Why isn't anyone criticising Lucy Worsley

I Like Lucy . She's a bit of a blue stocking but she's fun, very whacky and makes her programmes interesting and I like her hair, even if Jingle's granny had a do like it. Yeh for Lucy I say

Who is Lucy Worsley? Curator of the Royal Palaces - historian.

Mischievous, with an most appealing grin and a cute bobbed hair-style, I think she, like Mary Beard, is a breath of fresh air. A musical voice with a slight impediment, a soft 'R', is attractibve, too.

The 'dressing-up' isn't all for her enjoyment - the week without the befit of modern hygiene, relying on white linen instead, left her seriously unhappy with herself!

I think she has long straggly grey hair, but good on history!

Ana Is she the pretty girl with curly hair?

I prefer Mary Beard!

I enjoy her programmes though I have not seen the more recent ones where she has been made to dress up! I don't mind the programmes where families try to live 'as if..' think it gives quite a good perspective on the realities of what life was like rather than an historian just saying 'they cooked on a wood burning range' To see exactly what that entailed can bring it home more clearly!

She knows her stuff but epitomises a trend I hate in history/historical houses/social history - i.e. that yu have to "dress up" and "pretend" to be of that period to learn about it. I have seen some of the evidence in the revamped Kensington Palace and certain National Trust houses not to mention all those TV progs where people pretend it's WW2 or whatever - and it irritates me

Someone described Lucy as being "the thinking man's totty"...

I think she looks as if she talks with her back teeth clenched together. Weird.

What blue links ???

Nonu have you been missing all the blue links?!

I've suddenly realised who LW is. That one who did the series on various rooms throughout history. Wears a slide in her hair and grins engagingly.

I did like her. Seems to know her stuff. Very head girlish.

She certainly knows her stuff but she drives me to distraction. Do you think her smug smile is because she's laughing at herself.

I clicked on Bags blue writing and found it am going to have a read later , will let you know what I think I am , [I heard that !] still in middle of preps for France so keep stopping and starting . Can"t say I am overly fond of packing .

A little like Rory's happy grin after he's licked his dish clean.

Yes...I'm not sure I'm comfortable with her knowing smile, though...

Well they won't show up Nonu if you do it like that!

Ana I meant "looks like." I'm sure that she's a thoroughly decent young lady. She just reminds me of a head girl...jolly hockey sticks and all that.

nonu, click on the blue writing in my opening post and it will take you to the article.

Who"s Lucy Worsley then ? I have searched my paper from back to front and can"t find anything , Bit SO not right when we can"t even get the same news as yous . Mean I call it , nevertheless to show I have a generous heart I will send [[Sunshine and flowers ] if they EVER show up !

I don't think of Anne of Cleves like that at all. I have read her biography which presented her as 'the one who got off lightest'. She retained her head (!) as well as an income from Henry and a warm relationship with him. I believe she lived as an independent woman with her own household - unusual in Tudor England. So I'll be her thanks; I don't mind being ugly as long as I don't have to sleep with a fat ugly old man

Well, I'm none of those women.
I had to laugh though at the picture, underneath it said " L to R Lucy W and Henry V111"
Didn't they think we would be able to tell the difference?

I'm a k. Parr!

Or do you mean she just looks like a Goody Two Shoes?

I'm not quite sure what you mean, soop - on what are you basing your opinion? I didn't get any sense of Lucy Worsley's character at all from that article...