November 14, 2025
Queen Camilla had a great-grandmother who was a mistress of King Edward VII. Camilla reportedly began her romance with Charles by asking him, “My great-grandmother was your great-great-grandfather’s mistress, so how about it?”
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Queen Elizabeth’s Court Occultist
In 2016, X-ray examination of Henry Gillard Glindoni’s painting John Dee Performing an Experiment before Elizabeth I revealed that a circle of human skulls was present in an earlier version of the work. The finished painting depicts a scene that looks rather like a mundane chemistry experiment, but
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