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# Charles of Orleans Made a DUMB Hat Choice in the 1400s
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/charles-of-orleans-made-a-dumb-hat-choice-in-the-1450s-08-2020/
- Published: 2020-08-17T18:00:44.000Z
- Updated: 2021-08-19T18:57:45.000Z
- Description: I told you I'd eventually have to start covering tapestries.
- Author: Jessica  
- Tags: *Flashback*, fugs, classic photos, Flash WAY Back, royalty, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 08:09

[**Charles of Orleans \[the Duke of Orleans\]**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles,%5FDuke%5Fof%5FOrl%C3%A9ans?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)**:** Ow! My neck hurts.

[**His Wife, Marie of Cleves \[AKA Marie of Gueldre\]:**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie%5Fof%5FCleves,%5FDuchess%5Fof%5FOrl%C3%A9ans?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) Yeah, you dumb dingdong. Your hat is too big to fit under this tent AND it's got that trailing doohickey that's pulling your head over.

**CoO:** I'm BOWING to you. It's COURTLY. I'm a noted medieval poet!\* Remember how I wrote like 500 poems when I was a prisoner of war?\* And they were surprisingly erotic!\*

**MoC**: Right right right right right It's TOTALLY not that you attached some long-ass scarf to your hat at the last minute and now you can't even hold your head upright. Right, Charles. It's because you're *poetic.* I'M *SURE.* 

**CoO:** You're in a bad mood.

**MoC**: Why aren't YOU in a bad mood? Your Dad was assassinated\* and your mom made you swear to avenge him while she was on her deathbed.\*

**CoO**: A little dramatic of her, maybe.

**MoC:** You ended up TRAPPED UNDER A PILE OF CORPSES once.\*

**CoC:** I did not like that.\*\*

**MoC**: You got sent to The Tower!\*

**CoC:** That was much nicer than the corpse pile.\*\* Anyway, they had a lovely party for me when I got out.\* And then I lived a VERY long time as a patron of the arts.\*

**MoC**: Your first two wives DIED.\*

**CoC:** Opening the door for you, my treasure!

**MoC**: And after YOU die, I plan to secretly marry one of my gentlemen of the bedchamber.\*

**CoC:** Sexy! It's a shame I shall be dead, that feels like it would make a good poem.

**MoC:** He's VERY young!\*

**Coc:** Good for you! Also, that dress is very fetching. I like the stripes.

**MoC:** Thank you. It is good, isn't it?

##### \*true

##### \*\* likely true

###### (Photo by Photo12/UIG/Getty Images.)