ALLAN BARTON - THE ANTIQUARY : AN OUTSTANDING ROYAL BRITAIN HISTORIAN! YOUTUBE STATION

I'm so impressed with the videos this man has posted so I'm highly recommending you learn more about Royal Britain -  the history - the coronations - the symbolic clothing - so many wonderful topics - by listening to his station.  His knowledge is expansive, he's well spoken and every video has plentiful pictures and illustrations.

Here is the link to the ALLAN BARTON - THE ANTIQUARY station on YouTube.

YOUTUBE ALLEN BARTON

In keeping with my policy to not embed videos that have commercials attached to them, I'm sending you to the video that turned me on to this station...

YOUTUBE BARTON ROBES and CORONETS OF THE NOBILITY

As he says, it's not likely that many of the invitees to King Charles III's coronation will be wearing the garments of the peerage, signaling to all who can read the codes, but here he details of their traditional garments worn for special events in the history of Britain.   

This station is simply full of wonderful information!

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KING CHARLES III CORONATION - THE FANTASTICAL GREEN MAN INVITE TO 2000 - HAND PAINTED!

Those of you who love the design and interpretation of Coat of Arms - Heraldry - as one of the oldest European traditions - will love the fantastical Green Man invite to Charles III Coronation which takes place May 6th - English time.  

I will be watching. 

It's not that I'm an Anglophile, because I  .  However, this is a historical event and one that has not taken place in England for 70 years, since his mother Queen Elizabeth's, and it's televised.  Promising a smaller, perhaps updated and more modern version of a coronation, Charles, who long awaited his time to be King, seems to have sought ways to remain Royal as well as being well situated in today's world with climate change and ecology one of his long time concerns. He also said once that he was a guardian of the faiths, not just England's version of Protestantism, showing sensitivity to Britain's citizenry.

I watched Diana and Charles' wedding. I watched Diana's funeral, getting up in the middle of the night to watch it live. I watched much of the Queen's funeral. In the past I read a few books about the Royal family, including Kitty Kelley's expose. I watch the series, The Crown, which I think is terrific; I don't expect accuracy out of biopic's, I figure there is lots of theory and interpretation in film making. And of course it helps that it's all in English, the official language of the United States too.

If you think that it's just Americans a bit obsessed with what happens over there across "the pond" (The Atlantic Ocean) and with one of the last acknowledged Royal families of Europe and on this earth, even Americans with no English or British ancestry, think about this. British are obsessed with American politics and our legal system. We, along with Canada, have never lost our connections that began with immigration from that island to the America's.

This image of the Coronation invite appears on The Guardian.

Called NeoPagan and Puckish, here is the article about heraldry artist Andrew Jamieson's hand painted invitations which is quite funny :

THE GUARDIAN : CHARLES PAGAN PARTY

Excerpt:  However you read its springtime symbolism, the coronation invitation is a witty, skilled performance that speaks well of King Charles III's feel for art and sense of humour, as well as Jamieson's talent. Now all we need is a maypole outside Westminster Abbey.

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P.S. Maypole for the month of May, and May the month for Blessed Mother and all mothers.  Let's clarify that mothering, nurturing, is not exclusive of those who give birth or who have or raise children.  

GHOSTS IN PRINCE GEORGE'S NURSERY AND IN YOUR FAMILY STEAD?

With the summer ahead - finally - it might not be the spookiest time of year to be talking about GHOSTS but a recent article on the internet suggested that Great Britain's baby Prince George is in a remodeled nursery that has been the scene of several sightings of ghosts - ancestral spirits.

Here is one of many articles quoting biographer Andrew Morton, famous or infamous for writing about Princess Diana.

IS PRINCE GEORGE OF CAMBRIDGE'S NURSERY HAUNTED? : O CANADA

EXCERPT " Andrew Morton, the famous biographer of Prince William’s late mother, Princess Diana, is quoted in England’s Mirror explaining that “Prince George’s nursery is in Apartment 1A of Kensington Palace, which has been a notorious spot for ghost sightings...The Mirror reports that apparitions of George II, Caroline of Brunswick and Princess Sophia have all been reported in the palace, with ghostly visions in “Regency dress” disappearing through walls.”

Another author mentioned in the article says there are ghosts OUTSIDE THE PALACE as well!

It's one thing to honor your ancestors (by, say, doing genealogy) and another to be visited by them as ghosts.

I believe ghosts exist though I don't claim to totally understand their technology.  Some say they are souls who do not know they are dead and haven't moved on to a higher spiritual plane, others say that they are haunted because there is unfinished business.  I don't know enough about the named ghosts to know how they died or when at this point.  I think ghosts need to be cleared out though because this time on earth is for the living.

DO YOU HAVE GHOSTS IN YOUR FAMILY STEAD?

MIDDLETON COAT OF ARMS : THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW NOBLE FAMILY

Thought this article was one of the best about the new Coat of Arms used by the Middleton Family, which of course includes daughter Catherine, Kate, Prince William's wife, the Duchess of Cambridge.

DAILY MAIL : MIDDLETON FAMILY COAT OF ARMS link

The simple design features 3 acorns to represent the Middleton's three children.

Illustrations and this:

..."Coats of Arms came into being during medieval tournaments like jousting when knights would be recognised by the motifs on their shields or helmets and heralds quickly learnt the different ones in use, taking up responsibility for the control of their use.

Their use declined in competition and battle but they became more widely used in society.
The College of Arms, a branch of the Royal household, is the official body in the UK that deals with coats of arms and their team of experts - funded by the fees they charge and not taxpayers money - design and research heraldic or genealogical issues.

The arms are given for free while the money people pay is for the research and design of the coat of arms.

However, that doesn't mean that just anybody can pay the fee and get a coat of arms. The cumulative knowledge of the Earl Marshal gathered over hundreds of years has given them the skill of tactfully suggesting that people don't proceed with their application.
The late Peter Gwynn-Jones, a former Garter King of Arms, once said: 'In practice, eligibility depends upon holding a civil or military commission, a sound university degree or professional qualification, or having achieved some measure of distinction in a field beneficial to society as a whole.'..."

GOLD BEDECKED SKELETON AN ANCIENT BEAKER PEOPLE QUEEN ?

YAHOO : GOLD BEDECKED SKELETON MAY BE ANCIENT QUEEN  link here (includes a picture of a reconstruction of what she may have looked like at the burial.)  The woman was found in England between Windsor Castle and another town.

EXCERPT:

"The woman's bones have been degraded by acid in the soil, making radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis impossible. Nonetheless, excavators believe she was at least 35 years old when she died sometime between 2500 B.C. and 2200 B.C., around the era Stonehenge was constructed.


The woman was adorned with a necklace that had tube-shaped beads fashioned out of sheet gold and black disks of lignite, a dark, coal-like material similar to jet. Though her clothing long ago disintegrated, amber buttons and fasteners were scattered across the woman's body in a row, hinting at how she may have been dressed..."

WILL THE ROYAL BABY BE A VICTORIA OR A PHILLIP?

NAMING A ROYAL BABY : article from DIGITAL JOURNAL OP ED by Martin Kujawa link to full article.

I enjoyed reading Kujawa's article and speculated that the Royal Couple will probably follow tradition, and maybe have a whole lot of people butting in about what to name their baby, which, reading other articles, was announced to be due in July and most likely not a twin!  Meanwhile in Great Britain there is word that there will be some changes.  First that the child will be titled Princess or Prince right away, second that if it be a female, she will still be first in line to the thone, and third that the Royal personage destined to be King or Queen may marry a Catholic, and finally, that Prince Charles is wondering about what this all means because the King or Queen of England is also head of the church.

OK, so I am not expecting this Royal Baby to be named Tiffany or Roger!

MARY BOLEYN : by ALISON WEIR : ANCESTRY WORSHIP BOOK REVIEW (WHAT DUCHESS OF YORK AND PRINCESS DI HAVE IN COMMON? )

MARY BOLEYN by ALISON WEIR 

Well of course they have all that in common, but did you know they share a common ancestor?

I am a huge fan of Alison Weir as an author, who puts in the research that would scare off a lesser writer.

The language of this book is fine genealogical historical writing. Where Weir has come to disagree with a previous author she will state that there is no evidence for prior conclusions. Weir is fine at teasing out detail within ACCURATE HISTORICAL CONTENT, using clues such as changes in fashion in portraits.

(When we run into a similar block in our own research, we must also state what the evidence is and the various conclusions we could reach, but have no evidence for.)

Although I know that the people of the British Isles have been keeping genealogy records for a long long time compared to records in some other countries, I'm actually surprised so much exists from the 15th century.

Did or did not Mary Boleyn, the older sister of Anne Boleyn, (who would marry the King and also be executed by him), become King Henry VIII's mistress first? Weir says yes, though reports that the young woman was promiscuous at the French Court years before are probably wrong. She was young though and suggestive and maybe been seduced by the French King.

Was she, compared to Anne, dull or simple? At the time of her sexual liaison with Henry, Mary was married and her family seemed to be displeased with her. But maybe this was just because they saw their daughters as a way to greater fortune if married as virgins. x

Mary left court, her husband died, and she married for love, much to her family's upset. But in the end it was Mary, not Anne, who survived.

Based on the evidence that Henry provided well for Katherine and that she resembled him, we know so much more about the intertwining families of the Boleyns, the Careys, the Spensers, and other old families, (genealogy charts provided).

Page 272 "It is often said that Henry VIII's line died out with Elizabeth. None of his legitimate children left issue, and his acknowledged bastard, Richmond, was childless. But if Katherine Carey was Henry's daughter, as seems likely,. then his direct bloodline
survives in numerous direct descendants.

"Under the Stuarts, the Carey Family remained prominent until the senior line died out in 1677. Among the illustrious descendants of Mary Boleyn are numbered Winston Churchill... Baron de la Warre, after whom the state of Delaware is named... Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, Princess William of Wales, Camilla Parker Bowles, Duchess of Cornwall, Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales (through the Earls Spencer), the late Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and Queen Elizabeth II."

(Her list is longer than this!)

MARY BOLEYN The Mistress of Kings is C Alison Weir and published by Ballantine Books.

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