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My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts) Tue Jun 3, 2014, 06:05 AM Jun 2014

What's in the bag, Betty?

Sir Walter Raleigh the poet, soldier and explorer was arrested and beheaded in 1616 for plots against the king and to appease the Spanish after his crew ransacked a Spanish outpost in South America. His wife, Elizabeth Throckmorton, kept his head in a velvet bag for the remainder of her life.

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