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发帖数: 6973 | 1 (1) Cecilie Rohwedder, Waiting in Line l Britain's Royal Family Tree. Wall
Street Journal, Apr 30, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527
48704330404576291063937838444.html
Note: In print, the above is the title. The lower half of the report has a
heading: The Traditions Behind Crowns, Carriages and a Historic Abbey--whose
print, though not online, edition shows
* a painting of youngQueen Victoria in white silk veil and a headdress of
orange blossoms; and a photo with caption: "Charles and Diana ride in the
State Landau carriage in 1981."
(a) Norman conquest of England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_England
(began on 28 September 1066 with the invasion of England by William, Duke of
Normandy, who became known as William the Conqueror after his victory at
the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, defeating the then [and last
Anglo-Saxon] king Harold II of England)
(b) Westminster Abbey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminister_Abbey
(located in Westminster, London; A stone abbey was built around 1045–1050
by King Edward the Confessor as part of his palace there and was consecrated
on 28 December 1065, only a week before the Confessor's death)
The Confessor in 1045 married Edith of Wessex, whose brother was Harold,
successor to throne upon the Confessor's death.
* Westminster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster
(Its name derives from the West Minster, or monastery church, west of the
City of London's St Paul's)
* minster (n; Old English mynster, from Late Latin monasterium monastery):
www/m-w.com
(c) Edward I of England (1239-1307; reign 1272-1307)
(d) Queen Victoria (1819-1901; reign 1837-1901) married for love. In 1840 at
the Chapel Royal of St. James's Palace, She married Prince Albert of Saxe-
Coburg and Gotha (in present-day Germany), who deid in 1861. She was the
last British monarch of the House of Hanover; her son and successor King
Edward VII belonged to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Wikipedia.
(e) 1902 State Landau
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902_State_Landau
* Landau (carriage)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau_(carriage)
(convertible; named after the German city of Landau in the Rhenish
Palatinate where they were first produced)
(f) Edward VII's son and successor was King George V, whose son and
successor was George VI, subject of the film The King's Speech.
(g) The Unknown Warrior
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_Warrior
(holds an unidentified British soldier killed on a European battlefield
during the First World War.[1] He was buried in Westminster Abbey, London on
11 November 1920, simultaneously with a similar interrment of a French
unknown soldier at the Arc de Triomphe in France, making both tombs the
first to honour the unknown dead of the First World War)
(h) Myrtus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrtus
(myrtle; native to southern Europe and north Africa; evergreen; fragrant
leaf and white flower which has five petals
(i) The last sentence of the report says, "The top of an English wedding
cake is usually kept for the christening of the couple's first child."
That refers to the top layer of the cake, known as "christening cake." | c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 2 (2) Paul sonne, Last in the Line of Succession, Ms. Vogel Is Glad She Isn't
Queen; Descendant of Sophia of Hanover, She Would Rule Britain if 4,972 Die.
Wall Street Journal, Apr 27, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424
052748704889404576276502793788310.html
Quote:
"The U.K. succession rules date back to the 1701 Act of Settlement. Princess
Anne, a Protestant, was destined to die with no heir, and the English
Parliament wanted to prevent a Catholic from seizing the throne upon her
death. So the Act of Settlement bequeathed the crown to Anne's closest
Protestant relative, Sophia of Hanover, and all her non-Catholic descendants
. Illegitimate children are also out.
"Those rules still stand today. According to the law, for a person to be in
line for the throne, he or she must be an 'heir to the body' of Sophia of
Hanover. Sophia is Ms. Vogel's great-times-eight-grandmother.
Note:
(a) Other than the quotation, there is no need to read the report.
(b) Anne, Queen of Great Britain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne,_Queen_of_Great_Britain
(1665-1714; reign 1702-1714)
Quote:
Due to "Glorious Revolution of 1688/9, her brother-in-law and her sister
then became joint monarchs as William III & II and Mary II. After Mary's
death in 1694, William continued as sole monarch until his own death in 1702.
"On 1 May 1707, under the Acts of Union 1707, England and Scotland were
united as a single sovereign state, the Kingdom of Great Britain. Anne
became its first sovereign, while continuing to hold the separate crown of
Queen of Ireland
"Because she died without surviving children, Anne was the last monarch of
the House of Stuart. She was succeeded by her second cousin, George I, of
the House of Hanover
* She was referred to as Princess Anne because in 1701 she was not coronated
yet.
(c) Act of Settlement 1701
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Settlement_1701
(to settle the succession to the English throne on the Electress Sophia of
Hanover (a granddaughter of James I) and her Protestant heirs)
* Sophia of Hanover
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_of_Hanover
(1630-1714; was heiress to the crown of Great Britain; was declared heir
presumptive by the Act of Settlement 1701. Dying before she could become
Queen, Sophia passed her claim to the thrones onto her eldest son, George
Louis, Elector of Hanover, who ascended them as George I on 1 August 1714 OS)
OS = Old Style date/Julian calendar (as opposed to NS +New Styke date/
Gregorian calendar)
(3) Charles Phillips and Barry Falls, Westminster Wdding March. New York
Times, Apr 17, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/opinion
/17phillips.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Westminster%20Wdding%20March&st=cse
Note:
(a) For Princess Matilda, see Matilda of Scotland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_of_Scotland
(c. 1080 – 1 May 1118); born Edith; sections 1 Early life, 2 Marriage)
(b) Joan of Acre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Acre
(The name "Acre" derives from her birthplace [present-day City of Acre,
Israel] in the Holy Land while her parents were on a crusade)
(c) Princess Patricia of Connaught
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Patricia_of_Connaught
(section 3 Marriage)
(d) For Princess Albert, see George VI of the United Kingdom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_VI_of_the_United_Kingdom
(birth name Albert Frederick Arthur George; 1895-1952; Albert assumed the
style and title of King George VI to emphasise continuity with his father
and restore confidence in the monarchy)
You will have to read it to understand.
(e) Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh
(Prince Philip was born into the Greek and Danish royal families, but his
family was exiled from Greece when he was a child. After being educated in
Germany and Britain, at the age of 18 he joined the British Royal Navy,
enrolling at Dartmouth Naval College; section 3 Marriage)
(f) Lullingstone Castle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lullingstone_Castle
(in the village of Lullingstone, County of Kent)
(g) Tudor rose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_rose |
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