Showing posts with label Order of the Garter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Order of the Garter. Show all posts

Saturday, July 15, 2023

Notes: Wednesday, October 5, 2022-Saturday, July 15, 2023 (part 2 of 2)

7: Mr. Malloch on the relationship between The late Queen and The Order of the Garter and that between The King and the same Order

See the four parts of "The Order of the Garter and Queen Elizabeth" (publication dates: October 12 and 24, and November 14 and 23, 2022) and "King Charles III and The Gazette: Knight of the Garter" (publication date: April 20, 2023), all by Russell Malloch (and note that replacing "all-notices" with "awards-and-accreditation" in the following U.R.L.s also works):






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8: The current composition of The Order of the Garter

(In this item, the Court Circular is my source for any information for which I do not indicate any other source.) My last blog post dealing more than incidentally with the composition of The Most Noble Order of the Garter was "Notes: Tuesday, March 2, 2021-Friday, March 25, 2022" (item 4):


Since then, the Order has lost five members, all through death: The death of The late Queen on September 8, 2022 is common knowledge, and in item 1 of "Notes: Saturday, March 26-Tuesday, October 4, 2022 (part 1 of 2)" I mentioned the July 20, 2022 death of Lord Inge:


(I just add here that His late Lordship's Garter Insignia (and those of Lord Bramall) were delivered up on May 30, 2023.) The other three members were
  • Sir David Brewer, whose Funeral occurred on June 19, 2023
Over the same period, the Order has gained two new members, namely, The Rt. Hon. The Baroness Ashton of Upholland L.G. G.C.M.G. P.C. and The Rt. Hon. The Baron Patten of Barnes K.G. C.H. P.C., according to Notice No. 4341358, April 28, 2023 (but the appointments are to be dated the previous 23.), Notice Type "State", Sub-Type "Honours and Awards" (Notice Code: 1105), The London Gazette, Issue No. 64041, (printed on May 2, 2023, containing all notices published online between April 28 and May 1, 2023), p. 8746, and the April 23, 2023 Press Release "New appointments to the Order of the Garter":


(delete "/page/8746" for the full issue, with p. 8746 being p. 2 in my document reader)


According to the latter source and Who's Who,
  • Lady Ashton has been a Labour politician and a European Union diplomat, and is the Chancellor of The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George
  • Lord Patten has been a Conservative politician, a Chairman of the B.B.C. Trust, and the final Governor of Hong Kong, and is the Chancellor of Oxford University
H.M. The King invested Her Ladyship with the Garter Insignia in the morning of June 1, 2023, and did likewise for His Lordship in the afternoon of June 7, 2023. His Majesty did the same again for both during the Garter Day—the Monday in Royal Ascot week, falling on June 19 this year—Chapter of the Order, held by The King in the Throne Room, Windsor Castle. That afternoon, after the usual post-capitular Luncheon Party for the Companions of the Order, an Installation Service occurred in St. George's Chapel, featuring the installation of Lady Ashton as a Garter Lady Companion and of Lord Patten as a Garter Knight Companion. For another account of Garter Day 2023, see the "News" report "The King's first Garter Day as Sovereign of ‘The Order of the Garter’", June 19, 2023:


These, then, are the current members of The Order of the Garter, numbered chronologically, with the date of joining the Order (or just the year, if the date was April 23 of that year):

1: H.M. The King (July 26, 1958*)
2: H.M. The Queen of Denmark (May 16, 1979)
3: H.M. The King of Sweden (May 25, 1983)
4: H.R.H. The Duke of Kent K.G. G.C.M.G. G.C.V.O. C.D. A.D.C. (October 9, 1985)
5: H.M. King John Charles I. of Bourbon (October 17, 1988)
6: H.R.H. Princess Beatrice of The Netherlands (June 28, 1989)
7: H.R.H. The Princess Royal K.G. K.T. G.C.V.O. Q.S.O. C.M.M. C.D. A.D.C. (1994*)
8: H.R.H. The Duke of Gloucester K.G. G.C.V.O. (1997)
9: H.I.M. The Emperor Emeritus of Japan (May 26, 1998)
10: His Grace The Most Hon. The Duke of Abercorn Bt. K.G. (1999)
11: H.M. The King of Norway (May 30, 2001)
12: H.R.H. Princess Alexandra, The Hon. Lady Ogilvy K.G. G.C.V.O. C.D. (2003)
13: The Rt. Hon. The Baron Butler of Brockwell K.G. G.C.B. C.V.O. P.C. (2003)
14: The Rt. Hon. Sir John Major K.G. C.H. P.C. (2005)
15: H.R.H. The Duke of York K.G. G.C.V.O. C.D. A.D.C. (2006)
16: H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh K.G. G.C.V.O. C.D. A.D.C. (2006)
17: The Rt. Hon. The Baron Luce K.G. G.C.V.O. P.C. D.L. (2008)
18: H.R.H. The Prince of Wales K.G. K.T. P.C. A.D.C. (2008*)
19: Sir Thomas Dunne K.G. K.C.V.O. J.P. (2008)
20: The Rt. Hon. The Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers K.G. P.C. (2011)
21: The Rt. Hon. The Baron Stirrup K.G. G.C.B. A.F.C. A.D.C. (2013)
22: The Rt. Hon. The Baroness Manningham-Buller L.G. D.C.B. (2014)
23: The Rt. Hon. The Baron King of Lothbury K.G. G.B.E. D.L. (2014)
24: The Rt. Hon. The Baron Shuttleworth Bt. K.G. K.C.V.O. J.P. (2016)
25: H.M. The King of Spain (July 12, 2017)
26: The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Brookeborough Bt. K.G. (2018)
27: Lady Mary Fagan L.G. D.C.V.O. J.P. (2018)
28: H.M. The King of The Netherlands (October 23, 2018)
29: The Most Hon. The Marquess of Salisbury K.G. K.C.V.O. P.C. D.L. (February 27, 2019)
30: Lady Mary Peters L.G. C.H. D.B.E. (February 27, 2019)
31: The de-facto Queen K.G. K.T. G.C.V.O. O.N.Z. C.D. P.C. (January 1, 2022)
32: The Rt. Hon. The Baroness Amos L.G. C.H. P.C. (January 1, 2022)
33: The Rt. Hon. Sir Tony Blair K.G. P.C. (January 1, 2022)
34: The Rt. Hon. The Baroness Ashton of Upholland L.G. G.C.M.G. P.C. (2023)
35: The Rt. Hon. The Baron Patten of Barnes K.G. C.H. P.C. (2023)
*see the postscript to this item

That list is updated from earlier versions posted in this blog's "Order of the Garter" label, except that the sequence of members conforms here to that of the latest "Garter Banner List" (titled "Garter Banner Location (updated July 2023)"):



P.S. His Majesty became King on September 8, 2022, thereby becoming ex-officio Sovereign of the Order, but joined it by becoming Prince of Wales and hence an ex-officio member of the Order on July 26, 1958. Regarding the latter date, see the end of the postscript to item 1 in my "Notes: Saturday, March 26-Tuesday, October 4, 2022 (part 1 of 2)":


As for the date of The Princess Royal joining the Order: "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:


But searching the relevant N.S.W. State Library eresources did not yield any evidence to support that date, and neither did separate Google advanced searches of "Princess Royal" and "Princess Anne" using the St. George's Chapel website, not even in the 1994 or 1995 Annual Reports (full title: REPORT OF THE SOCIETY OF THE FRIENDS OF ST GEORGE'S AND THE DESCENDANTS OF THE KNIGHTS OF THE GARTER, "VOLUME VII, No. 5 for the year from lst October 1993 to 30th September 1994" and "VOLUME VII, No. 6 for the year from lst October 1994 to 30th September 1995"):




Far from supporting that date, the former report says that
On St George's Day, 23rd April 1994, the announcement of the new members of the Order of the Garter included the welcome news that The Queen had appointed her daughter, the Princess Royal, a Royal Lady of the Garter
[p. 192 (26 in the reader)]
and that "The Princess Royal was duly invested and installed on Garter Day, 13th June 1994" (ibid.). Similarly, the latter report says that Her Royal Highness "joined the distinguished group of Ladies of the Order on 23 April 1994" (p. 249 (43 in the reader)). (Also noteworthy, regarding the Royal Ladies of the Order, in that report is the observation that
Unlike their mediæval predecessors, they are members of the Order, with banners and crowns or coronets in St George's Chapel, but no stallplates.
[p. 246 (40 in the reader)]
(Perhaps that is why that report mentioned, on p. 249/43, that "Princess Anne normally displays her arms on a lozenge-shaped shield, but unlike the Lady Companions (L.G.) she has no stallplate."))

Finally, I note that The Prince of Wales gained an additional, ex-officio title to membership in the Order by becoming Prince of Wales on September 9, 2022; see the first link in this postscript, or see, at the official website of The College of Arms, the "April 2023 Newsletter (no. 71)" (s.v. "News"), according to which
By virtue of the statute defining membership of the Order of the Garter of 5 October 1954, as Prince of Wales His Royal Highness has become one of the 25 numerary companions of the Order. He was previously nominated a Royal Knight Companion by Queen Elizabeth II on 23 April 2008 and invested and installed at Windsor Castle on 16 June 2008. His Royal Highness was the 1000th companion appointed to the order, the first being his predecessor Edward, Prince of Wales (‘the Black Prince’).
[https://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/news-grants/newsletter/item/214-april-2023-newsletter-no-71#field5]
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Feast of St. Henry, Emperor and Confessor, A.D. 2023
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Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Notes: Saturday, March 26-Tuesday, October 4, 2022 (part 1 of 2)

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 1968
[p. 44 (50)])
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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
Over the same period, there have been two new Thistle appointees, namely, The Rt. Hon. Lady Elish Angiolini L.T. D.B.E. P.C. K.C. and The Rt. Hon. Prof. Sir George Reid K.T. P.C., with both appointments effective from Friday, June 10, 2022, according to the Press Release "New appointments to The Order of The Thistle", "Published 10 June 2022", available at the British Royal Family's official website:


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.
Consequently, the current Knights and Ladies of The Order of the Thistle are*:

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.

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Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Confessor, A.D. 2022
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Friday, March 25, 2022

Notes: Tuesday, March 2, 2021-Friday, March 25, 2022

 1. Suarez on political authority before and after the Fall

See the "Scholia" item "What Kind of Corporeal or Political Life Men Would Have Professed in the State of Innocence" (the translated title of Ch. 7 of Book 5 of On the Work of the Six Days), by Francisco Suarez, translated and introduced by Assistant Prof. Matthew T. Gaetano, Journal of Markets & Morality, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Fall 2012), pp. 527–563:


Labels: Adam (Patriarch), morals, politics

2. Prof. Sommerville's comparison of Catholic and Anglican political theory in the Jacobean age

See the article "FROM SUAREZ TO FILMER: A REAPPRAISAL", by J. P. Sommerville, The Historical Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 (September 1982), pp. 525-540:



Labels: morals, politics, regalism, St. Robert Bellarmine

3. "The Declaration of Independence: Annotated"

That quotation is the title of an article of December 9, 2021 by Liz Tracey in the JSTOR Daily "Annotations" series:


Labels: Americanism, Democratism, history, liberalism, morals, politics, U.S.A.

4. Recent additions to, and losses from, The Order of the Garter

My last blog post about The Most Noble Order of the Garter was "Notes: Tuesday, February 5-Monday, July 22, 2019 (part 1 of 3)" (item 3):


Since then, that Order has lost no Ladies, no Stranger Knights, one British Royal Knight (namely, The (1.) Duke of Edinburgh, who died on April 9, 2021 and whose Funeral occurred on the 17. following), and five other Knights:

1. Lord Bramall, who died on November 12, 2019

2. Lord Ashburton, who died on October 6, 2020, the Memorial Service for whom occurred on October 15, 2021, and whose Garter Insignia were delivered up on December 1, 2021

3. Sir Antony Acland, who died on September 8, 2021, according to "Sir Antony Acland Obituary", dated September 16, 2021, available at Eton College's website:


and the Service of Thanksgiving for the Life of whom occurred on February 4, 2022

4. Sir Timothy Colman, who died the day after Sir Antony, according to "Sir Timothy Colman, record-breaking sailor, naturalist, long-serving lord lieutenant and well-liked figure in Norfolk life – obituary", dated September 15, 2021, available at the London Daily Telegraph's website:


and the Service of Thanksgiving to Celebrate the Life of whom occurred on January 20, 2022

5. Lord Sainsbury, who died on January 14, 2022, according to "Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover obituary", by Stephen Bates, dated Monday, January 17, 2022, available at The Guardian's website:


Over the same period, no new British Royal Knights, no new Stranger Knights nor Ladies, one de-facto British Royal Lady (namely, the de-facto Duchess of Cornwall), one other Lady (Lady Amos), and one other Knight (Sir Tony Blair) have joined the Order, with those three new appointments effective January 1, 2022. See

1. The Press Release "New appointments to the Order of the Garter announced", dated December 31, 2021, available at the official website of the British Royal Family:


It lists the three new appointees in the sequence in which I happen to have listed them, and says that Lady Amos
(born 13th March 1954) has previously been Chief Executive, Equal Opportunities Commission (1989-1994), Secretary of State for International Development, Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords (2003-2007), Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Co-ordinator, UN (2010-2015) and is currently Master, University College Oxford.
while Sir Tony
was Prime Minister from 1997-2007. He is now Executive Chairman of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, a not-for-profit organisation which works around the world.
2. Notice No. 3963431, January 7, 2022 (but to be dated the previous 1.), Notice Type "State", Sub-Type "Honours and Awards" (Notice Code: 1105), The London Gazette, Issue No. 63581, (printed on January 10, 2022, containing all notices published online between January 7 and 9, 2022), p. 214:


(delete "/page/214" for the full issue, with p. 214 being p. 2 in my document reader)

3. The B.B.C. News report "Blair becomes 'Sir Tony' and joins top royal order", by Sean Coughlan, dated January 1, 2022:


according to which Sir Tony "says he will be "Sir Tony" rather than Sir Anthony"

Consequently, the current Knights Companions and Ladies Companions of The Order of the Garter are:

British Royal Knights and Ladies, at least in fact*:
1. H.M. The Queen (who joined the Order on November 11, 1947 and became Sovereign thereof upon becoming Queen, February 6, 1952)
2. H.R.H. The Prince of Wales (1958) K.G. (July 26, 1958**) K.T. G.C.B. O.M. A.K. Q.S.O. C.C. P.C. A.D.C.
3. H.R.H. The (2.) Duke of Kent (1934, 1942) K.G. (October 9, 1985) G.C.M.G. G.C.V.O. C.D. A.D.C.
4. H.R.H. The Princess Royal (1987) K.G. (1994***) K.T. G.C.V.O. Q.S.O. C.D. A.D.C.
5. H.R.H. The (2.) Duke of Gloucester (1928, 1974) K.G. (1997) G.C.V.O.
6. H.R.H. Princess Alexandra, The Hon. Lady Ogilvy K.G. (2003) G.C.V.O. C.D.
7. H.R.H. The (1.) Duke of York (1986) K.G. (2006) G.C.V.O. C.D. A.D.C.
8. H.R.H. The (1.) Earl of Wessex (1999) and Forfar (2019) K.G. (2006) G.C.V.O. C.D. A.D.C.
9. H.R.H. The (1.) Duke of Cambridge (2011) K.G. (2008) K.T. P.C. A.D.C.
10. The de-facto Duchess of Cornwall K.G. (January 1, 2022) G.C.V.O. 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.G. is—again, unless otherwise indicated—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 April 23 of that year
**my presumption, in item 7.2.1 of this issue of "Notes", was correct, judging by the page "Titles and Heraldry" (scroll down and click the tile "Titles"at the left-hand side) at His Royal Highness's website, according to which "The Prince of Wales automatically became a KG when he became Prince of Wales in 1958" (although His Royal Highness "was not installed until 17th June 1968, at Windsor Castle"):


***though the exact date thereof seems disputed—either April 23 or June 13. And it was interesting to read, in the "Feature" article "The Princess Royal – 70 facts at 70", that "The Princess Royal requested to be installed as Royal Knight of the Order, and not a Lady":


Stranger Knights and Ladies*:
1. H.M. The Queen of Denmark (May 16, 1979)
2. H.M. The King of Sweden (May 25, 1983)
3. H.M. King John Charles I. (the abdicated Spanish king) (October 17, 1988)
4. H.R.H. Princess Beatrice (the abdicated Dutch queen) (June 28, 1989)
5. H.M. The (Japanese) Emperor Emeritus (May 26, 1998)
6. H.M. The King of Norway (May 30, 2001)
7. H.M. The King of Spain (July 12, 2017)
8. H.M. The King of The Netherlands (October 23, 2018)
*see the appendix to this blog post for the evidence for these dates

Other Knights and Ladies*:
1. His Grace The Most Hon. The (5.) Duke of Abercorn (1868, 1979) Bt. K.G. (1999)
2. The Rt. Hon. Field Marshal The Baron Inge (1997) K.G. (2001) G.C.B. P.C. D.L.
3. The Rt. Hon. The Baron Butler of Brockwell (1998) K.G. (2003) G.C.B. C.V.O. P.C.
4. The Rt. Hon. The Baron Morris of Aberavon (2001) K.G. (2003) P.C. Q.C.
5. The Rt. Hon. Sir John Major K.G. (2005) C.H. P.C.
6. The Rt. Hon. The Baron Luce (2000) K.G. (2008) G.C.V.O. P.C. D.L.
7. Sir Thomas Dunne K.G. (2008) K.C.V.O. J.P.
8. The Rt. Hon. Admiral of the Fleet The Baron Boyce (2003) K.G. (2011) G.C.B. O.B.E. D.L.
9. The Rt. Hon. The Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers (1999) K.G. (2011) P.C.
10. The Rt. Hon. Marshal of The Royal Air Force The Baron Stirrup (2011) K.G. (2013) G.C.B. A.F.C. A.D.C.
11. The Rt. Hon. The Baroness Manningham-Buller (2008) L.G. (2014) D.C.B.
12. The Rt. Hon. Prof. The Baron King of Lothbury (2013) K.G. (2014) G.B.E. D.L.
13. The Rt. Hon. The (5.) Baron Shuttleworth (1902, 1975) Bt. K.G. (2016) K.C.V.O. J.P.
14. Sir David Brewer K.G. (2016) C.M.G. C.V.O. J.P.
15. Lady Mary Fagan L.G. (2018) D.C.V.O. J.P.
16. The Rt. Hon. The (3.) Viscount Brookeborough (1952, 1987) Bt. K.G. (2018)
17. Lady Mary Peters L.G. (February 27, 2019) C.H. D.B.E.
18. The Most Hon. The (7.) Marquess of Salisbury (1789, 2003) K.G. (February 27, 2019) K.C.V.O. P.C. D.L.
19. The Rt. Hon. The Baroness Amos (1997) L.G. (January 1, 2022) C.H. P.C.
20. The Rt. Hon. Sir Tony Blair K.G. (January 1, 2022) P.C.
*I have applied to this list the rules stated in the first note to my list of British Royal Knights and Ladies, and the sequence in which I have listed these other Garter Knights and Ladies is that of the relevant Press Releases or Gazette notices. The sequence in each of the pairs for 2011, ’18, and ’19 is, however, reversed in the previously-cited Garter banner list; the Court Circular, too, reverses the sequence of the 2011 pair when mentioned in that year through 2019 (except 2017, when Garter Day activities were cancelled, and 2012), and does likewise for the 2018 pair when mentioned in 2019.

Sources: In addition to the resources available through the links in this blog's sidebar (above all, the Court Circular (plus the rest of its host website), Who's Who, and Wikipedia) and in this and other "Notes" items, I have also used

1. The page "ADDRESSING THE ROYAL FAMILY" at the Debrett's website:


2. The page "Privy Council members" at the British Privy Council's website:


3. The page "THE ROYAL FAMILY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND", sub-heading "HOUSE OF WINDSOR", by Mr. William Bortrick, at Burke's Peerage's website:


4. p. 112 (132 in the document reader) in "Appendix Six" ("Royal and Vice-Regal Recipients of the Canadian Forces’ Decoration") of The Canadian Forces’ Decoration, by Mr. Christopher McCreery M.V.O., available at the "Canadian Forces' Decoration (CD)" page at H.M. Canadian Government's website:


or go straight hither:


or hither:


P.S. The usually-annual Garter service did not occur in 2020 nor ’21, according to, respectively, the Press Releases "An announcement regarding Royal events in June" and "Trooping the Colour will not go ahead in its traditional form in 2021", dated April 22, 2020 and March 19, 2021, respectively, and both available at the official website of the British Royal Family:



Labels: Camilla Parker Bowles, Order of the Garter, Tony Blair, Valerie Amos

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Lady Day, A.D. 2022

Appendix: Garter appointment dates for the current Stranger Knights and Ladies

The names of at least some of the current Stranger Knights Companions and Stranger Ladies Companions of The Order of the Garter are in the Wikipedia pages "List of current Knights and Ladies of the Garter" (see my "Miscellaneous links") and "Talk:Order of the Garter" (s.v. "Holy Roman garter?"), the London Times article "Order of the Garter" "full list" (Monday, June 16, 2008), and the page "Garter Banner List" at the website of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle:




(or go straight hither:


"Holy Roman garter?" gives this U.R.L. as the source for its list, but, as you'll see, the link is dead:


I think that I remember that webpage, and I'm inclined to think that the list has been copied and pasted without more than negligible change. Whatever the case, it can serve as a starting point for further investigation.

An alternative starting point is to remember that, at least recently, Stranger appointments occur during State Visits. The official website of the British Royal Family has a "Feature" article titled "State Visits"; click "List of State Visits" on the left-hand side of the page in order to download a list of "Inward State Visits since 1952" and a list of "Outbound State Visits since 1952":




1. H.M. The Queen appointed Her Majesty's Danish counterpart to the Order in 1979, and the only relevant State Visit that year was the outbound one of Wednesday, May 16-Saturday 19 (p. 2), which The Danish Royal House's official website corroborates on the "State Visits" page (s.v. "List of State Visits") there:


According to the news report "THE QUEEN TAKES A TRIP IN THE TUNNEL OF LOVE", by Ann Morrow (in Copenhagen), on p. 19 of The Daily Telegraph (London) of Friday, May 18, 1979 (Issue No. 38552), "Queen Margarethe[ recte Margrethe] was given the Order of the Garter and an English gilt carriage clock by the Queen and Prince Philip" (my interpolation), presumably respectively, at the State banquet aboard H.M. Yacht Britannia the previous night. I presume that "given the Order of the Garter" means 'presented with the Garter Insignia', so The Queen of Denmark must have joined the Order on or before Thursday, May 17, 1979; I think that it's safe to say that May 16, 1979 was the exact date of the appointment.

2. Her Majesty appointed H.M. The King of Sweden to the Order in 1983, and the only relevant State Visit that year was the outbound one of May 25-28 (p. 2), and The Swedish Royal Court's official website corroborates that on the page "State visits 1980-1989" there:


According to the news report "The Queen goes ashore in gondola", by Jenny Shields (in Stockholm), The Daily Telegraph (London), Thursday, May 26, 1983, Issue No. 39793, p. 19, "at a ceremony in the Palace, the Queen presented 37-year-old King Carl Gustav with the Order of the Garter" on Wednesday, May 25, 1983. More accurately, 'presented The King with the Garter Insignia', I presume, so His Majesty must have joined the Order on or before that date, presumably the former.

3. The Queen appointed H.M. King John Charles I. (at the time of the appointment, the reigning King of Spain) a Stranger Knight of the Garter on October 17, 1988, according to Notice No. 21 SI, Notice Type "State Intelligence", Sub-Type "HONOURS AND AWARDS", The London Gazette, Issue No. 51806, Tuesday, July 11, 1989, p. 8095:

(delete "/page/8095" from this and the next U.R.L. for the full issue)


See also the news reports
  • "Sun, smiles and a Latin greeting for the Queen", by Richard Kay in Madrid, Tuesday, October 18, 1988, in The Daily Mail, London, Issue No. 28715, p. 5, which says that, on the 17., "The Queen conferred the Order of the Garter on Juan Carlos"
  • "Affectionate welcome for royal cousins", by Alan Hamilton, reporting from Madrid, Tuesday, October 18, 1988, in The Times, London, Issue No. 63215, p. 7, which says that, on the 17., "The Queen created King Juan Carlos an Extra Knight of the Garter"
October 17, 1988 was first day of the only relevant State Visit by The Queen that year (p. 2); the visit ended on the 21.

4. Her Majesty appointed H.R.H. Princess Beatrice (at the time of the appointment, the reigning Queen of The Netherlands) a Stranger Lady of the Garter on June 28, 1989, according to the same Gazette notice as that for King John Charles I.'s appointment. And on the same day, "The Queen invested The Queen of the Netherlands with the Insignia of an Extra Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter", according to the issue of the Court Circular printed on p. 18 of The Times (London), Thursday, June 29, 1989, Issue No. 63433. (Neither the official website of The Royal House of The Netherlands nor that of the British Royal Family give the dates for the State Visit of Her Royal Highness to Her Majesty, though that issue of the Court Circular says that "The Queen of the Netherlands and Prince Claus of the Netherlands arrived at Buckingham Palace this afternoon", and the previous day's issue seems not to mention that royal couple, so June 28 must have been the first day, and according to the news report "Queen's honour for Beatrix", p. 20, South China Morning Post, Friday, June 30, 1989, Vol. XLV, No. 179, Princess Beatrice was "on a three-day visit to Brit-ain" (the last word spanned two lines).)

5. The Queen appointed H.M. The (Japanese) Emperor Emeritus (at the time of the appointment, the reigning Emperor of Japan) to the Order in 1998, and the only relevant State Visit that year was the incoming one of May 26-29 (p. 2), on the first day whereof Her Majesty presented His Majesty with the Garter Insignia. Of the numerous Gale Primary Sources and ProQuest (via the N.S.W. State Library's website (see sidebar)) articles about the State Visit, the most informative for present purposes were the news reports "Thunder of guns met by imperial blaze of modesty THE EMPEROR'S VISIT: [D Edition 1]" (sic), by Valentine Low, Evening Standard, West End final ed., London, May 26, 1998, according to which, on May 26, 1998,
after a lunch in the Bow Room of Buckingham Palace, the emperor was presented with the Order of the Garter. There was no formal conferring upon the emperor of the Order which was simply laid out on a table with the other gifts from the Queen. However, no snub was intended - this, said the Palace, was the norm in such circumstances.
and "A day of protest and reconciliation", by Alan Hamilton, p. 1, The Times (London), Wednesday, May 27, 1998, Issue No. 66212, which put it this way:
On arriving at the Palace, the visitors were entertained to lunch of asparagus mousse, roast chicken and rhubarb parfait. The Queen then took the Emperor into the adjoin-ing Carnarvon Room and, without ceremony, presented him with the Order of the Garter, its star insignia lying in an open box among other gifts.
(The word 'adjoining' spanned two lines.)
Therefore, His Majesty must have joined the Order on or before May 26, 1998, presumably the former.

6. Her Majesty appointed H.M. The King of Norway to the Order in 2001, and the only relevant State Visit that year was that of The Queen to His Majesty from May 30-June 1 (see p. 3), and The Royal House of Norway's website corroborates that on its "State visits during the reign of King Harald" page (s.v. "State visits to Norway"):


According to the Court Circular, "The Queen presented The King of Norway with the Insignia of an Extra Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter" on May 30 at The Royal Palace, Oslo, so His Majesty must have joined the order on or before that date, presumably the former.

7. and 8. Her Majesty appointed H.M. The King of Spain and H.M. The King of The Netherlands to the Order on July 12, 2017 and October 23, 2018, respectively. See item 7.2.1 of "Notes: Tuesday, April 24, 2018-Monday, February 4, 2019 (part 2 of 2)" and item 3 of "Notes: Tuesday, February 5-Monday, July 22, 2019 (part 1 of 3)", to which, for convenience, I link here, along with links to their respective sources:








And for the sake of completeness, see the news item "King and Queen to visit Windsor", dated "07-06-2019", at the official website of The Royal House of The Netherlands, according to which H.M. The (Dutch) "King was appointed a Supernumerary Knight of the Garter during the State Visit to the United Kingdom on 23 and 24 October 2018", and "His Majesty King Felipe VI of Spain" was "appointed as such during a state visit in 2017":

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Monday, July 22, 2019

Notes: Tuesday, February 5-Monday, July 22, 2019 (part 1 of 3)

1. The latest changes to this blog's sidebar

Immediately before posting this part of this issue of "Notes", I removed from this blog's sidebar the links to What's Up With Francis-Church? (because it's no longer being updated) and to "Sources for the Syllabus of Errors" and the respective websites of The Archdiocese of Sydney, The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, and The Diocese of Wollongong (because I never or hardly ever use them, nor can see any other good enough reason to keep them), and moved the remaining links to the "Miscellaneous links" section from the "Magisterium" or "Bishops and (Local) Churches of Australia and the world" sections (hence I deleted those sections). I then added links to the revived Bernard Gaynor blog and to The University of Birmingham's The Philological Museum. (When I first saw that Mr. Gaynor had resumed blogging, I think that the most recent post at his blog was "Anzac Day dawn service march too dangerous for female CO" ("Posted By Bernard Gaynor on Friday, April 12, 2019 4:07 pm"); the last post before his blog went into hiatus seemed to have been "Vale Larry Pickering" ("Posted By Bernard Gaynor on Tuesday, November 20, 2018 7:31 pm"), and his first post after that hiatus was apparently "By George, it’s unbelievable" ("Posted By Bernard Gaynor on Tuesday, March 5, 2019 1:12 pm").)

But I don't think that there's any need for me to mention such changes in future. If you want to know how, when, or why I make future alterations to the sidebar, please feel free to ask me.

Labels: blogs

2. Prof. Schofield on two points of Plato's political philosophy:

2.1 Rule of law vs. rule of men:
The companion dialogue Politicus or Statesman addresses more squarely than Republic did the practical as distinct from the theoretical knowledge of the ideal statesman. Its contribution to this topic consists of three major claims. First is the rejection of the sovereignty of law. Plato has nothing against law as a convenient but imprecise rule of thumb in the hands of an expert statesman, provided it does not prevent him using his expertise. Making law sovereign, on the other hand, would be like preferring strict adherence to a handbook of navigation or a medical textbook to the judgment of the expert seafarer or doctor. If you have no such expert available, a constitution based on adherence to law is better than lawlessness, but that is not saying much. What law cannot do that expert rulers can and must is judge the kairos: discern the right and the wrong ’moment’ to undertake a great enterprise of state. …
[hyperlinks and italics in the original, my ellipsis symbol,
§ "16. Later dialogues", art. "Plato (427–347 BC)" (version 1), by Emeritus Prof. Malcolm Schofield, The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online:
https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/plato-427-347-bc/v-1/sections/later-dialogues]
Labels: morals, Plato, politics

2.2 The essential function of authority:
… Statesman makes the statesman a sort of weaver. There are two strands to the analogy. First, like weaving statesmanship calls upon many subordinate skills. Its job is not to be doing things itself, but to control all the subordinate functions of government, and by its concern for the laws and every other aspect of the city weave all together. …
[hyperlink in the original, my ellipsis symbols,
ibid.]
Labels: morals, Plato, politics

3. Lady Mary Peters and Lord Salisbury have joined The Order of the Garter

H.M. The Queen has appointed Lady Mary Peters L.G. C.H. D.B.E. a Lady Companion of The Order of the Garter and The Most Hon. The (7.) Marquess of Salisbury K.G. K.C.V.O. P.C. D.L. a Knight Companion of the same Order, according to the Press Release "New appointments to the Order of the Garter announced", February 27, 2019:

https://www.royal.uk/new-appointments-order-garter-announced

(That date is presumably the effective date for the appointments in question, judging by usual practice and by this Tweet ("3:43 AM - 27 Feb 2019") from the Twitter account "The Royal Family" (@RoyalFamily), which says that "Two new appointments have been made to the Order of the Garter today.", and names the aforementioned appointees:

https://twitter.com/RoyalFamily/status/1100723225527492610

Unusually, that date seems to be both the effective date and the nominal date for those appointments; see Notice No. 3316805, February 27, 2019, Notice Type "State", Sub-Type "Honours and Awards" (Notice Code: 1105), The London Gazette, Issue No. 62703 (printed on July 5, 2019, containing all notices published online the previous day), p. 11956:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3316805

(A digital version of the full text of p. 11956 is available here:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/62703/page/11956

and a digital version of the full text of Issue No. 62703 is available here, with p. 11956 being p. 2 in your document reader:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/62703)

I say "unusually" because Gazette items promulgating new Garter Knight or Lady appointments which (appointments) are effective from dates other than April 23 usually describe the appointments as 'to be dated' April 23; that happened mostly recently in 2016, ’13, ’11, ’08, and ’05, judging by the results of searching "To be dated" and "Order of the Garter" and "Companion" together at that gazette's website.)

That Press Release says that Lady Mary
(born 6 July 1939) served as Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of the County Borough of Belfast between 2009 and 2014. In the 1972 summer Olympics in Munich, Dame Mary won the Gold Medal in the pentathlon. In 1975, she established The Mary Peters Trust to support talented young sportsmen and women across Northern Ireland.
while His Lordship
(born 30 September 1946) is a former Leader of the House of Lords. Lord Salisbury is a Deputy Lieutenant of Hertfordshire, and was Chairman of the Thames Diamond Jubilee Foundation, which organised the Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the River Thames in 2012. Lord Salisbury is also Chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire.
It also mentions that its "announcement brings the number of Companions to twenty-three (out of a maximum of twenty-four)." See item 7.2.1 of part 2 of my previous issue of "Notes" for the names of the other twenty-one Companions in question, as well as those of the current Royal-Family and Stranger ones (minus one from the latter category—see the end of this item), and the accuracy, as of Garter Day this year, of the names in the first two categories can be confirmed by comparing my lists to the lists in the Court Circular for the 17. ult. (The only absentees other than Stranger Knights or Ladies this year were Lords Ashburton and Inge and T.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh and The Duke of Cambridge, but Their Lordships are, judging by Wikipedia, still alive, and so are Their Royal Highnesses, of course.)

According to that issue of the Court Circular, this year's Garter Day activities consisted of
  • a Chapter of the Order held by Her Majesty, accompanied by all the Royal-Family Garter Knights and Ladies except T.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh and The Duke of Cambridge and with, among others, H.M. The King of Spain, H.M. The King of The Netherlands, and all the other Garter Knights and Ladies present except Lords Ashburton and Inge and the other Stranger Knights and Ladies, in the Throne Room, Windsor Castle, during which "The Queen welcomed The King of Spain and The King of the Netherlands as Extra Knights Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter" and invested Lady Mary and Lord Salisbury with the Garter Insignia. (Her Majesty had already received Lady Mary and, presumably separately, His Lordship last May 16 and, at their respective receptions, invested them with the same Insignia, according to the Court Circular.)
  • a later Luncheon Party given by The Queen for the Garter Knights and Ladies.
  • in the afternoon, an Installation Service in St. George's Chapel for the installation of the new Garter Companions.
(See also the article "Garter Day 2019", dated June 14 (sic), 2019:

https://www.royal.uk/garter-day-2019)

You might also have noticed in the Court Circular the reference to Grand Duke John of Luxembourg's State Funeral last May 4. According to the English version of His late Royal Highness's biography at Luxembourg's Royal Family's website, Grand Duke John died on April 23, 2019 (which would, of course, have been St. George's Day had it not fallen during the Octave of Easter):

http://www.monarchie.lu/fr/famille/grand-duc-jean/biogrgdjean-en.pdf

Labels: John of Luxembourg, Mary Peters, Order of the Garter, Philip VI. Borbón, Robert Salisbury, William Alexander of The Netherlands

4. Alberico Gentili (in Latin: Albericus Gentilis) is "regarded as one of the founders of the science of international law and the first person in western Europe to separate secular law from Roman Catholic theology and canon law." (In other words, he is "considered the originator of the secular school of thought in international law".)

The first quotation, including its hyperlinks, in that headline comes from the Encyclopædia Britannica article "Alberico Gentili (Italian jurist)":

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alberico-Gentili

Apparently, the second quotation comes from that encyclopedia's article "International law" (s.v. "Historical development"):

https://www.britannica.com/topic/international-law/Historical-development

(The article is behind a paywall, but the quotation shows up in the related-articles section of "Alberico Gentili (Italian jurist)" and came up in the ninth result when I searched "Gentili" at Britannica's website.)

Labels: law, morals, politics, secularism

5. More items on the grounds of political legitimacy

5.1 "considering the bases of the League doctrines, it is impossible not to accord them the highest importance in the history of political ideas. Power, they said, was derived from God through the people, and they opposed the false, absolutist, and Gallican doctrine of the Divine right and irresponsibility of kings, such as Louis XIV professed and practised"

The quotation, minus hyperlinks, in that headline comes from the article "The League" (s.v. "Political doctrines of the League") in The Catholic Encyclopedia:

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09098b.htm

Labels: Democratism, morals, politics, regalism

Reginaldvs Cantvar
Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, Penitent, A.D. 2019
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Monday, February 4, 2019

Notes: Tuesday, April 24, 2018-Monday, February 4, 2019 (part 2 of 2)

6. On July 19, 2018, the so-called State of Israel decreed that it is 'the nation-state of the Jewish people'

See the Knesset press release "Full text of Basic Law: Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People", dated July 19, 2018, which gives a "complete, unofficial translation of the final version of Basic Law: Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People, passed by the Knesset on July 19, 2018":

https://main.knesset.gov.il/EN/News/PressReleases/Pages/Pr13978_pg.aspx

According to clauses 1.b) and 1.c) of that translation, "The state of Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people, in which it actualizes its natural, religious, and historical right for self-determination.", and "The actualization of the right of national self-determination in the state of Israel is unique to the Jewish people.", respectively. One of the sponsors of the bill, Knesset member Avi Dichter, offers the following, slightly different, translations of those clauses:
(B.) The State of Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people, in which it exercises its natural, cultural, religious and historic right to self-determination.
(C.) The exercise of the right to national self-determination in the State of Israel is exclusive to the Jewish people.
[https://avidichter.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/leom_law_en_press_18.7.18.pdf]
See also the other Knesset press releases "Joint Committee approves Nation-State Bill for final plenary vote", dated July 18, 2018, and "Knesset passes Jewish nation-state bill into law", dated July 19, 2018:

https://main.knesset.gov.il/EN/News/PressReleases/Pages/Pr13977_pg.aspx

https://main.knesset.gov.il/EN/News/PressReleases/Pages/Pr13979_pg.aspx

According to the former, a Knesset "joint committee of the House Committee and the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee"
revised a clause which stated that “Each resident of Israel, without regard to his religion or nationality, shall be entitled to strive for the preservation of his culture, heritage, language and identity,” and that “The State may permit a community, including the members of a single religion or the members of a single nationality, to establish separate community settlements”

The new version of the clause determines that “The state sees developing Jewish settlement as a national interest and will take steps to
encourage, advance, and implement this interest.”
and according to the latter,
Two clauses in the bill were revised. The Diaspora clause reads, “The state will act in the Diaspora to maintain the connection between the state and the Jewish people.” The original version said that the connection would be maintained among “the Jewish people, wherever they are.”

A clause that could have permitted one religious group to bar another from living in their community was replaced with one saying that “The state sees developing Jewish settlement as a national interest and will take steps to encourage, advance, and implement this interest.”
Mr. Dichter's translation came to my attention via the Wikipedia page "Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People", whose "References" section links to numerous sources dealing with the matter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law:_Israel_as_the_Nation-State_of_the_Jewish_People

Among those sources is the opinion piece "The legitimacy of Israel’s nation-state bill (I): comparative constitutionalism", by Prof. Eugene Kontorovich, dated December 10, 2014, available at the Kohelet Policy Forum's (K.P.F.'s) website:

https://en.kohelet.org.il/publication/the-legitimacy-of-israels-nation-state-bill-i-comparative-constitutionalism

That article gives useful background to the decree in question, above all with respect to the notion of national self-determination. (Although published years before the enactment in question occurred, that opinion piece is still relevant to the final text; hence Prof. Kontorovich's recapitulation of his main points in the opinion piece "Get Over It—Israel Is the Jewish State", dated July 19, 2018, published originally in The Wall Street Journal (available behind a paywall):

https://www.wsj.com/articles/get-over-itisrael-is-the-jewish-state-1532039000

and also available at the K.P.F.'s website:

https://en.kohelet.org.il/publication/get-over-it-israel-is-the-jewish-state

The only noteworthy respect in which the former article is out of date is its treatment of the question of official languages.)

Labels: Confessional State, Jews, State of Israel

7. Some items regarding the two premier British chivalric orders

7.1 The Order of the Garter as the mother order of court chivalry

See p. 11 (22 in the document reader) in the text of the speech by James Johnston (Williamite English Envoy Extraordinary to The then-Elector of Brandenburg) in An account of the ceremony of investing his Electoral Highness of Brandenburgh with the order of the Garter, perform'd at Berlin on the 6th of June, 1690, London, 1690:

http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?docId=BLL01017684096&vid=BLVU1&lang=en_US&institution=BL

or go straight hither:

http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100027415381.0x000001#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-1301%2C-135%2C4464%2C2686

or hither:

https://books.google.com.au/books?vid=BL:A0020755743&redir_esc=y

Also available in other formats here:

http://ota.ox.ac.uk/tcp/headers/A24/A24980.html

(The HTML version is here:

http://downloads.it.ox.ac.uk/ota-public/tcp/Texts-HTML/free/A24/A24980.html)

See also here:

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=eebo;idno=A24980.0001.001

or go straight hither:

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A24980.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext

For a biography of Johnston, see "JOHNSTON, James (1655-1737), of Orleans House, Twickenham, Mdx.", by Richard Harrison, at The History of Parliament:

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/johnston-james-1655-1737

Labels: Order of the Garter

7.2 Getting back up to date with the two premier British chivalric orders

Over the four or so years to early- to mid-last-year, I lost track of developments in The Order of the Garter and The Order of the Thistle. In the next two items I aim to rectify that oversight.

7.2.1 Recent additions to, and losses from, The Order of the Garter

The last time when I noted that The Order of the Garter had its full complement of twenty-four Knights Companions or Ladies Companions who are neither Royal-Family nor Stranger Knights nor Ladies was on Thursday, April 23, 2009:

https://cardinalpole.blogspot.com/2009/04/happy-st-georges-day.html

Unfortunately, the webpage which I seem to have used as my source for that observation is no longer available, but you can still verify that I was correct. Begin with the royal.uk Press Release "Appointments to the Order of the Garter 2005":

https://www.royal.uk/appointments-order-garter-2005

That webpage lists twenty-four non-Royal-Family/-Stranger members of the Order (three new appointees and twenty-one previous ones); they were, in chronological order (dated to April 23 in the years mentioned), with only abbreviated titles and neither styles nor post-nominal letters):

1. The Duke of Grafton (1976) 2. Lord Richardson (1983) 3. Lord Carrington (1985) 4. The Duke of Wellington (1990) 5. Lord Bramall (1990) 6. Sir Edward Heath (1992) 7. Lord Ridley (1992) 8. Lord Sainsbury (1992) 9. Lord Ashburton (1994) 10. Lord Kingsdown (1994) 11. Sir Ninian Stephen (1994) 12. Sir Edmund Hillary (1995) 13. Lady Thatcher (1995) 14. Sir Timothy Colman (1996) 15. The Duke of Abercorn (1999) 16. Sir William Gladstone (1999) 17. Lord Inge (2001) 18. Sir Antony Acland (2001) 19. The Duke of Westminster (2003) 20. Lord Butler (2003) 21. Lord Morris (2003) 22. Lady Soames (2005) 23. Lord Bingham (2005) 24. Sir John Major (2005)

Only two Garter Knights (and no Ladies) seem—unless I've missed any Stranger Knights—to have died between then and St. George's Day 2009: Sir Edward died on July 17, 2005, according to the Encyclopædia Britannica article "Sir Edward Heath":

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-Heath)

(and his set of Garter insignia was delivered up on November 22, 2005, according to the Court Circular) and Sir Edmund died on January 11, 2008, according to the same encyclopedia's article "Sir Edmund Hillary":

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edmund-Hillary

(and his set of Garter insignia was delivered up on April 2, 2008, the day of the Service of Thanksgiving for his Life, according to the Court Circular. (Judging by the same source, Lords Richardson and Carrington, Sir Ninian, Lady Thatcher, and Sir Timothy were each not present at the Garter Day—the Monday in Royal Ascot week—activities of at least one year from 2005 to 2009, inclusive of both, but they were still alive as of Garter Day 2009, as I'll soon show. (Garter Day fell on June 13, 19, 18, 16, and 15 in 2005, ’06, ’07, ’08, and ’09, respectively.)))

Over the same period (that from St. George's Day 2005 to St. George's Day 2009, inclusive of both), only two other non-Royal-Family/-Stranger Garter Knights (and no Ladies) were appointed, namely Lord Luce and Sir Thomas Dunne; see Notice No. 510023, Notice Type "State", Sub-Type "Honours and Awards" (Notice Code: 1105), The London Gazette, Issue No. 58679, p. 6383, Friday, April 25, 2008 (but the appointments in question are to be dated April 23, 2008):

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-58679-510023

(A digital version of the full text of p. 6383 is available here:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/58679/page/6383

and a digital version of the full text of Issue No. 58679 is available here, with p. 6383 being p. 1 in your document reader:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/58679

See also the royal.uk Press Release "Appointment to the Order of the Garter", dated April 22, 2008:

https://www.royal.uk/appointment-order-garter

That also mentions The Duke of Cambridge's appointment, but His Royal Highness is, of course, a Royal Knight Companion; over the period in question, two other Royal-Family Knights (and no Ladies) were also appointed, namely The Duke of York and Prince Edward: See the royal.uk Press Release "Appointments to the Order of the Garter 2006", dated April 23, 2006:

https://www.royal.uk/appointments-order-garter-2006)

With two deaths and two new appointments, and so no change in the number of members, over the period in question, it seems that there were indeed twenty-four non-Royal/-Stranger Garter Knights or Ladies as of St. George's Day 2009, and they were those of St. George's Day 2005, minus Sir Edward Heath and Sir Edmund Hillary, plus Lord Luce and Sir Thomas Dunne. And that was still the case as of Garter Day 2009 (June 15 that year), when, according to the Court Circular, nineteen of those Knights or Ladies were present for that Day's activities, and the five absentees—Lords Richardson and Carrington, Sir Ninian Stephen, Lady Thatcher, and Sir Timothy Colman—were still alive then, as we'll soon see.

Since Garter Day ’09, there have been twelve deaths in the Order; I mentioned five of those deaths in the following issues of my "Notes", collectively:

https://cardinalpole.blogspot.com/2014/07/notes-tuesday-may-6-2014-thursday-july.html (item 1.2)

https://cardinalpole.blogspot.com/2012/04/notes-wednesday-april-4-tuesday-april.html (item 4)

https://cardinalpole.blogspot.com/2011/04/notes-tuesday-april-12-monday-april-18.html (item 8)

https://cardinalpole.blogspot.com/2010/04/st-georges-day-coming-up-and-theres.html

(Those deaths can also be verified by reading the references to the late Garter Knights' or Lady's respective obsequies or returns of sets of Garter insignia (or both) in the Court Circular; see the issues of March 10 and May 19, 2010, March 3, 2011, May 9, 2012, July 17, 2012, and March 12, 2015.) The other seven Garter Knights or Ladies to have died since Garter Day ’09 were
  • Lord Kingsdown, whose Memorial Service occurred on February 6, 2014 and whose Garter insignia were delivered up on March 20 of that year
  • The Duke of Wellington, whose Garter insignia were delivered up on December 8, 2015
  • The Duke of Westminster, whose Garter insignia were delivered up on December 13, 2016
  • Sir Ninian Stephen, whose Garter insignia were delivered up on May 23, 2018
  • Sir William Gladstone, whose Funeral occurred on April 13, 2018, and whose Garter insignia were delivered up on June 12 of that year
  • Lord Carrington, for whom a Service of Thanksgiving occurred on 31. ult.
Over the same period, no new Royal-Family Garter Knights nor Ladies, two new Stranger Knights (and no Ladies), and nine new other Knights or Ladies have been appointed. The two new Stranger Knights appointed were
  • The King of Spain, apparently on July 12, 2017 (the following Instagram post, dated July 13, 2017, refers to the appointment occurring "Yesterday":

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BWfZo_ugUYo)

    (Wednesday, July 12, 2017 was the first official day of a three-day British State Visit by The King and Queen of Spain (though Their Majesties arrived on the previous Tuesday, according to the Court Circular). See the royal.uk article "The Spanish State Visit" dated July 12 (sic, though the article deals with all three days of the Visit), 2017, in which I found that Instagram post embedded (though it isn't embedded there anymore):

    https://www.royal.uk/spanish-state-visit)
Of the nine new other Garter Knights or Ladies, I've already blogged about five of them, namely Lords Boyce and Phillips in item 2.1 here:

https://cardinalpole.blogspot.com/2011/05/notes-tuesday-april-19-monday-may-2.html

(though for completeness see Notice No. 1354859, Notice Type "State", Sub-Type "Honours and Awards" (Notice Code: 1105), The London Gazette, Issue No. 59775, p. 8393, Thursday, May 5, 2011 (but the appointments in question are to be dated April 23, 2011):

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-59775-1354859

A digital version of the full text of p. 8393 is available here:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/59775/page/8393

and a digital version of the full text of Issue No. 59775 is available here, with p. 8393 being p. 1 in your document reader:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/59775)

Lord Stirrup in item 2 here:

https://cardinalpole.blogspot.com/2013/05/notes-wednesday-april-24-monday-may-20.html

and Lady Manningham-Buller and Lord King in item 1.2 here:

https://cardinalpole.blogspot.com/2014/07/notes-tuesday-may-6-2014-thursday-july.html

The remaining four new appointees are
It seems, then, that the current Knights Companions and Ladies Companions of the Garter are (again with abbreviated titles and with neither styles nor post-nominal letters, and the dates in the years given are April 23 unless stated otherwise):

Royal-Family Knights and Ladies: 1. The Queen (November 11, 1947; Sovereign of the Order upon becoming Queen, February 6, 1952) 2. The Duke of Edinburgh (November 19, 1947) 3. The Prince of Wales (July 26, 1958, presumably becoming a Knight of the Order by the very fact of becoming Prince of Wales) 4. The Duke of Kent (October 9, 1985) 5. The Princess Royal (1994, though the exact date seems disputed—either April 23 or June 13) 6. The Duke of Gloucester (1997) 7. Princess Alexandra (2003) 8. The Duke of York (2006) 9. Prince Edward (2006) 10. The Duke of Cambridge (2008)
(s. v. "The Royal Family and the Order of the Garter" on the webpage "Orders of Chivalry" at the website of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle:

https://www.stgeorges-windsor.org/about-st-georges/royal-connection/orders-of-chivalry/

Or see the previously-cited 2005 royal.uk Press Release, which mentions the current Royal-Family Knights and Ladies appointed in or before 2003, and other Press Releases there announce the Royal Knights and Lady appointed in and after ’03. (See the appendix to this post for links to all available Garter-related royal.uk Press Releases.) And the Court Circular's Garter Day issues name the Royal participants in the activities of those Days. (I've already mentioned Garter Day dates of 2009 and earlier; those since 2009 are June 14 in 2010, 13 in ’11, 18 in ’12, 17 in ’13, 16 in ’14, 15 in ’15, 13 in ’16, and 18 last year. (Garter Day activites were cancelled in 2017—see the article "Queen to perform 'dressed down' State Opening of Parliament, wearing hat instead of crown for first time in 43 years", by Hannah Furness, dated April 27, 2017, downloaded from the London Daily Telegraph's website:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/27/queen-perform-dressed-state-opening-parliament-wearing-hat-instead/))

The Duke of Edinburgh was the only Royal-Family Knight or Lady not to participate in the Garter Day activities last year, but His Royal Highness is, of course, alive and well.)

Stranger Knights and Ladies (except for the two last-mentioned appointees, I have only been able to find the year, not the exact date, of appointment): 1. Grand Duke John of Luxembourg (1972) 2. The Queen of Denmark (1979) 3. The King of Sweden (1983) 4. King John Charles I. of Spain (1988) 5. Princess Beatrice of The Netherlands (1989) 6. The Emperor of Japan (1998) 7. The King of Norway (2001) 8. The King of Spain (July 12, 2017) 9. The King of The Netherlands (October 23, 2018)
(See the article "Order of the Garter full list", dated June 16, 2008, downloaded from the website of the London Times:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/order-of-the-garter-full-list-8ltqldhl6hb

Or see "Garter Banner Location (updated October 2018)" (bold and underline in the original), available at the webpage "Garter Banner List" at the official website of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle:

https://www.stgeorges-windsor.org/about-st-georges/history/the-order-of-the-garter/garter-banner-list/

or go straight hither:

https://www.stgeorges-windsor.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Garter-Banner-list-Oct-2018-2.pdf)

Other Knights and Ladies (April 23 of the stated year of appointment): 1. Lord Bramall (1990) 2. Lord Sainsbury (1992) 3. Lord Ashburton (1994) 4. Sir Timothy Colman (1996) 5. The Duke of Abercorn (1999) 6. Lord Inge (2001) 7. Sir Antony Acland (2001) 8. Lord Butler (2003) 9. Lord Morris (2003) 10. Sir John Major (2005) 11. Lord Luce (2008) 12. Sir Thomas Dunne (2008) 13. Lord Boyce (2011) 14. Lord Phillips (2011) 15. Lord Stirrup (2013) 16. Lady Manningham-Buller (2014) 17. Lord King (2014) 18. Lord Shuttleworth (2016) 19. Sir David Brewer (2016) 20. Lady Mary Fagan (2018) 21. Lord Brookeborough (2018)
(In addition to obtaining that list by removing the subsequently-deceased members from and adding the subsequently-appointed members to the 2005 list, one can corroborate it by referring to the nineteen-member list of participants in the Court Circular's account of last year's Garter Day activities and confirming that they, The Duke of Abercorn, and Lord Inge are (though the latter two were absent that day) still alive.)

(I have also consulted the Wikipedia article "List of current Knights and Ladies of the Garter" and its "View history" page.)

Labels: Alan Brookeborough, Charles Shuttleworth, David Brewer, Mary Fagan, Order of the Garter

7.2.2 Recent additions to, and losses from, The Order of the Thistle

The last time when I noted that there were no vacancies in The Order of the Thistle was Wednesday, December 2, 2009:

https://cardinalpole.blogspot.com/2009/12/hm-queens-new-appointments-to-order-of.html

Unfortunately, I didn't mention the source for that observation, but it can be verified by a similar procedure to that used in the item before the present one. Begin with the royal.uk Press Release "New appointments to the Order of the Thistle", dated November 30, 2003 (apparently incorrectly, given that the year of the new appointments mentioned there seems to have been 2004):

https://www.royal.uk/new-appointments-order-thistle

That document names the following fifteen Thistle Knights and one Thistle Lady who were or are neither Royal-Family nor Stranger members of the Order (the names are here abbreviated, and with date of appointment (November 30 unless otherwise stated) but neither styles nor post-nominal letters):

1. Lord Weymss (April 12, 1966) 2. The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry (1978) 3. Lord Elgin (1981) 4. Lord Thomson (1981) 5. Lord Airlie (November 29, 1985) 6. Sir Iain Tennant (November 29, 1986) 7. Lord Arbuthnott (November 29, 1996) 8. Lord Crawford (November 29, 1996) 9. Lady Marion Fraser (November 29, 1996) 10. Lord Macfarlane (November 29, 1996) 11. Lord Mackay (November 27, 1997) 12. Lord Wilson (2000) 13. Lord Sutherland (2002) 14. Sir Eric Anderson (2002) 15. Lord Steel (2004) 16. Lord Robertson (2004)

(That Press Release mentions the death of Lord Younger in 2003 and Sir Donald Cameron in 2004; according to the Court Circular, the former's Thistle insignia were delivered up on June 25, 2003 and the Service of Thanksgiving for his Life occurred on April 26, 2003, and the latter's Thistle insignia were delivered up on October 27, 2004 and his Memorial Service occurred on October 15, 2004, so that Press Release presumably dates to not much later than October 2004, nor much earlier.) From when that Press Release was issued until when I blogged about the Order having a full membership, four Thistle Knights (and no Ladies) died, judging by the Court Circular:
  • Sir Iain Tennant's Thistle insignia were delivered up on July 24, 2007
  • The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry's Thistle insignia were delivered up on February 22, 2008, and his Memorial Service occurred on December 12, 2007
  • Lord Wemyss' Memorial Service occurred on April 4, 2009
  • Lord Thomson's Thistle insignia were delivered up on July 8, 2009, and the Service of Celebration for his Life and Work occurred on January 13, 2009
There were four new appointments over the same period; I've already blogged about the November 30, 2009 appointments of Lords Hope and Patel (though for completeness, see Notice No. 986932, Notice Type "State", Sub-Type "Honours and Awards" (Notice Code: 1105), The London Gazette, Issue No. 59258, p. 20801, Tuesday, December 1, 2009:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-59258-986932

(A digital version of the full text of p. 20801 is available here:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/59258/page/20801

and a digital version of the full text of Issue No. 59258 is available here, with p. 20801 being p. 1 in your document reader:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/59258)

Or see Notice No. 991717, Notice Type "State", Sub-Type "Honours and Awards" (Notice Code: 1105), The London Gazette, Issue No. 59262, p. 21165, Monday, December 7, 2009:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-59262-991717

(A digital version of the full text of p. 21165 is available here:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/59262/page/21165

and a digital version of the full text of Issue No. 59262 is available here, with p. 21165 being p. 1 in your document reader:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/59262))

and the other two appointments were those of Lord Cullen and then-Mr. Garth Morrison on November 30, 2007—see Notice No. 403362, Notice Type "State", Sub-Type "Change of Name and/or Arms" (sic) (Notice Code: 1107), The London Gazette, Issue No. 58529, p. 17439, Friday, November 30, 2007:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-58529-403362

(A digital version of the full text of p. 17439 is available here:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/58529/page/17439

and a digital version of the full text of Issue No. 58529 is available here, with p. 17439 being p. 1 in your document reader:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/58529)

See also the royal.uk Press Release "Appointments to the Order of the Thistle 2007", dated November 30, 2007:

https://www.royal.uk/appointments-order-thistle-2007

It seems, then, that the Order did indeed have its full complement of sixteen members on St. Andrew's Day 2009, and that was still the case the next time Thistle-related Holyrood Week activities occurred (that is, on July 15, 2010; see the Court Circular of that date. (In previous years, such activities occurred on July 2, 2003, July 7, 2006, and July 2, 2008.)) (Lords Elgin, Arbuthnott, and Crawford were each absent on July 15, 2010, but, as we'll soon see, they were alive at the time.) Indeed, the Order seems still to have had its full membership on May 29, 2012, the date of the royal.uk Press Release "New appointments to the Order of the Thistle":

https://www.royal.uk/new-appointments-order-thistle-0

(also available, in a slightly different format, at the same website under the headline "The Duke of Cambridge is appointed Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle by The Queen", with the same date:

https://www.royal.uk/duke-cambridge-appointed-knight-most-ancient-and-most-noble-order-thistle-queen)

Since the date of those two Press Releases, three Knights and one Lady of the Thistle have died, judging by the Court Circular:
  • Lord Arbuthnott's Memorial Service occurred on September 14, 2012, and his Thistle insignia were delivered up on November 14, 2012
  • Sir Garth Morrison's Memorial Service occurred on June 21, 2013, and his Thistle insignia were delivered up on March 5, 2014
  • the Service of Thanksgiving for the Life of Lady Marion Fraser occurred on February 9, 2017, and her Thistle insignia were delivered up on July 3, 2018; Lord Sutherland's Thistle insignia were delivered up on the latter date, too, and the Service of Thanksgiving for his Life occurred on October 16, 2018
Over the same period, five new Thistle Knights—one of them a Royal-Family Knight, and none Strangers—and no Ladies have been appointed; the Royal Knight was, as you might have noticed earlier, The Duke of Cambridge, whose appointment I logged in item 14 here:

https://cardinalpole.blogspot.com/2012/07/notes-tuesday-june-26-monday-july-16_16.html

(see also my comment in the combox there) and the other four Knights were
  • Lords Home and Smith, whose appointments I noted in item 13 here:

    https://cardinalpole.blogspot.com/2014/03/notes-tuesday-january-11-monday-march_17.html

    (and those two appointments seem to have brought the Order's membership back up to its full complement of sixteen, judging by the sixteen relevant participants in the Thistle-related Holyrood Week activities of 2014 (indeed, that seems to have continued to be the case when such activities occurred in 2016, given that Lord Crawford, though absent, was still alive; see the Court Circular for July 3, 2014 and July 7, 2016. (Thistle-related Holyrood Week activites occurred on July 5 in 2012.)))
It seems, then, that the current Knights and Ladies of the Thistle are (their respective names here abbreviated, with neither styles nor titles, and the date of appointment is November 30 unless another date is given):

Royal-Family Knights and Ladies: 1. The Queen (Sovereign of the Order since February 6, 1952; I have not been able to confirm that Her Majesty was not admitted to the Order before becoming Queen; it's perhaps not unlikely that The Queen did join the Order in the previous reign, given that "At the time of the coronation[of George VI.] - highly appropriate for a Queen[ Consort of that King] of Scottish birth - the King also appointed her the first Lady of the Thistle ever created." (my square-bracketed interpolations, s. v. "Honours" in the royal.uk Royal Encyclopaedia article "Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother":

https://www.royal.uk/queen-elizabeth-queen-mother

The exact date of Her late Majesty's admission to the Order was May 11, 1937, judging by the second full notice on p. 3074 of the Supplement (No. 34396) of Tuesday, May 11, 1937 to The London Gazette of Friday, May 7, 1937 (Issue No. 34395):

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34396/supplement/3074

(The full text of that Supplement is available here:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34396/data.pdf)))
2. The Duke of Edinburgh (April 21, 1952) 3. The Prince of Wales (February 11, 1977) 4. The Princess Royal (2000) 5. The Duke of Cambridge (May 29 or June 25, 2012)
(See the royal.uk Press Releases "Appointments to the Order of the Thistle", dated November 30, 2002:

https://www.royal.uk/appointments-order-thistle

or "New appointments to the Order of the Thistle", dated (incorrectly, as we saw earlier) November 30, 2003:

https://www.royal.uk/new-appointments-order-thistle

and "New appointments to the Order of the Thistle", dated May 29, 2012:

https://www.royal.uk/new-appointments-order-thistle-0

or "The Duke of Cambridge is appointed Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle by The Queen", dated May 29, 2012:

https://www.royal.uk/duke-cambridge-appointed-knight-most-ancient-and-most-noble-order-thistle-queen

and Notice No. 1621276, Notice Type "State", Sub-Type "Honours and Awards" (Notice Code: 1105), The London Gazette, Issue No. 60195, p. 12473, June 25, 2012 (printed Friday, June 29, 2012):

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-60195-1621276)

Stranger Knights or Ladies: None. (According to the Encyclopædia Britannica article "The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle", "The only foreigner admitted has been King Olaf V of Norway." (hyperlink in the original):

https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Most-Ancient-and-Most-Noble-Order-of-the-Thistle)

Other Knights (currently no Ladies): 1. Lord Elgin (1981) 2. Lord Airlie (November 29, 1985) 3. Lord Crawford (November 29, 1996) 4. Lord Macfarlane (November 29, 1996) 5. Lord Mackay (November 27, 1997) 6. Lord Wilson (2000) 7. Sir Eric Anderson (2002) 8. Lord Steel (2004) 9. Lord Robertson (2004) 10. Lord Cullen (2007) 11. Lord Hope (2009) 12. Lord Patel (2009) 13. Lord Home (2013) 14. Lord Smith (2013) 15. The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry (2017) 16. Sir Ian Wood (June 9, 2018)
(Instead of verifying that list by removing the subsequently-deceased Knights and Lady from and adding the subsequently-appointed Knights to the 2004 list, one could verify it by consulting the July 6, 2018 (last year's date of Thistle-related Holyrood Week activities) issue of the Court Circular and confirming that the non-Royal participants and the only two non-Royal absentees—Lords Elgin and Crawford—are still alive.)

(I have also consulted the Wikipedia article "Order of the Thistle" and its "View history" page.)

Labels: Ian Wood, Order of the Thistle, Richard Buccleuch

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Feast of St. Andrew Corsini, Bishop, Confessor, A.D. 2019

Appendix: Links to all available Garter- or Thistle-related royal.uk Press Releases:

Garter-related:
Thistle-related:
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