Let’s start with England’s James II:
Arabella Churchill
…and
Dorothy Sedley
…then on to France’s Napoleon Bonaparte:
Maria Walewska
…and his nephew, Napoleon III:
Harriet Howard
Rachel Félix
Virginie Castiglione
Back across the Channel, we have England’s William IV:
Dorothea Jordan
And finally, across the Atlantic, the mistress of yet another William:
Monica Lewinsky
…and not “Karen”, as we know the bitch-genre of today. Karren Brady is altogether the right sort of woman (see here for the details, which include the fact that she’s Conservative, as opposed to being a Limo-Labourite).
All very impressive, but not as impressive as the lady (okay, Baroness) is in person:
Of course, she’s no longer an ingenue business wizard; in fact, she has a daughter who could be regarded as equally toothsome:
Quite the genetic lineage, there… but to the surprise of not a single Reader, I prefer Mommy.
Here’s one which set my teeth on edge:
MSNBC host Joy Reid lamented that black Americans have not received sufficient reparations for “literally, physically” building this country.
Ignoring for the moment all the Chinese workers who built the railroads and the (largely) White guys who built the skyscrapers… wait, skyscrapers?
You see, without the eeevil Whitey and his supremacist designs and engineering and stuff, we’d have ended up with, shall we say more modest structures:
Oh, I know: this silly woman was talking about political “reparations” (I just couldn’t resist the opportunity for a cheap shot, shoot me). Here’s the full excerpt, then:
MSNBC host Joy Reid lamented that black Americans have not received sufficient reparations for “literally, physically” building this country, believing that former President Barack Obama’s eight-year tenure is the best they will get.
Yeah I know, the jokes write themselves. “Eight? You mean twelve“ and “If Obama was the best deal Blacks could get for themselves, y’all are in deep shit”, etc.
I would never have believed it, but I’m getting sicker of the race bullshit in the U.S. than I was of the race bullshit back in the old Racist Republic.
See, what people like Joy Reid need to do is to go and live in somewhere like South Africa forever for a couple of years, just to see how that “political reparations” thing is likely to work out.
Stupid bitch.
Although she was made famous to American audiences in Dynasty, Stephanie Beacham had already had quite a career beforehand. But who cares? Today, she’s in her sizzling seventies, and looks as good as she always did. Proof? you say? In more-or-less chronological order, then:
As we all remember her in Dynasty — with the big hair:
And nowadays…
(click to embiggen — and note the freckled cleavage!!!!)
Beautiful back then, stunning now.
I know I’ve featured Anita Ekberg on these pages many times before, as well as giving her a little solo outing; but can one ever have too much Ekberg, I ask? I think not. So here are a few I haven’t posted before:
Stunning? I report, you decide.
Actor David Niven once described the Young sisters (Polly Ann, Elizabeth and Loretta) thus: “Each one was prettier than the others”, and who am I to argue with his judgment? So as we looked at Loretta last week, let’s look at the oldest of the three (the fourth, Georgiana, was a half-sister, but we’ll get to her later).
Say hello to Polly Ann Young:
I think Niven was right… and we’ll look at Elizabeth next week.