quick quiz

[ciroccoj]

Who here knows what the mnemonic "Kate, Anne, Jane, Anne, two Kates again" refers to?

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[linaelyn.livejournal.com]

Queens of England? Just a wild guess.

Oh, hey. Doesn't that match up with Henry VIII's wives nicely?

[snarkhunter.livejournal.com]

The six wives of Henry VIII: Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Katherine Parr. Their fates, respectively, were divorce, beheading, death in childbirth, divorce w/o consummation, beheading, and survival of the old goat.

Only the first three had children: Mary, Elizabeth, and Edward, in that order. :) :)

[notpoetry.livejournal.com]

Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived!

[sangerin.livejournal.com]

Wives of Henry the Eighth. Except it doesn't help with the question of which one was Aragon (the first), which was Howard and which was Parr - I have no earthly idea. (Then there's whether they died, were killed or were divorced, and who was alive at the end...)

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Yup!

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Divorce without consummation? Hadn't heard that one. Huh.

Survival of the old goat. Hee. That would be like surviving a year of teaching Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts ;)

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Heh - yup, that's the other mnemonic.

And Chris says there's no point in learning history. Bah.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Ding! Correct!