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To: AnAmericanMother

That is downright cool! I hope she likes her nickname.

AFAIK, since ole Philip the Handsome died around 1506, there wasn’t much going on by way of embalming. But then, considering Juana was just nutty enough to pull his casket along for about a year, it’s not too crazy of her to object to stopping anywhere another woman would see said casket.

(Poor Juana . . . me, I think she got a bad rap. I think she was emotionally fragile, but not necessarily crazy, although my performance doesn’t reflect my belief. Playing crazy draws a crowd.)


103 posted on 12/04/2007 7:56:46 PM PST by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
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To: Xenalyte
There was just too much political benefit to her relatives in having her declared insane . . . there's no way at this late remove to tell if it was really true or not.

I could see her hanging on to her hubby's corpse to allow her to travel freely around Spain . . . and perhaps the stories about opening the coffin to gaze on his decaying remains were just embroidery . . . or ugly rumors . . .

Some of her descendants were incredibly odd, though . . . but they were so inbred that they might have picked up the nuttiness from ANYbody, not necessarily Juana.

My daughter doesn't look very Latin, she's an Irish redhead through and through. I'm part Irish, so is her dad, and she got a double dose through the wonders of the genetic lottery. When she was living in Spain, people kept INSISTING that she MUST be Irish . . . she would say, "Well, actually, I'm an American" and people would respond, "NO! You can't POSSIBLY be! You MUST be Irish!"

106 posted on 12/04/2007 8:07:33 PM PST by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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