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ponedjeljak, 18.09.2017.
WHO WERE MICK JAGGER AND MARIANNE FAITHFULL IN RENAISSANCE ENGLAND?
For a long time I mused who was incarnation of so called “Nine-Day Queen”, in other words Lady Jane Grey, who ruled England just from 10 July until 19 July 1553. The curiosity was still greater because she was successor of myself, in my 16th century incarnation, as Edward VI.
I wondered for a long time as well, who was Renaissance incarnation of Mick Jagger. Then I came upon an article entitled “Reincarnation and the Famous: Past Lives of 12 Celebrities“, by Scott & Stephen Petullo. There I learned, that after all, he might not have been an aristocrat, but, as I guessed – a court musician.
In my opinion, he wrote the lyrics of the song „Lady Jane“, dedicated to some woman, from his previous incarnation, for whom he felt a strong sympathy. My sweet lady Jane/ When I see you again/ Your servant am I/ And will humbly remain/ Just heed this plea, my love/ On bended knees my love/I pledge myself to lady Jane
And that was a woman with whom he has been linked sentimentally in 1960s - none else but Marianne Faithfull, who sang his song „As Tears Go By“ and became popular with her in mid 60s.
We have just one portrait of Lady Jane Grey, and I must admit, looking at it, it's hard to find some resemblance with young Marianne Faithfull, with bangs covering her forehead. But on her more recent pictures, in her more mature age, she started to show resemblance with that unique portrait of Lady Jane.
Mick Jagger was not her husband in 1960s, but partner, as it was almost customary in those so called „Swinging Sixties“ to have a freestyle love relationships. Her husband, with whom she was married until 1970 was artist John Dunbar. And that man was also her husband, or King-Consort (for just two months) in 16th century, as Guildford Dudley. That Dudley was son of – one of the chief ministers of Edward VI.
Edward VI, probably because of his sympathy for Lady Jane, chose her for his successor, in his testament (he wrote it in printed letters [his signature was, as well in printed letters], and manuscript resembles fairly to mine, as I often wrote in similar manuscript, for instance, when I wrote letters). One thing that binds us, is that all three of us had hapless fate, and suffered premature and painful death. We were also of approximatelly same age, that is 16-17 years old.
One more thing in common that I have with incarnation of my successor and cousin Marianne Faithfull is that we both, at certain time, ended up in the street, she in 70s, and I in 90s. That is, we both inclined to some kind of masochistic behaviour in this life. What is especially interesting fact, is that in this incarnation she is - real descendant (great-great niece) of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the 19th century, man who wrote the book „Venus in Furs“, from which the term „masochism“ did spawn.
One more interesting fact, is that she played the role of Empress Maria Theresa in 2006 movie „Marie Antoinette“. In other words, she played the role of my wife, in my 18th century incarnation (as Emperor Francis I), in a movie about my daughter (Marie Antoinette was the daughter of Francis I).
Lady Jane Grey (1536/1537 – 12 February 1554), also known as Lady Jane Dudley[3] or the Nine-Day Queen,[4] was an English noblewoman and de facto monarch of England and Ireland from 10 July until 19 July 1553.
The great-granddaughter of Henry VII through his younger daughter Mary, Jane was a first cousin once removed of Edward VI. In May 1553, she was married to Lord Guildford Dudley, a younger son of Edward's chief minister, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland. When the 15-year-old king lay dying in June 1553, he nominated Jane as successor to the Crown in his will, thus subverting the claims of his half-sisters Mary and Elizabeth under the Third Succession Act. Jane was imprisoned in the Tower of London when the Privy Council decided to change sides and proclaim Mary as queen on 19 July 1553. Jane was convicted of high treason in November 1553, which carried a sentence of death, although her life was initially spared.
Lady Jane Grey had an excellent humanist education and a reputation as one of the most learned young women of her day.[5] A committed Protestant, she was posthumously regarded as not only a political victim but also a martyr.
Jane preferred book studies to hunting parties[10] and regarded her strict upbringing, which was well-meant and typical of the time,[11] as harsh. To the visiting scholar Roger Ascham, who found her reading Plato, she is said to have complained:
For when I am in the presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it as it were in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly as God made the world; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips and bobs and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) ... that I think myself in hell
Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English singer, songwriter and actress.
From 1966 to 1970, she had a highly publicised romantic relationship with Mick Jagger. Her popularity was further enhanced by her film roles, such as I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967), The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968), and Hamlet (1969). However, her popularity was overshadowed by personal struggles in the 1970s. During that time she suffered from heroin addiction, alcoholism, and anorexia
Faithfull was born in Hampstead, London. Her half-brother is artist Simon Faithfull. Her father, Major Robert Glynn Faithfull, was a British Army officer and professor of Italian Literature at Bedford College of London University. Faithfull's mother, Eva, was the daughter of an Austro-Hungarian nobleman, Artur Wolfgang, Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (1875–1953).
Faithfull's maternal great great uncle was Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the 19th century Austrian nobleman whose erotic novel, Venus in Furs, spawned the word "masochism."[6]
In regard to her roots in the Austrian nobility, Faithfull commented in March 2007 prior to beginning the European leg of her tour, "I'm even going to Budapest, which is nice because I'm half English and half Austro-Hungarian. I've inherited the Baroness Sacher-Masoch title [she should have said "lineage", as she has not inherited a courtesy title ] -- it comes from one of my great-great uncles who gave his name to masochism
During Edward's reign, the realm was governed by a Regency Council because he never reached his majority. The Council was first led by his uncle Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (1547–1549), and then by John Dudley, 1st Earl of Warwick, from 1551 Duke of Northumberland.
In February 1553, at age 15, Edward fell ill. When his sickness was discovered to be terminal, he and his Council drew up a "Devise for the Succession", attempting to prevent the country's return to Catholicism. Edward named his first cousin once removed, Lady Jane Grey, [daughter of Henry VIII sister, Lady Mary] as his heir and excluded his half-sisters, Mary and Elizabeth. However, this decision was disputed following Edward's death, and Jane was deposed by Mary within 13 days.
He was killed with one stroke of the axe, after which his body was conveyed on a cart to the Tower chapel of St Peter ad Vincula. Watching the scene from her window, Jane eed: "Oh, Guildford, Guildford!"[7] He was buried in the chapel with Jane who was dead within the hour
Guildford Dudley enjoyed a humanist education and was married to Jane in a magnificent celebration about six weeks before the King's death.
After Guildford's father, the Duke of Northumberland, had engineered Jane's accession, Jane and Guildford spent her brief rule residing in the Tower of London. They were still in the Tower when their regime collapsed and they remained there, in different quarters, as prisoners. They were condemned to death for high treason in November 1553. Queen Mary I was inclined to spare their lives, but Thomas Wyatt's rebellion against her plans to marry Philip of Spain led to the young couple's execution, a measure that was widely seen as unduly harsh.
[John] Dunbar was born in Mexico City in 1943,[1] the son of the British filmmaker, Robert Dunbar,[2] He has three sisters, Marina Adams, architect, and twins Margaret Dunbar and Jennifer Dunbar. He spent his first four years in Moscow, where his father was a cultural attache, before the family returned to England. He attended the University of Cambridge, where he met the singer Marianne Faithfull. They were married on 6 May 1965, with Peter Asher as the best man[3] and spent their honeymoon in Paris with the Beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso.[4] The couple lived in a flat at 29 Lennox Gardens, in [Kensington]. On 10 November 1965, she gave birth to their son, Nicholas. She then "...left her husband to live with Mick Jagger..." telling the New Musical Express that "my first move was to get a Rolling Stone as a boyfriend. I slept with three and decided the lead singer was the best bet."[3] Dunbar and Faithfull divorced in 1970.
Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones had many, many incarnations as a laboring musician who always worked hard, developing his iron will and thirst for success, which finally earned the good karma involving this lifetime. Our impression is that there was also a recurring theme of being incarcerated or otherwise restricted, and this lifetime involves over-balancing in the other direction--abuse of freedom, sensual gratification, and excess.
