Saturday, 9 March 2019

The Queen’s Ancestry

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The question and answer site Quora has this piece which makes rather interesting reading, so I have copied and pasted it, with occasional mi...
Monday, 31 July 2017

Jacobite Exhibition in Edinburgh

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The Daily Telegraph website has a feature about an exhibition of Jacobite relics and memorabilia that is on show in Edinburgh. The disp...
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Sunday, 30 July 2017

Diaconal Ordination at Blackfriars

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At lunchtime today I attended a Diaconal Ordination of three Dominican friars and two Franciscan  Conventuals at Blackfriars here in Oxfor...
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Friday, 21 July 2017

The Coronation of Emperor Agustín I of Mexico in 1822

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Today is the 195th anniversary of the coronation of the first Emperor of Mexico, Agustín I, in 1822. There is an illustrated onlin...
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Thursday, 20 July 2017

Anniversary of the Accession of the King of Romania

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Today is the ninetieth anniversary of the first accession to the throne of H.M. The King of Romania in 1927.  This was on the occasio...
Tuesday, 18 July 2017

The Order of the Elephant

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Royal Central has a post today about the highest Danish order of Chivalry which I am reproducing, with minor corrections and apologies for ...
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Monday, 17 July 2017

Remembering the Tsar in Ekaterinburg

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There is an article in The Guardian today about a pilgrimage to the site of the murder of the Russian Imperial family in 1918 and which ca...
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The House of Windsor

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Today is the centenary of the Proclamation by King George V in 1917 of the change of name of the British Royal family from Saxe-Coburg-Goth...