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  • DooneDoone Shipmate
    My grandmother always held that one was as old as the age of your youngest child plus 25.

    Doesn’t help me much I’m afraid 🤣!
  • SparrowSparrow Shipmate
    Piglet wrote: »
    Edward V - just to put CCTV in his room in the Tower and see whodunnit.

    I think it was either the Duke of Buckingham or someone at the behest of Henry Tudor, but I'm a bit of a Ricardian.

    A letter in the latest edition of the Ricardian (the magazine of the Richard III Society) puts forward evidence for it being Sir Walter Tyrel.
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    Does me - reduces my age by a good 13 years; but then our combined age was over 80 when the twins were born.
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    My grandmother always held that one was as old as the age of your youngest child plus 25.

    Not true for us or many others we know
  • Bill_NobleBill_Noble Shipmate
    Lyda wrote: »
    Are there any current shipmates under thirty? :hushed:

    Ship Of Fools: The Website of Senior Momen...... sorry, what was the topic? 😉

  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    edited March 7
    My grandmother always held that one was as old as the age of your youngest child plus 25.
    Works for me. Knocks more than 20 years off my age. But it could be problematic if there’s a big gap between your oldest and your youngest.
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    The gap between my oldest and youngest is 50 seconds 😈
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    If I’m my youngest plus 25, I was only 13 when my oldest was born.
  • Penny SPenny S Shipmate
    Is that the Tyrell family, assassins by appointment to the royal family- see William Rufus, killed by Walter of that name, and James of the name, blamed for the princes by Thomas More.
  • SandemaniacSandemaniac Shipmate
    Alfred the Great - just imagine the potential for appearing on Bake Off!
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    Penny S wrote: »
    Is that the Tyrell family, assassins by appointment to the royal family- see William Rufus, killed by Walter of that name, and James of the name, blamed for the princes by Thomas More.

    Supposedly, but it wasn't believed even at the time since Tyrrel was Constable of Calais and in France at the time the princes vanished from sight. He was executed by Henry VII on the grounds that he was involed in a plot to put one of the De la Poles (children of Margaret Plantagenet) on the throne.
  • Golden KeyGolden Key Shipmate
    Re why I chose Cleopatra:

    I'd like to meet her, in company with a translator and some kind of cultural intermediary, to see what she really was/is like. Not necessarily to have her in power again. There are some interesting ideas about her, like possibly being a priestess.

    To borrow from an episode in the original "MacGyver" which included a musical about her, "Cleo rocks!"
    ;)
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    Penny S wrote: »
    Is that the Tyrell family, assassins by appointment to the royal family- see William Rufus, killed by Walter of that name, and James of the name, blamed for the princes by Thomas More.

    The Tyrells make superb Shiraz (Hermitage) and Semillon wines, as well as those very good but rather less expensive.
  • Penny SPenny S Shipmate
    And crisps.
  • sionisaissionisais Shipmate

    William IV.

    Seconded, not least because he lived until Victoria was old enough to reign in her own right.
  • AnselminaAnselmina Shipmate
    Another vote for Clement Atlee, from back in the days when one suspects few men of his kind wore cologne, used deoderant, and whose suits probably smelt a bit mothbally, and whose general image was of a rather down-at-heel seedy headmaster, but who could actually run the country and get things done, according to firm principles and morals. Not that I have anything against men smelling nice and fresh! Far from it. But it seems to be all about grooming these days, even to the extent of the fetishising of Johnson's deliberate neglected look, or the 'Victorian haunted pencil' appeal of Rees Mogg. The first time I ever thought 'style over substance' was listening to and watching Tony Blair doing his People's Princess tripe in the Downing Street garden, after Diana's death.
  • wabalewabale Shipmate
    Æthelred the Unready. I just think he was extremely unlucky and deserves a second chance.
  • Gramps49Gramps49 Shipmate
    Abe Lincoln for his homespun humour and down to earth wisdom.
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