📚💙⏳ The frontispiece of the 'Mirror of Gold for the Sinful Soul', was a devotional work by Margaret Beaufort, Henry Vli's mother. printed in 1506. Queen Elizabeth I made a translation of the work when she was a princess.
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💙📚⏳ Sir John Harington created one of England's earliest modern style flushing toilets for Queen Elizabeth I, yet she is believed never to have used it.

The idea was far ahead of its time in England and disappeared for generations.

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