tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post6253748404513764023..comments2024-03-29T01:24:45.251+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: HRHFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-54769529927642020202020-01-21T23:53:46.092+00:002020-01-21T23:53:46.092+00:00I have read that it was Henry VIII who first arrog...I have read that it was Henry VIII who first arrogated to himself the honorific "Majesty" -- a move that must have stunned and outraged his more literate subjects who theretofore had encountered that title applied only in the Roman Canon: "offerimus praeclarae majestati tuae".Romulushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17734318488290892002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-1961071597557067972020-01-21T20:07:35.897+00:002020-01-21T20:07:35.897+00:00Certainly deprivation of "royal" is to b...Certainly deprivation of "royal" is to be celebrated in the case of the Sussex's. "Royal" to my mind connotes a dignity beyond the respect accorded elected politicians. It implies duties that go well beyond those of a term limited incumbency. Those implicit duties imply to the monarch's subjects that their interests will not be abandoned no matter what political party Paul-A. Hardyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11625698481730141561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-21677764386505882162020-01-21T17:05:00.201+00:002020-01-21T17:05:00.201+00:00Such nonsense. The Queen Mother may have been admi...Such nonsense. The Queen Mother may have been admirable, but it was her boundless ambition that put her husband on the throne, and the weakened monarchy being run on Whig principles ever since. Wallis Simpson was just an excuse to deprive Britain of a man who was determined to actually BE king. <br /><br />I also think that you are being a bit unfair to the Duke of Coburg, who was rather unjustlyarmyartyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00621738173563972139noreply@blogger.com