#St. Andrews Institute

[scotianostra]

On February 25th 1411 Bishop Henry Wardlaw established St Andrews as a university

This is not the official date for St Andrews inauguration there are a few dates I have found. Teaching began in the community of St Andrews in 1410, but the University wasn’t formally constituted by the issue of a papal bull in 1413, even the University’s own webpage says it was founded between 1410 and 1414, I’m simply putting today date down as a marker and definite significant date init’s history. Whatever the date, it is generally accepted that it is the third oldest University in the English speaking world and 19th in the whole of the world.

Bishop Henry Wardlaw was educated in Oxford and Paris and spent a lot of time on the continent of Europe, notably at Avignon during the time of division in the Catholic church. On Wardlaw’s return to Scotland he was made Bishop of St Andrews, he was a very important figure in Scotland at the time and was tutor to King James I, who he went on to crown in 1424.

He issued the University’s charter of foundation in February 1411, and the privileges of the new seat of learning were confirmed by a bull of the Avignon Pope Benedict XIII, dated 28 August 1413. The university was to be “an impregnable rampart of doctors and masters to resist heresy.”

With the declaration of St Andrews Priory on 4 February 1414, the University of St Andrews may be said to have come fully and formally into existence. There were six bulls included the bull of foundation and a bull confirming Wardlaw’s charter, although the text of all six is known, only the confirmation of Wardlaw’s grant survives in the original and still bears its bulla or lead seal, so again this is why February 25th is given as a date of it’s foundation.

Regardless of what date you believe the University of St Andrews is the oldest of the four ancient universities of Scotland and the third oldest university in the English-speaking world. Recently St Andrews was ranked 3rd in the British Isles and the only Scottish university in the top 20 of the 119 universities ranked. It was also ranked 92nd in the world. When size is taken into account, St Andrews ranks second in the world out of all small to medium-sized fully comprehensive universities.

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Writing Notes: Heraldry

Heraldry - is about showing people who you are.

In England, it started in the later 1100s, when knights began to wear helmets, and they couldn't be recognised. So they began to paint unique combinations of colours, shapes and animals, called their 'arms', on their shields and banners. Only one person was allowed to use these arms. When people saw a knight wearing them in a battle or tournament, they could tell who he was.

It is the science and the art that deal with the use, display, and regulation of hereditary symbols employed to distinguish individuals, armies, institutions, and corporations. Those symbols, which originated as identification devices on flags and shields, are called armorial bearings.

Strictly defined, heraldry denotes that which pertains to the office and duty of a herald; that part of his work dealing with armorial bearings is properly termed armory. But in general usage heraldry has come to mean the same as armory.

The Colours of Heraldry

The 5 traditional colours are, with their heraldic names:

Red = Gules

Blue = Azure

Green = Vert

Black = Sable

Purple = Purpure

Plus the two 'metals':

Gold or yellow = Or

Silver or white = Argent

There are also 'furs', the most common being:

Ermine: representing the white winter fur of stoats, with their black tail tips.

Vair: representing squirrel skins, in blue and white.

If something (say a dog or badger) is shown in its natural colours, it's called proper.

Conventional representations of tinctures used when it is not possible to print the actual colors:

Heraldic Ordinaries

Ordinaries - the simple shapes used on heraldic shields, against a colour, metal or fur background. If you are making your own design, choose one of these main ordinaries:

Fess = horizontal stripe across the shield

Pale = vertical stripe down the shield

Bend = diagonal stripe

Chevron = like a house gable, pointing upwards

Cross = a plain cross

Saltire = a 'St. Andrew's cross'

Chief = bar across top edge of shield

Bordure = border round edges of shield

Pile = downward-pointing triangle

You can also divide your shield into two colours, either vertically or horizontally, or into four different-coloured quarters.

You don't have to use an ordinary, but if you do remember to never put a colour on colour or a metal on a metal. Try to remember this heraldic rule: colours don't show up well against colours, or metals against metals. This also applies to charges.

Heraldic Charges

Charges - emblems added to the shield, on the background, the 'ordinary', or both.

There can be one big charge, or several smaller repeated ones. Here are some of the common charges you could use:

Crosses - of many different types

Stars

Rings

Balls

Crescents

Diamonds

Flowers

They can be any colour, but remember never put colour on colour, for example a green star on blue, or metal on metal, for example a white flower on yellow.

Many knights also used animals as charges.

Animal Charges

Any animal - either one big one or several smaller - can be used as a charge. They can be shown in many different ways, for instance:

Rearing up (rampant) - like the lion and the hare in the pictures above

Standing (statant) - like the dog

For birds, with wings outstretched (displayed) - like the eagle

Walking along (passant) - like the other lion

If the animal is looking towards you, it is also guardant or 'on guard'. So the lion in the picture is passant guardant.

The ancient royal arms of England are 3 golden lions, one above the other, walking along on a red shield: or, in heraldic code, gules three lions passant guardant or.

Just to make things more complicated, lions passant guardant are also called leopards - but they don't have spots.

Choosing Your Animal

Animals symbolised different qualities. So for instance:

Lions = bravery

Dogs = faithfulness, reliability

Stags = wisdom and long life

Eagles = power and nobility

Badgers = endurance or 'hanging on'

You could also design your own animal charge.

For instance a cat, horse or other favourite pet.

Or you could choose a fabulous beast...

Fabulous Beasts

Though often used as 'charges', these fabulous beasts never really existed.

But some people believed they did, maybe because they'd heard about them in stories made up by travellers to distant lands, like crusading knights or merchant adventurers. Pictures of them also appeared in 'bestiaries', a popular kind of illustrated medieval story-book.

Here are some you could use:

Dragon: the earliest and most common fabulous beast, also used as a badge by Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Welsh. A brave and cunning defender of treasure.

Griffin: a combination of lion and eagle. Symbolises watchfulness and courage - and also guards treasure.

Cockatrice: a cross between a cockerel and a dragon, supposedly hatched from a cock's egg by a snake or toad. Could kill by looking at you, and symbolised protection.

Manticore or 'man-tiger': a fearsome man-eating creature with a lion's body, man's face, tusks, horns and a deafening trumpet-like voice.

Cadency

Cadency - the use of various devices designed to show a man’s position in a family, with the aforementioned basic aim of reserving the entire arms to the head of the family and to differentiate the arms of the rest, who are the cadets, or younger members.

Heraldic works in the 16th century refer to cadency marks as:

a label for the eldest son during his father’s lifetime;

a crescent for the second son;

a mullet (five-pointed star) for the third;

a martlet (a mythical bird), the fourth;

an annulet (a small ring), the fifth;

a fleur-de-lis, the sixth;

a rose, the seventh; and so forth.

Sources: 1 2 3 4 ⚜ More: Writing Notes & References

[world-of-wales]

HAPPY 42ND BIRTHDAY TO HRH THE PRINCESS OF WALES, CATHERINE ELIZABETH ♡

Catherine Elizabeth (nee. Middleton) was born to Michael and Carole Middleton at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, on 9 January 1982. She was christened when she was six months old at the parish church of St. Andrew’s Bradfield in Berkshire on 20 June.

Catherine studied in nursery school in Amman during her family's time in Jordan. After moving back to the UK, she joined St. Andrew’s School, from where she went on to study in Marlborough College in Wiltshire, studying Chemistry, Biology, and Art at A-level.

The Princess undertook a gap year gap year studying at British Institute in Florence, working with Raleigh International programme in Chile, and crewing on Round the World Challenge boats in the Solent. In 2001, she enrolled in the University of St. Andrew’s where she met William for the first time to study Art history.

Cat and William fell in love during their time at uni, and married at Westminster Abbey on 29 APRIL 2011 at Westminster Abbey. The couple have three adorable cupcakes Prince George (b.2013), Princess Charlotte (b.2015) and Prince Louis (b.2018). The family of five divide time between their official residence, Kensington Palace and their two private residences - Amner Hall & Adelaide Cottage.

Upon her wedding, Catherine became HRH The Duchess of Cambridge, The Countess of Strathearn and Lady Carrickfergus. She received the titles of the Duchess of Cornwall & The Duchess of Rothesay upon King Charles's accession to the throne. William and her were made The Prince and Princess of Wales by him on 9 September 2022.

As well as undertaking royal duties in support of The King, both in the UK and overseas, The Princess devotes her time to supporting a number of charitable causes and organisations with some of her key areas of interest being Early Childhood Development, Children's Mental Health, Visual Arts and Sports among others.

[brf-rumortrackinganon]

As someone who grew up in a chaotic household with lots of yelling and drama, I cannot express how important having calm and drama-free relationships is to me now. I can spot an emotionally manipulative person from a mile away, and I run from them, anon.

The fact that at a young age he was capable of making a conscious choice to find his emotional stability with Catherine and her family is the reason I admire him. That she was smoking hot at St. Andrew’s certainly didn’t hurt.

The fact that Catherine is discreet and loyal to William and to the institution is the reason I admire her.

I agree. I think people underestimate how much young people crave stability when all they know is chaos.

It is interesting that the two brothers have such radically different experiences of their childhood. I suspect that the difference largely comes down to William being more aware of (and in the middle of) the bad times and wanting to avoid that, whereas Harry only remembers the good times and wanted to recapture that.

[squishfacestudio]

We're back!

Haven't posted in a long time. Homecooked Comics Festival has gone to bed, but Emerald Hill Comics Festival is our new event, and it's on this weekend.

Since we ended Homecooked, Victoria doesn't have any comics festivals focused on local work (as far as we know)! We're glad to start a new one. It's an experiment to run a festival in our new space at Studio Hall, and we hope it will have legs.

Join us! We have a great lineup of artists and retailers from Melb, Vic and around Australia.

Come and meet: Sticky Institute, Angie Spice, Peter Lane, Daniel Reed, Khale McHurst, Nhu Duong, Bruce Mutard, Mirranda Burton, Jo Asscher, Cockatoo Comics, Amplified Press (Owen Heitmann), James Steeth, Nem, Alien Mandy, Roger Stitson, Neale Blanden, Ira Francis, Steven Christie, Squishface Studio, Eli Abidin, Andrew Pilkington, David Mahler, Andy_drws, Reimena Yee, Ann Li Khaw, Stephanie Luo, Tree Paper Gallery, Gestalt Comics, Sabina Wills, Alex Smith, Stephen Cox, Benji Bajorek, Helen Graham, Ive Sorocuk, Zander von Stiegler, Jess Wilson (Dubblu)

WHEN: 11am - 4pm, Sunday 15th September WHERE: Studio Hall (319-327 Dorcas St, South Melbourne: on the grounds of St. Kilda South Port Uniting Church, next to the Port Phillip Men's Shed)

Entry is free!

More info.

Join our Meetup page for updates on the festival and other Squishface events.

[werewolfetone]

Once scotland is independent anyone who compares edinburgh or st andrew's or some other random old location with an educational institution in it to h*rry p*tter in particular in any way will be packed off to a political reeducation camp btw

[wonder-worker]

"Angelberga was [...] the wife of a successful ruler, whose legacy was at the core of the political struggle for the imperial succession [in Italy]. She took advantage of that situation: she seemed to suggest to rulers that, if they wanted to present themselves as the legitimate heirs of Louis II, they had to respect his choices with regard to his widow’s patrimonial status [Thus, even though she had no male heir who could support her, she remained active and powerful after her husband's death]".

-Roberta Cimino, Italian Queens in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries (PHD Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014)

"Angelberga’s widowhood was difficult, but mostly successful. She managed to make the most of the changes in royal authority and often exploited the struggles among the Carolingian and non-Carolingians to her own advantage. She remained active throughout her widowhood: negotiating exchanges, carrying out transactions and forming – and performing - alliances. Her experience illustrates extremely well the fluidity of Italian factions in the late 870s and 880s. Angelberga’s main concern was to preserve her material resources. The new rulers of Italy had to deal with her and with the potential threat she represented: they tried conciliatory politics, but some of them opted for a more aggressive approach. The success can be seen in the future of San Sisto, where she probably spent the very last years of her life. After her death, in 891, the monastery continued to represent a crucial instrument of territorial control with which all new rulers had to deal.

[...] Angelberga’s experience shows that monasteries were vital centres for royal women to create and strengthen alliances. Although royal monasteries must not be considered as "repositories" of queenship, they offered valid practical solutions to a woman in danger, as she could use them as strongholds. The potential threat Angelberga represented for Charles the Fat lay in these monasteries from where, it seems, she was able to coordinate her properties and supporters. It is not a coincidence that the plundering of Angelberga’s properties and treasure was usually focused on monastic institutions: even the kidnapping of a nun can be seen as a highly symbolized outrage to the dignity of the old empress, which was embodied by her monasteries."

[scotianostra]

On August 1st 1967 Queen's College in Dundee became a fully fledged university in its own right and was renamed the University of Dundee.

The history of what would become Dundee University stretches back to 1881 when University College Dundee was founded. Its creation owed much to the wealth gathered in Dundee through the jute and textile industry. The prospect of establishing a university in Dundee had been under discussion since the 1860s. It was made a reality with a donation of £120,000 from Miss Mary Ann Baxter, of the hugely wealthy and influential Baxter family. Her cousin, John Boyd Baxter, the Procurator Fiscal for Dundee District of Forfarshire, was heavily involved in the discussions and also donated monies. As the main benefactor and co-founder, Miss Baxter had definite ideas about how she would like the college to run and took an active role in ensuring her wishes were fulfilled. The deed establishing University College stated that it should promote “the education of persons of both sexes and the study of Science, Literature and the Fine Arts”. As well as promoting the education of both sexes, Miss Baxter insisted it should not teach Divinity, and was adamant that those associated with the university did not have to reveal their religious leanings. Baxter’s role in establishing University College, Dundee was noted at the time by Scotland’s most notorious poet, who has always had an association with the city, William Topaz McGonagall who wrote: Good people of Dundee, your voices raise And to Miss Baxter give great praise; Rejoice and sing and dance with glee Because she has founded a College in Bonnie Dundee University College, Dundee became part of St Andrews University in 1897, under the provisions of the Universities Scotland Act of 1889. This union served to “give expression to local feeling that there should be a vital connection between the old and the new in academic affairs.” Initially, the two worked alongside each other in relative harmony. Dundee students were able to graduate in science from St Andrews, despite never having attended any classes in the smaller town. However, over time relations became strained, particularly over the issue of the Medical School and whether chairs of anatomy and physiology should be established in Dundee, St Andrews or both, setting the stage for the tensions that would place some strain on the relationship between the two institutions in the decades ahead. By the mid-1900s separation was being proposed. A 1954 Royal Commission led to University College being given more independence, being renamed Queen’s College, and taking over the Dundee School of Economics. In 1963, the Committee on Higher Education under the chairmanship of Lord Robbins recommended in its report to Parliament that ‘at least one, and perhaps two, of its proposed new university foundations should be in Scotland’. The government approved the creation of a university in Dundee, and in 1966, the University Court and the Council of Queen’s College submitted a joint petition to the Privy Council seeking the grant of a Royal Charter to establish Dundee University. This petition was approved and, in terms of the Charter, Queen’s College became Dundee University on this day in 1967. To mark the event and the University’s independence the people of Dundee witnessed an unusual event as hundreds of students filed up the Law dressed in red academic gowns. At the top they admired the stunning views – “an arresting vision in crimson” – before heading back down to the newly designated Dundee University. Fifty years on, and Dundee and St Andrews universities enjoy a warm relationship, very much in the spirit of friendly rivalry. Both are in the world’s top 200 universities and are among the top ranked in the UK for student experience. The combined strengths of Dundee and St Andrews have been recognised as an “intellectual gold coast” on Scotland’s east side. Other highlights in Dundee University’s history include the formal merger of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art with the university in 1994 and the Tayside College of Nursing and Fife College of Health Studies becoming part of the university from September 1, 1996.

And in December 2001 the university merged with the Dundee campus of Northern College to create the Faculty of Education and Social Work.

[deadpresidents]

James Buchanan's Advice to Abraham Lincoln

John Hay was one of America's greatest diplomats. He served overseas during the Administrations of Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant, worked in the State Department of Rutherford B. Hayes, and held the nation's top two diplomatic posts -- Ambassador to the Court of St. James and Secretary of State under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.

Hay also may have been one of 19th Century America's most prolific and talented writers, an astute observer of everything and everybody. Late in life, he and his close friend, Henry Adams, became such institutions of Washington, D.C. society that today the Hays-Adams Hotel is literally one of Washington, D.C.'s great institutions.

But in March 1861, the 22-year-old Hay was in the nation's capital for the very first time, and he was there as one of the two private secretaries (along with John George Nicolay) to Abraham Lincoln, who was about to be inaugurated as President of a rapidly fracturing United States. Even at that young age, however, Hay's gift of observation were apparent -- and one of the reasons why Lincoln had brought the young man with him to Washington from Illinois.

On March 4, 1861, Lincoln was inaugurated as President, and Hay was nearby when Lincoln met with the outgoing President James Buchanan. With Southern states seceding and Civil War approaching, Hay was curious to hear what advice or words of warning President Buchanan might have for his successor. As Hay later wrote, "I waited with boyish wonder and credulity to see what momentous counsels were to come from that gray and weather-beaten head. Every word must have its value at such an instant."

Buchanan had spent decades in Washington and was arguably the most experienced person to ever be elected President when he won the 1856 election to succeed President Franklin Pierce. Despite his vast experience, however, Buchanan's Presidency had taken place in the midst of one of the most difficult moments in American history -- a moment that Abraham Lincoln was now sharing. As John Hay listened carefully, the 15th President, with his head cocked to the left to compensate for the fact that one of his eyes was nearsighted and the other was farsighted, spoke to the 16th President.

What Buchanan said to Lincoln was indeed memorable to Hay, albeit not very momentous: "I think you will find the water of the right-hand well at the White House better than that at the left." Hay would recall that Buchanan "went on with many intimate details of the kitchen and pantry. Lincoln listened with that weary, introverted look of his, not answering, and the next day, when I recalled the conversation, admitted he had not heard a word of it."

[ausetkmt]

The national conversation about police violence against civilians grows louder every day. Recent killings of African Americans have fueled a lack of trust between communities of color and police. In 1866, a mass killing happened at the hands of police in downtown New Orleans. That was during Reconstruction, the era Clint Bruce studies.

“White people, I believe, do not understand the mistrust that many black people in the United States have of police and of authorities.”

Bruce says this sitting at his little kitchen table in the Bayou St. John apartment he’s staying in while doing research in town. He’s a professor at Université Sainte-Anne in Nova Scotia, and is working on translating a collection of 70 French language poems that were published during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras in The New Orleans Tribune, a radical newspaper run by mostly people of color.

Two of these poems were written in response to the 1866 massacre. “It was seminal in creating deep feelings of mistrust that I believe black people still have that they will not be protected, and even that they can be killed with impunity” says Bruce about the massacre, who didn’t learn about anything like this growing up in Shreveport in the 1980s.

“A lot of us really looked up to the Civil War as something that was glorious. We played Confederate soldiers, you know, those sorts of things. And it was only later through my studies and interest that I developed as a young adult that a lot of what shaped our world happened during Reconstruction.”

This is when Bruce started to see why black people in America were and are in fear of the police.

Back to 1866 — one year after the Civil War ended — it was a tense year. Back then. Louisiana Republicans wanted to explore giving blacks the right to vote. They called a convention to consider it in the state constitution. “It seems very noble and in many ways it was,” says Bruce. “But everything was politicking, right? And people change loyalties strategically.”

Republicans, arguably, supported giving blacks the right to vote in hopes it would help their party maintain political power. Louisiana was under Union occupation during the Civil War, and had a Republican governor by the end of it. But in 1866, Andrew Johnson was the president of the United States, and a big fan of Home Rule — letting former Confederate states make their own decisions again — as long as they also obeyed federal laws. This concerned Republicans in the South, who felt they would lose ground under Home Rule. At such a pivotal moment, Republicans realized they needed the support of freed black men to maintain political power.

Credit The Historic New Orleans Collection The Mechanic's Institute. 1974.25.3.272.

 “When they got here, I guess about the middle of the block here, they were assaulted by white attackers," she says. "They were verbally and physically assaulted, someone actually shot at them. They fired back, no one was injured. They fought off the attackers and proceeded right down here on Roosevelt Way to what is today the Roosevelt Hotel. Back then it was the Mechanics' Institute.”

This convention had been highly publicized, everyone around town knew it was happening, whether they were for or against blacks gaining the right to vote.  

Bell crosses Canal Street to the entrance of what is now the famous luxury hotel. “So this is where the street was filled with men, women and children, again who were jubilant at the thought of an interracial democracy, the hopes of an interracial democracy.”

The parade of marchers had thwarted off the mob on the other side of Canal, but once they made it to the Mechanics' Institute, where the convention was taking place inside, they were beset by more violence. A gang of white supremacists and ex-Confederates attacked. Fire sirens went off, signaling police to attack. They were sent by the mayor.

“There was panic because the police and firemen, armed, surrounded that building and began advancing,” says Bell. “The attack was premeditated. Lead police chief Harry T. Hayes, what he was doing at the time was recruiting policemen from Confederate veterans. They stormed in and started shooting, chasing people down the street.”

When the attackers finally ran out of bullets, nearly 50 people lay dead, mostly black.

Bell says there were over a hundred injured in all of this. “That's very conservative though, it’s thought that as many as 200, maybe more people were injured in all of this.”

Federal troops had also been called in, well after things got bloody, and it was obviously too late. People lay limp, heads bashed in with bricks, broken bodies thrown from windows, landing on top of emptied bullet casings and abandoned knives.

Justin Nystrom is an associate professor of history at Loyola University, and Co-director of the Center for the Study of New Orleans. “Of course as the saying goes, it was an absolute massacre. Because it was.”

Nystrom is currently writing about the massacre, and says there were immediate consequences.

Credit Historic New Orleans Collection Four scenes from the riot in New Orleans.

He says the Mechanics’ Institute Massacre, combined with another massacre that happened two months earlier in Memphis, Tennessee, essentially served as a reset button for post-war policy in the South. These events were top stories in the national media, and influenced voters who headed to the polls that fall.

“And of course elect a radical super majority to Congress” adds Nystrom. “The radical super majority enacts the Reconstruction Acts which breaks up the South into military districts. I often teach my students that if you don't have the riot of 1866, you probably don't have the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments in the way that they appear.”

The 14th Amendment granted citizenship to former enslaved people in 1868. The Fifteenth Amendment, giving black men the right to vote, passed in 1870. Despite the progress it helped achieve, the massacre was a tragedy. There were no convictions in the aftermath. Nobody went to jail.

This reminds Clint Bruce of many recent, contemporary incidents of police violence against people of color. “So I'm thinking of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old who was gunned down. That was settled, it wasn’t considered a murder.”

And the country’s waiting to see what will happen to the officers who shot and killed Philando Castile, in his car in Minnesota, with his girlfriend beside him. And the day before that, Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge.

After the Mechanics' Institute Massacre, The New Orleans Tribune continued to follow the incident for months, both in news coverage — and poetry. Remember those published poems written by Afro-Creoles that Bruce is translating? Camille Naudin was one of the most militant voices among the poets of the Tribune. He wrote a poem to commemorate the massacre called "Ode to the Martyrs."

“It was written for the one-year anniversary of the 1866 Massacre, so it was printed on the day the following year,” Bruce explains. “The same day that there was a memorial ceremony at the Mechanics' Institute. ‘Ode to the Martyrs’ is really an elegy that enumerates a number of the victims who were killed, in pretty dramatic fashion, and celebrates their sacrifice.”

The poet mourns that victims of the mob were brutally massacred, while former Confederate leader Jefferson Davis remained alive — and free — at the time.

“There was a perception among Unionists that he was getting off scot free. In an earlier stanza he references a former Black Union soldier Victor Lacroix, who is from a really well known New Orleans family, who was pretty much torn to shreds by the mob. At the end  he writes 'Mais je dirai toujours mulâtres, noirs, blancs, Victor Lacroix est mort, Jeff Davis est vivant.' which I've translated as, 'But for mulattos, blacks and whites, this fact I must tell: Victor Lacroix is dead. Jeff Davis lives still.'”

[aimeedaisies]

Court Circular | 25th April 2024

St. James's Palace

The Princess Royal this afternoon attended "DNA Day" at Illumina Centre, 19 Granta Park, Great Abington, and was received by His Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire (Mrs. Julie Spence).

Her Royal Highness later opened the National House Building Council's Apprenticeship Training Hub at Histon Football Club, Bridge Road, Impington, Cambridgeshire.

The Princess Royal, Patron, the Royal College of Midwives, subsequently visited North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, Hinchingbrooke Hospital Maternity Unit, Parkway Hinchingbrooke, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

Her Royal Highness, Colonel, The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons), later visited The Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment at Hyde Park Barracks, Knightsbridge, London SW7.

The Princess Royal, Chancellor, University of London, this evening attended an Institute of Commonwealth Studies Reception at the Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1, to mark its Seventy Fifth Anniversary and was received by Ms. Roxanne Zand (Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London).

Her Royal Highness, Colonel, The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons), was represented by Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles (former Commander, Household Cavalry) at the Memorial Service for General Sir Richard Vickers (former Commanding Officer, The Blues and Royals, Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons, and former Equerry to The late Queen) which was held at the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk, London SW1, this afternoon.

[the-healthy-human-mind]

Evelyne's Military Personnel File

NAME: GARRICK, MARIE EVELYNE

MAIDEN NAME: GRAY

BORN: April 28th, 1998 (27 years old)

BIRTHPLACE: Oslo, Norway

SERVICE NO: 3846535

CALLSIGN: Snake, Echo 4-3

MARITAL STATUS: Married. 2019.

EDUCATION: GCSE

LANGUAGES: (fluent) Norwegian (First language), English, Spanish, German, Finnish, Arabic, Korean.

BRANCH: Special Operations Team (CIA)

RANK: Intel and Negotiations Specialist

TRAINING: Social engineering, situational awareness, self-defense, counterterrorism, CQC, water combat, negotiation, codebreaking.

NOTES: Garrick was detained in 2017 for aggravated assault on an ally soldier. Charges were dropped. Garrick was transferred to SOT per General Shepard.

TRAINING SCORES

PFT: 284

Rifle Qual: 322

CQB: 20.2s

Disciplinary Record: Detained in 2017 for aggravated assault upon an ally soldier. Charges were dropped.

Notes: Garrick is hesitant in long-range shooting, do not send her as a solo sniper.

PAST MEDICAL HISTORY

Height: 5'6 (168cm)

Current Weight: 130lb (58.9kg)

Blood Type: AB+

Extensive physical injuries to posterior.

25+ lacerations. Cause: wooden cane. Was not treated properly, tissue is damaged.

15+ burn wounds. Cause: cigarettes. Was not treated properly, tissue is damaged.

10x stab wounds. 7x to right arm. 2x to abdomen.

1x slash to right cheek.

1x bullet wound to left knee. Resulted in replacement of joint. Slight arthritis determined. To be monitored.

1x cesarean section in July 2021.

Evaluated for concussion. Result: minimal.

Evaluated for insomnia. Result: infrequent. To be monitored.

Evaluated for vision loss. Result: Minimal. Reading glasses are recommended.

Evaluated for hearing loss. Result: Minimal.

FAMILY HISTORY

Father: Marshall Adams Gray. Alive. 62 years old. Sentenced to life in prison w/o parole.

Mother: Alice Kathy Gray. Alive. 50 years old. In mental institute, not deemed fit to be discharged.

Older brother: Andrew Lorenzo Gray. Deceased. 19 years old.

Younger sister: Nellian Alice Gray-Garrick. Alive 16 years old. Attends St Martin-in-the-Fields High School For Girls.

Younger sister: Claire Mallory Gray-Garrick. Alive. 16 years old. Attends St Martin-in-the-Fields High School For Girls.

2 Children. Scarlette Ada Garrick. 2 years old. Leona Clove Garrick. 1 month old.

Genetic testing markers show indicators for uterine cancer, asthma, and diabetes.

SOCIAL HISTORY

Smoking? No

Drinking? Yes, whiskey mainly and only every once in a while on leave.

Physically Active? Yes, attends the gym every morning.

Sexually Active. Yes, tested regularly for STDs, on oral contraceptive. last known period: September 2023.

Mother and father are alive, deceased brother, two alive younger sisters. Has three cats.

Attends online therapy with Dr. McCain every Tuesday and Friday.

Attends church every Sunday morning.

Medication List + Indications

Sertraline – issued for PTSD 8 years ago. Must be regularly taken.

Lexapro – issued for anxiety 8 years ago. Must be regularly taken.

Adderall – issued for ADHD 8 years ago. Must be regularly taken.

Allergies

N/A

Notes

Garrick is to be monitored for PTSD episodes. Known to become combative during.

[duchessofostergotlands]

sorry if you’ve answered this before but how come you run a monarchy blog if you’re anti monarchy? i’m genuinely curious, i’ve never seen that before

I have answered it before but Tumblr's search function isn't great and it's probably time for an update. It's not as unusual as you think. There are a ton of people from Republics in this fandom who would never want to live in a monarchy themselves (come visit the fandom on 4th July lol). They're politically anti-monarchy, but they like the individuals. So I'm really not in any way unusual. But basically it was an evolving journey:

I became interested in monarchies at age 4 or 5. So clearly pre any kind of political thinking. I was mostly interested in historical monarchies - I've been obsessed with Anne Boleyn most of my life, I have a tattoo dedicated to her!

I started blogging about royals about 12 years ago so I was around 18 or 19. I wasn't massively politically active so I didn't have a strong opinion on the monarchy. I was at St Andrews at the time of William and Kate's engagement so I became quite interested in that but nothing serious. Then I was on my non-royal Tumblr (don't use it anymore) and I stumbled across an account who was saying really nasty things about Kate. This particular account was one of the few British people in the fandom at the time - it was mostly young Americans - and so they had an air of authority about them and they would say "this is what most Brits think" but it was bollocks. And then I would research other things they'd said about things like finances and realise that they were wrong about those too. There were one or two people who questioned her narrative but they weren't British and so after a couple of years of this I just had had enough and decided to create an account. I wasn't really a monarchist or an anti-monarchist. I liked William and Kate but I dislike people talking rubbish more! I had really just stumbled into this world and realised there was a place for someone who was going to provide evidence, who was going to challenge, and who could offer a different perspective on life in a monarchy. And monarchy as a system was something that had interested me since I was little so it seemed natural.

After a little bit of time I became more politically active and at that point I became anti-monarchist. It was a gradual shift so there was no moment where my mind changed but I didn't feel the need to leave anyway. Partly because it was fun. I liked blogging and I knew a lot about royals by this point, I didn't want to start from scratch in a more crowded fandom. I realised I can separate the institution from the people. I can like Kate but not think monarchy is a perfect system of governance. There are so many things that we find fascinating but don't necessarily endorse. I mean, I listen to a fuck load of serial killer podcasts but I don't think Ted Bundy was a great guy! I just find it interesting. If you've ever heard our podcast you'll know I am obsessed with corruption scandals. They're not good but I find power fascinating as a concept. But also this is just my nature. If I'm going to take a stance about a political matter I want to know as much about that as possible, I want to have considered the opposing argument and what their objections might be so I can counter them. And I found it frustrating when I saw friends of mine who generally shared my political views say stupid, incorrect things about the monarchy. Like this came later but a friend of mine once complained that they spent money on Meghan's wedding dress instead of the cladding on Grenfell which is rubbish.

I'm now in my 30s, I am at a very different place from when I started. Anti-monarchist is probably too simplistic but I've had the same bio and photo for like 5 years so I'm not changing it lol. My political view now is more pragmatic than anything else. But I've also done so much more research into the constitutional side of things than I had 5 years ago. My view now is if I could click my fingers and change our system of governance to a functioning, elected head of state without any issues of course I would. Just taking a step back it makes no sense to have a monarchy and for our head of state to be a symbol of such glaring inequality. But we can't just click our fingers. Ending the monarchy won't actually solve any problems in society but it could cause new ones. There are positives to having a monarchy, it does work to protect democracy even though it shouldn't, and so I would have to be presented with a system that keeps those positive aspects if I was to vote to end the monarchy. On a theoretical level I don't support it, it makes no sense, but on a practical level I think there are more important things, it won't be the quick fix people say it will be, and I would need guarantees about what a Republic would look like first as Brexit has shown us that we can only trust the Tories to deliver the worst possible outcomes if we leave it to them (which is what would happen).

[wonder-worker]

"[Angelberga] enjoyed a degree of autonomy that cannot be compared to that of any other royal woman in the same period. Private charters and juridical records inform us of the network of friends and clients that Angelberga was able to build. In a charter dating back to 865 a count called Ermenulfus asked the empress to provide him with a diploma that documented the grant of the monastery of Masina, which he had previously received from the emperor. In return, Ermenulfus promised to leave all his properties to Angelberga. It is uncertain what happened next and whether Angelberga fulfilled her promise and acquired the properties of the count. What we do know is that in 877 Angelberga was the owner of Masina, which the count had been so eager to protect, as she later left it to San Sisto. This charter shows that Angelberga had autonomy in shaping relationships with the political elite of the kingdom, and that she used this relationship to accumulate wealth. In 874 she presided over a placitum which granted some lands to a chaplain called Ratcausus – a member of Louis II’s entourage. The properties had been the object of a dispute between Ratcausus and a woman called Gernia and her husband, the Count Mantfrid. According to a charter issued the previous year in Capua, the chaplain had promised to sell his Piacenza properties to Angelberga if he won the case. It is evident that Angelberga used her role at court to carry out her project of territorial acquisitions in the area of Piacenza. Furthermore, in 877 she signed a libellum contract with the monastery of Saint Maurice in Agaune (Switzerland), through which she acquired two properties in Tuscany. The relationship with monasteries was therefore an important part of Angelberga’s career. Although she acted as intercessor on account of monastic and religious institutions - such as Bobbio, Milan and Piacenza – Angelberga stands out for the amount of royal estates granted to her and for their strategic location. This was related to her activity as founder of monasteries, a project started in the 870s and realized during her widowhood. [Angelberga was supported in her activities by Louis II, who was keen to stress on the perpetuity of her ownership of the properties that he had granted to her]."

Roberta Cimino, Italian Queens in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries (PHD Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014)