Something I discovered while reading Christopher Hibbert's The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici, an incident that took place during the unhappy marriage of the Grand Duke Cosimo Medici and Marguerite-Louise of Orleans. To quote from the book in regards to what happened.
"There were further quarrels over the quality of various jewels he gave her, over her extravagance, over her servants, and particularly over a male cook with whom she behaved outrageously in order to punish Cosimo for having dismissed two German grooms and a French dancing master. 'Now this cook,' so it was recorded 'either dreaded, or pretended to dread, being tickled, and the Duchess, aware of his weakness, delighted in tickling him... He defended himself, shouting and running from one side of the room to the other, which made her laugh excessively.'
What followed would be a pillow fight. Apparently, this happened a few times until Cosimo came across them mid-act and had the cook condemned to a galley, but later reprieved him. This is the only mention of it in regards to Marguerite-Louise with tickling, although she mentioned as chasing a Nun around after retiring to a convent, this was with a gun rather than anything more playful.
A quick mention, but thought it might be worth noting for slight historical curiosity.
"There were further quarrels over the quality of various jewels he gave her, over her extravagance, over her servants, and particularly over a male cook with whom she behaved outrageously in order to punish Cosimo for having dismissed two German grooms and a French dancing master. 'Now this cook,' so it was recorded 'either dreaded, or pretended to dread, being tickled, and the Duchess, aware of his weakness, delighted in tickling him... He defended himself, shouting and running from one side of the room to the other, which made her laugh excessively.'
What followed would be a pillow fight. Apparently, this happened a few times until Cosimo came across them mid-act and had the cook condemned to a galley, but later reprieved him. This is the only mention of it in regards to Marguerite-Louise with tickling, although she mentioned as chasing a Nun around after retiring to a convent, this was with a gun rather than anything more playful.
A quick mention, but thought it might be worth noting for slight historical curiosity.
