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🗓️ 18 July 2024
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Robert sits down with Princess Weekes to finish talking about Beau Brummell, the first fashion influencer and modern celebrity, and discuss whether or not he was really a bastard.
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Beau Brummell was a 19th-century fashion icon for men (archive.is)
"Beau" Brummell, the Dandy Who Invented Men’s Suits (aristocracy.london)
https://reginajeffers.blog/2022/07/18/purchasing-commissions-during-the-napoleonic-wars/
A Revolution in Masculine Style: How Beau Brummell Changed Jane Austen’s World » JASNA
Beau Brummell: The Most Stylish History Maker – Never Was (neverwasmag.com)
Man of the Cloth - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1416584587?psc=1&language=en_US
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0:00.0 | We are back and we're thinking about George the 4th one of the I mean |
0:08.8 | most of the kings of England sucked. Yeah. Definitely did as well. Of all the Kings of England, |
0:17.6 | bottom 10% are we gonna say? Where's he going? The Kings of England list. He's not even that iconic, because at least Henry the 8th, horrible person, but you know. |
0:26.0 | Yeah, Henry the 8th, King, yeah, yeah, he was your 8th old man, he was a Henry Henry the eighth he is he is as I remember from the song |
0:37.0 | Yeah, I'm trying to think of who was a good king of England |
0:40.4 | Nobody I guess I guess technically I think technically I mean Kings |
0:47.6 | No because even Richard the Lionheart was was you know doing crusades and those he was literally doing a crusade yeah |
0:54.2 | it's like that's not great dog it might be your best I don't know |
0:59.9 | Queen Victoria's got the Irish potato famine. |
1:02.6 | Yeah, might be Charles. |
1:03.6 | If Charles drops dead having not done anything too terrible as King, |
1:07.6 | I guess he might wind up being our best. |
1:10.4 | Five stars. |
1:11.8 | A real model of behavior for fail sons around the world, you know. |
1:17.0 | Yeah. But also proof you can always turn your your girlfriend into your wife at any point yeah never |
1:25.1 | give up never surrender you just gotta believe in yourself you gonna believe in |
1:28.7 | yourself in the fact that you're rich and famous and who knows who he would be if he |
1:32.1 | had gone to Eaton. |
1:33.4 | He didn't go. |
1:34.4 | Yeah, he didn't go. |
1:36.4 | No. |
1:38.4 | They would have taught him, I don't know. |
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