1: Garter Day 2022
(In this item, the Court Circular is my source for any information for which I do not indicate any other source.) On Monday, June 13, 2022, in the Throne Room, Windsor Castle, Her late Majesty The Queen held a Chapter of The Most Noble Order of the Garter which was attended by all the current Garter Knights and Ladies except the Strangers. (Lord Inge was "not well enough to attend", according to a "5:33 PM" "Jun 13, 2022" (Sydney time, I think) Tweet from the official Twitter account of the leader of the Anglican sect's branch in Worcester, England:
and died on July 20, 2022, according to Who's Who and the "Heritage" article "Field Marshal The Lord Inge" ("21 JULY 2022") at the official British Army website:
During that Chapter, "Her Majesty invested The Duchess of Cornwall with the Insignia of a Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter" (also invested on the morning of June 1, 2022), "the Rt. Hon. Sir Tony Blair with the Insignia of a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter" (also invested (and knighted) on June 10, 2022), "and the Baroness Amos with the Insignia of a Lady Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter" (also invested on June 10, 2022). "The Queen later gave a Luncheon Party for the Companions of the Most Noble Order of the Garter", with all that day's capitulants present or invited. Finally, that afternoon there was an Installation Service in St. George's Chapel for the installation of the three latest Garter appointees.
That Garter Day was "the first since 2019", according to one of the capitulants—see the "Diary" article "The Bank of England has to act to prevent higher inflation", by "Mervyn King", "16 Jun 2022" (according to the "Diary" contents webpage), The Spectator, "From magazine issue: 18 June 2022" (hyperlink in the original):
(That article is also available through Trove and Gale Research Complete.) Lord King also wrote that there was a procession to St. George's Chapel for the Installation Service, and according to British Royal Family official Twitter and Instagram posts (both dated "Jun 14, 2022" (Sydney time, and the Tweet was from "3:44 AM")) (also embedded in the "News" article "The Royal Week 11-17 June 2022" ("Published 18 June 2022") (s.v. "Monday 13 June")), in the "afternoon the Garter Day procession took place in the grounds of Windsor Castle for the first time in three years":
P.S. After my previous blog post about the Order, I found two more sources for the Garter appointment dates for some of the current Stranger Knights and Ladies. The first source is the wire feed article "New Garter Knights - Prince William" (or "UK Government: New Garter Knights - Prince William"), from M2 PressWIRE, April 23, 2008, available through Gale Research Complete and ProQuest. Its text appears to be essentially that of the Press Release "Appointment to the Order of the Garter" ("Published 22 April 2008"), minus the line after the dateline, plus a list of the Order's then-members and -officers after three paragraphs of "Notes for Editors":
This is the relevant part of that list:
HER MAJESTY MARGRETHE II, QUEEN OF DENMARK, 16th May, 1979.
HIS MAJESTY CARL XVI GUSTAF, KING OF SWEDEN, 25th May, 1983.
HIS MAJESTY JUAN CARLOS I, KING OF SPAIN, 17th October, 1988.
HER MAJESTY BEATRIX, QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS, 28th June, 1989.
HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY AKIHITO, EMPEROR OF JAPAN, 26th May, 1998.
HIS MAJESTY HARALD V, KING OF NORWAY, 30th May, 2001.Clearly, that list is not relevantly different from that in my previous Garter-related blog post, nor from that in the Wikipedia page "Talk:Order of the Garter" (s.v. "Holy Roman garter?"):
(Also, that wire feed article gives—without raising any doubts—The Princess Royal's Garter appointment date as "23rd April, 1994". ("Some say 13 June 1994", according to the page "Orders of Chivalry" (s.v. "The Royal Family and the Order of the Garter") at the St. George's Chapel website:
The other source is The Order of the Garter: Its Knights and Stall Plates, 1348-1984 (Vol. 16 of the "HISTORICAL MONOGRAPHS RELATING TO ST GEORGE’S CHAPEL") by Grace Holmes, Windsor, 1984, reprinted 1999, at the "Historical Monographs" page of the St. George's Chapel website:
According to that document, The Queen of Denmark was "declared a Lady of the Order 16 May 1979" (and "installed 16 June 1980") (p. 178 (184 in the document reader); see also p. 19 (25)), and The King of Sweden was nominated (and invested) a Knight of the Garter on "25 May 1983" (p. 44 (50)). (That document also says, on p. 7 (13), that the previous "Prince of Wales was held to have become a Knight of the Order upon his creation as Prince in 1958, and his installation in 1969 merely confirmed his status"; perhaps more precisely, His Majesty was
Created Prince of Wales 26 July 1958, and by the Statutes of 10 Jan. 1805 became at the same time a Knight of the Order; inv. and inst. 17 June 1968Labels: Order of the Garter
[p. 44 (50)])
2: Recent additions to, and losses from, The Order of the Thistle
My last blog post about The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle was "Notes: Tuesday, April 24, 2018-Monday, February 4, 2019 (part 2 of 2)" (item 7.2.2):
Since then, the Order has lost one Lady (namely, The late Queen, who died on the 8. ult.), no Stranger Knights, one British Royal Knight (The (1.) Duke of Edinburgh, who died on April 9, 2021), and three other Knights:
- Sir Eric Anderson, who died on April 22, 2020, according to Who's Who
- Lord Macfarlane, who died on November 5, 2021, also according to Who's Who
- Lord Home, who died on August 22, 2022, according to "The Earl of Home, prime minister’s son who, as chairman of Coutts, became the Queen’s banker – obituary", "31 August 2022", available at the website of The Daily Telegraph (London) and through Gale Research Complete, NewsBank, and ProQuest:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/08/31/earl-home-prime-ministers-son-who-chairman-coutts-became-queens/
Going by that Press Release and Who's Who, I note that
- Lady Elish is a lawyer, apparently serving most notably as Lord Advocate of Scotland between 2006 and 2011 and Solicitor General of Scotland between 2001 and 2006. Currently, her main role seems to be as Principal of St. Hugh's College, University of Oxford.
- Sir George is a politician (Presiding Officer of The Scottish Parliament seems to have been his most notable political office), international aid director, and academic. His main current role is apparently as a Professorial Teaching Fellow at The University of Stirling.
British Royal Knights and Lady:
1: H.M. The King (joined the Order on February 11, 1977, and became King and hence ex-officio Sovereign of the Order on September 8, 2022)
2: H.R.H. The Princess Royal (1987) K.G. K.T. (2000) G.C.V.O. Q.S.O. C.D. A.D.C.
3: H.R.H. The Prince of Wales (2022) K.G. K.T. (May 29, 2012) P.C. A.D.C.
Stranger Knights or Ladies: None.
Other Knights and Lady:
1: The Rt. Hon. The (11.) Earl of Elgin (1633, 1968) and (15. Earl of) Kincardine (1647, 1968) K.T. (1981) C.D. J.P.
2: The Rt. Hon. The (13.) Earl of Airlie (1639, 1968) K.T. (November 29, 1985) G.C.V.O. P.C. J.P.
3: The Rt. Hon. The (29.) Earl of Crawford (1398, 1975) and (12. Earl of) Balcarres (1651, 1975) K.T. (November 29, 1996) G.C.V.O. P.C. D.L.
4: The Rt. Hon. The Baron Mackay of Clashfern (1979) K.T. (November 27, 1997) P.C. K.C.
5: The Rt. Hon. The Baron Wilson of Tillyorn (1992) K.T. (2000) G.C.M.G.
6: The Rt. Hon. The Baron Steel of Aikwood (1997) K.T. (2004) K.B.E. P.C. D.L.
7: The Rt. Hon. The Baron Robertson of Port Ellen (1999) K.T. (2004) G.C.M.G. P.C.
8: The Rt. Hon. The Baron Cullen of Whitekirk (2003) K.T. (2007) P.C. K.C.
9: The Rt. Hon. The Baron Hope of Craighead (1995) K.T. (2009) P.C. K.C.
10: The Rt. Hon. The Baron Patel (1999) K.T. (2009)
11: The Rt. Hon. The Baron Smith of Kelvin (2008) K.T. (2013) C.H.
12: His Grace The Most Hon. The (10.) Duke of Buccleuch (1663, 2007) and (12. Duke of) Queensberry (1684, 2007) K.T. (2017) K.B.E. C.V.O.
13: Sir Ian Wood K.T. (June 9, 2018) G.B.E.
14: The Rt. Hon. Lady Elish Angiolini L.T. (June 10, 2022) D.B.E. P.C. K.C.
15: The Rt. Hon. Prof. Sir George Reid K.T. (June 10, 2022) P.C.
*unless otherwise indicated, the year given after a title is the year of the creation of that title, and where another year is given after that one, that title is hereditary (and so is a title preceded by an ordinal number), and the latter year is that of the succession to that title; the date after the post-nominal letters K.T. is the date of the appointment to the Order, and where only a year, not a full date, is given, the appointment is to be dated November 30 of that year. The sequence in which I list Thistle Knights or Ladies who were appointed in the same year is that of the relevant Press Releases, Gazette notices, and Court Circular notices, but note that Lord Wilson would precede The Princess Royal in the sequence of all Knights and Ladies listed together (instead of in the three separate categories Royal, Stranger, and other), judging by the wire feed article "Appointments to the Order of the Thistle" (or "UK Government: Appointments to the Order of the Thistle"), from M2 PressWIRE, November 30, 2000, available through Gale Research Complete and ProQuest.
Holyrood Week 2022
On the morning of Thursday, June 30, 2022, "the highest order of chivalry in Scotland was celebrated with a procession and service in central Edinburgh", according to the official Instagram account of the Royal Family:
(That Instagram post is also embedded in the "Day Four" page (s.v. "Order of the Thistle Service") of the undated "Feature" article "Holyrood Week 2022" at the Royal Family's official website:
That service—in St. Giles' Cathedral, for the Installation of Lady Elish as a Thistle Lady and of Sir George as a Thistle Knight—was attended by The King and The Princess Royal as representatives of The late Queen. (Her late Majesty had already invested Lady Elish with the Insignia of a Thistle Lady on the afternoon of June 23, 2022, and invested Sir George with the Insignia of a Thistle Knight on the afternoon of June 28, 2022, both according to the Court Circular.) Later that day, "The Queen gave a Lunch Party at the Palace of Holyroodhouse for the Most Noble Order of the Thistle", according to the Court Circular (which, like "Holyrood Week 2022", mentioned the attendance of His Majesty and Her Royal Highness at the service in question, with the Court Circular adding that The King and The Princess Royal represented Her late Majesty).
P.S. The late Queen joined the Order by becoming Queen, and hence ex-officio Sovereign of the Order, on February 6, 1952, according to the article "The King mourned: new Queen hailed", attributed to "S.T.S. and A.A.P." (S.T.S. presumably stands for Sunday Telegraph Service—see the article at the right of this one via the following link) from "LONDON, Sat.", The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), Sunday, February 10, 1952, p. 2 (the left-hand side):
According to that article, "AS Sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II will be-come a member of several orders of chivalry, as well as those to which she already belongs." (The bold type was in the original, as was the dash (because the word 'become' spanned two lines).) The Order of the Garter and The Imperial Order of the Crown of India were named as the latter, and as for the former, the article said that The Order of the Thistle was one of the Orders the Insignias whereof Her late Majesty would wear in the event of full decorations being worn.
Labels: Elish Angiolini, George Reid, Order of the Thistle
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