazarin, who disbanded his Musketeers in 1646. He revived the Musketeers in 1657 with a company of 150 men. At Mazarin's death in 1661, the cardinal's Musketeers passed to Louis XIV.

In 1664, the two companies were reorganized: one company took the name "Grey Musketeers" (mousquetaires gris) from the color of their matched horses, while the second were called "Black Musketeers" (mousquetaires noirs), mounted on black horses. At roughly the same time, the size of the Musketeer companies was doubled.

The Musketeers were among the most prestigious of the military companies of the Ancien Régime, and in principle membership in the companies was reserved for nobles. With the reforms of Michel le Tellier – which mandated a certain number of years of military service before nobles could attain the rank of officer – many nobles sought to do this service in the privileged Musketeer companies.

In 1776, the Musketeers were disbanded by Louis XVI for budgetary reasons. Reformed in 1789, they were disbanded again shortly afterward during the French Revolution. They were reformed on July 6, 1814, and definitively disbanded on January 1, 1816.

Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 06 April 2015, 11:21:24 AM
Its all that inbreeding that makes Royalty loopy.

I wonder how many of us are 'Royal.'

FSN is definitely 'Royal' - or should that be 'Royle?'

Very interesting, by the way, Ithoriel.

Quote from: Westmarcher on 07 April 2015, 12:08:53 PM
I wonder how many of us are 'Royal.'

FSN is definitely 'Royal' - or should that be 'Royle?'

Very interesting, by the way, Ithoriel.

Probably quite a few, none of them seem to be able to keep thier pants on - male or female.

There's a reason my family's traditional middle name is 'Stuart'...

3rd season just announced

Quote from: mad lemmey on 08 April 2015, 01:05:55 AM
There's a reason my family's traditional middle name is 'Stuart'...

Because you have a tendency to lose your head?

5'10" now, 4'8" at death?

Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 07 April 2015, 10:58:04 PM
Probably quite a few, none of them seem to be able to keep thier pants on - male or female.

As witnessed by Richard III's last living relative - a furniture-maker from North London. 

Quote from: Westmarcher on 07 April 2015, 12:08:53 PM
I wonder how many of us are 'Royal.'

Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 07 April 2015, 10:58:04 PM
Probably quite a few, none of them seem to be able to keep thier pants on - male or female.

Good point, Orcs. Wasn't thinking about that angle - was thinking more about the 'loopy' part!

Quote from: mad lemmey on 08 April 2015, 01:05:55 AM
There's a reason my family's traditional middle name is 'Stuart'...

As a further example, when you read Scottish history from about the 15th century onwards, it frequently happens that 'real' name of the Scottish noble or land owner you are reading about is 'James Stewart' because of marriage or the activity Orcs is referring to. OK when the author refers to them by title but when he starts referring to the different personalities by name (e.g., personality is referred to as 'Moray' - but that's his title - real name is Stewart), it gets a tad confusing. Stuart, by the way, is the French form of Stewart which Mary Queen of Scots introduced when she returned to Scotland after her husband, the Dauphine, died.

Just to confirm, it was a Stuart and a chambermaid!

I once had a fellow student who had imperial Byzantine ancestry. Sadly, her Greek name (Kantekouzinos) was beyond South African pronounciation, and she changed it to Cousins.
I've got some Stuart ancestry myself. But so have about fifty thousand other people, sadly.