Frollicing outside the Menagerie: Regal threads.....

So I recently finished reading 'The Confessions of Katherine Howard', a novel about the stated lady, who was Kind Henry VIII's youngest wifey. It was a great book filled with betrayal, affairs, general sauciness......but even saucier was the lavish, luxiorious lifestyle the Queen and her ladies lived. Between the book and The Tudors (the last series of which is on TV3 atm)....I have become obsessed with the idea of living in court......they just seemed to have a absoloute lark ALL the time (besides the whole head-chopping thing....)- life consisted of eating delicious foods, the odd bitta dancing, steamy affairs with noblemen and dressing up in the most elabourate clothing.

The Tudor ladies knew how to dress, no expense was spared to create the most ornate outfits for the Queen and her ladies-in-waiting. The pages of the novel are dripping with lavish descriptions of gowns made with the finest silk, lace, even spun from gold....as well as ridiculous amounts of jewels- sapphires, rubys, diamonds. The Queen slept on sheets spun with gold and a bed piled high with furs....I would glady lose my head for a shot at such a wonderfully indulgent lifestyle...and maybe a piece of Henry Cavill....sir I don't protest......