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):






Labels: Order of the Garter

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]
Labels: Catherine Ashton, Chris Patten, Order of the Garter

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Notes: Wednesday, October 5, 2022-Saturday, July 15, 2023 (part 1 of 2)

1: "That the principles of America opened the Bastile is not to be doubted"

That quotation comes from the digitised letter "To George Washington from Thomas Paine, 1 May 1790" at the U.S. National Archives Founders Online website:


(It came to my attention via the article "Strict rules on gifts date back to the birth of US" by Troy Lennon on p. 80 of the Sydney Daily Telegraph, June 13, 2014, available through the N.S.W. State Library eresources Gale OneFile: News (itself available in Gale Research Complete), ProQuest Central, and NewsBank.) Paine seems to have sent that letter to Washington with a key—supposedly the main key to the Bastille—which he had received from Lafayette; see footnote 18 of chapter VIII ("The French Revolution in America") of The Age of Federalism, by Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick, published by Oxford University Press, March 2, 1995:


See also, at the George Washington's Mount Vernon website, the pages "Bastille Key" (in The Digital Encyclopedia of George Washington) and "Key to the Bastille":



Labels: Americanism, Democratism, France, liberalism, U.S.A.

2: According to The Pope, the death penalty "is always inadmissible since it attacks the inviolability and the dignity of the person", and it "cannot be employed for a purported State justice, since it does not constitute a deterrent nor render justice to victims, but only fuels the thirst for vengeance"

Those quotations come from The Holy See Press Office's bulletin item "Udienza al Corpo Diplomatico accreditato presso la Santa Sede per la presentazione degli auguri per il nuovo anno, 09.01.2023"; they translate parts of this paragraph in the original Italian of the Address in question:
Il diritto alla vita è minacciato anche laddove si continua a praticare la pena di morte, come sta accadendo in questi giorni in Iran, in seguito alle recenti manifestazioni, che chiedono maggiore rispetto per la dignità delle donne. La pena di morte non può essere utilizzata per una presunta giustizia di Stato, poiché essa non costituisce un deterrente, né offre giustizia alle vittime, ma alimenta solamente la sete di vendetta. Faccio, perciò, appello perché la pena di morte, che è sempre inammissibile poiché attenta all’inviolabilità e alla dignità della persona, sia abolita nelle legislazioni di tutti i Paesi del mondo. Non possiamo dimenticare che fino all’ultimo momento, una persona può convertirsi e può cambiare.
[https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2023/01/09/0020/00038.html]
A stand-alone English translation of that bulletin item is also available, titled "Audience with the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See for the presentation of wishes for the New Year, 09.01.2023", and so are the English translation and original Italian of that Address:




Labels: death penalty, Francis Bergoglio, morals

3: The Pope on the difference between cause and condition in the formation of a society: "“What God has joined together, let not man put asunder” (Mt 19:6). “God himself is the author of matrimony”, as Vatican Council II affirms (cf. Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et spes, 48), and this can be understood as referring to every single conjugal union. Indeed, spouses give life to their union, with free consent, but only the Holy Spirit has the power to make a man and woman a sole existence."

That quotation comes from the Papal "Audience with the Tribunal of the Roman Rota on the occasion of the Inauguration of the Judicial Year, 27.01.2023", which is a translation of the original Italian given in The Holy See Press Office's bulletin item "Udienza al Tribunale della Rota Romana in occasione dell’inaugurazione dell’Anno Giudiziario, 27.01.2023" (also available in the Vatican's "Speeches 2023 January"/"Discorsi 2023 Gennaio" webpages):





Labels: marriage, morals, politics, society

4: "the only two special religious instruction providers still operating in [Victorian ]state schools say there are now about 750 students" enrolled (actively?) with those providers; that is down from "nearly 93,000 Victorian students" enrolled with those or other providers in 2013

Those two quotations, excluding my square-bracketed interpolation, come from the news report "Religion class enrolments slump in state schools in decade since program changes", by Madeleine Heffernan, dateline: "February 26, 2023 — 3.47pm", downloaded from The Age's website:


(It was also interesting to read, in the final paragraph, that Special Religious Instruction "program materials" "must comply with minimum standards regarding human rights and anti-discrimination laws." For more on those standards, click the "Policy" tab on the "School operations": "Special Religious Instruction" page in the schools "Policy and Advisory Library" at Victoria's Department of Education and Training beta website:


Above all, s.v. "Program and materials", "Freedom of religion", and "General religious education".) For background to that article, see item 3.1 of the Tuesday, August 11-Tuesday, September 29, 2015 issue of my "Notes":


Labels: education, Victoria

5: Mr. Wesselinoff on the demography of (at least) nominally Catholic Australians in 2021

See the news report "New stats show Catholics have smaller families, more education, are older and more diverse", by Adam Wesselinoff, April 20, 2023, at the Sydney Catholic Weekly's website:


Mr. Wesselinoff based his report on the 2021 "Social Profile of the Catholic Community in Australia", from the National Centre for Pastoral Research:



Labels: demography

6: "Just 11 minutes [after David Ben-Gurion supposedly asserted Israeli independence], President Truman announced that the United States would be the first nation to recognize the government of Israel."

That quotation, excluding my parenthesis replacing the word "later", comes from the April 25, 2023 "Statement from President Joe Biden on the Occasion of Israel’s 75th Independence Day":


Labels: State of Israel, U.S.A.

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