#mary charteris

[leatherista22]

[camillerowep]

October 12, 2023 — Camille Rowe, Mary Charteris, Michael Hennegan and Ikram Abdi at the Camille Rowe x Reformation dinner and cocktail party at Casa Cruz in London 🇬🇧

[mariocki]

The Saint: Vendetta for the Saint - Part 1 (6.15, ITC, 1969)

"Want some advice? Go easy."

"And mine to you is pull out - before I start breaking his world up."

"What?"

"You heard."

"Dear man, have you any idea what you're taking on?"

"No, but I'll pick it up as I go along."

"You won't get six feet. Well, maybe: laid out in your best suit."

[thecrownnet]

How a Princess became Queen

The day the Princess of Wales became Queen Elizabeth II

by British Heritage Travel, March 31, 2023

As the longest-serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II has died we now look back on the incredible history and when she was bestowed the mantle of Queen.

When King George VI died in 1952, the then [Princess Elizabeth] and her husband were the last to find out as they were in Kenya at the time. Speaking recently Philip's cousin Pamela Hicks, daughter of the late Lord Mountbatten, who was also in Kenya working as a lady-in-waiting, has revealed that Philip was told first and then shared the news with his wife.

Speaking on her daughter India Hicks' podcast in 2018, Lady Pamela recalled how the Queen had been staying at the remote Treetops guest lodge in Kenya, which was accessed via a ladder.

She said: "She goes up as a princess. The King dies that night. She comes down the ladder as Queen. We were the last people in the world to hear."

A message had been sent by the British embassy but as it had been written in code it wasn't passed on. Instead, the Queen's private secretary, Martin Charteris, was in a nearby town when a reporter accosted him and asked about the news.

Charteris returned to the lodge and subtly climbed the ladder trying to get Philip's attention while not disturbing the Queen.

Lady Pamela said: "Prince Philip is sitting, reading a newspaper, while the princess is in another part of room, at the desk, writing to her father.

"[Martin] crawls in as he doesn't want the princess to look up and see him so he's crawling out of her sightline and gesturing to get hold of the radio.

"He secretly turns it very, very low and hears all the stations (playing) the same dirge-like music, being very solemn, so it's obviously true."

Mr. Parker secretly got the Duke to listen to the radio to hear the news for himself.

Lady Pamela continued: ”Philip just takes the newspaper and covers his face with it, hides behind it and says: 'This will be such a shock!’”

She said the Duke convinced his wife to go for a walk in the garden, where he told her of her father's death and that she was now Queen.

Lady Pamela added: "As she comes into the room. I think 'Oh, poor girl, her father's died'.

“So I go over to her, give her a hug and think 'Oh my God, it's the Queen’, so I go into a deep curtsey.

"And she says 'I'm so sorry. It means we've all got to go back’. She was only thinking of all of us."

The podcast also said Lady Hicks reveal that when the royal party returned to London a black dress had to be smuggled onto the plane so the Queen could change before disembarking as she hadn't thought to bring one. An oversight that changed how the monarchy travel, as they now all bring a black mourning outfit.

* Originally published in 2018.

** Photo 2: Princess Elizabeth is greeted by Winston Churchill on her return from Africa following the death of her father George VI. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

*** Photo 3: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1900 - 2002) (right) in mourning with Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Mary (centre) at the funeral of King George VI. (Photo by Ron Case/Getty Images)

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[ruleof3bobby]

MARY SHELLEY (2017) Grade: C-

It was nothing horrible about the movie. Just had the plot of a made for TV movie. Would had been a better play or documentary. 

[catherinetheprincessofwales]

The man-who-would-be-king (the Duke of York) and family visited the Butler (Marquesses of Ormonde) family at their home in Kilkenny Castle in April 1899. An extract from the Irish Times summarises the gathering in the castle's noted picture gallery, and lists those present as the: The Duke & Duchess of York (later George V & Queen Mary) and The Marquess & Lady Ormonde (James Butler & Elizabeth Grosvenor). A portrait of Queen Victoria who also visited the castle can be seen in the background.

Two other Ormondes (likely the Marquess' daughter & brother), Marshal & Lady Roberts (Frederick Roberts & Nora Bews), Viscount & Viscountess De Vesci (John Vesey & Evelyn Charteris), Lady Eva Dugdale (later Lady of the Bedchamber) , Earl of Ava (Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood d.1900), Sir Charles Leopold Cust (baronet), Sir Francis De Winton. Mr J. T Seigne JP (officer of Ormonde's estate) and "Mr Moncrieffe".

[czolgosz]

i went to a used book sale today... procured:

railroad color history: new york central railroad (brian solomon & mike schafer) — i'm not actually that into trains but it appealed to me.

the complete guide to the soviet union (jennifer louis & victor louis) — travel guide from 1980

an anthology including the big sleep (raymond chandler), "the undignified melodrama of the bone of contention" (dorothy l. sayers), "the arrow of god" (leslie charteris), "i can find my way out" (ngaio marsh), instead of evidence (rex stout), "rift in the loot" (stuart palmer & craig rice), "the man who explained miracles" (john dickson carr), & rebecca (daphne du maurier) (i already have this one..) — it's volume 2 of something (a treasury of great mysteries) which annoys me but whatever

an anthology including "godmother tea" (selena anderson), "the apartment" (t. c. boyle), "a faithful but melancholy account of several barbarities lately committed" (jason brown), "sibling rivalry" (michael byers), "the nanny" (emma cline), "halloween" (mariah crotty), "something street" (carolyn ferrell), "this is pleasure" (mary gaitskill), "in the event" (meng jin), "the children" (andrea lee), "rubberdust" (sarah thankam mathews), "it's not you" (elizabeth mccracken), "liberté" (scott nandelson), "howl palace" (leigh newman), "the nine-tailed fox explains" (jane pek), "the hands of dirty children" (alejandro puyana), "octopus vii" (anna reeser), "enlightenment" (william pei shih), "kennedy" (kevin wilson), & "the special world" (tiphanie yanique) — i guess they're all short stories published in 2020 by usamerican/canadian authors

an anthology including the death of ivan ilyich (leo tolstoy) (i have already read this one..), the beast in the jungle (henry james), heart of darkness (joseph conrad), seven who were hanged (leonid andreyev), abel sánchez (miguel de unamuno), the pastoral symphony (andré gide), mario and the magician (thomas mann), the old man (william faulkner), the stranger (albert camus), & agostino (alberto moravia)

the ambassadors (henry james)

the world book desk reference set: book of nations — it's from 1983 so this is kind of a history book...

yet another fiction anthology......... including the general's ring (selma lagerlöf), "mowgli's brothers" (rudyard kipling), "the gift of the magi" (o. henry) (i have already read this one..), "lord mountdrago" (w. somerset maugham), "music on the muscatatuck" (jessamyn west), "the pacing goose" (jessamyn west), "the birds" (daphne du maurier), "the man who lived four thousand years" (alexandre dumas), "the pope's mule" (alphonse daudet), "the story of the late mr. elvesham" (h. g. wells), "the blue cross" (g. k. chesterton), portrait of jennie (robert nathan), "la grande bretèche" (honoré de balzac), "love's conundrum" (anthony hope), "the great stone face" (nathaniel hawthorne), "germelshausen" (friedrich gerstäcker), "i am born" (charles dickens), "the legend of sleepy hollow" (washington irving), "the age of miracles" (melville davisson post), "the long rifle" (stewart edward white), "the fall of the house of usher" (edgar allan poe) (i have already read this one..), the voice of bugle ann (mackinlay kantor), the bridge of san luis rey (thornton wilder), "basquerie" (eleanor mercein kelly), "judith" (a. e. coppard), "a mother in mannville" (marjorie kinnan rawlings), "kerfol" (edith wharton), "the last leaf" (o. henry), "the bloodhound" (arthur train), "what the old man does is always right" (hans christian anderson), the sea of grass (conrad richter), "the sire de malétroit's door" (robert louis stevenson), "the necklace" (guy de maupassant) (i have already read this one..), "by the waters of babylon" (stephen vincent benét), a. v. laider (max beerbohm), "the pillar of fire" (percival wilde), "the strange will" (edmond about), "the hand at the window" (emily brontë) (i have already read this one..), & "national velvet" (enid bagnold) — why are seven of these chapters of novels....? anyway fun fact one of the compilers here also worked on the aforementioned mystery anthology. also anyway Why did i bother to write all that ☹️

fundamental problems of marxism (georgi plekhanov) — book about dialectical/historical materialism which is published here as the first volume of something (marxist library) which is kind of odd to me tbh

one last (thankfully tiny) anthology including le père goriot (honoré de balzac) & eugénie grandet (honoré de balzac)

[scotianostra]

December 10th 1747 saw the death of Duncan Forbes of Culloden, the Lord President of the Court of Session.

Born at Culloden House in the Highlands, November 10th 1685, there is next to nothing written about his early life, Forbes attended the local grammar school and then matriculated at Marischal College in Aberdeen in 1699. His brother John inherited the Culloden Estate when their father died in 1704. Forbes briefly attended the University of Edinburgh in 1705, then received his law degree from Leyden University in the Netherlands. He returned to Scotland in 1707 and in married Mary Rose in 1708. They had one surviving child, John Forbes Upon his brother John’s death in 1734, Duncan inherited the Culloden Estate.

During the Jacobite Rising of 1715, Forbes and his brother raised independent companies and fortified Culloden and Kilvarock. They joined forces with Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, and forced Inverness to surrender to them just before the Jacobite defeat at the Battle of Sheriffmuir. As a reward, Forbes was made Depute-Advocate in March 1716. This required him to prosecute Jacobite prisoners being held in Carlisle, contrary to the accepted practice they be tried in the counties where the actions were alleged to have taken place. Forbes regarded this as unjust and apparently collected money for the support of Scottish prisoners in Carlisle.

In 1721, Forbes represented Ayr Burghs as a Member of Parliament (MP.) Then in 1722, he was elected for Inverness Burghs, a seat he held until 1737 when he resigned. Forbes was appointed as Lord President of the Court of Session, becoming the senior legal officer in Scotland. He held this position until his death in 1747.

The 1745 Jacobite Uprising began Forbes received word of the Prince and the Seven Men of Moidart landing on Eriskay and notified the British Government in London. After the Jacobite army entered Edinburgh and achieved a victory at Prestonpans in September, Forbes and John Campbell, Earl of Loudoun based themselves in Inverness with around 2,000 recruits. They were forced to retreat to the Isle of Skye when the Jacobites retreated to Inverness after abandoning the siege of Stirling Castle in February 1746. Charles Stuart used the Culloden Estate as his headquarters during the preparations for the Battle of Culloden. After the British Government victory in Culloden in April, Forbes returned home to find his house looted and all his cattle stolen.

While he supported severe penalties for the leaders, Forbes counselled that 'Unnecessary Severitys create Pity.' He opposed the 1746 Dress Act banning Highland attire except when worn in military service, arguing it was unnecessary and enforcement of the 1716 Disarming Act was more important. This advice was largely ignored.

Forbes himself was financially ruined by the Rising, due to the damage done to his estate and because he was never reimbursed for the monies spent on behalf of the government.

A keen golfer, after the ‘45, he saved the life of his friend, John Rattray, Charlies personal physician, he also represented the notorious Colonel Francis Charteris who gained the unenviable nickname "The Rape-Master General" Accused of rape for the third time in 1730, he was sentenced to death but Forbes is said to have been instrumental in obtaining a pardon; Charteris left him £1000 when he died in 1732.

Duncan Forbes of Culloden died in Edinburgh on 10th December 1747 and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard, near to his brother John. A statue of him by Louis-François Roubiliac was erected in the Parliament House, Edinburgh by the Faculty of Advocates in 1752.

[venicepearl]

Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn Asquith (née Charteris; 27 September 1887 – 31 March 1960) was an English writer and socialite, known for her ghost stories and diaries. She also wrote novels, edited a number of anthologies, wrote for children and covered the British Royal family.

[stoicbreviary]

William Hogarth, A Harlot's Progress 1

Most of my "progressive" friends assume this work to be a condemnation of women, while I take it to be a call to defending their dignity. 

Hogarth was a master of detail in the service of his message. Over the years, I have been taught many of these features, and I continue to discover new ones to this day. 

Moll Hackabout arrives in London. Her scissors and pincushion suggest she may be seeking work as a seamstress, but her good looks have drawn the attention of the pox-ridden Elizabeth Needham, a well-known brothel-keeper of the time. 

A rake, usually identified as Colonel Francis Charteris, and a pimp, look on lustfully from the door of a crumbling building, the former with his hand thrust into his pocket. 

No one else seems to be paying much attention, since the recruitment of prostitutes would sadly have been so common. A clergyman on a horse is too caught up in his reading, and he carelessly knocks over a stack of pots and pans, oblivious to what goes on around him. 

Moll is dressed in white, signifying her innocence, and her luggage includes the gift of a goose for a relative. Critics have suggested that the scene is meant to be a perverse mirroring of the Visitation, where Mary calls on her cousin, Elizabeth. 

William Hogarth, A Harlot's Progress, Plate 1 (1732)

[camillerowep]

October 12, 2023 — Camille Rowe, Zoe Kuipers, Mary Charteris, Michael Hennegan and Ikram Abdi at the Camille Rowe x Reformation dinner and cocktail party at Casa Cruz in London 🇬🇧

[mariocki]

The Saint: Vendetta for the Saint - Part 2 (6.16, ITC, 1969)

"Out of everyone in this room, only two people have no reason to lie: you and I."

"And how do you reason this?"

"We are both about to die."

[news2024news]

Avril Lavigne rocks Glastonbury after taking to the stage in a miniskirt and fishnets while celebrity fans Cara Delevingne, Anya Taylor-Joy and Lady Mary Charteris cheer her on http://dlvr.it/T90WM3

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 5.12

Beer Birthdays

Louis Hennepin (1626)

Frank J. Hahne, Jr. (1883)

Brit Antrim

Mirella Amato

Noah Regnery (1983)

Five Favorite Birthdays

George Carlin; comedian (1937)

Leslie Charteris; writer (1907)

Emilio Estevez; actor (1961)

Katharine Hepburn; actor (1907)

Tom Snyder; television talk show host (1936)

Famous Birthdays

Malin Akerman; actor (1978)

Mary Kay Ash; cosmetics entrepreneur (1915)

Burt Bacharach; songwriter (1929)

Stephen Baldwin; actor (1966)

Yogi Berra; baseball player, coach & manager (1925)

Jason Biggs; actor (1978)

Bruce Boxleitner; actor (1950)

Gabriel Byrne; actor (1950)

Kid Creole; rock musician (1951)

Ian Dury; English rock singer (1942)

Gabriel Faure; French composer (1845)

Kim Fields; actress (1969)

William Giauque; Canadian-American chemist (1895)

Kim Greist; actress (1958)

Tony Hawk; skateboarder (1968)

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin; chemist (1910)

Edward Lear; English writer, artist (1812)

Henry Cabot Lodge; politician (1850)

J. E. H. MacDonald; English-Canadian painter (1873)

Ian McLagan; English keyboard player & songwriter (1945)

Florence Nightingale; English nurse (1820)

Millie Perkins; actress (1938)

Ving Rhames; actor (1959)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti; English poet & artist (1828)

Homer Simpson (1956)

Howard K. Smith; television journalist (1914)

Billy Squier; pop musician (1950)

Frank Stella; artist (1936)

Tony Strobl; comics artist and animator (1915)

Joachim von Sandrart; German painter (1606)

Vanessa Williams; actress (1963)

Steve Winwood; pop singer (1948)

[brookston]

Holidays 8.29

Holidays

According To Hoyle Day

Black Book Clubs Day

Clean Your Keyboard Day

Day of Loose Talk

Day of Remembrance of the Defenders of Ukraine (Ukraine)

Fennel Day (French Republic)

Flag Day (Spain)

Happy Housewives Holiday

Head Day (Iceland)

Individual Rights Day

International Day Against Nuclear Tests (UN)

Judgment Day (in the film “The Terminator”)

Michael Jackson

Miners’ Day (Ukraine)

Municipal Police Day (Poland)

National Caretaker Appreciation Day (Canada)

National College Colors Day

National Monterey County Fair Day

National Police’s Day (Poland)

National Sarcoidosis Awareness Day

National Sport Sampling Day

National Sports Day (India)

Nut Spas (Russia)

Potteries Bottle Oven Day (UK)

Slovak National Uprising Anniversary Day (Slovakia)

Targeted Individual Day

Telugu Language Day (India)

Third Onam (Harvest Festival; India)

World Day of Video Games

Zipper Clasp Locker Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Chop Suey Day

Gnocchi Day (Argentina)

International Peppercorn Day

Lemon Juice Day

More Herbs, Less Salt Day

National Swiss Winegrowers Day

5th & Last Tuesday in August

Lammas Fair Day (Ballycastle, Ireland) [Last Tuesday]

Touch-A-Heart Tuesday [Tuesday of Be Kind to Humankind Week]

Independence Days

Hjalvik (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Mivland (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

Veyshnoria (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Adelphus of Metz (Christian; Saint)

Beheading of St. John the Baptist (Christian)

Blobfish Day (Pastafarian)

Dr. Lily Rosenbloom (Muppetism)

Eadwold of Cerne (Christian; Saint)

Euphrasia Eluvathingal (Syro-Malabar Catholic Church)

Feast of Agios Ioannis (Halki, Hittitie God of Grain)

First Day of Thoth (Egyptian New Year)

Gahan Wilson Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Hathor’s Day (Pagan)

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (Artology)

John Bunyan (Episcopal Church)

Medericus (a.k.a. St. Merry; Christian; Saint)

Nativity of Hathor (Egyptian Goddess of Joy & Drunkenness)

Papin (Positivist; Saint)

Sabina (Christian; Saint)

Sebbi (a.k.a. Sebba), King of Essex (Christian; Saint)

Thiruvonam (Rice Harvest Festival, Day 2; Kerala, India)

Vitalis, Sator and Repositus (Christian; Saints)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 241 [53 of 72]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [38 of 60]

Urda (The Oldest Fate)

Premieres

At Your Service Madame (WB MM Cartoon; 1936)

Balls of Fury (Film; 2007)

Cat-Tails for Two (WB MM Cartoon; 1953)

Definitely Maybe, by Oasis (Album; 1994)

The Fugitive final episode (Most Watched TV Show; 1967)

The Full Monty (Film; 1987)

Here Today, Gone Tamale (WB LT Cartoon; 1959)

Independent Women, by Destiny’s Child (Song; 2000)

It’s A Pity To Say Goodnight, recorded by Ella Fitzgerald (Song; 1946)

Kid Galahad (Elvis Presley Film; 1962)

Mary Poppins (Film; 1964)

Move It, by Cliff Richard and the Drifters (Song; 1958)

Pretty Woman, by Roy Orbison (Song; 1964)

Ridiculousness (TV Series; 2011)

Runaway, by Janet Jackson (Song; 1995)

Saint Errant, by Leslie Charteris (Short Stories 1948) [Saint #29]

Shanghai Surprise (Film; 1986)

Signing Off, by UB40 (Album; 1980)

Today’s Name Days

Beatrix, Johannes, Sabine (Austria)

Anastas, Anastasi, Anastasiya (Bulgaria)

Bazila, Ivan, Sabina, Sebo, Verona (Croatia)

Evelína (Czech Republic)

Johannes (Denmark)

Õnne, Õnnela (Estonia)

Iina, Iines, Inari, Inna (Finland)

Médéric, Sabine (France)

Beatrice, Johannes, Sabine (Germany)

Arkadios (Greece)

Beatrix, Erna (Hungary)

Battista, Giovanni, Sabina (Italy)

Aiga, Aigars, Armīns, Vismants (Latvia)

Barvydas, Beatričė, Gaudvydė, Sabina (Lithuania)

Jo, Johan, Jone (Norway)

Flora, Jan, Racibor, Sabina (Poland)

Nikola (Slovakia)

Juan (Spain)

Hampus, Hans (Sweden)

Candace, Candice, Poppy, Sabina, Sabra, Sabrina (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 241 of 2024; 124 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 35 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 22 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Geng-Shen), Day 14 (Ji-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 12 Elul 5783

Islamic: 12 Safar 1445

J Cal: 1 Aki; Oneday [1 of 30]

Julian: 15 August 2023

Moon: 97%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 17 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Papin]

Runic Half Month: Rad (Motion) [Day 2 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 69 of 94)

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 8 of 32)

Calendar Changes

Aki (Month 9 of 12; J Calendar)