Great Fire

[retrocop]

Can anyone answer how many perished in the Great Fire of London? No cheating and looking it up. I am surprised at the answer.

[retrocop]

I think shaneystar is the ace on English royalty tonight. I reckon she is correct with Richard.

[shaneystar2]

Lol..I'm off to bed .Need my beauty sleep.
That's a lot of sleep I need :)
Very hot here still. Nice thread. Much more interesting than some of the hot air on here lately:)
Night folks .

[Jackdaw33]

Quite right. Although they may have had a knowledge of English, all the Kings from William I to Edward III conversed in French.

[shaneystar2]

Yoohoo AP ..nice to see you .

[retrocop]

Good night shaneystar2. Glad you appreciated it. Thanks for your participation .

[Answerprancer]

Hello Shaney, thanks - you too :-)

[retrocop]

The constructors of Waterloo Bridge were predominately women.

[Jackdaw33]

In 1817?

[shaneystar2]

Well I never .You learn something new every day here.

[retrocop]

Amy Robsart was the wife of which "lover/good friend "of which Royal personage ?

[retrocop]

Easy one for avid Jean Plaidy book readers I'm told?

[shaneystar2]

Elizabeth 1 .She was the wife of Robert Dudley . He locked her up in a tower or some such place .

[Jackdaw33]

Earl of Leicester/Elizabeth I

[shaneystar2]

She's supposed to have fallen down the stairs and broke her neck .
Did she fall or was she pushed :)

[Jackdaw33]

Tricky one, depending on legal definitions. How many wives of Henry VIII were divorced?

[shaneystar2]

I thought he divorced two.
At school we learnt ,
Divorced ,beheaded,died,divorced ,beheaded ,survived .

[Jackdaw33]

I was taught the same but the answer is none. His marriages were annulled which is different from divorce.

[shaneystar2]

Of course, canon law.

[Jackdaw33]

Following on, how many of his marriages were annulled?

[jno]

so how many wives did Henry have?