In the latter part of the first millenium an Anglo-Saxon clearing in the woods became not only the home of royalty, but the scene of a bit of their hanky-panky. Much later a duke's palace was built there, from whose descendants sprang modern-day royals who continue the soap opera. Who was the man who painted a young woman allegedly embowered there by her royal lover?

22crows

John William Waterhouse is possibly the artist you have in mind, although Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Arthur Hughes also portrayed the Fair Rosamund embowered at Woodstock by Henry II http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/rhagor/article/1869/ http://hereford-heritage.com/Rosamund.html history of Woodstock http://www.blenheimpalace.com/content/en/education/timelinefiles/index.htm Jan 11 09, 6:39 AM

queproblema

Yes, 22, and very nice links! (After posting I realized the art reference was vague, and I'd left out the Woodstock Festival I'd intended to entwine! So much for late-night posting.) Any number of people have painted this legendary figure who plays so prominently in the tales of medieval courtly love. The painting I actually had in mind is by William Bell Scott and pictures her amidst the roses. http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/scott/paintings/3.html Jan 11 09, 2:44 PM