wiki-illiam #107: q10
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i: Who took on three regencies?
Catherine de' Medici was Queen consort of France as the wife of King Henry II: on Henry's death she was mother of, hence regent for, her 15-yr-old son Francis II, then her 10-year-old son King Charles IX, then for her third son, Henry III (CGM and SB via google)
ii: Which consort outlived the King by 61 years?
Catherine Stenbock was the third and final wife of King Gustav I of Sweden, and lived as a widow after his death in 1560 for a further 61 years (SB via google)
iii: Who steered behind the umbrella on Lake Maggiore?
CATHERINE BARKLEY and her love Frederic Henry escape in a rowing boat from the cops in this fashion, in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms (KS via google)
iv: Who received details of the School of Pain from her invalid cousin?
KATY CARR of What Katy Did, as instructed by her injured cousin Helen (MM)
v: Whose love for one was like the foliage in the woods, but for the other resembled the eternal rocks beneath?
CATHERINE EARNSHAW in Wuthering Heights, respectively for Edward Linton and Heathcliff (MM)
vi: Whose love letter included the words "I wode you war wythe me now that you mouthe se wat pane I take yn wryteg to you"?
Henry VIII's fifth wife KATHERYN HOWARD to Thomas Culpeper, April 1541 (PM)
vii: What request received the response "what, in the midst of the street?"?
This is KATERINA's response to Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew (PJ)
viii: Whose canine collection included items about clouds and sky?
In KATE BUSH's LP Hounds of Love, songtitles include 'Cloudbursting' and 'Big Sky' (PJ, MM)
ix: Whose dancing is likened to a jelly on a plate?
As FATS WALLER sings, "I wish I could I shimmy like my sister Kate/She shimmies like a jelly on a plate" (SB via google)
x: Who recently excluded obedience?
KATE MIDDLETON, Duchess of Cambridge, in her wedding vows to whoever it was (PJ, BBP)
Catherine de' Medici was Queen consort of France as the wife of King Henry II: on Henry's death she was mother of, hence regent for, her 15-yr-old son Francis II, then her 10-year-old son King Charles IX, then for her third son, Henry III (CGM and SB via google)
Catherine Stenbock was the third and final wife of King Gustav I of Sweden, and lived as a widow after his death in 1560 for a further 61 years (SB via google)
CATHERINE BARKLEY and her love Frederic Henry escape in a rowing boat from the cops in this fashion, in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms (KS via google)
KATY CARR of What Katy Did, as instructed by her injured cousin Helen (MM)
CATHERINE EARNSHAW in Wuthering Heights, respectively for Edward Linton and Heathcliff (MM)
Henry VIII's fifth wife KATHERYN HOWARD to Thomas Culpeper, April 1541 (PM)
This is KATERINA's response to Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew (PJ)
In KATE BUSH's LP Hounds of Love, songtitles include 'Cloudbursting' and 'Big Sky' (PJ, MM)
As FATS WALLER sings, "I wish I could I shimmy like my sister Kate/She shimmies like a jelly on a plate" (SB via google)
KATE MIDDLETON, Duchess of Cambridge, in her wedding vows to whoever it was (PJ, BBP)
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