#lord ogilvy

[grandmaster-anne]

The Royal Family at Buckingham Palace after the Trooping of the Colour, 11th June 1977.

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the longer you look at british royals, the more you realize that half of them look like horses and the other half look severely ill (not because they're old). the only ones that look decent are the ones who married in

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List of attendees to the service of Thanksgiving to the late King Constantine of Greece on 27th February 2024.

🇬🇧 Queen Camilla

🇬🇧 Princess Anne

🇬🇧 Sir Tim Laurence

🇬🇧 Princess Beatrice

🇬🇧 Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi

🇬🇧 Zara Tindall

🇬🇧 Mike Tindall

🇬🇧 Lady Sarah Chatto

🇬🇧 Daniel Chatto

🇬🇧 Prince Richard, The Duke of Gloucester

🇬🇧 Birgitte, The Duchess of Gloucester

🇬🇧 Prince Edward, The Duke of Kent

🇬🇧 George, The Earl of St. Andrews

🇬🇧 Sylvana, The Countess of St. Andrews

🇬🇧 Lady Helen Taylor

🇬🇧 Prince Michael of Kent

🇬🇧 Princess Michael of Kent

🇬🇧 Princess Alexandra of Kent

🇬🇧 James Ogilvy

🇬🇧 Julia Ogilvy

🇬🇧 Marina Ogilvy

🇬🇧 George, The Marquess of Milford Haven

🇬🇧 Clare, The Marchioness of Milford Haven

🇬🇧 Penny, The Countess Mountbatten of Burma

🇬🇧 Lady Alexandra Hooper

🇬🇧 Thomas Hooper

🇬🇧 India Hicks

🇬🇧 David Flint Wood

🇬🇧 Amory Wood-Hicks

🇬🇧 Prince Andrew, The Duke of York

🇬🇧 Sarah Ferguson

🇬🇷 Queen Anne-Marie

🇬🇷 Crown Prince Pavlos

🇬🇷 Crown Princess Marie-Chantal

🇬🇷 Prince Achileas-Andreas

🇬🇷 Prince Odysseas-Kimon

🇬🇷 Prince Aristides-Stavros

🇬🇷 Princess Maria-Olympia

🇬🇷 Prince Nikolaos

🇬🇷 Princess Tatiana

🇬🇷 Prince Philippos

🇬🇷 Princess Nina

🇬🇷 Princess Theodora

🇬🇷 Matthew Kumar

🇬🇷 Princess Alexia

🇬🇷 Carlos Morales

🇬🇷 Princess Irene

🇪🇸 King Juan Carlos

🇪🇸 Queen Sofia

🇪🇸 King Felipe

🇪🇸 Queen Letizia

🇪🇸 Infanta Elena

🇪🇸 Infanta Cristina

🇪🇸 Juan Urdangarian

🇩🇰 Princess Benedikte

🇩🇰 Prince Gustav

🇩🇰 Princess Carina of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg

🇩🇰 Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Countess Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille

🇩🇰 Count Michael Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille

🇯🇴 Queen Noor of Jordan

🇯🇴 Prince Hassan

🇯🇴 Princess Sarvath of Jordan

🇧🇬 Prince Kyril of Bulgaria

🇷🇸 Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia

🇷🇸 Crown Princess Katherine of Serbia

🇩🇪 Bernhard, Margrave of Baden

🇩🇪 Stephanie, Margravine of Baden

🇩🇪 Landgrave Donatus of Hesse

🇩🇪 Hereditary Prince Ernst August of Hanover

🇩🇪 Princess Saskia of Hohenlohe-Langeburg

Other notable attendees

Nicholas Soames (Conservative politician)

Rocco Forte (British Hotelier)

Hugh Cavendish, Baron Cavendish of Furness (Former member of the House of Lords)

Grania Mary Caulfield (wife of Baron Cavendish of Furness)

John Kerry (United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate

Lady Susan Hussey (Lady-in-Waiting)

Sir Jackie Stewart (Racecar Driver and good family friend)

Alexandra von Fürstenberg (American Socialite)

Dax Miller (Alexandra von Fürstenbergs husband)

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Hmm....I need a good Scotsman on the Island...someone who hunts...I mean, you don't have to be nobility to know how to hunt, heaven knows, but that could be fun too...but what to name him? Need to sit down and do some poking to settle on something goo...

....

OR I COULD BE AN ABSOLUTE PUNK AND GO WITH "LORD OGILVY"

[homomenhommes]

THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … April 10

Ogilvy's vinyards near Dresden

1750 – James Ogilvy, the 7th Earl of Findlater and 4th Earl of Seafield (d.1811), was an accomplished amateur landscape architect and philanthropist of the late eighteenth century. He promoted the English landscape garden in mainland Europe, where he spent lavishly on public works and "improvements of the scenery."

Ogilvy's decision to live abroad was a not uncommon choice of wealthy Englishmen and Scotsmen with same-sex sexual interests in the eighteenth century. In Europe his discreet practice of homosexuality was accepted by society as an unacknowledged quid pro quo for his sponsorship of public improvements. After his death, however, scandal erupted when he was outed by his own relatives in Scotland.

In 1770, after his father's suicide, Lord Findlater inherited his family's vast estates. The estates in Scotland yielded about £40,000 per year, an enormous sum that gave him the freedom to travel and to reside abroad.

In 1779, Findlater married Christina Teresa Murray in Brussels, but two years later, he left her and lived abroad for most of the rest of his life, especially in Dresden and Carlsbad.

Findlater's decision to relocate to Europe was no doubt strongly influenced by his homosexuality. He may indeed have been unofficially banished for his "unnatural transgressions." In any event, like his younger contemporary George Gordon, Lord Byron, among many others, Findlater realized that he could not live the life he desired in the United Kingdom.

In 1808 Findlater met the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Carlsbad. Goethe would still tell anectodes about him many years after his death in 1811.

Despite his association with Carslbad, Lord Findlater's primary investment abroad, however, were the vineyards at Loschwitz near Dresden. Initially motivated by his interest in wine, he managed to acquire five of the eight major vineyards in the region.

With the help of Johann Georg Fischer, his close companion, confidant, secretary, and lover, Findlater began, by the end of 1805, to turn this site into a beautiful landscape garden with precious shrubs and trees on its terraces.

Later, Findlater commissioned the architect Johann August Giese of Gotha to construct a magnificent palace in neoclassical style. It was subsequently replaced by the Lingner Palace, but in its time it was considered "the most beautiful residence in Dresden."

Lord Findlater died on October 5, 1811, soon after construction of his palace was completed. Findlater's sole heir was Johann Fischer, who had already received the Eckberg estate and the manor of Helfenberg from him.

Fischer, whose wife divorced him when she surmised the nature of his attachment to Findlater, was subsequently sued by the aristocrat's Scottish relatives. They went to court claiming that the bequest to Fischer had been made in pursuit of lewdness. Their suit, which created a scandal, was successful. They were able to keep the estates in Scotland as family property but at the expense of Findlater's reputation in the United Kingdom.

When Fischer died years later, at the age of 87, he was buried in Findlater's tomb at the cemetery around Loschwitz Parish Church.

1880 – On this date the eccentric English author and clergyman Augustus Montague Summers was born (d.1948). He is known primarily for his scholarly work on the English drama of the 17th century, as well as for his idiosyncratic studies on witches, vampires, and werewolves, in all of which he professed to believe. He was responsible for the first English translation, published in 1928, of the medieval witch hunter's manual, the Malleus Maleficarum.

Despite his conservative religiosity, Summers was an active member of both the British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology, to which he contributed an essay on the Marquis de Sade, and of the Order of Chaeronea, a secret society which cultivated a homosexual ethos. Summers' Gay interests also show in his edition of the poems of the sixteenth century poet Richard Barnfield, which partly are openly homosexual.

1934 – Kin Hoitsma was an American fencer born on this date (d.2013); Hoitsma competed in the individual and team epée events at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He later became a teacher. He was a long time lover of photographer and designer, Cecil Beaton.

Kinmont Trefry Hoitsma was born in Cooperstown, New York, the son of a salesman in the paper trade, in turn the son of a cattle rancher in Wyoming who had emigrated from Holland. The family was peripatetic, moving between the East Coast and the Midwest. Kin graduated from Shaker Heights High School in Ohio, and went on to Princeton University where he studied Greek and majored in French.

In 1956 he competed in the Ivy League Fencing Championship. He went on to the collegiate finals, and in November that year, aged 22, fenced for the United States at the Melbourne Olympics. The men’s epée team did not make it beyond the first round, though in the individual men’s epée Hoitsma reached the quarter-finals.

On his way back from the Games Hoitsma stopped off in San Francisco, and settled there, studying Architecture and Art History at Berkeley before taking a variety of jobs. It was during this period that he met Beaton.

Hoitsma met Beaton in 1963, when the photographer was in Hollywood creating costumes and sets for the film of My Fair Lady. One weekend in March, Beaton escaped to San Francisco, where he wound up at a bar called the Tool Box and met the handsome, 6ft 3in Kin Hoitsma.

An unlikely friendship formed, and soon Beaton was to be found hiking in Big Sur and camping out under the stars in the Yosemite Valley. Hoitsma was able to discuss art, but he had never heard of Chanel — or, for that matter, of Beaton. The relationship was greatly encouraged by Christopher Isherwood, and Truman Capote.

On his return to Britain, Beaton invited Hoitsma to move in with him. Hoitsma met Princess Margaret and became fond of Pauline de Rothschild and Countess Brandolini. But after a year he told Beaton that he had to leave: he was yearning for the hills around San Francisco.

Beaton, though devoted to Kin, was not cut out for domesticity; but he was still devastated. The two men remained friends to the end.

1968 – Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, better known as Larry La Fountain, is a gay Puerto Rican author, scholar, and performer. He has received several awards for his creative writing and scholarship as well as for his work with Latino and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students.

La Fountain-Stokes was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was adopted at birth by Donald and Ramona La Fountain, and is the brother of the ESPN newscaster Michele La Fountain. He has written about his childhood experiences in an essay called "Los nenes con los nenes y las nenas con las nenas" (Girls with Girls, and Boys with Boys). His essay "Queer Diasporas, Boricua Lives: A Meditation on Sexile" also discusses some of these early experiences.

La Fountain-Stokes is best known as an author of short stories, but he has also published poetry and received awards for his plays. He has also done some performing, specifically his 2004 one-man show Abolición del pato/Abolition of the Duck, which he did as part of the Casa Cruz de la Luna First Experimental Festival in San Germán, Puerto Rico, and later at the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance Out Like That Festival. The Village Voice described Abolition of the Duck saying "This is not Avenue Q" in reference to the artist's use of indigenous dolls as puppets to talk about Puerto Rican homosexuality.

His short stories have appeared in a number of anthologies such as Bésame Mucho: New Gay Latino Fiction (1999) and Los otros cuerpos: Antología de temática gay, lésbica y queer desde Puerto Rico y su diáspora (2007). He has also published in journals and websites such as Blithe House Quarterly and Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly. His first book of short stories is called Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails (2009) and includes 14 short stories written in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Most of La Fountain-Stokes's stories focus on gay Puerto Rican characters, and sometimes incorporate elements of science fiction and fantasy.

1980 – Sean Avery is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. During his career in the National Hockey League (NHL), he played left wing for the Detroit Red Wings, Los Angeles Kings, Dallas Stars and New York Rangers, gaining recognition for his agitating playing style and controversial behavior both on and off the ice. He is also known for his eclectic interests, having worked in fashion, most notably as an intern at Vogue magazine; as a model; and as a restaurateur. He finished his 12-year career with a total of 90 goals, 247 points and 1,533 penalty minutes in 580 games.

In May 2011, Avery recorded a video for the New Yorkers for Marriage Equality campaign, in support of same-sex marriage. Avery was believed to be the first athlete in New York to publicly voice his support for same-sex marriage. In an interview with the New York Times, he stated, "I certainly have been surrounded by the gay community. And living in New York and when you live in L.A., you certainly have a lot of gay friends." Avery also traveled to Albany, New York, to lobby politicians prior to the July 2011 legalization of same-sex marriage in New York State.

After retiring in 2012, Avery began working at advertising and creative agency Lipman in New York City.

In May 2012, Avery joined the board of directors of Athlete Ally, a nonprofit organization focused on ending homophobia and trans-phobia in sports by educating those in the athletic community and empowering them to take a stand against prejudice. Athlete Ally also provides public awareness campaigns, educational programming, and tools and resources to foster inclusive sports communities around the country.

1983 – Gabriel Arana is an American journalist. He is currently senior editor at Mic. He was previously a contributing writer at Salon and a senior editor at The Huffington Post and The American Prospect.

Gabriel Arana grew up in Nogales, Arizona, on the Mexico–United States border. He attended Yale University where he wrote for the Yale Daily News and graduated with a degree in linguistics. He then attended Cornell University, from which he holds a master's degree, also in linguistics.

His articles have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Nation, The Advocate, and The Daily Beast.

He is also known for writing a 2012 profile of the ex-gay movement in which psychiatrist Robert Spitzer repudiated his work supporting sexual orientation change efforts. After the article was published, Spitzer released a letter apologizing to the gay community, citing his interaction with Arana.In 2010, Arana was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Magazine Article for a feature story on the legal challenge to California's Proposition 8. In 2014, he was awarded the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association's Excellence in Feature Writing Award for his profile of activist Dan Choi. He has been a guest on television and radio talk shows including The Dr. Oz Show, Rachel Maddow, Starting Point, and Talk of the Nation.

He married his same-sex partner in Washington, D.C. in 2011.

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Court Circular || 17 September 2022

The King, subsequently joined by The Prince of Wales, later visited the Metropolitan Police Service Special Operations Room, 109 Lambeth Road, London SE1, in order to thank Emergency Service workers for their work and support in advance of the State Funeral of The late Queen Elizabeth II and were received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London (Sir Kenneth Olisa), the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (Sir Mark Rowley) and the Rt Hon Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London).

His Majesty and His Royal Highness afterwards met members of the public queueing to pay their respects to Her late Majesty.

The King and The Queen Consort gave a Luncheon at Buckingham Palace this afternoon for Governors-General at which The Prince and Princess of Wales, The Earl and Countess of Wessex, The Princess Royal and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, The Duke of Kent and Princess Alexandra, the Hon Lady Ogilvy were present.

The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Sussex, Princess Beatrice, Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, Princess Eugenie, Mrs Jack Brooksbank, Mr Peter Phillips, Mrs Michael Tindall, the Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor and Viscount Severn Mounted Vigil at the Coffin of Her late Majesty this evening as it Lay in State in Westminster Hall, Palace of Westminster.

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The Four Mary's Linlithgow.

On way to Edinburgh so here's a wee bit history for you all while I sit on the bus.

The inside of the Pub is like a museum with lots of historical artefacts, don't expect to see the footie though, it doesn't have a television.

Some of you may know the song of the same name, which has been covered by many artists including The Corries, Joan Baez and Steelye Span, but the story behind the song dates back to the 16th century and centres on Mary Queen of Scots.

The Four Marys pub was named after the four ladies in waiting to Mary, Queen of Scots, who was born over the road in Linlithgow Palace.

They were Mary Seton, Mary Beaton, Mary Fleming and Mary Livingston. Mary Fleming was also a relative of Mary Queen of Scots, as Fleming’s mother was the illegitimate half-sister of Mary Queen of Scots’ late father King James V. The other ladies were of noble and high birth.

Although Mary Queen of Scots’ connection to France started at a young age, it wasn’t always certain that France would become her home. King Henry VIII first attempted to marry his son Prince Edward to the young Scottish Queen. Although some of the Queen of Scots’ nobles supported an English alliance, Marie de Guise and other nobles pushed for the Auld Alliance.

In 1548, the four Marys joined their Queen at Inchmahome Priory in preparation for their journey to France. The journey to France from Scotland was a rough sea voyage. It is recorded that during the journey, all of the ladies came down with sea sickness.

Upon their arrival in France, the station of Mary Queen of Scots and that of her ladies-in-waiting could not have been made clearer, as Mary was to join the Valois royal children whilst her ladies were initially separated from her. This could appear as a cruel move by the French King Henri II, however it was for the young Scottish Queen’s benefit. First of all, if she were to marry the Dauphin, she would need to learn to speak French and be associate with the Valois Princesses, Elisabeth and Claude. Secondly, by making her closest companions Henri’s daughters he could secure her loyalty and ensure she was surrounded by women of noble birth and of respectable character.

The four Marys were initially sent away to be educated by Dominican nuns. However their time in France was not to be for as long as anticipated, as although Mary Queen of Scots married Francis, they ruled France together for only a year before the young King died in 1560.

By this time, Marie de Guise, who had once decided her daughter’s future in France whilst protecting her realm in Scotland, had died. This left Mary no choice but to return to her country as queen. The four Marys returned with her to Scotland. Scotland would be the place where the four Marys would seek their own husbands, as their now widowed Queen would also seek out another.

Mary Queen of Scots married her cousin Lord Darnley in 1565. Her ladies also married, all except Mary Seton who remained in the Queen’s service until 1585 when she left the Queen’s household to join the house of God and become a nun. Mary Beaton married Alexander Ogilvy in April 1566.

Mary Beaton had a son James with her husband in 1568. Two years earlier, she had been there to support Mary Queen of Scots as she gave birth to her son and heir James, who would become James VI of Scotland and eventually, James I of England.

Mary Beaton lived a long life, dying at the age of fifty-five in 1598. Mary Beaton has been depicted in history as a model lady in waiting and one who was well educated. It is recorded that Mary Beaton’s own handwriting was very similar to that of Mary Queen of Scots.

Mary Livingston married her husband John Sempill in the same year that Mary Queen of Scots married Lord Darnley. Both Mary Livingston and her husband’s characters were not considered to be honourable and respectful, unlike those of her ladies Seton and Beaton. The Scottish Reformer John Knox wrote that Livingston was “lusty” and her husband was a “dancer”. He even rumoured that Livingston had conceived her child before the marriage and therefore was of unworthy character to be a lady-in-waiting to the Queen. These remarks by Knox were ignored by Mary Queen of Scots who granted wealth and land to her lady and her husband. Mary Livingston was even awarded some of the Queen of Scots’ jewels in her will. However she and her husband were ordered some years later to return them to the crown. Her husband John Sempill was arrested for refusing to return them. Livingston died in 1579.

Mary Fleming married a man who was many years older than her, Sir William Maitland. Maitland was the Queen’s royal secretary. There were rumours that their marriage was an unhappy one, but this has been largely disregarded by history and evidence proves otherwise. Their marriage took place after three years of courtship and therefore, they had time to get to know one another well before the marriage. In 1573 they were captured at Edinburgh Castle. Mary’s husband died shortly after their capture and she herself was kept a prisoner. Mary Fleming was forced to give up her belongings and her estate was not returned to her until 1581/2 by the then King James VI, the son of her former Queen and mistress.

There is a dispute over whether Fleming remarried but it is commonly believed that she did not. She had two children, James and Margaret. In 1581 the Queen of Scots tried to set up a meeting with Mary Fleming, but there is no evidence that this ever took place. Fleming died that same year.

The lives of the ladies-in-waiting of Mary Queen of Scots were very different, despite their common experiences and Dominican education in France; three married and only one lady actually returned to a life in a nunnery.

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The British Royal Family

The Lord Chamberlain's "List of the Royal Family" published in 2020 mentions all of King George VI's descendants and their spouses (including Sarah, Duchess of York, who is divorced), along with Queen Elizabeth II's cousins with royal rank and their spouses.[2] The Lord Chamberlain's list applies for the purposes of regulating the use of royal symbols and images of the family.[3] Meanwhile, the website of the royal family provides a list of "Members of the Royal Family"; those listed correspond to the royal family members mentioned and pictured below, with the exception of Princess Beatrice, Princess Eugenie, the Duchess of Kent, and Prince Michael of Kent and his wife.[4]

The core of the royal family is made up of King Charles III and Queen Camilla; William, Prince of Walesand Catherine, Princess of Wales; Anne, Princess Royal; Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh and Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh. They carry out royal duties full-time.[5]

Lower profile relatives who perform some duties are Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester and Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester; Prince Edward, Duke of Kent; and Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy.[5]

Other members of the royal family with royal rank who do not carry out official duties are Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis of Wales; Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex; Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet of Sussex; Prince Andrew, Duke of York; Princess Beatrice; Princess Eugenie; Katharine, Duchess of Kent; and Prince Michael and Princess Michael of Kent.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_royal_family

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Rufus' voice, p5

P G Wodehouse Uncle Fred In The Springtime

The novel was adapted as a radio drama by Archie Scottney in 2012 for BBC Radio 4, directed by Martin Jarvis, who also portrayed Lord Emsworth. The cast also included Ian Ogilvy as the narrator, Patricia Hodge as Lady Constance, and Alfred Molina as Uncle Fred Ricky Gilpin ..... Rufus Sewell

[heavyarethecrowns]

[cambridge-sussex]

The Queen was represented by The Prince of Wales, accompanied by The Duchess of Cornwall, this morning at a National Service of Thanksgiving for Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee in St Paul’s Cathedral.

Their Royal Highnesses were received at the Cathedral by the Rt Hon the Lord Mayor (Alderman Vincent Keaveny), the Dean (the Very Reverend David Ison) and Chapter, the Bishop of London and the Archbishop of York.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Princess Beatrice, Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi and Mr Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, Princess Eugenie, Mrs Jack Brooksbank and Mr Jack Brooksbank, The Earl and Countess of Wessex with The Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor and Viscount Severn, The Princess Royal and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, Mr Peter Phillips, Mr and Mrs Michael Tindall, The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Earl of Ulster, The Lady Davina Lewis, Mr George and The Lady Rose Gilman, The Duke of Kent, Earl and Countess of St Andrews, The Lord Nicholas Windsor, Mr Timothy and The Lady Helen Taylor, Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, The Lord and Lady Frederick Windsor, Mr Thomas and The Lady Gabriella Kingston, Princess Alexandra, the Hon Lady Ogilvy, Mr and Mrs James Ogilvy, The Earl of Snowdon with Viscount Linley and The Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones, Mr Daniel and The Lady Sarah Chatto, Mr Samuel Chatto and 2nd Lieutenant Arthur Chatto, RM, were present in St Paul’s Cathedral.

The Service was conducted by the Dean of St Paul’s; the Archbishop of York preached the Sermon.

Her Majesty’s Body Guard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms and The Queen’s Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard were on duty.

After the Service Members of the Royal Family attended a Reception given by the Rt Hon the Lord Mayor and the City of London Corporation at Guildhall, London EC2.

- Court Circular | 3 June, 2022

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Attendees of King Charles III & Queen Camilla's Coronation

British Royal Family

The Prince of Wales

The Princess of Wales

Prince George of Wales *

Princess Charlotte of Wales

Prince Louis of Wales

The Duke of Sussex

The Duke of York

The Duke of Edinburgh

The Duchess of Edinburgh

The Princess Royal

Sir Vice Admiral Timothy Laurence

Princess Beatrice, Mrs. Mapple Mozzi

Mr. Eddo Mapple Mozzi

Princess Eugenie, Mrs. Brooksbank

Mr. Jack Brooksbank

The Earl of Wessex

The Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor

Mr. Peter Philips

Mrs. Michael Tindall

Mr. Michael Tindall

The 2nd Earl Snowdon

The Viscount Linley

The Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones

The Lady Sarah Chatto

Mr. Daniel Chatto

Mr. Samuel Chatto

The Duke of Gloucester

The Duchess of Gloucester

The Duke of Kent

The Earl of Ulster

The Earl of St. Andrews

The Lady Davina Windsor

The Lady Rose Gilman

Lady Helen Taylor

Princess Alexandra, The Hon. Lady Ogilvy

Prince Michael of Kent

Princess Michael of Kent

Lord Frederick Windsor

Lady Gabriella Kingston

Mr. James Ogilvy

Ms. Marina Ogilvy

Penny, The Countess of Mountbatten of Burma

Mrs Sarah Troughton-Barclay**

Mr. Peter Barclay

Mr. Edward Tollemnache

Mrs. Sophie Tollemache

Master Ralph Tollemache**

Shand-Parker-Boweles Family

Mr. Tom Parker-Bowles

Mrs. Laura Lopes

Mr. Harry Lopes

Mr. Andrew Parker-Bowels

Miss Lola Parker Bowles**

Mr. Freddy Parker Bowles**

Miss Eliza Lopes**

Mister Louis Lopes**

Mister Gus Lopes**

Mrs. Anabelle Eliot

Mrs. Alice Irwin

Miss  Ayesha Shand

Mr. Benjamin Eliot

Mrs. Catherine "Katie" Eliot

Master Arthur Eliot**

**Prince George of Wales, Lord Oliver cholmondeley, Master Nicholas Barclay, Master Ralph Tollemache, Mr Gus Lopes, Mr Louis Lopes, Mr. Freddy Parker-Bowles, Master Arthur Eliot will serve as Pages of Honour during the ceremony, while Queen Camilla's teenage grandchildren will participate in the ceremony in a different way as well.

NON ROYAL DUKES, Earls and Marquis (All of whom have some coronation role)

The Marquess of Anglesey

The Duke of Westminster

The Earl of Caledon 

 The Earl of Dundee

The Duke of Norfolk

The Earl of Erroll

The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres

Baroness (Helena) Kennedy of The Shaws 

General Sir Patrick Sanders

The Duke of Wellington

The Rt. Reverend and Rt. Hon the Lord Chartres

Baroness (Elizabeth) Manningham-Buller

The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry

Baroness (Floella) Benjamin

Dame Elizabeth Anionwu

The Marquess of Cholmondeley

The Marchioness of Cholmondeley

Lord Oliver cholmondeley**

Master Nicholas Barclay**

Reigning Royalty

DENMARK

Crown Prince Fredrik

Crown Princess Mary

THE NETHERLANDS

The King of The Netherlands

Queen of The Netherlands

The Princess of Oranje* ( Precoronation reception only, Source: https://www.royal-house.nl/latest/news/2023/04/17/coronation-of-king-charles-iii-and-queen-camilla)

Princess Beatrix *(Precoronatination reception only, Source: https://www.royal-house.nl/latest/news/2023/04/17/coronation-of-king-charles-iii-and-queen-camilla)

NORWAY

The Crown Prince of Norway

The Crown Princess of Norway

Sweden

The King of Sweden

The Crown Princess of Sweden

MONACO

The Sovereign Prince of Monaco

The Princess Consort of Monaco

JAPAN

The Crown Prince of Japan

The Crown Princess of Japan

SPAIN

The King of Spain

The Queen of Spain

The King Emerettius

The Queen Emeritia

LEICHTENSTEIN

The Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein

The Hereditary Princess of Lichtenstein

LUXEMBOURG

The Grand Duke of Luxembourg

The Grandduchess of Luxembourg

BAHRAIN

The Crown Prince of Bahrain

BRUNEI

The Sultan of Brunei

BELGIUM

The King of The Belgians

The Queen of Belgium

The Duchess of Brabant*

*reception only

JORDAN

The King of Jordan

The Queen of Jordan

BHUTAN

The King of Bhutan

The Queen of Bhutan

KUWAIT

The Crown Prince of Kuwait

LESOTHO

The King of Lestho

MALAYSIA

The King of Malaysia

The Queen of Malaysia

MOROCCO

The King of Morocco

OMAN

The Sultan of Oman

QATAR

The Emir of Qatar

TONGA

The King of Tonga

NON REIGNING ROYALS

GREECE

The Queen of Greece

The Crown Prince of Greece

The Crown Princess of Greece

GERMANY

The Hereditary Prince of Baden

BULGARIA

The King of Bulgaria

ROMANIA

The Custodian of The Crown of Romania

The Prince Consort of The Custodian of the Crown of Romania

YUGOSLAVIA

The Crown Prince of Yugoslavia

The Crown Princess of Yugoslavia

DUBAI

The Emir of Dubai

Other Dignitaries

USA

First Lady Dr. Jill Biden

Miss Finnegan Biden

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Court Circular | 15th November 2023

Buckingham Palace

The King and Queen were present at the Service of Thanksgiving for the late Earl of Airlie KT (Lord Chamberlain to The late Queen Elizabeth II) which was held in the Chapel of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London SW3, this afternoon.

The Prince of Wales was represented by Miss Helen Asprey.

The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh were represented by Mrs Angus Galletley.

The Princess Royal was represented by Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence.

The Duke of Kent was represented by Earl of St Andrews.

Princess Alexandra, the Hon Lady Ogilvy was represented by Mr James Ogilvy and Miss Marina Ogilvy.

The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester were present at the Service of Thanksgiving for the late Earl of Airlie KT which was held in the Chapel of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London SW3, this afternoon.

St James’s Palace

The Princess Royal this morning visited BAE Systems Submarines’ Submarine Academy and the University of Cumbria Campus, Barrow-in-Furness, and was received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Cumbria (Mr Alexander Scott).

Her Royal Highness this afternoon visited the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, Marine Terminal, Cavendish Dock Road, Barrow-in-Furness.

The Princess Royal, Patron, the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux, afterwards visited Barrow-in-Furness Citizens Advice Bureau to mark the reopening of Ramsden Hall in Abbey Road, Barrow-in-Furness.

Her Royal Highness, Patron, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, this evening attended a Dinner at St George’s Hall, St George’s Place, Liverpool, to mark its One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Anniversary and was received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Merseyside (Mr Mark Blundell).

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Court Circular | 15th November 2022

Buckingham Palace

The King gave a Reception at Windsor Castle this evening following the Platinum Jubilee at which The Prince and Princess of Wales, The Countess of Wessex, The Duchess of Gloucester and Princess Alexandra, the Hon Lady Ogilvy were present.

Kensington Palace

The Duke of Gloucester this morning officially opened the new Service Centre extension at Specialist Valve Services, Silvertrees Drive, Westhill, and was received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire (Mr Alexander Manson).

His Royal Highness this afternoon attended a Civic Reception at Fraserburgh Lighthouse Museum, Stevenson Road, Fraserburgh, and presented The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service to the Invercairn Gala Committee.

The Duke of Gloucester afterwards visited Fraserburgh Town Centre Regeneration and Conservation Project.

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The Second Bishops’ War: ‘Covenant for Religion, Crown and Country’

The Scots Invade England

Passage of Newburn Ford, Battle of Newburn on 28th August 1640, by James Grant (1873)

THE COVENANTERS were in no mood to compromise. The General Church Assembly opened on 12th August 1639, and immediately ratified all the legislation passed by the previous Glasgow Assembly. In fact, the Assembly declared episcopacy unconstitutional, by implication outlawing it throughout the United Kingdoms, despite Traquair’s efforts to dilute the resolutions. This was followed by an order that all Scottish males sign the National Covenant, in effect putting the whole nation in a state of rebellion against the Crown. The situation was clearly intolerable to Charles. Traquair, his authority overturned by the establishment of a Covenanter committee to rule the country, a successor body to The Tables, after the Assembly dissolved itself, returned to Westminster to advise compromise with the Scots on religious policy was inevitable. The position however changed radically with the return to court from Ireland of Thomas Wentworth. The Lord Deputy viewed the Covenant as a simple matter of rebellion against royal authority that had to be put down. Wentworth reasoned that if the King’s army had been disbanded for want of funds while Alexander Leslie’s forces remained in the field, then Parliament had to be recalled to grant the income to raise a new army: an English army to smite the Scots in the traditional manner. Persuaded that Wentworth would manage the English Parliament as effectively as he had that of Ireland, on 12th February 1640, Charles summoned Parliament and thus ended the period of his Personal Rule.

The English Parliament met in April, but despite Wentworth’s best efforts, MPs were not minded to treat the Scottish rebellion as one of historic national rivalry. Wentworth fundamentally underestimated the civic and religious opposition to Personal Rule that had developed over the previous eleven years. Many of the Puritan Lords and Commons felt distinct affinity with the Scots and their wish to resist episcopacy and the Book of Common Prayer. The view of this faction, represented by John Pym, MP for Calne and associated with the Providence Island Company (that commercial group of gentry and aristocrats who sought to sponsor the establishment of Puritan colonies in the Caribbean and North America), was that the royal government needed to visibly reduce Catholic influence at court and, as they saw it, the spread of Popery in the Church of England; reduce monopolies and withdraw unjust taxes before any military subsidies could be agreed. Wentworth had hoped compromise between King and Commons was possible. However, none of Pym’s demands were acceptable to Charles. Ultimately it seemed a deal might have been struck when Charles agreed to suspend the collection of Ship Money, but Parliament debated too long. The King therefore instead pursued his new taxes with vigour and obtained loans from the Spanish Crown to fund his army. Having achieved his aim, Charles dissolved the English Parliament after just three weeks, earning it the sobriquet, the “Short Parliament”.

Having the funds to raise a royal army was one thing, but to raise one of ability was quite another. As with the previous conflict, the English levies were disloyal, ill disciplined and quite incapable, in terms of equipment, experience and motivation, of defeating the Covenanter army which had been remustered by Leslie. However, what became known as the Second Bishops’ War actually burst into martial life through acts of Highland clan civil war, rather than as a direct fight between Scottish Covenanters and English Royalists. The Covenanter committee gave a military commission to Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll and, crucially, head of Clan Campbell, to put down Highland Royalist sympathisers, centred around the Earl of Atholl, Lord Ogilvy, head of Clan Ogilvy, historic enemies of the Campbells. Argyll led 5,000 men in a brutal raid into Lochaber, in the north east of the country, with the aim of possessing the Ogilvy lands. This culminated in the taking of Airlie Castle and the devestation of Ogilvy property in the vicinity. Clan revenge this may have been, but it suppressed Charles’ support in this part of Scotland and effectively commenced the British Civil Wars.

In the meantime, the phoney war between the under-utilised Covenanter force under Leslie and the, as yet, absent invading Royal army from England, ended with Leslie’s decision to take the war to England, not as an act rebellion against the king, he was careful to proclaim, but allegedly to challenge his court advisers (namely Wentworth, now bequeathed the Earldom of Strafford by Charles, and Archbishop Laud) and to assist the English to resist the rule of bishops. On 17th August 1640, Covenanter mounted forces under James Graham, First Marquess of Montrose, crossed the River Tweed into England, and headed to Newcastle, bypassing Berwick, which had been fortified by Royalist troops on the assumption the first major English town across the border would be the target of the invading Scots. Lord Conway, the Royal commander, drew up his forces at Newburn Ford to oppose the crossing of the River Tyne by the Covenanters. There followed a stand off at which Leslie tried to persuade Conway to give his troops passage to go forward and petition the king, now ensconced in York. Conway refused, leading Leslie to command a forced crossing of the Ford. Initially, Montrose’s probing cavalry were repulsed by English fire. However, Royal resistance was smashed by concerted artillery shelling by pieces commanded by the Duke of Hamilton who, since resigning his position as Charles’ Commissioner in Scotland in 1639, had sided with the Covenanters. The raw and panicked English infantry fled their positions and Leslie’s and Montrose’s cavalry crossed the Tyne and drove off the English cavalry they encountered on the other side of the Tyne. Victory complete, the Scots proceeded to Newcastle and its precious coal supplies.

Conway made no attempt to defend Newcastle but fled south, taking the city’s garrison with him. On 30th August, the defenceless Newcastle surrendered to the Scots. Leslie quickly established dominance of the whole of the surrounding country, putting Scottish garrisons and Scottish lords in charge of Newcastle, the Shields, Durham, Tynemouth and Sunderland. Northumberland soon followed and this was matched by the fall of Royal strongholds in Edinburgh and Dumbarton. The Second Bishops’ War, therefore, had resulted in a complete Covenanter victory. Leslie, on behalf of the Covenanter committee, now demanded audience with the King to confirm his agreement to the laws passed by the Scottish Assemblies, together with a recall of the English Parliament, viewed as an ally by the Scots. The Covenanter army would remain in occupation of the far north of England until Charles acquiesced to these demands. A treaty with the Scots to formally end the fighting, was agreed at Ripon in October. The terms were humiliating for Charles. Not only was the English court to meet the costs of the Scottish occupation (£850 per year), but the Scots’ demands would have to be heard by the English Parliament as well as the King. Charles, hemmed in, had no choice. He summoned Parliament to convene again on 3rd November 1640, a gathering that would come to be termed as the “Long Parliament”.