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Collector's Edition: Samantha Mulder's (Many) Returns

In honor of anon's request: "I was wondering if you had any fic recommendations in which Mulder found Samantha? I'm having a hard time with closure ahah."

(Here are some previous Samantha fic lists:

Meet the Mulders    

Redux II Samantha Was Real

Little Samantha’s Life in Capture

A Tribute to Samantha's 50th Anniversary)

Loose chronological order below~

CANON-DIVERGENT

Pequod's Way Beyond Blue

He summoned up all the courage he'd ever had, or ever needed and walked into his future.

Pre-Sein und Zeit Mulder has a prophetic dream.

eponine119's

Odyssey

"I'm supposed to believe you did him a *favor* when you killed a little girl and - what, paid some workmen - to plant her scoured bones in that basement?" demanded Scully.

Pre-Sein und Zeit Scully is commanded by CSM not to tell Mulder that Samantha is dead.

Searching in Vain

Fingers moving through disturbed earth over bone. He couldn't look and yet he had to. The right size. The right injuries. Including that final, horrible one.

AU-- Mulder is suppressing the true nature of Samantha's twisted death.

Glimpse

The hours dissolved as he sat entranced, watching himself on videotape in situations where he knew he'd never been. A wedding. To Scully, a beautiful bride. Surprisingly, the tears didn't come when he saw Samantha on the tape, alive and grown and lovely. The tears came when he saw the children on video.

AU-- Mulder is shot into a horrific alternate universe where he gained (and lost) a happy ending.

@agent-troi's This Heart That I Misplaced

She looked just like the others… but something was missing. Something essential had been taken from her, and somehow that convinced him beyond any last shred of doubt that this was in fact his Samantha.

AU-- Pre-Closure nurse died saving Samantha's life; and her sacrifice kicks off the finale of Mulder's journey.

Justin Glasser's (xphilefic) Orrery

I don't remember a lot about where I was before I was here. I remember someplace else. There was water there, and I wasn't too warm all the time. And I remember that I miss it, but I don't know why. Here is okay, when there are no tests. Jeffrey lets me pet his dog.

AU-- Post Closure Mulder's happy ending is torn from him after Harold's son is found alive.

amorfati3215's The 5 Ads for If Samantha Was Found Alive

“My name is Claire,” she replies softly. “But I used to be called Samantha.”

AU-- Closure Scully tracks down the nurse who rescued and raised Samantha.

@all-these-ghosts's (Ao3) happily ever after

“She was married for a few years, but her husband passed away. Georgie and Lauren moved back in with me after. Lauren was just a baby when it happened.”

AU-- Closure Mulder and Samantha reunite.

DaynaFox's The Return of Samantha Mulder

“Are you another cop?” she asked him. “Did you find my Mom and Dad yet? They only went next store, to visit the Galbrands. Did you ask the Galbrands where they went?”

Samantha, the Galbrands have both been dead for over 15 years… Mulder thought as he gazed at her. 

AU-- Post Closure Mulder is given a call from the authorities: his sister is not dead; and has been returned, not a day older, with no memory of her disappearance.

AU

@ghostbustermelanieking/skuls's

AU: The Mulders adopted Samantha instead of her being abducted.

Later on, he’s kind of glad he’s an only child.

What it says on the tin.

november 27, 1973

Her mother cries, pulls her into her lap and holds her tightly, says, “My baby, my baby,” over and over again. Samantha asks for cookies, and her mother takes her to the kitchen and pours her a glass of milk and stacks three cookies in front of her even though the rule is no more than 2 and not after bedtime. It’s past her bedtime, but she eats them anyway, has never remembered being this hungry.

Different endings to Samantha's abduction.

california winter

Fox gulped. He wanted to change his mind in that moment, but he heard Samantha and Jeffrey crying in the closet and he couldn't say a word. He had to be the brave big brother. He had to protect him.

Mulder and Samantha are both taken; and devise a plan of escape with little Jeffrey in tow.

X-Files Fictober: woman, socks, locker. setting: abandoned storage unit.

He turns and sees the girl, much younger than her with dark hair curling down her back, dressed in the same hospital gown as her. No shoes, just socks.

One Breath Scully escapes with Samantha.

Half-Light Universe

You have another chance to figure out what happened to Samantha. She may not be dead. All of it… you get another chance.

He wonders if it’s worth it.

Revival Mulder and Scully are shot back to those nine minutes they lost in the Pilot, with a chance to make everything-- or more things-- right.

@pilotinthestars's the holding-her-breath girl (Ao3)

It hit him then. She’d never been to this house, the one Teena had bought after the divorce in Connecticut.

Samantha is gone; Samantha is returned; and Samantha might not stay.

Erin M. Blair's

Turning Nine

"It's not your fault, Fox."

Samantha is returned from her abduction; and refuses to tell anyone except Mulder about her experiences.

Newfound Love

"I know," said Samantha as she took the photo from Scully. "I want to find him...."

Mulder, not Samantha, was abducted; and she and Scully (with the help of Deep Throat) help rescue him years later.

Discovery Of Samantha

"You look as though you had seen a ghost," Jennifer remarked, with a wry sense of humor.

Mulder and Scully are happily married (despite Diana's machinations); and find out one of their friends is Samantha.

@discordantwords's (Ao3) Lethe

She cannot remember the song, cannot remember her mother's name. But she remembers the sound of laughter, the red polka dots on her dress, bare toes in thick pile carpet.

Pre-One Breath Scully finds Samantha on the train car.

@i-gaze-at-scully's AU where the Samantha clone was actually the real Samatha

Mulder doesn’t attend the funeral. Can’t face his parents, can’t face the finality of two decades’ worth of his quest finally ending. Can’t face the 28 year old cold body of his 8 year old sister.

End Game Samantha wasn't a clone.

Mystic's

Misnomer

She watched them run test on her blood and her skin, they were exited by everything about her. She didn't understand.

X tells Mulder where to find Samantha... but, as always, nothing is ever clean-cut.

Secrets in the Forest

"Scully there's something you have to know about Kinnear. The night's are cold. I don't mean Washington D.C. cold, I mean cold." Samantha said accenting that last 'cold'.

Mulder and Scully inadvertently find Samantha while investigating a UFO case.

JLB's Lost and Found

"The test results determined that there is a match," she says quietly. "This is Samantha."

DNA confirms that one of Roche's victims was Samantha; and Scully tries to keep Mulder from falling completely apart.

@officialmulder/specialagentpao's broken hearts, paper hearts

It was going to be a snowy day. Mulder smiled to himself. Samantha liked snowy days. It was an excuse to stay in bed and drink hot chocolate with lots of marshmallows. They were allowed to do it once or twice a year.

Roche did kill Samantha; and Tena Mulder blames her son.

@slippinmickeys's

AU where Roche DID kill Samantha (Ao3)

In a photo in the lower right-hand corner, Samantha was posing with a brand new bike, dressed in a floral nightgown, the tree behind her covered in garish amounts of tinsel.

Post Memento Mori Mulder finds evidence that the last girl was Samantha, after all.

Livia Balaban's

180-Word Self-Imposed Challenge: Samantha's Fate - Version Four

And now a new lie. That she is my sister. I look into her unblinking Hazel gaze, and shake my head. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Redux II Samantha appears, again; but Mulder doesn't believe she's his sister.

Cunegund's Restoration I & II

Nine-year-old Samantha sits with us, another addition to our new family, and Krycek seems impossibly pleased with himself as he eats his own omelet with his right hand while he stirs his coffee with his left.

Post Requiem Mulder returns-- via the efforts of Krycek, TLG, and even Morris Fletcher-- with the abductees and his still young sister... right in time for his growing family to go into hiding.

Susanne Barringer's Thicker than Blood

Mulder stepped into the kitchen and immediately Samantha dropped Scully's hand. She shifted her position to put some distance between them, and her face turned hard.

Post Redux II Samantha appears again... and not for benevolent purposes.

Amy's Where Are You, China Blue?

"You're not listening."

"Yes, I am."

"Then stop it, Daddy. Just hear me out. I don't care anymore."

Post Redux II Samantha is sick and tired of CSM's games.

@writingwell/RocketMan's (xanadu) A Jerry Maguire Ending

"Why are you still here, Mulder? Your life long quest has ended. Samantha is back, and you know the reasons behind it, if not the purpose. What keeps you here?"

Post Redux II Samantha is incensed that her brother doesn't want to quit the files.

Susan Proto's

Familiar Faces

There was no doubt in his mind it was Samantha.

Or a clone.

Post Fight the Future Mulder and Scully see a Samantha lookalike; and Scully decides to do some investigating.

Miracles

"Fox, you're wrong. He can help your partner," Christeena attempted to convince. "He cured me, and he can cure Dana. Fox, I swear. I swear on your sister's life."

Scully is pregnant and in a coma, Maggie doesn't consider Mulder 'family', and Tena has known all along her daughter is still alive.

Jennifer Maurer's Perfect Gifts

"Yes. I have Agent Mulder's sister Samantha."

Scully makes a Christmas monkey paw deal for Samantha's return.

Lauren's (MC) The Return

The side profile of the child looked vaguely familiar. Mulder squinted his eyes to look closer. He suddenly felt the strength drain from his body as recognition registered for a brief minute.

Samantha is briefly returned; and CSM tries to use that to his advantage, luring Mulder into a death trap.

Sarah Ellen Parsons's 180-Word Self-Imposed Challenge: Samantha's Fate - Version One

I look at them suspended in greenish liquid - my children.

Samantha is a co-conspirator in the clone project.

Mish's Contact

His eyes swim with unshed tears but his words are steady. "I had the Gunmen search for her. Actually, she seems to be leading a pretty normal, happy life." His lips curve in a watery smile.

Post The Unnatural Mulder brings Scully to watch a little league baseball game; and has one more surprise in store for her.

@cecilysass's The Boy on the Beach (Ao3)

He recounted it like it was an exciting action tale, like it was a comic book, and Samantha just stared at him, gimlet-eyed. Maybe it was right to trust him to handle his own sister. Then again, he had a well-documented tendency to make reckless moves, even when he was in his thirties.

Post Amor Fati Scully is whisked back in time, resigning herself to being trapped in the past forever if she can save Samantha from being abducted.

@o6666666's (Ao3) What's your headcanon for if Samantha was found?

“I’m fine,” Scully calls to her, eyes still beating down on Pfaster. “I’m fine, Samantha!” But she is shaking from head to toe, teeth chattering as if her apartment’s cold. 

Scully, Mulder, and Samantha adjust to the latter's return, riding the ups and downs of Season 7 together.

 finisterre's The Tunnel at the End of the Light

It's her, the woman from the video, peering out of the door. I can only see the right half of her face in the murk of the room. I relax a little; this has to be the right place.

Samantha and her two sons escape, looking for Mulder's help-- not knowing he'd recently been abducted.

Gillian Leigh's (MC) Visitor in the Desert (MC)

"Samantha?" The woman stared at him without recognition for a moment, and then her own hazel eyes widened behind the simple frames of her glasses.

Season 9 Mulder is visited by his daughter from the future-- who helps him prevent William's adoption and reunites him with his sister (and Scully's brothers) in an underground colony.

Donna's After the Future

The atmosphere was nothing like when he had been a child. He could remember hiding in the loft with Samantha watching their parents fight or their father conspire against humankind.

Part II to a Colonization timeline, Scully barters for Samatha's life so Mulder (and their biological and adopted children) can be at peace.

@mldrgrl's Some Other Me

There’s a Fox Mulder whose sister wasn’t taken from him by aliens.  Instead, she died in a drowning accident at their summer home when she was four.

A series of AUs for Mulder, Scully, and Samantha.

@wexleresque/hellsteeth's the holidays linger like bad perfume (Ao3)

“I grew up here, my parents both still live here, but they’re separated. My sister…isn’t well. They share the responsibility of caring for her, and as they’ve gotten older, I’ve been trying to come back more often and help out.”

Mulder and Scully briefly meet on the Vineyard, and swap some intriguing family history.

Leni's Partnership

It had taken a year of partnership to learn about Mulder's little sister. 

Mulder is an author, penning out the stories he'd told his late sister growing up.

@swinging-stars-from-satellites's no but the concept of Samantha Mulder being returned to the world at 14

she wants to know her own history and what Changed Her and it worries her, gets her deep enough into her head — Mulders, conscious of it or not, have depressive, obsessive tendencies — that she finally tries regression hypnotherapy....

Samantha, amnesic and happily adopted, works tirelessly to learn about her old life.

Keri Gontarek's Reunited II

"Yes. And she's fine. A little weak--apparently, Krycek was pumping her full of morphine and other drugs, but she's recovering."

Scully is an FBI Director when Mulder rejoins her life. In part one, it's revealed they have a son. In part two, they find and rescue Samantha.

Taverl's Notes II

But he took it even worse than I had imagined, shutting himself off from anyone and everyone. Especially me. After seventeen years of friendship and almost eleven of marriage, I know Mulder too well not to realize that he never held me responsible for the fact that he didn't find Samantha until it was too late. It was his own innate and well-honed sense of guilt that made him hurl accusations at me; that made him blame me for not finding her it time to save her. That didn't make it hurt any less, though.

Mulder's marriage falls apart after finding his dead sister; and Scully (and Skinner) finds him, half dead, in the tub.

@dreamingofscully's Surely, to the sea (Ao3)

She sighed, then stepped forward and took one of his hands. “Years ago. Samantha.”

Mulder’s eyes dropped to the floor and his hand went limp in hers. Silence draped over them as he processed her words. She knew what he was thinking, because the same ideas flitted around her own mind. 

Samantha's mysterious illness is mentioned as part of a larger casefile (featuring married paranormal investigators Mulder and Scully.)

Medusa's Sandcastles

"Samantha?"

She smiled at him. The most beautiful smile he'd ever seen, bar one.

Mulder wakes from a coma, having dreamt the X-files as an entire, false life.

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Court Circular | 17th June 2024

Windsor Castle

The King, accompanied by The Queen, The Prince of Wales, The Duke of York, The Duke of Edinburgh, The Princess Royal, The Duke of Gloucester, and The Duke of Kent today held a Chapter of the Most Noble Order of the Garter in the Throne Room, Windsor Castle.

The Duchess of Edinburgh and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence were present.

The Duchess of Gloucester and the Lord Lloyd-Webber, the Lord Kakkar and Air Chief Marshal the Lord Peach were present.

The following Knights Companion were present: the Duke of Abercorn, the Lord Butler of Brockwell, the Rt Hon Sir John Major, the Lord Luce, the Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Marshal of the Royal Air Force the Lord Stirrup, the Lady Manningham Buller, the Lord King of Lothbury, the Lord Shuttleworth, the Viscount Brookeborough, Lady Mary Fagan, the Marquess of Salisbury, Lady Mary Peters, the Baroness Amos, the Rt Hon Sir Tony Blair and the Baroness Ashton of Upholland.

The Officers of the Order were: the Bishop of Winchester (Prelate), the Dean of Windsor (Register), Mr David White (Garter King of Arms), Miss Sarah Clarke (Lady Usher of the Black Rod) and Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Segrave (Secretary).

The Hon Guy Tryon (Page of Honour) and Mr Charles van Cutsem (Page of Honour) were in attendance.

His Majesty invested The Duchess of Gloucester with the Insignia of a Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter and the Lord Lloyd-Webber, the Lord Kakkar and Air Chief Marshal the Lord Peach with the Insignia of a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.

The King later gave a Luncheon Party for the Companions of the Most Noble Order of the Garter at which The Queen, The Prince of Wales, The Duke of York, The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, The Princess Royal and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and The Duke of Kent were present.

The following had the honour of being invited: the Duke of Abercorn and the Lady Sophie Hamilton, the Lord and Lady Butler of Brockwell, the Rt Hon Sir John Major and Dame Norma Major, the Lord Luce, the Lord and Lady Phillips of Worth Matravers, Marshal of the Royal Air Force the Lord and Lady Stirrup, the Baroness Manningham-Buller and Miss Lilah Parsons, the Lord and Lady King of Lothbury, the Viscount and Viscountess Brookeborough, Lady Mary Fagan and Captain Christopher Fagan, the Marquess and Marchioness of Salisbury, Lady Mary Peters and Mrs Susan Gaunt, the Rt Hon Sir Tony and Lady Blair, the Baroness Amos and Ms Colleen Amos, the Baroness Ashton of Upholland and Mr Peter Kellner, the Lord and Lady Patten of Barnes, the Lord and Lady Lloyd-Webber, the Lord and Lady Kakkar, Air Chief Marshal the Lord and Lady Peach, the Bishop of Winchester, the Dean of Windsor, Mr David White, Miss Sarah Clarke, Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Segrave, the Hon Guy Tryon and Mr Charles van Cutsem.

An Installation Service was held in St George’s Chapel this afternoon at which The Duchess of Gloucester was installed as a Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter and the Lord Lloyd-Webber, the Lord Kakkar and Air Chief Marshal the Lord Peach were installed as Knights Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.

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2023 In Books!

Due to mild fatigue, 2023 was a bad reading year for me - I did not reach my yearly 2-books-a-week goal for the first time since I began logging them, and many of the books I did read did not agree with me. But I still found ten fiction and 7 (!) non-fiction books I had to shout out for the end of the year.

Top 10 Fiction THE RED PALACE by June Hur A historical murder mystery set in Joseon Korea, featuring crystalline prose, a painstakingly evoked historical setting, and an understated romance in a dark atmosphere of terror, secrets, and palace intrigue. Despite being written for a young adult audience, this book impressed me with its complex picture of a deeply flawed real historical context.

TOOTH AND CLAW by Jo Walton A Victorian style comedy of manners in which every single character is a dragon, from the dragon parsons and spirited young lady dragons to the crotchety old dragon dowagers and feckless young dragons-about-town. All of them wear little hats. Sheer cosy perfection.

DRAKE HALL by Christina Baehr My bestie surprised me this year by spontaneously producing four whole novels pitched as "cosy Victorian gothic, with dragons". I haven't read the final edition of DRAKE HALL yet but it's sunshiney, summery, cosy goodness. With dragons.

CRIMSON BOUND by Rosamund Hodge (re-read) A dark and bloody fantasy full of lifegiving female friendship, ride or die siblings, theology, guilt, and stabbings. This one also contains gratuitous St Augustine quotes, a one-page retelling of the VOLUNDARKVIDA, and a love triangle that exists to present the heroine not so much with drama as a proper ethical dilemma.

EMILY WILDE'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES by Heather Fawcett The story of a mildly autistic lady academic researching faeries with her flamboyant rival professor, who is probably secretly an exiled fae king…but the annoying part is his habit of making his students do all his field work. Cosy, thrilling, hilarious.

THE LAST TALE OF THE FLOWER BRIDE by Roshani Chokshi This gothic-infused psychological thriller was dark, creepy, and sometimes heavy, but it's also a tale that flips the roles of innocent maiden and Bluebeard, engages in valid Susan Pevensie Discourse, and ends on what I found to be a genuine note of hope and healing.

THE COLDEST GIRL IN COLDTOWN by Holly Black This book tackles vampirism as a metaphor for the evil hidden in the human heart, and it's epic, bloody, twisty, and monstrous. I couldn't put it down. Not sure I'd recommend it for the target audience, but it's mature and well-crafted enough to be enjoyed by grown-ups as well.

THE WITCHWOOD KNOT by Olivia Atwater I've read a number of Olivia Atwater books, and this one is head and shoulders above the rest. The best blend of gothic and fae, like a grown-up LABYRINTH, with one of the great fae butlers and so many subtle yet walloping feels. It felt like an old fairytale in the best possible way.

BEHIND THE CURTAIN by WR Gingell The WORLDS BEHIND series is about trauma and healing and repentance, and in this, the fourth book, everything comes decisively to the boil as our favourite twisty knife uncle pits his wits against an enemy who very uncomfortably mirrors himself.

Top 7 Non-Fiction (because I couldn't get it down to just five)

TWO VIEWS ON WOMEN IN MINISTRY by Beck & Gundry (eds.) Four New Testament scholars from a range of complementarian and egalitarian perspectives debate the question of women in ministry, with a lot of detailed scholarship. If nothing else, this book proved that this is something orthodox Christians can honestly disagree about, because there are significant exegetical strengths and difficulties with each position - it's time to stop seeing women holding ministry positions in the church as tantamount to heresy.

REFLECTIONS: ON THE MAGIC OF WRITING by Dianna Wynne Jones This collection was magical - funny and sad tales of her life, many good and passionate thoughts on books and writing, and one absolutely marvellous study of narrative structure in THE LORD OF THE RINGS. Absolutely delightful and highly recommended.

PATERNAL TYRANNY by Arcangela Tarabotti A 17th-century nun takes aim at the misogyny of early modern Europe, wielding razor-sharp logic to argue boldly for the equality of women. But it's Tarabotti's passionate faith, which somehow managed to survive moral injury and spiritual abuse, and even came to see hope and encouragement in scriptures which must so often have been used against her, that will stay with me.

THE GOLDEN RHINOCEROS: HISTORIES OF THE AFRICAN MIDDLE AGES by Francois-Xavier Fauvelle A series of bite-sized essays on the medieval history of Africa from approximately the Islamic conquests of the 7th century to the arrival of Portugese colonists in the fifteenth. Each essay offers the most fleeting glimpse of a long-vanished, half-imaginary world of often breathtaking sophistication and splendour. I loved them.

ONE HOLY LOCAL CHURCH? by Bojidar Marinov This short book, which draws very solidly on past luminaries like Rutherford, Gillespie, Spurgeon, and Hodge, helped me think through some of the questions I've been asking myself about ecclesiology and the role and authority of elders, particularly as I've been rethinking women in ministry. Terrific.

TEN DAYS IN A MAD-HOUSE by Nellie Bly "People on charity should not expect anything and should not complain." In 1887, the American "girl reporter" Nellie Bly got herself locked up in a New York lunatic asylum, and this shocking expose was the result. Sometimes, nineteenth century attitudes towards women and the poor were beyond parody.

A PEOPLE'S TRAGEDY: THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes Some aspects of this book have aged poorly - the unthinking acceptance of Russian imperial aspirations, for instance - but apart from that, this is a sweeping, epic picture of the Russian Revolution, covering three decades and every level of society, from daily life in the village commune to the political rivalries of Lenin's declining years, without ever becoming dull or bogged down in detail.

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The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling - BBC One - November 9, 1997 - December 7, 1997

Historical (5 episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

John Sessions as Henry Fielding

Benjamin Whitrow as Squire Allworthy

Brian Blessed as Squire Western

Max Beesley as Tom Jones

Samantha Morton as Sophia Western

Frances de la Tour as Aunt Western

Ron Cook as Mr Partridge

Richard Ridings as Reverend Thwackum

Christopher Fulford as Mr. Square

Michael Cronin as Dr. Blifil

Sylvester McCoy as Mr Dowling

James D'Arcy as Blifil

Peter Capaldi as Lord Fellamar

Michelle Fairley as Mrs Fitzpatrick

Lindsay Duncan as Lady Bellaston

Kathy Burke as Honour

Brian Pettifer as Parson Supple

Camille Coduri as Jenny Jones

Celia Imrie as Mrs. Miller

Kelly Reilly as Nancy Miller

Matt Bardock as Jack Nightingale

Sara Kestelman as Mrs. Wilkins

Tessa Peake-Jones as Bridget Allworthy

Doreene Blackstock as Abigail

Richard O'Callaghan as Mr. Fitzpatrick

Roger Lloyd Pack as Anderson

Brian Hibbard as George Seagrim

Con O'Neill as Captain Blifil

Rachel Scorgie as Molly Seagrim

Jane Danson as Betty Seagrim

Alexei Sayle as Puppeteer

Neil Dudgeon as Puppeteer's Assistant

Paul Barber as Adderley

Julian Firth as Northerton

Rupert Holliday-Evans as Lord Connaught

Amy Marston as Susan

Norman Lovett as Mr. Follett

June Whitfield as Mrs. Whitfield

Tim Healy as Mr. Nightingale Sr.

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The April Fool's Day Deaths of Frank and Susan Labadie

Only a handful of headstones in Copan's lonesome Ladadie Cemetery, located on C.R. 3011 a mile south of SR 10, reveal the names of those who lie beneath them. Most, which lie outside the protection of the iron fence, are simple, native stones that could easily be mistaken for incidental rubble if it weren't for the more carefully tended markers nearby.

The reason most visitors come here is to see the graves of Frank Labadie Jr., and his wife, Samantha, marked by the largest of the stones. As revealed by the inscription, they both died on April's Fool Day, 1935.

Some believe the Labadies' simultaneous deaths were the result of a bizarre murder-suicide. Many insist that Frank, for reasons that are numerous and diverse, went crazy and tossed his wife and children from the third-story window of their home, then offed himself out of guilt or as the result of one final dose of crazy.

According to legend, Frank and Samantha had trouble conceiving a child. As a result, Frank, whose heart was set on becoming a father, was distraught, and he distanced himself more and more from his wife. IN the years that followed, Samantha turned to the couple's slave, a man named Enos Parsons.

When Samantha became pregnant, Frank believed the child was his. In the months leading up to the birth, he was ecstatic, happy that he would finally have a family. Of course, when the child arrived, it was obvious that Frank wasn't the father. Enraged, he grabbed his rifle and unloaded it into Parson's chest. He then discarded the victim's body, along with the baby, in the Caney River.

It's said that for years thereafter, Frank became increasingly unsettled by the restless spirits of Parsons and the infant. It is impossible to say that whether it was simple remorse or unforgiven specters that tormented him. In the end, Frank took a revolver and shot both Samantha and himself, bringing an end to whole the ordeal. Or did he?

Living relatives of the Labadie family will tell you the entire thing is just a legend. When the story reportedly popped up in a local magazine, family members wrote in to report that Frank and Samantha died from carbon-monoxide poisoning from a poorly ventilated gas stove. Moreover, the ruins of that local refer to as the Labadie mansion, a set of crumbling stone walls that stand atop a private hill about a mile from the cemetery, wasn't the home where Frank and Samantha lived, or died. Apparently the house actually belonged to George Labadie, their son. (Yes, they did, in fact, have a son.)

Nevertheless, visitors who know the location of the Labadies' purported mansion say they regularly experience unusual incidents there at night. Red lights are seen among the trees, as well as shadowy animals that aren't afraid of intruders or the smell of burned flesh. Many have said that any sort of electrical or electronic devices, such as cameras, malfunction with annoying frequency. Worse yet, flashlights frequently leave visitors stranded in the dark.

Apparently, whether there's any truth to the Labadies' story or not, something up there doesn't like visitors.

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January 30, 1974: June Moon is broadcast on PBS. Sondheim plays. a supporting role alongside Susan Sarandon, Jack Cassidy, Austin Pendelton, Estelle Parsons, and others.

[keenbananacandy]

Gram Parsons Guitar Pull and Tribute Festival - Waycross, GA

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The Gunfighter from Eric Kissack on Vimeo.

Just another period western meta comedy short film. Featuring the mellifluous voice of Nick Offerman. I hope you enjoy it!

WINNER Audience Award for Best Short Film - LA Film Fest WINNER Audience Award for Best Short Film - Napa Valley Film Festival WINNER Audience Award for Best Narrative Short - Sidewalk Film Festival WINNER Jury Award for Best Short Film - Macon Film Festival WINNER Jury Award for Best Short Film - Hill Country Film Festival WINNER Jury Award for Best Comedy - LA Shorts WINNER Jury Award and Audience Award for Best Short Film - Hell's Half Mile WINNER Jury Award for Excellence in Short Filmmaking - South Dakota Film Festival Best of the Fest Selection - Palm Springs Short Fest Audience Favorite - DC Shorts Honorable Mention for Best Short Films - Woods Hole Film Festival Official Selection - Cleveland International Film Fest Official Selection - Seattle International Film Fest Official Selection - Traverse City Film Festival Featured on Short of the Week - shortoftheweek.com/2014/06/23/the-gunfighter/

Go to facebook.com/thegunfighter for news about screenings in your area!

Directed by Eric Kissack (erickissack.com) Written by Kevin Tenglin (kevintenglin.com/) Produced by Sarah Platt Shot by Jon Aguirresarobe (jonaguirresarobe.com/) Edited by Libby Cuenin Costumes by Kate Mallor Art Direction by Paul McConnell Casting by Susan Deming and Dorien Davies (castingcooperative.com)

Starring Nick Offerman Shawn Parsons Scott Beehner Eileen O'Connell Timothy Brennen Jordan Black Brace Harris Circus Szalewski Travis Lincoln Cox Schoen Hodges Chet Nelson Keith Biondi

Italian Subtitles by Emanuele Falleni Russian Subtitles by Eugene Davydov Portuguese Subtitles by Ana Rita Rocha

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MORE BOB DYLAN IN BOSTON IN ‘63 MATERIAL PART TWO –>

First, read the Boston Globe story, then PART ONE, and then you can come back here, champ. ABOVE: Sally Schoenfeld and Joy Kimball, who are about to throw a very important party at their apartment in Cambridge, perform music together on the banks of the Charles River.

MORE on CAFE YANA

Originally on Beacon Street, Yana moved to 50 Brookline Ave after construction of the Mass Pike forced them to abandon their first address.

At some point, Yana’s space became swallowed up into one larger lot, 62 Brookline Ave, where Oliver’s Bar was located—which is the scene of one of the final post-Lou Velvet Underground shows and a very interesting Gram Parsons appearance where a fan gave GP some original lyrics which, incredibly, turned out to be “Return of the Grievious Angel.”

WAS SUZE THERE OR WHAT?

In Clinton Heylin’s latest Bob Dylan book, he writes of the Yana dates, “So where was Suze? She was supposed to meet her beau in Boston, having written to her displaced friend...earlier that month, ‘we’ll probably be in boston (cafe yana) april 19-20 (definitely, not probably).' And yet she was nowhere to be seen.”

But after talking to Yana waitress Susan Bluttman, and considering Suze’s letter to her friend Sue Zuckerman, I think it’s most likely the case that, at the very least, Suze was there for the Friday show at Cafe Yana. Bluttman was insistent her memory was correct and her recall of other verifiable details checked out. I specifically asked if it was just “some woman” with Dylan or definitely Suze. She had zero hesitation: she recalls welcoming the couple to the club and showing them where to go before showtime.

PAUL CLAYTON

Also on the bill with Dylan at Yana was New Bedford native, Paul Clayton, a fascinating person and a musician whose recorded catalog was already quite large by the time he met Bob; check out his album Bay State Ballads or Sailing and Whaling Songs of the 19th Century. Although Clayton approached folk from a scholarly, traditionalist point of view—watch for shades of Clayton in Justin Timberlake’s character in the Cohen Brothers film Inside Llewyn Davis—he also had a wild side with a penchant for drugs, partying, and rambling, and at times, Dylan embraced those predilections with him.

By all accounts, the pair had different kinds of infatuations with each other; Dylan saw Clayton as “traditional song personified, speaking to him in mystic tongues,” as Paul’s biographer Bob Coltman put it, and Clayton not only saw Dylan as the next step forward in folk music, but also a forbidden romantic desire. Many friends who saw the two interact instantly recognized Clayton’s massive crush on Dylan. "His biggest problem,” Clayton friend Patrick Sky told the Globe in 2013, “was that he was gay at a time when it was pretty much illegal.”

At the time of the Yana concerts, Dylan was about a month away from releasing Freewheelin’, including the future classic “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right,” which as it turned out, heavily borrowed its melody and many of its lyrics from Paul Clayton’s 1959 song “Who’s Gonna Buy You Ribbons,” which in turn had been based on "Who's Gon Bring You Chickens”—a tune Clayton found collected in a 1923 book titled Eight Negro Songs. It was a similar chain of influence as “Baby, Let Me Follow You Down” except that this time, Clayton’s song publishers would sue Dylan’s publisher over the lift. The matter was settled out of court, but Clayton’s continued poverty compared with Dylan’s steady success and accumulation of wealth did not go unnoticed by the Greenwich Village folkies who knew how it had all gone down. More and more, it seemed that it didn’t matter who actually wrote a particular song, but more who first obtained a copyright.

Dylan and Clayton’s time together was not quite finished yet, though it appears that the two nights at Café Yana were the final live bills they would ever share together as performers.

After one more druggy cross-country trip together, Clayton was placed outside of the inner circle without an explanation. There is one theory that Clayton began to date Suze’s sister Carla in to get closer to Bob, and when Bob’s relationship with Suze ended, it meant that Carla and Clayton also needed to go as well.

Everyone agreed that Dylan’s 1965 song “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” was some kind of send-off letter to the folk music world, but select listeners believed it to include specific references to Clayton, including, at times, Paul himself. Tragically, less than two years after Dylan “went electric” at the Newport Folk Festival, Clayton electrocuted himself in his own bathtub. When his personal belongings were cataloged, it was noted that he no longer owned an acoustic guitar, but kept an electric guitar and drums, as he was working on a strange experimental, electric suite of music titled “Gingerbreadd Mindd” which has never been released. Clayton is spoken about reverently in Dylan’s 2011 memoir, but his suicide is not mentioned.

JFK

The following day, Saturday April 20th, President John F. Kennedy spoke at Boston College. Still grappling with the fall out of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy kept the speech light and focused on the importance of the nation’s higher education system, opening his remarks by declaring “it is good to come back to a city where my accent is considered normal.” I only mention this because a) with Dylan’s late career 20-minute opus “Murder Most Foul” choosing Kennedy’s assassination as its anchor, it’s almost worth noting anytime the two were in relative close proximity to each other (like the same city). Additionally—and this is a longshot—would news of Kennedy in town specifically bring Dylan’s mind back towards the missile crisis, and thus World War III, and perhaps to the point of inspiration for writing “Talking World War III” blues? I have no idea. I’m just spit-ballin’ here.

NOV 2, 1963 @ JORDAN HALL - BLOWN IN THE WIND

Bob Dylan came back for another show in Boston in the fall, and this time, all the listings in the Globe and elsewhere spelled his name right, but unfortunately, they were still struggling with the exact song titles.

SYMPHONY HALL, FREAKING OUT DAVID LYNCH

The following year, the Globe resets Dylan back to zero and claims his Symphony Hall show will be his first in the city. Oh well! In the audience at this show? Director David Lynch! Watch here.

 More on Lynch living in Boston here. The Symphony Hall show setlist here.

JOAN BAEZ

This is a write-up and photo of Baez the night she headlined Donnelly Memorial Theater, Saturday April 20th, 1963, the night before the party in Cambridge where she and Dylan would finally crash into each other.

WAS MEL LYMAN AT THAT PARTY?

I don’t think so! I believe this all happens right before ol’ Mel rolls into town. From AW68 --->

And finally, photos from the post-Hoot party, by Rick Stafford, as printed in the book Baby, Let Me Follow You Down.

That’s all for now. Thanks for reading!

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June 1937: Mourning Jean Harlow

June 1, 1937 – Princeton Daily Clarion

Carole Lombard cooking dinner on servants night out for Clark Gable, Fieldsie and Warner Lang…

June 2, 1937 – Deseret News

Bob Cobb introduced his cowboy “find” to Carole Lombard, Clark Gable, Sally Eilers and Harry Joe Brown at a café the other night and the good-looking kid was so embarrassed he could hardly talk…

June 2, 1937 – Fresno Bee

Garbo Changes Her Mind! May Be Cast with Clark Gable in Idiot’s Delight!

By Louella Parsons

LOS ANGELES, June 2 – Garbo, who was dead set against playing the Lynn Fontanne role in Idiot’s Delight when it was purchased for her by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, is changing her mind. She wants to do a comedy and realizes now that Miss Fontanne was not caricaturing her but merely giving her own conception of the cockney girl who pretends to be a Russian. I can think of another “accented” actress whom Author Robert Sherwood more than likely had in mind when he wrote his play – but our interest is in MGM’s motion picture.  There has been talk that Carole Lombard would co-star with Clark Gable but Missy Carole’s price, we hear, is prohibitive to the studio which has Garbo, Shearer, Loy, Howard and Crawford under contract. So don’t be surprised if announcement is made shortly that Garbo and Gable will be the co-starring sensation of 1937. They haven’t played together since Susan Lenox. 

June 3, 1937 – The Birmingham News

CLARK GABLE showed up at the Pastor-Nestell heavyweight battle in Los Angeles recently with two attractive actresses as companions. With him were CAROLE LOMBARD (left) and SALLY EILERS (right). Miss Lombard is frequently seen with the screen Romeo.

June 3, 1937  - Courier Journal

Hollywood, June 2 – At the bike race: Jean Harlow, accompanied by Publisher Don Friede… In a box for a few minutes before they go to the famous Door… Clark Gable and Carole Lombard in a front box… Gable puts up a hundred for a sprint… 

June 4, 1937 – San Francisco Examiner

Clark Gable and Carole Lombard at “Idiot’s Delight,” missing the preview, but they had their seats long before the “Parnell” date was announced. 

June 7, 1937 – Arizona Republic

In “Saratoga,” Jean Harlow departs somewhat from her usual role of loud-talking, gum chewing gamin. She is more of a lady. An occasional and interested spectator to the scenes between Ms. Harlow and Clark Gable in the picture is Carole Lombard, who goes with Gable…

June 8, 1937 – The Journal Times

No disrespect is intended but this thought comes – even in death there is a display of the tangles and cross-currents caused in Hollywood life by the whirling loom of quick romance and even quicker divorce. Clark Gable, a friend and co-worker of Miss Harlow, is shocked at the news. He turns for comfort to Carole Lombard, reputedly the latest object of his affections, following estrangement from his own wife… And Miss Lombard is the divorced wife of the grief-stricken William Powell, who had been planning to become the fourth husband of Miss Harlow!

June 8, 1937 – Fresno Bee

Gable Pays Tribute

Only last week Clark told some of us at a dinner party at Carole Lombard’s house that Jean was so pleasant to work with, and that she always respected the other players, and was never temperamental or difficult even when she was sick.

June 9, 1937 – Alton Evening Telegraph

Movieland Bids Last Goodbyes at Jean Harlow’s Bier

William Powell Proclaims His Love for Her After Death

GLENDALE, Calif., June 9 (AP) – Beneath gray skies with darkening clouds, those who knew jean Harlow best gathered sadly today for the funeral of the screen’s platinum blonde star.

Through the misty dawn the bronze coffin inlaid with silver, holding the actress’ body, was brought the 10 miles from Los Angeles to Memorial Park here, escorted by police motorcycles.

In the Wee Kirk O’ the Heather Chapel the coffin rested in breathtaking banks of flowers.

It was blanketed with 1500 lilies of the valley and 500 gardenias, which the mother, Mrs. Marino Bello, and Miss Harlow’s sweetheart, William Powell, provided.

A silver plate on the casket bore an engraving of the signature of the 26-year-old glamor girl of the films, cut down at the very height of her career by uremic poisoning.

One of the first to appear in the little chapel of farewells was Warren Baxter. Soon after him came Carole Lombard, then Clark Gable, leading man in her unfinished picture.

Next was Nelson Eddy, whose tribute in the simple services was the singing of “Ah Sweet Mystery of Life,” with Eddy was his companion Jeanette Macdonald, in sad but rich voice saying her farewell in Jean Harlow’s favorite song,” Indian Love Call.”

Soon the 250 intimate friends had passed through the gate. That was all the police permitted within the Memorial Park. Brief was the Christian Science service read by Mrs. Genevieve Smith, for seven years confidante of the actress.

The pallbearers escorting the casket to the mausoleum were those with whom Miss Harlow had worked – Clark Gable, Edward J. Mannix, MGM executive; Hunt Stromberg, producer; Jack Conway and WS Van Dype, directors and Ray June, cameraman.

Interest centered on William Powell, scree actor who made public declaration of his love just after Miss Harlow’s death – “Why did this have to be? I loved her. I loved her.”

June 10, 1937 – New York Daily News

FELLOW PLAYERS

Clark Gable, who co-starred with Jean in last picture, leaves chapel with Carole Lombard, ex-wife of Powell.

June 10, 1937 – Pensacola News Journal

Brief, Simple Rites Are Held for Jean Harlow

(snippet) 

Clark Gable, who was both an usher and pallbearer, came with Carole Lombard. 

June 12, 1937 – The Emporia Gazette

Carole Lombard Says She Will Not Be a “Type” in the Movies

By Carole Lombard (Guest Columnist for Robbin Coons)

Hollywood – “From now on, she’s going to be funny.” Somebody wrote that line about me and if I ever catch him I’m going to break his neck. The inspiration came to him just after I’d finished “My Man Godfrey” in which I was hoydenish.

Actually, something did happen during the making of that picture. I found that I was able to break away from Lombard and be the person I was supposed to be on the screen. I dropped the last vestige of my self-consciousness.

But I did not plan just to be funny from that time on. I think I showed that pretty clearly when I stepped into “Swing High, Swing Low.” I was a comic character in that one. But more than that, I hope. There was considerable footage fo tragic stuff. After all, you can’t be very funny when you’re playing a girl in love with someone, and when that someone is a bum, and walking out of your life on top of that.

Refuses to be a “type”

My new picture is “True Confession.” It’ll have humor and plenty of it. But I’m certainly not going to run riot on one single shade of emotion when there are so many more in the book. I’m going to sample quite a few of them. The script isn’t being written “to make the lines sound as if Lombard would say them.” It’s being written for a character I’m going to play.

Why? Because I’m not going to type myself. Typing means standing still. The public says, “There’s no use seeing her again, I’ve seen her last three pictures and they’re all alike.” And when you’re standing still you’re going backward, because Hollywood is fast and people are going to the right and left of you, passing you and getting ahead.

Aims for “surprises”

The idea, in Hollywood, is always to be new and slightly different. I’ll be all right as long as the public says, “She’s full of surprises.” When I don’t surprise them, you can count me out. That’s why I got sore when somebody wrote “From now on, she’s going to be funny.” It might just as well have been, “She’s going to be the same forever.” That’s practically libel, in this business.

Understand, I know my limitations. I don’t care for the “prestige” pictures. I don’t want to do a film which is supposed to be epic, colossal, or terrific. I can’t imagine myself a Duse or a Bernhardt. I’ll leave that ot the other little girls. But you can depend on this: as long as there’s breath in my body, I’ll try to make people say: “Have you seen the latest edition of Lombard?”

June 17, 1937 – Rogersville Review

CLARK GABLE’S IDEAL WIFE

Clark Gable, the screen’s great lover, who has had some of Hollywood’s loveliest as cinema wives, made a list of the things wives should have.

Gable whose first two marriages went the way of all flesh says: “First of all a wife must be a pal. She should enjoy the things you do. She must have a sense of humor. She must not bother about ashes on the floor or clothing not hung up. She must smile at unexpected guests for dinner. She should never sulk when he has financial setbacks. She must dress as her husband wants her to look.”

Memo to Carole Lombard. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to cut the above out and keep it for reference and future use.

June 17, 1937 – Los Angeles Times

… Carole Lombard and Clark Gable window shopping along Hollywood Boulevard…

June 19, 1937 – The Californian

(snippet of a longer article)

First, we have to eliminate Clark Gable. If you don’t make the mistake of including him among the ranks of Hollywood’s best catches, others will. Fifty million women have assume that at last they have what they’ve always wanted – a chance with Gable.

But don’t rush him. Although he’s separated from Mrs. Gable, he’s still a married man. When, and if, Mrs. Gable ever does get a divorce, Clark isn’t apt to rush into headlong into another halter. According to his own statements, he’s too fond of doing as he likes, and of going hunting and fishing with the boys whenever he feels like it.

At the moment, Carole Lombard is his palsy-walsy and they have a barrel of fun together. But with Carole another marriage is a question too. “I suppose I would,” she says, “if the right man came along.” But whether or not Mr. Gable is the right man, Carole doesn’t say.

In the meantime, she’s a million dollar bachelor girl herself, with an income of $300,000 a year from Paramount, and there’s a clause in her contract which permits her to make a picture off the lot for which she may ask her own price.

However, not many women have much sympathy for Carole. To have had William Powell for a husband, and Clark Gable for a beau, all in one lifetime – t’aint fair!

June 25, 1937- Miami News

Carole Lombard, who is co-starred with her ex-husband William Powell in “My Man Godfrey,” which is now showing at the Rosetta theater, receives $150,000 a film on her Paramount home lot, and double that amount when loaned to another studio. She will not act in a film unless she feels reasonably sure of its success. She held up production on “My Man Godfrey” six months while the story was rewritten five times.  Miss Lombard’s current gentleman friend is Clark Gable, but she is not over-anxious to remarry, as she believes it is a whole-time job, and she enjoys her film work too much to give it up for any man. 

June 29, 1937  - San Francisco Examiner

CHATTER IN HOLLYWOOD:

How do you think Carole Lombard leaves the studio every evening? In a limousine with liveried chauffeur? No, indeed. Clark Gable, who is working at MGM only a block away from the Selznick Studios, calls for her usually in a station wagon with guns, tents, and other camping paraphernalia hanging out the back. But Carole doesn’t mind. Life to her is a lot of laughs, anyway. She and Freddie March spend all their free time on the “Nothing Sacred” set practicing with BB guns, so it’s almost worth your life to visit that set.

[aimeedaisies]

Court Circular | 19th June 2023

Windsor Castle

The King, accompanied by The Queen, The Prince of Wales, The Duke of York, The Duke of Edinburgh, The Princess Royal, The Duke of Gloucester, and The Duke of Kent, today held a Chapter of the Most Noble Order of the Garter in the Throne Room, Windsor Castle.

The Princess of Wales, The Duchess of Edinburgh, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence and The Duchess of Gloucester were present.

The Baroness Ashton of Upholland and the Lord Patten of Barnes were present.

The following Knights Companion were present: the Lord Butler of Brockwell, the Rt Hon Sir John Major, the Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Marshal of the Royal Air Force the Lord Stirrup, the Lady Manningham Buller, the Lord King of Lothbury, the Viscount Brookeborough, Lady Mary Fagan, the Marquess of Salisbury, Lady Mary Peters, the Baroness Amos and the Rt Hon Sir Tony Blair.

The Officers of the Order were: the Dean of Windsor (Register), Mr David White (Garter King of Arms), Miss Sarah Clarke (Lady Usher of the Black Rod) and Mr Patric Dickinson (Secretary).

Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Segrave (Secretary, Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood) and Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Thompson (Equerry to The King) were in attendance.

His Majesty invested the Baroness Ashton of Upholland with the Insignia of a Lady Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter and the Lord Patten of Barnes with the Insignia of a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.

The King later gave a Luncheon Party for the Companions of the Most Noble Order of the Garter at which The Queen, The Prince and Princess of Wales, The Duke of York, The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, The Princess Royal and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and The Duke of Kent were present.

The following had the honour of being invited: the Duke of Abercorn and the Lady Sophie Hamilton, the Lord and Lady Butler of Brockwell, the Rt Hon Sir John Major, the Lord and Lady Phillips of Worth Matravers, Marshal of the Royal Air Force the Lord and Lady Stirrup, the Baroness Manningham-Buller and the Hon Lady Parsons, the Lord and Lady King of Lothbury, the Viscount and Viscountess Brookeborough, Lady Mary Fagan and Captain Christopher Fagan, the Marquess and Marchioness of Salisbury, Lady Mary Peters and Mrs Susan Gaunt, the Rt Hon Sir Tony and Lady Blair, the Baroness Amos and Mr Michael Amos, the Baroness Ashton of Upholland and Mr Peter Kellner, the Lord and Lady Patten of Barnes, the Dean of Windsor, Mr David White, Miss Sarah Clarke, Mr Patric Dickinson, Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Segrave and Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Thompson.

An Installation Service was held in St George’s Chapel this afternoon at which the Baroness Ashton of Upholland and the Lord Patten of Barnes were installed as a Lady Companion and a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.

His Majesty’s Body Guard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms and The King’s Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard were on duty in the Chapel.

The King was represented by Sir Kenneth Olisa (His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London) at the Funeral of Sir David Brewer KG (formerly His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London and Lord Mayor of London) which was held in the Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace, this morning.

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

The Princess Royal was represented by Mrs Susanna Cross.

Princess Alexandra, the Hon Lady Ogilvy was represented by Mrs Diane Duke.

St James’s Palace

The Princess Royal, Patron, the Wellington Trust, was represented by Captain Sir Nicholas Wright RN (Extra Equerry to Her Royal Highness) at the Service of Thanksgiving for Captain Stephen Taylor RN (formerly Chairman) which was held in St Bartholomew’s Church, Habin Hill, Rogate, Petersfield, Hampshire, today.

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If Parsons was willing to take Lussi, Simone and another bench player for Sanchez..honestly the price he wants for her clearly isn’t that high because yikes. Unless he was asking for an obscene amount of money and picks as well but none of that was mentioned

Yeah that's why I didn't put much stock in it. Doesn't add up. Even McCaskill, Charley and Lussi wouldn't be a good deal, imo.

Obviously now Lussi is out of the equation. I also don't think AC would part with Susan, they seem like big fans though it irks me a lot of the time lol