23 - 29 June 2025 - Broad Chalke, Salisbury
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If people know of Maria of Modena today, it is most likely as the Catholic queen who, by giving King James II a male, Catholic heir, precipitated the Glorious Revolution. In reality she was one of the most cultured people – man or woman – ever to sit upon the English throne. Her world was a far cry from the Restoration court as we have come to know it, with its mistresses, palaces of debauchery and risqué entertainment. What is much less known is that within this world existed another: a world of female friendship, learning and artistic endeavour. Drawing from re-discovered letters to and from Maria, later known as Mary of Modena, Breeze Barrington resurrects her life and those of the extraordinary young women she surrounded herself with at the Restoration court.
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