Miscellaneous monarchy-related topics of interest

Yes i shall. I am going slow now. After charles birthday i will take a break from posting. My family issues are better now thanks for your support unseeni.

If you follow queens mary of france and of scots, we find she took over devon.
It seems control over Cornwall gave a monarch legitimacy to say king of UK.

Cornwall I believe is semi independent even now.

I will read more about the jacobites.

UnseenI please don’t start with illuminati. I wont take a break and will start researching! Its a big temptation and i have done some research on it. But am too drained to go there.
Next year i will join you on this topic.

Cake: Cornwall and Bavaria

Camilla, Duchess of Cambridge is as we have seen a great consumer of cake. The Cornish invention the hevva or heavy cake may be too plain for her:



Luitpold the Prince Regent of Bavaria was the inspirer of what sounds like a delicious chocolate layered cake. From WiKi:

Prinzregententorte is a Bavarian torte consisting of at least six, usually seven, thin layers of sponge cake interlaid with chocolate buttercream and a topping of apricot jam upon the very last. The exterior is covered in a dark chocolate glaze.

The Prinzregententorte is very popular in Bavaria, available in cake shops all year round.

Cornish and Bavarian Christmas meals

“…this is like Christmas for me.”

By coincidence, I had just found some horrible examples of Cornish and Bavarian Christmas food when you said that. I was going to save them until nearer the time, but as you have mentioned Christmas Lavendel I will reveal them now. I am not sure who wins this particular war.

Stargazy pie has pilchards or sardines looking up at the sky. There is a story that it was invented as a Christmas dish at time when there was a famine in a small Cornish town and there was nothing but fish to eat:



I wouldn’t expect Bavarians to have the same typical Christmas dinner that many people have here, but this ‘Bavarian Christmas dinner’ I found looks awful:

"mashed potatoes made into round balls..."

I thought that the big round white thing in my picture was a turnip!

Queen Victoria’s lilac and green stamps

Stamps were issued in Queen Victoria’s reign in similar colours to the lavender and green that have appeared in many posts. From WiKi:

“The postage stamps of the United Kingdom issued in 1883 and 1884 are known as the “Lilac and Green” issue because they were only printed in those two colours… The colours were used because the authorities were concerned that the existing stamps were being soaked off envelopes and reused, and they wished to use fugitive inks that would wash away if immersed in water; the only fugitive ink colours available at the time were lilac and green… Due to the fugitive nature of the ink, many surviving examples of the green stamps have lost their original colour following soaking to remove them from paper; the examples that still have good colour are the most sought after by philatelists…”

A faded collection and two better specimens:

Cornwall, wolfram, hearts and the Holy Grail

The post about Ludwig II’s heart being stored in a golden cup in the chapel of the Black Madonna has reminded me of some legends and connections. It would take ages to go into detail and there is a huge amount of material available online, so here is a quick summary:

Black Madonna: Holy Grail connections! Golden Cup: Holy Grail connections!

The Holy Grail has been called a symbol of the human heart.

Hearts were stored in heart-shaped funerary vases in ancient Egypt.

There is a legend that Joseph of Arimathea and maybe even Jesus too visited Britain.

He is said to have brought the Holy Grail with him, and Glastonbury in the south west of Britain is often given as the place he came to. It all seems like invention, embroidery, Chinese whispers and wishful thinking to me, but just look at this Lavendel :

The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould recounted a Cornish story how Joseph of Arimathea came in a boat to Cornwall, and brought the child Jesus with him, and the latter taught him how to extract the tin and purge it of its wolfram.

Could this be symbolic in some way? Getting the wolfram/tungsten (Meghan) out of the tin (the royal family especially the Cornwall branch?)

Arriving at Cornwall and with the Holy Grail:

UnseenI if what you found was opera i could say you are hitting the highest notes. You just cracked a da vinci code or hit the gold mine! Wow amazing connection.

You will need a bunker soon cause there is so much in this connection.
I guess that is what my dreams were pointing at. We found the da vinci code and now they will track us down.

Wow. I will follow your trail. But i will not post as i have to take that break.

Keep on the good work !😀😇

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There definitely a double meaning in that: i have been following meghans position innthe court. Harrys red hair, the many blues and green dresses meg wore in the past.
At the moment she is wearing blue.

But the black dress with capes she wore at the white hall balcony has the same style of dresses stella mac is exhibiting and they all resemble the uniforms of the top women of the handmaids tale. She is like higher placed. For her to be the hostess for our first lady points to a higher placement in a secret hierarchy.
At the same event they dressed kate in the black, red, white gold masonic colours which are used when once’s programming and alters start to crash and conflict and in the handmaids tale the military style was of lower ranked guards ; who looked transgender, & forced the maids to serve the blue dressed high class women. I think on the balcony a message was being communicated of the new order.

In regards to wolfram;
I have read about the colours maybe they may help lead us to answers:


“Tribes of israel and joseph line
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The 12 tribes of Israel (Jacob's sons) were:

Asher, Benjamin, Dan, Gad, Issachar, Joseph, Judah, Levi, Naphtali, Reuben, Simeon and Zebulun.

Thus, the somewhat abbreviated biblical lineage through Isaac's side, below, is:

Adam (circa 3999 B.C.)...Father of Seth

Noah (circa 2944 B.C.)...Father of Shem, Japheth and Ham, all of whom went forth from the Ark.

Ham ......................................Father of Canaan
Canaan .................................Father of Sidon

Abraham (circa 2100 B.C.)... Father of Isaac
Isaac .....................................Father of Jacob
Jacob (circa 2000 B.C.)...Father of Asher, Benjamin, Dan, Gad, Issachar, Joseph, Judah, Levi, Naphtali, Reuben, Simeon and Zebulun


Simon-Sez: For those of the Christian faith, Jesus Christ is a direct descendant from Isaac's bloodline.

Hiram Abif was a man of Tyre, Lebanon (Phoenicia) believed to have come from the tribe of Naphtali. “














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The story from glass-stone-bury/buried is interesting connections to josephe of israel. Harry used to visit glaston alot. He is David too . And Rachel and David have hebrew connections .

Joseph a relative of jesus is believed to have found the cup used by jesus at last supper and he carried it to france as he feld with mary magdalene and jesus daughter princess sarah.
He brought the cup to Europe and it was buried at glasstone bury according to some tales.

However some German researchers followed it to a church in cave in spain which parcival and Arthurs knights went looking for.

I recently watched the would documentary of them following all the legends to spain . Indeed in the cave church there was a safe with cup. However the original is in museum of mordern art in New York. Some believe its a fake.

However the found out the cup in spain had the blood of jesus. So Arthurs court is in spain? Could it be thats why Ludwig wanted his heart in safe in a church so there is a legend over him.

Others claim Ludwigs decedant had an affair arthurs mother and arthur was born. Explains the parcival tale of half blood prince and full blood prince and the green mantle is Joseph of Middleeast? With blood of jesus cup ? All tbis tales.

Arthur whats is in a name?
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The middletons have taken the name Arthur and William as their own so that means meg and harry cannot name their child Arthur. That means they are not new camelot?

Was middletons evil plan to destroy their camelot plot. Arthur, Michael, William, mathews are all major names which Sussexes could have taken.

Are the middletons and William claiming they are the real new camelot. They have four people named Arthur in their court now. George, William, Charles, Louis and middleton baby are fighting to be the real camelots.

Its all getting complicated by the day.

"i could say you are hitting the highest notes. You just cracked a da vinci code or hit the gold mine! Wow amazing connection. You will need a bunker soon cause there is so much in this connection."

Lavendel I agree that the completely unexpected wolfram/Cornwall/Holy Grail connection is a high point in this thread. It is amazing.

Glastonbury and glass stone ... Theresa May wore a necklace with bright red stones yesterday.

I have a lot to read, investigate and catch up with now.

Bavaria and Cornwall: clay deposits and blue and white pottery

Yet another unexpected connection between these two very different places:

Just as Cornwall is known for its everyday kitchenware essentials, Bavaria is known for exquisite fine china.

Kaolin clay is needed in the making of fine white china. Bavaria has one of the few huge kaolin deposits outside of France and China. By coincidence, St. Austell in Cornwall has the world’s largest deposits of china clay, a powdery material similar to kaolin.

Unlike Cornishware, the ornate, high-quality Bavarian products come in many colours; they are also expensive and fragile. They are collectible and many pieces come up for auction.

I found some blue and white Bavarian examples for comparison with their Cornish striped equivalents. Here are two very different tea sets:



Bavaria Tea Set for 6, w/ Sugar & Creamer Dishes, Blue & White Mini Stein, Tiled Trivet, Royal Sphinx Maastricht Plate, and Small Tureen

Two blue and white collections. The Bavarian set is called ‘Strawflower’:

"Are the middletons and William claiming they are the real new camelot. They have four people named Arthur in their court now."

Just to add to the Richard Burton and Arthur connections, his first wife Sybil opened a popular celebrity nightclub in New York called Arthur.

Trematon Castle and two famous visitors

There was no official Duke of Cornwall during the reign of Elizabeth I. This story from WiKi suggests that she controlled the Duchy herself:

“When Sir Francis Drake returned from his circumnavigation voyage in 1580, he came into harbour in Plymouth, then slipped out to anchor behind St Nicholas Island until word came from Queen Elizabeth's Court for the treasures he had gathered to be stored in Trematon Castle. The hoard consisted of gold, silver, and precious stones, mainly emeralds, the result of piracy from Spanish ships along the west coast of South America.”

Emeralds again!

George IV visited the house in 1812, when he was still the Duke of Cornwall.
This pool was later built to commemorate his visit; the cute little dome that reminds me of Prinny’s Brighton Pavilion:

Sherlock Holmes and the Death of the Bavarian King

The Bavarians have appropriated Sherlock Holmes!

A new Sherlock Holmes tribute play that by coincidence features Ludwig II was first performed in Bavaria this summer:

“Sherlock Holmes und der Tod des Bayernkönigs (Sherlock Holmes and the Death of the Bavarian King) is a German play... performed at the Blutenburg Theater (Munich, Germany) on 9 June to 21 July 2018.

An elegantly dressed lady appears at 221b Baker Street, and asks Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson for help. A culture-loving relative of her has had an Egyptian mummy imported. The people involved in the transport have all been killed. Now the relative fears for his own life and for his reason, because every night the mummy whispers to him in Bavarian. The relative is none other than King Ludwig II, the young lady his cousin Therese of Bavaria...”

www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=Sherlock_Holmes_und_der_Tod_des_Bayernk%C3%B6nigs

There are around 32 characters in the play; they are played by 4 actors who are all men!

Sherlock Holmes and Ludwig II again

Sherlock in Love by Sena Jeta Naslund is another tribute story that brings together the great detective and the mad king, two characters who have not lost their fascination. It was a clever idea to bring them together, but most reviews are not good. From a summary of the story:

“Later in the year, Holmes is asked to assist in the delivery of some letters from Ludwig II of Bavaria to the French Government. At first he is reluctant, until he learns that Sigerson is with Ludwig. In Bavaria, Holmes sets out to rescue Violet from the King, while also protecting the King from his enemies. After Holmes is injured in a carriage accident, and Sigerson and Watson locked in the Neuschwanstein dungeons, they are called upon to prevent a suicide bid by Ludwig. Later, at Berg Castle, they fail to prevent the drowning of Ludwig, Sigerson and Dr Gudden in the lake.”

www.schoolandholmes.com/summariesn.html

There is some familiar blue and white china on the cover of one edition:

Hello again! Apologies for being away so long again but things have been very hectic for me recently, primarily due to moving house, but I hope I can come back on to this more often.

Bavaria is rather fascinating and interesting that you should mention the Shape of Things To Come (1933), UnseenI. I remember reading it a few years ago and H.G. Wells predicts the outbreak of the 2nd World War in the first part – both the casus belli and the approximate date (which he places at January 1940) – to a surprisingly accurare degree.

I am also reminded of the very short-lived Soviet republic that was declared in Bavaria in 1919 which lasted from April 6th to May 3rd, when it was disestablished by Freikorps paramilitaries, eventually becoming part of the Weimar Republic.