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Writer, historian, Traditional Catholic, monarchist, knight, Angeleno.
May 7, 2023 8 tweets 2 min read
21 January 1993 letter the then Prince of Wales wrote to Tom Shebbeare, at the time the director of the Prince's Trust:
"For the past 15 years I have been entirely motivated by a desperate desire to put the "Great" back into Great Britain. Everything I have tried to do--- all the projects, speeches, schemes, etc.---have been with this end in mind. And none of it has worked, as you can see too obviously! In order to put the "Great" back I have always felt it was vital to bring people together, and I began to realise that the one advantage my
May 6, 2023 6 tweets 1 min read
One thing to be remembered about to-day's coronation, beyond the obvious. For very many British - Catholic and otherwise - it is a living connexion wit Deep England, Merry England - what Williams and Lewis called "Logres." Orson Welles described it thusly, citing Falstaff: "Falstaff is, I think, really Merry England. I think Shakespeare was greatly preoccupied, as I am, in my humble way, with the loss of innocence. And I think there has always been an England, an older England, which was sweeter, purer, where the hay smelled better and the weather
Apr 8, 2021 8 tweets 2 min read
I’ve read a Tweet that affects me deeply, and so I must give some important advice. In 2014, my mother fell and broke her hip. She made it clear to my brother and me that she did NOT want a DNR. My older brother got power of attorney, and she went into hospital. She was there for Eight months. During that time they pressured us constantly to sign a DNR - they threatened, lied, and cajoled. All to no effect: two times over the course of her stay she was revived; the day before she died we had a very lovely time, and she and I sang our last duet together.
Apr 7, 2021 9 tweets 2 min read
An important thing to remember when you attempt to evangelise those of “alternative spiritual persuasions” is that a major way they are able to avoid engaging with Faith is a mental image of Catholics composed partly of the Inquisition, and partly of repressive and annoying nuns. For such folk, the impression that Catholics are a bunch of nasty fault finders trying to ferret out imaginary demons is a comforting one, that allows them to ignore what the Faith actually. But if one can avoid living down to their expectations, and show them, for instance, that