saturday in London
I am back from a lovely holiday in England. Nice and rested and with new energy to spend on the practice.
I want to tell everyone about a great exhibition about Henry VIII at the British Library. It has been curated by David Starkey, an historian who has also w
ritten books about Henry. The exhibit is full of original texts and many paintings and it was a joy to look at. Most of the information was not new to me, luckily as we had a nine year old along. And I could now use my time to tell her the history in a way that was interesting for her. Of course she loved all the gory details of the six wives and especially the beheadings. It was a bit harder to get the whole complicated family across, the importance of Henry's mother, Elisabeth of York for peace after the wars of the roses. And the emergence of the Anglican church. I stayed out of protestantism in Europe at that time LOL. That is for when she is a lot older. She did give me the compliment that I was much better at 
telling it then her mother.
We spend a bit of time in the rest of the library. I had not been here before but my memory tells me it used to be part of the British museum at one time, not sure if that is correct. I was in awe of the old manuscripts. Of course especially at one of the four remaining copies of the Magna Carta. Again it was tough but interesting to make Liza understand the importance of this old document. It was really the beginning of the end for dominance of kings in Europe although it would take many centuries before that became reality. King John of course is a lovely subject to tell horrid stories about to a child. What he did to the Braose's wife was an absolute favorite with her. :)
We wanted to end the day at Madame Tussaud's to do something more child friendly but a 2 hour queue kept us from that. Instead we took a bus tour to take in the cities highlights. Really London is my favorite town on earth. We had decided against going to the tower but when Liza saw it and saw they had another exhibit about Henry she really wanted to go there. But it was 17.30 by now and raining, we did not leave the bus. If I had the money I would plan another weekend to London to go and see that one. unfortunately the exhibit at Hampton Court has ended already. :(
All in all a great last day to our holiday.
I want to tell everyone about a great exhibition about Henry VIII at the British Library. It has been curated by David Starkey, an historian who has also w
ritten books about Henry. The exhibit is full of original texts and many paintings and it was a joy to look at. Most of the information was not new to me, luckily as we had a nine year old along. And I could now use my time to tell her the history in a way that was interesting for her. Of course she loved all the gory details of the six wives and especially the beheadings. It was a bit harder to get the whole complicated family across, the importance of Henry's mother, Elisabeth of York for peace after the wars of the roses. And the emergence of the Anglican church. I stayed out of protestantism in Europe at that time LOL. That is for when she is a lot older. She did give me the compliment that I was much better at 
telling it then her mother.We spend a bit of time in the rest of the library. I had not been here before but my memory tells me it used to be part of the British museum at one time, not sure if that is correct. I was in awe of the old manuscripts. Of course especially at one of the four remaining copies of the Magna Carta. Again it was tough but interesting to make Liza understand the importance of this old document. It was really the beginning of the end for dominance of kings in Europe although it would take many centuries before that became reality. King John of course is a lovely subject to tell horrid stories about to a child. What he did to the Braose's wife was an absolute favorite with her. :)
We wanted to end the day at Madame Tussaud's to do something more child friendly but a 2 hour queue kept us from that. Instead we took a bus tour to take in the cities highlights. Really London is my favorite town on earth. We had decided against going to the tower but when Liza saw it and saw they had another exhibit about Henry she really wanted to go there. But it was 17.30 by now and raining, we did not leave the bus. If I had the money I would plan another weekend to London to go and see that one. unfortunately the exhibit at Hampton Court has ended already. :(
All in all a great last day to our holiday.
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