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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

2 months

Hello! JANE AUSTEN and I are spending some time together - please do join us this autumn if we're coming to your town!

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

5 years

Man on train was annoyingly peering over at my laptop screen. ‘Keep going!’ he said, ‘just think, you might get it published one day.’ I gave him the Death Stare of a woman who has published ten books.

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5 years

My dad: ‘Did you hear what happened at Glastonbury? A chant was started against Boris Johnson by that excellent rapper.’ Us: ‘Which rapper, dad? Surely you don’t know the names of any excellent rappers?’ Him: ‘I certainly do, it was Spotify.’

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

2 years

In 2009, a lady came to a conference we had at Hampton Court, about the life of Henry VIII. She sat quietly at the back making notes. She was reputed to be a novelist. I did not know then that a goddess was walking among us.

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@Lucy_Worsley

4 years

I am unutterably delighted to learn that when a Portuguese person wants to express the thought ‘a bad workman blames his tools,’ she says instead that ‘A BAD DANCER BLAMES HIS TROUSERS.’

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

4 years

May I take a tiny moment to celebrate the fact that this evening I'm meeting a friend in a park in order stealthily to consume alcohol? It's the teenage life I never had because of being too nerdy.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

1 year

Speeding on happily towards the big five-oh, reached 49 today 🎂

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@Lucy_Worsley

4 years

YES, COME ON, YOU CAN’T F**K AROUND WITH HISTORY LIKE THIS (with thanks to @slondonuk )

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@Lucy_Worsley

5 years

1. Dipped into my notifications 2. Saw someone calling me a miserable hag 3. Dipped out again & went back to my cup of tea and my book about Charlotte Bronte. We miserable hags know how to have a good time.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

1 month

Every morning after I've had a programme on @BBCTwo my inbox gets delightfully full of messages from men who didn't like my lipstick. It makes me feel like it's 1922 and I'm being castigated by Captain Hastings for being 'fast'.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

2 years

Greatly amused by the posh man on the train whose foghorn voice was louder than he realised: 'Darling! Is that Lucy Worsley? F*CKING HELL.'

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@Lucy_Worsley

3 years

‘Dear Lucy, your hair on TV is so unflattering, it makes you seem so sad, unfortunately looks mean more than talent or brains.’ Hmm. Rather devastating critique of my hair. I notice he still watched the show, though, so he must have fallen for my lovely bubbly personality 😉

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

2 years

Thank you dear friends for your birthday wishes. Happy to be 21 at last.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

2 years

How pleased do you think I look with my new hair? 'Cat's got the cream' hardly begins to cover it, I suggest. Thank you so much, @emmasleon !

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@Lucy_Worsley

5 years

NEWS 😮

BBC One

@BBCOne

5 years

Wonderful. @Lucy_Worsley accepted her Specialist Factual #BAFTATV award in a Suffragette dress 👍

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

1 year

Happy Christmas to all my followers, from me and my little stripey friend.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

6 years

STILL my favourite letter of complaint ever: ‘I used to enjoy the programmes of Dr Worsley, an elegant & apparently well-educated lady, UNTIL I heard her refer to a jigsaw puzzle as a jigsaw.’

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

5 years

Nurse giving me a blood test: 'Do you work? What do you do?' Me: 'Historian.' Him: 'WOW I love it when I get a patient with a WEIRD PROFESSION.'

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

1 year

Dear followers, thank you so much for your delightful company in 2022! I wish you health and happiness for the new year round the corner.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

6 years

COURT CIRCULAR: after her investiture by the Prince of Wales, Dr L Worsley was escorted from the palace by her dearest & nearest & taken for a slap-up lunch.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

5 months

Young folk! This is what it's like to turn fifty, from One Who Now Knows: 1. It's not very nice 2. Family and friends make it a whole lot nicer 3. Spending the day at Hampton Court Palace really helps too 😃

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

5 years

Delighted to discover that I am in fact 45 years old today. (I thought it was 46 so have gained a whole extra year of life.)

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

8 months

Cutest video ever of the new statue of AGATHA CHRISTIE outside Wallingford Museum! The dog won't be convinced she's not alive. Huge thanks to the lovely people who donated to Wallingford Museum, it's much appreciated by Judy the curator, Ned and the other volunteers and me 🙏

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

7 years

Unfortunate name for a book.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

1 year

I told my friend the King greeted me with the words 'ah, the Eminent Historian,' and she said 'is that notable? I thought that was just a regular day in your life.' I think I may have given her a misleading impression of my routine 😉

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

1 year

My relatives are competing to make me recuperative puddings please give my sister in law's lemon sponge at least as many likes as my mum's bread and butter or there will be big trouble

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

2 years

I've been a bit quiet on here because of not being very well. I've been cured (hopefully) by the absolutely scientifically medically verified treatment of my mum's bread and butter pudding.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

5 months

Dear followers! Thank you so much for your company in 2023. I'm looking forward to sharing lots more history fun with you from tomorrow in a new year (and for me, a whole new decade)🤗

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

6 years

Here’s my best heckle ever. Me: ‘yes, & the Georgians invented hot air balloons & pleasure gardens & something else only the mums & dads here will know what it is, it’s called gin.’ Tiny girl, at full volume: ‘WE KNOW WHAT GIN IS.’

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

2 years

Dear followers, thank you for your company in 2021! Here’s to more history adventures together in 2022.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

6 years

Too many books? Or is there No Such Thing?

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

3 years

I love the fifthteensh shentury

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

4 years

I did enjoy this. Particularly the bit about the ‘unheard of’ university.

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4 years

@Lucy_Worsley At least you could list some decent credits as to where you have gotten all this incorrect crap you claim is true. Where did you school? Nowhere undoubtably. And what kind of degree do you have in history. Again, probably 2 years at best, in some unheard of college.

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@Lucy_Worsley

1 year

'coming with us to lunch today, Lucy?' 'nope' 'come on, don't be a misery!' 'It's not that, I'm afraid I've had a better offer 😉'

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

5 years

You haven’t heard from me recently because I am CYCLING ROUND AN ISLAND IN SWEDEN & LIVING MY BEST MOOMIN LIFE

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

4 years

An expression of solidarity from me this morning to all my colleagues in the arts, museums & heritage sector facing the loss of work, income, routine & even their vocation. This Twitter account has been described as ‘relentlessly upbeat’ but the person behind it is sometimes sad.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

6 years

Well I am off to Trafalgar Square this morning to say thank you to both the Suffragists and the Suffragettes. OTD #Suffragette100 #Vote100

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

4 years

The thirteenth-century Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, late on a dark January afternoon. Imagine what it must be like when the sun is shining.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

2 years

Turns out that when you start work at 05.30 to beat the heat, you feel that by the time 09.30 rolls round you need a bar of chocolate and a can of coke. Not a great new habit to have formed, is it?!

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

6 years

I was so pleased & proud my A-level history teacher Mr King (he’ll never have a first name to me) came to hear me give a talk last night. To my hardworking inspiring history-teacher followers: please do remember that some of your pupils will be hugely grateful in later life!

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

1 year

Marvellously bright moonlight in London tonight.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

4 years

A little boy asked if I was a member of the Royal Family, so I told him I was the Duchess of Worsley. He was ever so pleased.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

3 years

Some kind followers have sent me birthday greetings today - thank you, ever so much, and wishing you plenty of love, joy and cocktails in return.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

8 months

Office window view

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

7 years

Waitrose: 'I need to see proof of age before you can buy that wine.' Nice old gent behind me in queue who watches @BBCFour : 'I don't wish to be ungallant, but she's DEFINITELY over 25.'

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

3 years

Now I’ve travelled by this sort of train I fear I simply can’t go back to normal. They’ll just have to upgrade the service to Hampton Court with carriages like this or I won’t be able to get to work any more.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

7 years

I promised myself I didn't have to go for a run this morning. But as terrorists appear to be targeting my jogging route I felt I had to.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

3 years

I love Scottish weather. The forecast for Edinburgh today had a symbol for a special kind of rain I’d never even seen before.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

4 years

During our zoom cocktails last night our friends’ children came downstairs and asked us to keep the noise down.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

3 years

I know my followers appreciate a bit of library, so here’s a beauty for you. It’s the one at the @royalacademy .

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

5 years

Just been sacked from my job of helping to wrap the Christmas presents. ‘All you’ve done so far is read the books you’re giving to other people.’

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

6 months

'Oh dear,' I said, 'I seem to have brought my Oyster card, rather than my credit card. And I seem to have chosen rather an expensive drink too. Could you possibly pay?' My brother rolled his eyes. 'You know you pulled the exactly same trick last time, don't you?' he said.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

5 years

An amazingly ship! The VASA, which sank on its very first voyage from Stockholm in 1628 & survived in the mud to be rescued 98% complete in the twentieth century.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

7 months

When I was little, my life goals included becoming a nun, a spy, or a witch. Got closest with witch. Halloween, 1977.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

3 years

Struck by responses to the approach of the Black Death in 1348. 'Some lived in isolation from everyone, refused to speak to outsiders, & entertained themselves ... others drank heavily, lived life to the full, and shrugged the whole thing off as an enormous joke' (Boccaccio)

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

4 years

Ok, 2020, it’s over. I’m definitively breaking up with you in favour of 1940. (I do admit that this is mainly for the hats.)

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

1 year

I think I have worked out why this red coat was so cheap in the sale. Today a random person on the street shouted out 'THAT'S THE REDDEST COAT I'VE EVER SEEN'

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

5 years

If ever I’m feeling a bit down, I cheer myself up by reminding myself that someone on the internet once described me as a ‘regal ass white lady’. REGAL ASS WHITE LADY

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

4 years

I might have panic-bought a pina colada cocktail in a can.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

2 years

Very nearly got locked into King's College Chapel last night. I was doing a drawing of the ceiling, a fairly engrossing thing to do as you can probably imagine, and didn't hear the call to get out.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

4 years

The @TowerOfLondon this evening looking every inch the magnificent drama queen she totally is.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

1 year

Nice checkout lady: 'ooh you're the lady off the telly aren't you?' Me: 'thank you for watching, thank you thank you so grateful' Nice checkout lady: 'it's okay, I've only watched you just the once'

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

4 years

May I try to raise a Sunday smile with this picture of my brother’s hen Weedy chatting with her ceramic friend?

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

3 years

It’s 26 August, Prince Albert’s birthday. As he’s not around to enjoy it, I shall be accepting any congratulations or even presents on his behalf.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

6 years

In a cafe near Buckingham Palace it’s seriously entertaining watching a groups of Americans encountering MUSHY PEAS for the first time. I feel I’m getting my revenge at last for the harrowing experience of GRITS.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

3 years

It feels like autumn has begun in London. ‘Now then Lucy,’ said a colleague, ‘you must be doing something interesting later on today, dressed as a wartime lady spy like that in your trenchcoat gloves and beret.’ I had to explain that they are just my clothes.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

3 years

I took this week off work to get on with some writing. Inevitably my house is the cleanest it's ever been.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

4 years

I have to send a photo for a visa application do you think this one will do

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

3 years

Crew greatly amused by the man who just walked past and shouted ‘Love your shows, Kirsty.’

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

5 years

I look pretty pleased to be Anne of Cleves in 1541, don’t I? You would too if you’d made it out alive from your marriage to the old Grumpster and been given your own resplendent palace in Richmond.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

3 years

Celebrating my first dose of Astra Zeneca received this lunchtime. Cake will help me make even more antibodies, right?

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

5 years

Look at the marvellous mist rising from the moat at Hever Castle this frosty morning!

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

5 years

A first look at Marie Antoinette’s bedchamber at Versailles, re-opened this weekend after three years of restoration work.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

4 years

Sad to say my brother’s rescue hen Toodles has died and been cremated by the vet after a short but happy post-factory life. I asked for a picture to remember Toodles by, but got a rather more literal response than I expected.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

10 months

Lady on street: 'ooh, I do like your...' Me: smiling enthusiastically, poised to say 'thank you so much for watching!' Lady: '...coat.' Me: oh

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

5 years

Versailles tulips at twilight.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

6 years

I raise a glass to you, dear followers, and thank you for your company in 2017.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

4 years

Queen’s Stairs from the riverbank at the Tower of London. This is where Anne Boleyn disembarked from her barge for both her coronation and her execution. A thrill to walk in her footsteps.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

2 years

Here's a lady about to sign 3000 copies of um, this new book about Agatha Christie she's written which she just have have mentioned here before.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

1 year

I’ve been reading my brother’s teenage diary in the hope of finding some loving and admiring things he might have said about me. So far, the one single mention of me is ‘we had to stop the car for Lucy to be sick.’

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

3 years

Never have my ears been so much in demand. My fleecey hat, my spectacles and my facemask are all competing for their services. What a time to be an ear!

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

4 years

I did the government careers test which said I should be an office manager which is actually ... erm ... what I am. Although the office is 500 years old. Had been hoping for trapeze artiste, though.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

5 years

I could completely pass for the virile and exceptionally handsome eighteen-year-old King Henry VIII in 1509, don’t you think?

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@Lucy_Worsley

4 years

It’s hard for me to describe just how much I value the chance to creep round Hampton Court Palace all by myself after visiting hours...

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

10 months

Superheroes don't always come in capes. Sometimes they come in black T-shirts, carrying heavy lumps of metal through the rain, and kneeling down in sheep poo, all to make lady historians look far better on camera than they do in real life.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

1 year

Whatever's going on in this picture, it should stay between me and my producer, don't you think?

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

4 years

If you’ve ever been to the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles during the normal very busy visiting hours, you’ll appreciate what a privilege it is to get the place all to yourself.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

1 year

Is that you, Hampton Court Palace, lurking over there in the morning mist?

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

5 years

That’s it, I’m announcing my candidature. (Thanks for the suggestion @aylesburyfreak )

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

3 years

Feeling awfully grateful to the scientists who've worked hard so that my 84 year old dad can have the vaccine next week. The old bean can't wait to go to Lidl again.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

3 years

I’m officially off running for some months because of a tendon injury 🙄 Each morning as I pick up a pencil with my toes I occupy my mind by worrying I’ll become an obese frustrated paranoid psychopath like Henry VIII after his jousting accident.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

2 years

A rather rainy day at Hampton Court

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

5 years

Happy New Year from my family to yours. Obvs we dress (& drink) like this the whole time Chez Worsley.

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@Lucy_Worsley

11 months

The absolutely amazing silver altar in the church at Sandringham - the church where the Royal Family are often to be seen at Christmas - was installed as a memorial to Edward VII. The silversmiths were from Edward's wife Alexandra's native Denmark.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

3 years

Forty years ago this week our street had a Royal Wedding Hat Competition to celebrate the marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Di. I’m second from the left & my mum says I look a bit grumpy in this picture because my tall pointed effort didn’t win a prize.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

3 years

When you fail to open a message for days because you don't want to do the thing it's about, then finally you pluck up the courage to read it only to find it says you don't have to do the thing after all 😀

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

4 years

Now then, I wish my camera had a scentometer so you could smell the Rose Garden at Hampton Court. It was gorgeous, but it also made me sad to have it so utterly to myself.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

3 years

Some personal news. Delighted to be able at long last to reveal that I’ve got a part in the new James Bond film.

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@Lucy_Worsley

3 years

‘You always seem to be filming things in Westminster Abbey,’ my friend said. ‘Don’t you get bored of it?’ No, no and no again.

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Lucy Worsley

@Lucy_Worsley

6 years

I must just say thank you once again for the lovely messages I’ve been getting. Taking them as 👍 for history and heritage as much as for myself.

Historic Royal Palaces

@HRP_palaces

6 years

Many congratulations to our Chief Curator @Lucy_Worsley who has been awarded an OBE for services to history and heritage! 🎉 #BirthdayHonours

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2 months

I really don't mind at all that at least three people a day come up to me and say 'I love you, @theAliceRoberts !' I just say 'thank you', 'lovely to meet you' and 'do keep on #DiggingForBritain .' Everyone goes away happy.

Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

2 months

If people have got issues with #DiggingForBritain , do take them up with me and not @Lucy_Worsley . I mean, I know we’re both women, but we are actually different people.

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