#Welsh princess

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Branwen, Daughter of Llŷr

“Branwen, Daughter of Llŷr” is another captivating tale from “The Mabinogion,” the collection of Welsh medieval legends. The story follows the tragic events surrounding Branwen, the daughter of the Welsh king Llŷr. Here’s an abridged version of the story: Branwen was a beautiful and kind-hearted princess, beloved by all who knew her. Her brother, Bendigeidfran (Bran), was the mighty king of…

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JACOB COLLINS LEVY and JODIE COMER as HENRY VII and ELIZABETH OF YORK in THE WHITE PRINCESS (2017)

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[theonceandfuture]

the wonders of the process of creating my arthurian-inspired bbc merlin rewrite

bonus:

advice #1: never be plural

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Happy Halloween!

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always gets on my nerves a little bit when the princess of wales comes up and people think they're doing something woke and anti-monarchy when they say "the only princess of wales *i* recognise is princess diana" but they never acknowledge that the title ought not to exist in the english royal family in the first place

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Catherine, Princess of Wales during a visit to the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards at Combermere Barracks for the St David’s Day Parade on March 01, 2023 in Windsor, England.

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I know people in HMC books speak English so there's not gonna be any kind of miscommunication between the characters, but sometimes I think about how it would be way more funny If there was some language diversity.

Howell Jenkins falls into the portal to an absolutely unknown, magical realm and... everyone speaks English. He was rather happy about it, finding it funny: it's a new, fantasy, fairy-tale based world with dragons and spells and seven-league boots and magic, and yet its habitants English. What are the odds?

However, it does not takes him long to realise (much to his own frustration) that, even though all of the locals native language is, in fact, English, it is pretty different from the English Howell himself is familiar with. He cant understand it quite well at fist, but it sounded like an odd mix of a modern language, specific dialects and an old tongue people was using around Victorian England/Middle Ages. It has so many words and unusual forms (Howell even called them "slang" once in a while), that it takes him a while to fully get every term and subtexts ms. Pentstemmon was referring to.

Their languages were similar just enough to catch the full sense of the sentence, but not enough to undertand all the little details, not cultural nor linguistic. It would even worst If he wasn't a big fun of Shakespeare and old Arthurian Legends growing up, letting alone studying old English (and old Welsh) at the university.

The language also differs from the area. Michael, for example, uses so many words you can hear in Porthaven only, regarding it's unique aspects. Sophie uses a lot of Market Chipping proverbs, and even more old terms connected with hats. The language he heard the King using wheh he got his first chance to met him at the time of his apprenticeship was so long, confusing and vivid, as If it was taken straight out of old English Literature books. And yet, English.

To this day Howell — at this point long-knowing as Howl Pendragon — finds himself confusing new terms, forms of words, proverbs and sayings. Maybe, he thinks, you have to be truly born there to understand all of - although he did better than anyone else would. Sophie seems to catching up just well.

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Abdullah ends up with a flying carpet and the magical genie, exited to give away his fist wish to find the love of his love... only to not understand a word of what the genie is saying. This is how, instead of searching for Flower-In-The-Night, he now searching through a whole Zanzib for a proper translator from English because, here's the problem, If he can't understand the genie, then genie can't understand him, and If genie can't understand him, it's pointless to even try making a wish. He knows it's English: there's plenty people all around the world visiting the market, and he had even learnt certain words, important for making a trade, but that's not nearly close to a full sentence on unrelated topic.

With a great effort and after hours of searching for a really proffecional master of languages (who charges Abdullah nearly all of his money for one single session), he finally gets to the point. Except, here's another moment. That's where Abdullah finds out the wish has to be spoken from his heart and not through the other person. Here comes another catch — Ingarian English, no matter how simple or structured is, to put is simply, badly different from Rapshutian Arabic. It's not even the same language group!

So, he sits in the small, hot room near the glamorous bottle and tries to pronounce a bunch of difficult, complex words written on a paper, the kind that translator couldn't cut or simplify to ones he's familiar with, for a whole ten (to fifteen) minutes. And, as If trying to make his task as difficult as possible, genie, when he shows up, starts randomly breaking into the language translator can't even recognise, with no talk about understanding. Abdullah assumes it may be a secret genie language only this creatures know and, annoyingly, gets along with it.

After successfully wishing to understand (and use) English, he also finds out he can't wish for anything more language-related, and he shouldn't even bother himself trying to ask for a foolish things like an ability to speak every language in the world. Language is a big part of human's essence and otherwise shouldn't be messing with, just as magic focusing on it is strictly limited.

Using this fact, the genie also finds a loophole - from now on he speaks his secret genie language half of the time, stopping only when it comes to important tasks, because Abdullah "wished to know only one of his languages" and he, apparently, knows more.

This whole puzzle takes new turns, when, while traveling with the carpet, Abdullah meets the solider. Despite claiming being from Strangia, this strange man from the forest starts speaking with them in English in first and then, noticing they're from different country, easily switches to Arabic.

As they wander together, the soliders explains that he is non less confused than they are: he didn't even noticed he could speak English before the passer-byes from Ingary noticed him, and now, being with genie and Abdullah, he also remembered he knows Arabic. He adds that he can't recall anything before his duty in the army, where he definitely used Stangian and nothing else, but it feels like an strong knowledge he has, even If he doesn't remember learning any of this. He decides to wave it off, focusing on the cats and schemes.

The solider becomes a great translator for them along the journey, up to the day the got the inn. He does not understand the secret genie language, though. Especially when from the jinnies and angels they found out there's, in fact, no such a thing as a "genie language"

The story finally clears itself when Midnight and Whippersnapper turn into humans, the Solider turns into a bewitched Prince and the Royal Wizard surprisingly seems to recognize all of the words the genie was — and still is — using.

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Charmain runs after Sophie with a long, old dictionary she has found in the Great Uncle Norland's Library. The Royals, of course, gave their honored guest the translator, but the things quickly becomes pretty private, with the search for the gold and all this story with lubboks, so Sophie tells them she's gonna manage it by herself.

To say the Dictionary is heavy is to say nothing: it's huge and thick, containing thousands of words from Ingarian English alone, split by topics, marked with tons of colors an additional moments. Even carrying it around is a whole different type of task.

Half of the time Charmain and Sophie communicate with gestures, context clues and even sounds. When they need to say something really long and complex, they write, leaning on the Dictionary, as it's a bit faster than talking. Still, at some moments Charmain has to flip through the massive pages, searching for the right word with her finger, while Sophie has to do the same. Till the end of the day the both learn some basic words from each other's language, which makes it easier.

The poor nanny has even harder times with Twinkle and Morgan, because she has no idea about what they actually want, except they both whining and crying, one louder than another.

Translator does not come in handy that much, as it looks like these children mix languages everytime when speaking to each other. She has to guess things all over the room to finally get what they need, and usually it's the most useless things ever, like striped pants and a bunch of toy horses falling from the sky.

They see Sophie and Twinkle arguing about something, but no one gets the topic of their screaming, let alone the reason why Sophie is so mad at this angelic child. Charmain asks Sophie about it, because she heard an unusual name along the lines of their quarrels, but Sophie looks too annoyed to explain, mumbling something in her native language with some sort of anger.

The only positive side of it all is that, If Chairman can't understand English, then the lubbocks can't either. Wich means that they didn't have to be as cautious when using Dictionary as they would have to If they understood each other perfectly.

Then she has to climb on the roof, where Twinkle is sitting. Charmain tries to dismiss all his attempts to start a dialogue till she's there, huffing and suffocating as she tries to get the Dictionary with her, trying not to fall.

Twinkle seems to be really proud of himself, saying he knows twice more languages that anyone else in this magical House. Charmain flips through the pages, asking either one of is the one she knows (Norlandian, I assume).

Twinkle says no. For a second Charmaine starts to really understand Sophie's feeling, fighting the urge to hit him on the head with this massive book.

Peter does not communicate with this new guest as much and, luckily, he knows the language Charmain speaks, so they don't have to struggle with a language barrier. The way speaks might be a bit different because of the area he grew up and the amount of hiding and spells he encountered, but there's nothing they can't handle. Luckily.

Calcifer knows the Saucepan song, but other than that his linguistic knowledge is far from perfect, certainly not as good as you'd expect from a fire demon. He also cannot use a Dictionary, because it will burn the second he'll come to close to it, and If this happens their main way of communication is basically gone. He makes up for it, talking with Twinkle, Morgan and Sophie, as well as being expressive enough to understand the basics or what he feels and plans. Sometimes someone (aka Sophie) has to translate what he is saying when she's near, wich is a bit longer than Charmain would wish, but still pretty plausible. She got that he desperately needs his logs, after all.

Twinkle could have used some kind of magical bubble to get them finally understand each other fully, but, again, magic connected with languages is pretty difficult and has its important limits, so it wouldn't last long. Little 30 years old boy is enjoying his childhood, running up the stairs and beating these huge bugs, not as much caring about Charmain all this huge book in her hands.

In the end, (as he turnds out to be) the Royal Wizard Howl is right - the only languages lubbocks can understand is punching.

(Many thanks to my rly good friend @your-queen-shuri for being co-author of this concept. A bunch of ideas here are from her!)

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Lord. We can't ever have a quiet day in this fandom, can we? I saw this the other day and definitely had a lot of thoughts, because...wow.

I think it's not a coincidence that this post came on the heels of the Michael birthday posts, as we've seen before how Georgia and AL both have made posts in the wake of high profile/media heavy events (like the announcement of GO 2, and subsequently the release of GO 2 last summer) to ensure maximum visibility. It's also interesting that it follows Georgia newly using the word "boyfriend" to describe Michael/his relationship to David, and is another addition to the pantheon of recent (meaning the last six months) posts that keeps all of this in the realm of a joke, which goes back to what I wrote the other day about hiding in plain sight.

The other thing that stood out to me was the (again) ambiguous wording of AL's original post. "I don't know why I did this to myself" could mean several things, none of which are clear. Did she buy the pillow for herself? Did she buy it for Michael as a birthday present? Or did Michael insist on getting one for himself and she agreed to it? All of those seem like possibilities, although I'm not entirely certain why Michael would want or need a pillow when he can sit on David's face anytime he wants, especially with them being neighbors and boyfriends. And I don't think David would mind much, either...

But I think what resonates for me most about this is something that @nightgoodomens has alluded to, which is the continuation of posts that are meant to show Anna as being part of the "arrangement" (whatever it may be) that is between all of them. Emphasizing the idea that everyone is on board with what is happening, "we all get along," "we're all friends," and so on, despite this standing in stark contrast to what we've seen in the past. I would also certainly be curious to see Michael's reaction to the pillow, as it is interesting how noticeably absent he is from all of this.

Whatever the case may be, I do think Georgia and AL are fucking with the fans/the GO fandom, though I'm not sure if they're doing it for the reasons some people think. (This also feels distinctly different to MugGate, which happened in 2020, because in that case it was Michael and David doing it, and it somehow came across as more sincere/raw than what Georgia and AL are doing.)

That is my take on this new turn of events, at least. I'd love to know what my followers think, of course, so please do feel free to share your thoughts on this post. Thanks for writing in! x

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The Princess of Wales Visits South Wales

Catherine, Princess of Wales, arrives for a visit to Corgi, a family run textiles manufacturer focused on the production of socks and knitwear on 30 January 2025 in Ammanford, Wales.

During her visit to South Wales, she highlighted the work of longstanding organisations that prioritise community at their core.

Her focus was on the wellbeing of children and families, as well as celebrating the excellence of Welsh textiles manufacturing.

📸 Rebecca Naden / Richard Pohle - WPA Pool / Getty Images

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Princess Anne, on her way to visit the Newport Medieval Ship in Newport, Wales on 9th February 2024.

📸 Chase Manufacturing Ltd on Facebook

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henry and elizabeth ( + baby arthur 🫶🏻)

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The Altar of the Legion by Farnham Bishop & Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur | More quotes at Arthuriana Daily

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You can stop trying to find the best Kate Middleton joke, because it's here:

Source here.

[world-of-wales]

I SPY THE WELSH GUARDS LEEK BROOCH!