Mary Frith was also known as Mary Markham, Mary Thrift and also Moll Cutpurse. Continue reading
22/06/2011
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22/06/2011
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Mary Frith was also known as Mary Markham, Mary Thrift and also Moll Cutpurse. Continue reading
02/02/2011
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Once her carriage was mistaken for the carriage of the Duchess of Portsmouth, one of Charles’ mistresses whom the people hated. Stones were thrown and insults flew until Nell poked her head out and called, “Pray, good people, be civil. I am the Protestant whore.” Continue reading
06/10/2010
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When Helen Mirren lost her ring throwing her grass clippings over the river wall from her Wapping garden, it was Steve who found it for her in the river. When villains throw handguns and sawn-off shot guns into the river at Woolwich to lose them forever, it is Steve who collects them and hands them to the police—he found fifteen recently. Continue reading