Nobility Newsletter: "King of Bhutan will end polygamy in his monarchy" and other posts
- King of Bhutan will end polygamy in his monarchy
- For Monarchy: Marriage Boosts Popularity, Divorce Makes It Plummet
- Who Was Christopher Columbus, and Why Is He Important?
- We Need Representative Characters Today
- The Queen’s German prince and the beef recipe in his honor
- October 15 – Interior Castle
- October 16 – Duchess and saint
- October 16 – Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of France and Capetian Widow
Posted: 13 Oct 2013 10:17 PM PDT
Today is the wedding anniversary of Their Majesties the King and Queen of Bhutan. King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck married Jetsun Pema, the granddaughter of the Governor of Trashigang, at Punakha Dzong in 2011. During the ceremony, she was presented with the Crown of the Druk Gyal-tsuen and declared Queen consort of Bhutan. Although Bhutanese [...]
Posted: 13 Oct 2013 10:16 PM PDT
According to Hello! Magazine: The British Social Attitudes survey…found that…in 2012 only 5% of people said that they thought the monarchy should be abolished…while 45% of people said that they felt it is “very important” that Britain continues to have a monarchy. The positive result in 2012 came six years after the figure dropped to [...]
Posted: 13 Oct 2013 10:12 PM PDT
Christopher Columbus (Italian CRISTOFORO COLOMBO; Spanish CRISTOVAL COLON.) Born at Genoa, or on Genoese territory, probably 1451; died at Valladolid, Spain, 20 May 1506. His family was respectable, but of limited means, so that the early education of Columbus was defective. Up to his arrival in Spain (1485) only one date has been preserved. His [...]
Posted: 13 Oct 2013 10:11 PM PDT
Our needs are different from those of feudal times. We do not seek the military chieftains who, in the face of barbarian invasions, took upon themselves the task of resisting barbarian hordes. Instead we seek those figures who take upon themselves the more subtle task of becoming what some sociologists call "representative characters" who, not [...]
Posted: 13 Oct 2013 10:10 PM PDT
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha married his first cousin, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, when he was 20 and she was 18. Contrary to today’s contraceptive culture, nine children blessed their marriage. He administered ably and expanded the patrimony of the British royal family. He championed the abolition of slavery and strove to [...]
Posted: 13 Oct 2013 10:09 PM PDT
St. Teresa of Avila Teresa Sanchez Cepeda Davila y Ahumada, born at Avila, Old Castile, 28 March, 1515; died at Alba de Tormes, 4 Oct., 1582. The third child of Don Alonso Sanchez de Cepeda by his second wife, Doña Beatriz Davila y Ahumada, who died when the saint was in her fourteenth year, Teresa [...]
Posted: 13 Oct 2013 10:08 PM PDT
St. Hedwig Duchess of Silesia, born about 1174, at the castle of Andechs; died at Trebnitz, 12 or 15 October, 1243. She was one of eight children born to Berthold IV, Count of Andechs and Duke of Croatia and Dalmatia. Of her four brothers, two became bishops, Ekbert of Bamberg, and Berthold of Aquileia; Otto [...]
Posted: 13 Oct 2013 10:04 PM PDT
Most Reverend Monsignor Director of this Academy, Gentlemen Academicians: A simple listing of the titles with which she was known during her short life as Marie Antoinette of Habsburg, and later Marie Antoinette of Bourbon, brings to memory the series of extraordinary and unforeseen events that together make up the fabric of the most interesting [...]
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