Post by Séamus on Jan 14, 2020 9:17:34 GMT
I only learned this year that the hymn that begins with 'On Christmas night all Christians sing', despite being 'the Sussex carol' was published first by an Irish Franciscan resident in Salamanca during semi-penal days.
Of course the main Sussex carol this year was far from traditional. Few families would hold a crisis meeting after a 30s member and his spouse announced they had decided to earn their own money,but the Windsors are the Windsors and Harry will always be Diana's youngest son.
"What is public fodder is a mess of their own making with a selfish,brattish ham-fisted announcement of their plans to exit the family business",wrote one column I read,"it's hard to imagine a more bad-mannered disrespectful way to act towards your own grandmother who,by the way,lets you live rent-free in her house,paid millions for the renovations and bankrolls part of your lavish existence" I might add that planning a regular commute from Canada to England is rather strange for a couple who believe in population control to combat climate change. The whole thing is showing signs of a Right/Left following,with Mr Trump hinting that Elizabeth II has been unfairly insulted,while the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are supposedly supported by Trudeau,Elton John and possibly the Obamas.
The Duchess would be far from the first royal to star in soap operas should she choose to return to doing so. Some of us can remember royal Catherine Oxenberg making headlines,mostly for her inability to act. Princess Theodora of Greece&Denmark stars in American dramas at present.
In the mix is this year's 850th anniversary of St Thomas Becket's murder by Henry II;Becket2020 will be officially marked by Britain which serves as a reminder of the history of monarchy as well as saints.
I've always thought that the most fascinating person connected with the current family was Princess Alice of Battenberg,the Queen's mother-in-law,who experienced much of the 20th Century's turmoil firsthand- World Wars I & II,the fall of the Ottoman Empire,Balkan wars,the restoration and fall of the Greek monarchy; her aunt GrandDuchess Elizabeth was murdered by the Bolsheviks,which puts her in touch with the rise of communism also- it was basically the GrandDuchess' religious order that Alice tried unsuccessfully to refound.
Meghan may have had the misfortune,as many people do,of a dysfunctional and broken family,but she's hardly been through anything like bombardment or show trials. Her and the Duke have campaigned for minorities but,unlike 'Righteous Gentile' Princess Battenberg,they've never sheltered Jews at the risk of their own lives.
Certainly Princess Alice may have had mental problems,but even her receiving of treatment by Swiss Freudian psychologists for so-called sexual frustration or seeing apocalyptic visions of Christ places the woman in a context of her century's martyrdom. Appropriate that her body lies in Gethsemane
Of course the main Sussex carol this year was far from traditional. Few families would hold a crisis meeting after a 30s member and his spouse announced they had decided to earn their own money,but the Windsors are the Windsors and Harry will always be Diana's youngest son.
"What is public fodder is a mess of their own making with a selfish,brattish ham-fisted announcement of their plans to exit the family business",wrote one column I read,"it's hard to imagine a more bad-mannered disrespectful way to act towards your own grandmother who,by the way,lets you live rent-free in her house,paid millions for the renovations and bankrolls part of your lavish existence" I might add that planning a regular commute from Canada to England is rather strange for a couple who believe in population control to combat climate change. The whole thing is showing signs of a Right/Left following,with Mr Trump hinting that Elizabeth II has been unfairly insulted,while the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are supposedly supported by Trudeau,Elton John and possibly the Obamas.
The Duchess would be far from the first royal to star in soap operas should she choose to return to doing so. Some of us can remember royal Catherine Oxenberg making headlines,mostly for her inability to act. Princess Theodora of Greece&Denmark stars in American dramas at present.
In the mix is this year's 850th anniversary of St Thomas Becket's murder by Henry II;Becket2020 will be officially marked by Britain which serves as a reminder of the history of monarchy as well as saints.
I've always thought that the most fascinating person connected with the current family was Princess Alice of Battenberg,the Queen's mother-in-law,who experienced much of the 20th Century's turmoil firsthand- World Wars I & II,the fall of the Ottoman Empire,Balkan wars,the restoration and fall of the Greek monarchy; her aunt GrandDuchess Elizabeth was murdered by the Bolsheviks,which puts her in touch with the rise of communism also- it was basically the GrandDuchess' religious order that Alice tried unsuccessfully to refound.
Meghan may have had the misfortune,as many people do,of a dysfunctional and broken family,but she's hardly been through anything like bombardment or show trials. Her and the Duke have campaigned for minorities but,unlike 'Righteous Gentile' Princess Battenberg,they've never sheltered Jews at the risk of their own lives.
Certainly Princess Alice may have had mental problems,but even her receiving of treatment by Swiss Freudian psychologists for so-called sexual frustration or seeing apocalyptic visions of Christ places the woman in a context of her century's martyrdom. Appropriate that her body lies in Gethsemane
