English Monarchy

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(1) Cecilie Rohwedder, Waiting in Line  l  Britain's Royal Family Tree. Wall Street Journal, Apr 30, 2011.  
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704330404576291063937838444.html

Note: In print, the above is the title. The lower half of the report has a heading: The Traditions Behind Crowns, Carriages and a Historic Abbey--whose print, though not online, edition shows
* a painting of youngQueen Victoria in white silk veil and a headdress of orange blossoms; and a photo with caption: "Charles and Diana ride in the State Landau carriage in 1981."

(a) Norman conquest of England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_England
(began on 28 September 1066 with the invasion of England by William, Duke of Normandy, who became known as William the Conqueror after his victory at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, defeating the then [and last  Anglo-Saxon] king Harold II of England)
(b) Westminster Abbey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminister_Abbey
(located in Westminster, London; A stone abbey was built around 1045–1050 by King Edward the Confessor as part of his palace there and was consecrated on 28 December 1065, only a week before the Confessor's death)

The Confessor in 1045 married Edith of Wessex, whose brother was Harold, successor to throne upon the Confessor's death.  
* Westminster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster
(Its name derives from the West Minster, or monastery church, west of the City of London's St Paul's)
* minster (n; Old English mynster, from Late Latin monasterium monastery):
www/m-w.com

(c) Edward I of England (1239-1307; reign 1272-1307)
(d) Queen Victoria (1819-1901; reign 1837-1901) married for love. In 1840 at the Chapel Royal of St. James's Palace, She married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (in present-day Germany), who deid in 1861. She was the last British monarch of the House of Hanover; her son and successor King Edward VII belonged to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Wikipedia.
(e) 1902 State Landau
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902_State_Landau

* Landau (carriage)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau_(carriage)
(convertible; named after the German city of Landau in the Rhenish Palatinate where they were first produced)
(f) Edward VII's son and successor was King George V, whose son and successor was George VI, subject of the film The King's Speech.
(g) The Unknown Warrior
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_Warrior
(holds an unidentified British soldier killed on a European battlefield during the First World War.[1] He was buried in Westminster Abbey, London on 11 November 1920, simultaneously with a similar interrment of a French unknown soldier at the Arc de Triomphe in France, making both tombs the first to honour the unknown dead of the First World War)
(h) Myrtus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrtus
(myrtle; native to southern Europe and north Africa; evergreen; fragrant leaf and white flower which has five petals
(i) The last sentence of the report says, "The top of an English wedding cake is usually kept for the christening of the couple's first child."

That refers to the top layer of the cake, known as "christening cake."

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(2) Paul sonne, Last in the Line of Succession, Ms. Vogel Is Glad She Isn't Queen; Descendant of Sophia of Hanover, She Would Rule Britain if 4,972 Die. Wall Street Journal, Apr 27, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704889404576276502793788310.html

Quote:

"The U.K. succession rules date back to the 1701 Act of Settlement. Princess Anne, a Protestant, was destined to die with no heir, and the English Parliament wanted to prevent a Catholic from seizing the throne upon her death. So the Act of Settlement bequeathed the crown to Anne's closest Protestant relative, Sophia of Hanover, and all her non-Catholic descendants. Illegitimate children are also out.

"Those rules still stand today. According to the law, for a person to be in line for the throne, he or she must be an 'heir to the body' of Sophia of Hanover. Sophia is Ms. Vogel's great-times-eight-grandmother.

Note:
(a) Other than the quotation, there is no need to read the report.
(b) Anne, Queen of Great Britain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne,_Queen_of_Great_Britain
(1665-1714; reign 1702-1714)

Quote:

Due to "Glorious Revolution of 1688/9, her brother-in-law and her sister then became joint monarchs as William III & II and Mary II. After Mary's death in 1694, William continued as sole monarch until his own death in 1702.

"On 1 May 1707, under the Acts of Union 1707, England and Scotland were united as a single sovereign state, the Kingdom of Great Britain. Anne became its first sovereign, while continuing to hold the separate crown of Queen of Ireland

"Because she died without surviving children, Anne was the last monarch of the House of Stuart. She was succeeded by her second cousin, George I, of the House of Hanover

* She was referred to as Princess Anne because in 1701 she was not coronated yet.
(c) Act of Settlement 1701
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Settlement_1701
(to settle the succession to the English throne on the Electress Sophia of Hanover (a granddaughter of James I) and her Protestant heirs)

* Sophia of Hanover
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_of_Hanover
(1630-1714; was heiress to the crown of Great Britain; was declared heir presumptive by the Act of Settlement 1701. Dying before she could become Queen, Sophia passed her claim to the thrones onto her eldest son, George Louis, Elector of Hanover, who ascended them as George I on 1 August 1714 OS)

OS = Old Style date/Julian calendar (as opposed to NS +New Styke date/Gregorian calendar)


(3) Charles Phillips and Barry Falls, Westminster Wdding March. New York Times, Apr 17, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/opinion/17phillips.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Westminster%20Wdding%20March&st=cse

Note:
(a) For Princess Matilda, see Matilda of Scotland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_of_Scotland
(c. 1080 – 1 May 1118); born Edith; sections 1 Early life, 2 Marriage)
(b) Joan of Acre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Acre
(The name "Acre" derives from her birthplace [present-day City of Acre, Israel] in the Holy Land while her parents were on a crusade)
(c) Princess Patricia of Connaught
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Patricia_of_Connaught
(section 3 Marriage)
(d) For Princess Albert, see George VI of the United Kingdom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_VI_of_the_United_Kingdom
(birth name Albert Frederick Arthur George; 1895-1952; Albert assumed the style and title of King George VI to emphasise continuity with his father and restore confidence in the monarchy)

You will have to read it to understand.
(e) Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh
(Prince Philip was born into the Greek and Danish royal families, but his family was exiled from Greece when he was a child. After being educated in Germany and Britain, at the age of 18 he joined the British Royal Navy, enrolling at Dartmouth Naval College; section 3 Marriage)
(f) Lullingstone Castle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lullingstone_Castle
(in the village of Lullingstone, County of Kent)
(g) Tudor rose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_rose

【 在 choi 的大作中提到: 】
: (1) Cecilie Rohwedder, Waiting in Line  l  Britain's Royal Family Tree. Wall Street Journal, Apr 30, 2011.  
: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704330404576291063937838444.html
: Note: In print, the above is the title. The lower half of the report has a heading: The Traditions B
: (以下引言省略...)

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