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aimeedaisies · 7 months

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The Princess Royal’s Official Engagements in September 2023

02/09 The King and Queen, Princess Anne and Sir Tim attended the Braemar Gathering at the Princess Royal and Duke of Fife Memorial Park. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

03/09 (not counted) The King, Queen, Princess Anne, Sir Tim, PM Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murphy attended the Divine Service at Crathie Kirk Church. ⛪️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

06/09 (unofficial) Princess Anne, along with the Prince and Princess of Wales recorded a special episode of the Good, the Bad and the Rugby, with Mike Tindall, James Haskell and Alex Payne at Windsor Castle. 🏉

07/09 As President of the Riding for the Disabled Association, visited Digswell Place Group, Digswell Place Stables, Welwyn Garden City, to mark its 50th Anniversary. 🐎

As President of UK Fashion and Textile Association, visited MAES London Womenswear Manufacturer. 👗

Sir Tim represented Princess Anne at a Service of Thanksgiving for Sir Matthew Farrer (former Solicitor to the Late Queen) at St Magnus-The-Martyr Church in London. ⛪️

As Patron of the South Georgia Heritage Trust Princess Anne and Sir Tim, attended the Return of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Quest Crow’s Nest Service at All Hallows by the Tower, followed by a Dinner at Trinity House. 🗺️🍽️

08/09 Participated in a Meeting via video link in her role of Chairman of the International Olympic Committee Members Election Commission. 🎥💻

11/09 At Gatcombe Park;

Presented The Princess Royal Award and Royal Dairy Innovation Award. 🏆

Held a Management Team Meeting for the Chaffinch Trust. 💼

Held a Management Team Meeting for Give Them a Sporting Chance. 🏏

12/09 As Patron of the Boston Stump Restoration and Development Appeal, visited completed restoration work at St Botolph's Church in Boston, Lincolnshire. ⛪️

As Patron of Magpas Air Ambulance Capital Campaign, opened a new Air Base at Alconbury Weald. 🚁

As Patron of Maritime UK, attended the London International Shipping Week Tenth Anniversary Reception at Mansion House. 🚢

13/09 In Northern Ireland Princess Anne;

Attended the Department for Business and Trade’s Northern Ireland Business Summit at the International Conference Centre Belfast. 💼

As Patron of the International Sheep Dog Society, lattended the World Sheep Dog Trials at Gill Hall Estate, Dromore. 🐑🐶

Unveiled a Royal British Legion Community Bench in Dromore Square, Dromore. 🌹

Attended the Department for Business and Trade’s Northern Ireland Business Summit Reception at Hillsborough Castle. 👔🇮🇪

14/09 Attended the British Equine Veterinary Association 2023 Congress at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham. 🩺🐴

As Patron of the Butler Trust visited Stonnall Road Approved Premises in Walsall. 🏠

Opened the Firefly Woods at Dorothy House Hospice, Winsley House. She unveiled a firefly dedicated to her late parents. 💡

15/09 As Patron of the Restorative Justice Council, opened the Restorative Justice Council Inaugural Northern Ireland Conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland. 🇮🇪⚖️

As Chancellor of the University of the Highlands and Islands, attended the North, West and Hebrides Annual Graduation Ceremony and Celebration of Success and Achievement at St Peter’s and St Andrew’s Church, Thurso. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎓

18/09 The Princess Royal, As Guardian of Give Them A Sporting Chance, visited the Rivertime Boat Trust at the River and Rowing Museum in Henley on Thames. 🦽🚣‍♀️

As Patron of the National Transport Trust, attended the Annual Awards Ceremony at Fawley Hill Transport Museum, Henley-on-Thames. 🚂🥇

19/09 Visited the Our Cow Molly icecream parlour and dairy farm at Cliffe House Farm, Dungworth, Sheffield. 🍦🐮

Launched the Ethel Trust Community Barge PEARL at Victoria Quays and attended a Reception at the Quays Hotel Sheffield. 🚤

As Patron of the Royal College of Midwives, visited Doncaster Royal Infirmary Women’s and Children’s Hospital. 👶🤰

20/09 As Patron of Police Treatment Centres, visited the St Andrews Centre in Harrogate. 👮‍♀️

Visited Claro Enterprises Community Workshop, Harrogate, to mark its 30th anniversary. 🎂

Visited Woods of Harrogate Limited Fine Linens Company in Harrogate. 🧖‍♀️

Visited Hollybank Trust Care Centre, in Mirfield, to mark its 70th Anniversary. 🩺

21/09 Visited Jaguar Land Rover Halewood Vehicle Plant to mark the 60th anniversary of its opening in Liverpool. 🚙

As President of the British Olympic Association, attended an Executive Board Meeting in London W1. 💼

22/09 With Sir Tim opened the Aberdeen South Harbour Expansion Project at the Port of Aberdeen. ⛴️

26/09 Held an Investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle. 🎖️

Opened the renovated Old War Office Building, Whitehall in London. 🏢

Attended the Royal Warrant Holders Association’s President’s Reception at Westminster Abbey. 📑🍾

As Patron of Mercy Ships International, attended a 45th Anniversary Dinner onboard The Elizabethan, sailing on the River Thames. 🛥️🍽️

27/09 Held two Investiture ceremonies at Windsor Castle. 🎖️

As President of World Horse Welfare, attended a Reception at Hyde Park Barracks, Knightsbridge, London. 🐎

As Patron of Opportunity International UK, attended a Dinner at Evercore in London. 🌍

28/09 As President of the UK Fashion and Textile Association, attended the Sustainability in UK Textiles Conference at Drapers’ Hall, London. 👗

As Founders’ Patron and President, of the Benenden School & Society, attended the Centenary Global Conference “Inspiring Future Female Leaders”, opened the Seniors’ Courtyard, launched “Benenden 100” Centenary Book and attended the Benenden Society Reception at Benenden School in Kent. 🏫

29/09 Attended the Rededication Service of Southport War Memorial. 🫡

Total official engagements for Anne in July: 47

2023 total so far: 353

Total official engagements accompanied by Tim in July: 5

2023 total so far: 75

#hardest working royal 🫡#no choice but to stanne #this is based on the court circular #september 2023 #and yes i’m doing a separate count for tim too #because i’m rooting for…#operation working royal tim #STILL WAITING CHARLES #not all engagements are on this post #if you want a full list plz dm me #princess anne #princess royal #tim laurence #timothy laurence

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tagedeszorns · 9 months

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What book would you recommend for a more “literary fiction” kind of reader? I write papers on Joyce and Beckett and Mann but I’m not a snob, just totally unfamiliar with genre fiction. I love your gorgeous muscle men and want to learn more.

I take my hat off to the papers on Joyce and Beckett - I quite enjoyed reading "Dubliners" but "Ulysses" defeated me at some point. Especially as a non-native speaker.

Warhammer novels, due to the different authors and the very lax hand of the Black Library editors, are incredibly heterogeneous and that is, in my opinion, their greatest strength. Every reader can thus find something they like and avoid the books that don't interest them.

For literary enjoyment I recommend (once again!) the Fabius books by Josh Reynolds. These are available with the accompanying short stories as an omnibus.

However, they are probably not ideal as an introduction to the universe, as they assume that the reader is familiar with some of the cornerstones of the Horus Heresy.

For this I would take "Horus Rising". The first book of the Horus Heresy. Dan Abnett writes solidly and you get a glimpse into a less complicated world than 40k ten thousand years later. From there you can either continue to follow the development of the rebellion, which is so Greek-tragic it's a joy. Including very classical motifs and structures. Or you can look around at the other things Warhammer offers.

For pure bolterporn with tragic heroes, I recommend the "War for Armageddon" omnibus. Orcs, Space Marines, Titans. It's all in there. Mostly very fast paced and full of action and blood.

Aaron Dembski-Bowden's "Ragnar" novel might also be a good place to start. Short, to the point and Ragnar is a very classic Space Marines champion. And Aaron Dembski-Bowden also writes very pleasantly. His own characters are not everyone's cup of tea, but he writes the canon characters very, very well.

There are also enough novels from the point of view of non-Trans Humans. I personally didn't like the "Eisenhorn" novels by Dan Abnett, but there are an incredible number of fans of them and maybe you'll like it? It's well written, it's just the characters that bothered me a lot (I don't need to elaborate on that now). Since that's an individual thing, it's definitely worth a look. In any case, it's a good look at the structure of the universe. Just like the novels about Shira Calpurnia, an Adeptus Arbites by Matthew Farrer. These are available as the anthology "Enforcer".

For someone new to the setting, Necron or Eldar-centric novels are probably not an optimal entry point. But I don't know enough about that. I've only experienced both races as antagonists due to lack of interest, but both probably have good novels as well.

I've probably forgotten half of them again - but I'm sure other fans have suggestions.

#Warhammer #Ask Post #Novels #Black Library #Book Recommendations

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Thanks for the list! :D

Do you by chance got anything on eldar too? :O

AELDARI – DRUKHARI Reading List

NOVELS AND NOVELLAS

The Path of the Eldar series – various

The Path of the Warrior – Gav Thorpe The Path of the Seer – Gav Thorpe The Path of the Outcast – Gav Thorpe The Path of the Renegade – Andy Smillie The Path of the Archon – Andy Chambers The Path of the Incubus– Andy Chambers The Masque of Vyle – Andy Chambers (Harlequins) Valedor – Guy Haley (Craftworld) The Hand of Darkness – Gav Thorpe (Ynnari)

Rise of the Ynnari series – Gav Thorpe

The Ghost Warrior (Ynnari) Wild Rider (Ynnari)

Phoenix Lords series – Gav Thorpe

Jain Zar: The Storm of Silence – Gav Thorpe Asurmen: The Darker Road – Gav Thorpe Asurmen: Hand of Asuryan – Gav Thorpe

Short Stories Dark Son– Gav Thorpe (Drukhari) The Path of the Foresaken – Rob Sanders [Part of an anthology] The Howl of the Banshee – Gav Thorpe [Part of an anthology] The Treasures of Biel-Tanigh – Andy Chambers (Drukhari) Bellathonis and the Shadow King – Andy Chambers (Drukhari) Midnight on the Street of Knives – Andy Chambers (Drukhari) Faces – Matthew Farrer (Harlequins) Wraithflight – Guy Haley (Craftworld) [Follow on to Vaelor] The Last Days of Ector – Guy Haley (Craftworld) [Follow on to Vaelor] Farseerby William King (Craftworld) The Curse of Shaa-Dom – Gav Thorpe (Craftworld - Outcasts) The Victim’s Dance – Ben Counter (Harlequins) The Turn of the Adder – J.C. Sterns (Drukhari) Void Crossed – J.C. Sterns (Drukhari) Rise – Ben Counter (Drukhari) Fireheart – Gav Thorpe (Ynnari) Shadows of Heaven – Gav Thorpe (Ynnari) Wraithbound – J.C. Sterns (Craftworld/Aeronautica)

The Carnac Campaign series

Nightspear – Joe Parrino (Craftworld/Exodite) Sky Hunter – Graeme Lyon (Craftworld/Aeronautica) Spirit War – Rob Sanders (Craftworld/Exodite) [Part of this anthology]

Books that involve the Aeldari and they aren't the novel's protagonist Warrior Coven – C.S. Goto (Deathwatch) Craftworld Ulthwe Firedrake – Nick Kryne (Salamanders) Drukhari Tome of Fire – Nick Kryne (Salamanders) Drukhari

#wh40k aeldari #wh40k drukhari #wh40k exodites #black library #games workshop #n.y.a.b.x.t.t.

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Wednesday 7 January 1835

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no kiss hard frost again fine morning - out in the workshop – Charles H- not to come till 10 – poorly last night – had Pickels - said I would settle with him for the 3 hares killed on Monday one yesterday and more he is to try for today – then had John Bottomely – he is a good staunch blue plumper – has behaved very well – paid him for carting etc £6.16.4 ready for his rent – breakfast as I could between 10 and 11 – then from 11 20 to 11 55 wrote yesterday and so far of today - off to the Stag’s head Mytholm (my rent day) and there at 12 20 – Washington there and had already had several of the tenants – the rents very well paid – Carr, Greenwood and Denniston who has the Hopwood lane fields not there – too busy at Halifax with the election and their £24.6.0+ the pew rents can be had on Saturday – brought home the rents collected and came in about 1 ½ brought three hundred and twenty three pounds four shillings and sat with A- counting it over and she put it away to be ready for tomorrow (I had one hundred and three sovereigns and the rest in five-pound country notes) Some while with my aunt- A- and I went out at 3 ¼ - just looked at the drift – Joseph Mann can have light rails at £8 per ton and heady at £ – Farrer said to have the best metal – too busy to attend to Joseph M- yesterday Mr Rawson’s foreman (Christopher and Jeremiah R- old lane foundry) would take the order at £7.10.0 per ton of light rails – a ton will do more than 60 yards - A- and I walked in the walk and came in at 4 25 – John Booth soon returned from Halifax one Jennings, Cow green, had given the casting vote to Portheroe – by and by came Mr Washington who had it from Wortley himself at the Swan Committee room that the castings vote would in his (Wortley’s) favour – the state of the pole being

Wood 336, Worley 308 and Protheroe 307

– what a hard run race! Came upstairs and in 50 minutes (till 6 20/60) wrote 3 pages to Vere - would she thank me for a scrawl per post merely to say I hoped we had succeeded - gave the tenant the statement of the poll saying I heard there were 2 bad votes - would not be made known till tomorrow to whom they belonged - but the weight of property certainly on our side and I hoped they did not belong to us - I had not seen Mr. Wortley - out when he called - but no matter - he was sure of all the supplement I could give him - Vere herself had asked me to do what I could for him –

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and I had thrown in my mite - we none of us thought the Radicals could have pushed us so hard but we hoped better times would come, and that before another election we should one and all of us (conservatives) blues be stronger - hoped that my own influence would not be decreased - thanks for her nice, long letter - anxious to hear more of Mr. Cameron’s eye - hoped V- needful no alarm - anxious for herself but have no fear now (for her safe accouchement) - will write in a day or 2 to Lady Stuart and a note to V- herself by a parcel of warm shawls - ask what they had done about Gisbourne - but had not her letter before me so merely added the town was in a sad turmoil - the windows glass and frames of many of the principal houses, Inns and shops (blues) smashed to atoms - the 2 front doors of the vicarage broken down - Mr. Rawson’s carriage (the banker with Mr. Wortley had been staying) completely broken up - one of our servants going to the post yesterday had been knocked down but escaped without much harm - another of our servants escaped with difficulty today having seen a poor blue taken into a surgery, almost trampled and bruised to death - dinner at 6 ½ - sent off George with my letter at 6 35 § dated this evening 5 ½ pm Matthew waited – coffee – then till near 9 with my father and Marian – I was then some while with my aunt then again with my father and Marian – then sat talking to A- and then till 10 10 wrote all but the first 5 lines of today -

§ my letter to ‘the Lady Vere Cameron at the honourable Lady Stuarts’ Whitehall, London’

very fine day - frosty - F39° at 10 ¼ pm in my study

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T'au, Vigilus Alone, Blood Bowl, new JoyToy and More are available now from Games Workshop

T'au, Vigilus Alone, Blood Bowl, new JoyToy and More are available now from Games Workshop #Warhammer40K #Warhammer40000

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roomsky-blog · 6 years

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Arbitor Senioris Shira Calpurnia

#shira calpurnia #calpurnia #farrer #matthew farrer #warhammer40k #warhammer #40000 #warhammer 40000 #arbites #adeptus arbites #the law #imperium #imperial #hydraphur #shock maul

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Revealed: Queen lobbied for change in law to hide her private wealth

Monarch dispatched private solicitor to secure exemption from transparency law

by David Pegg and Rob Evans

Published: 16:00 Sunday, 07 February 2021

The Queen successfully lobbied the government to change a draft law in order to conceal her “embarrassing” private wealth from the public, according to documents discovered by the Guardian.

A series of government memos unearthed in the National Archives reveal that Elizabeth Windsor’s private lawyer put pressure on ministers to alter proposed legislation to prevent her shareholdings from being disclosed to the public.

Following the Queen’s intervention, the government inserted a clause into the law granting itself the power to exempt companies used by “heads of state” from new transparency measures.

The arrangement, which was concocted in the 1970s, was used in effect to create a state-backed shell corporation which is understood to have placed a veil of secrecy over the Queen’s private shareholdings and investments until at least 2011.

The true scale of her wealth has never been disclosed, though it has been estimated to run into the hundreds of millions of pounds.

Queen Elizabeth IIThe scale of Queen Elizabeth’s wealth has never been disclosed but she feared a 1973 bill would allow the public to scrutinise her finances. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP

Evidence of the monarch’s lobbying of ministers was uncovered by a Guardian investigation into the royal family’s use of an arcane parliamentary procedure, known as Queen’s consent, to secretly influence the formation of British laws.

Unlike the better-known procedure of royal assent, a formality that marks the moment when a bill becomes law, Queen’s consent must be sought before legislation can be approved by parliament.

It requires ministers to alert the Queen when legislation might affect either the royal prerogative or the private interests of the crown.

The website of the royal family describes it as “a long established convention” and constitutional scholars have tended to regard consent as an opaque but harmless example of the pageantry that surrounds the monarchy.

But documents unearthed in the National Archives, which the Guardian is publishing this week, suggest that the consent process, which gives the Queen and her lawyers advance sight of bills coming into parliament, has enabled her to secretly lobby for legislative changes.

Thomas Adams, a specialist in constitutional law at Oxford University who reviewed the new documents, said they revealed “the kind of influence over legislation that lobbyists would only dream of”. The mere existence of the consent procedure, he said, appeared to have given the monarch “substantial influence” over draft laws that could affect her.

‘Disclosure would be embarrassing’

The papers reveal that in November 1973 the Queen feared that a proposed bill to bring transparency to company shareholdings could enable the public to scrutinise her finances. As a result she dispatched her private lawyer to press the government to make changes.

Matthew Farrer, then a partner at the prestigious law firm Farrer & Co, visited civil servants at the then Department of Trade and Industry to discuss the proposed transparency measures in the companies bill, which had been drafted by Edward Heath’s government.

The bill sought to prevent investors from secretly building up significant stakes in listed companies by acquiring their shares through front companies or nominees. It would therefore include a clause granting directors the right to demand that any nominees owning their company’s shares reveal, when asked, the identities of their clients.

Three crucial pages of correspondence between civil servants at the trade department reveal how, at that meeting, Farrer relayed the Queen’s objection that the law would reveal her private investments in listed companies, as well as their value. He proposed that the monarch be exempted.

“I have spoken to Mr Farrer,” a civil servant called CM Drukker wrote on 9 November. “As I had recalled he – or rather, I think, his clients – are quite as concerned over the risk of disclosure to directors of a company as to shareholders and the general public.

Queen Elizabeth II and Edward HeathThe Queen with the then prime minister, Edward Heath, in 1973, the year Heath’s government put forward the transparency proposals. Photograph: Mirrorpix/Getty Images

“He justifies this not only because of the risk of inadvertent or indiscreet leaking to other people,” Drukker continued, “but more basically because disclosure to any person would be embarrassing.”

After being informed that exempting only the crown from the legislation would mean it was obvious any shareholdings so anonymised were the Queen’s property, Farrer, the correspondence states, “took fright somewhat, emphasised that the problem was taken very seriously and suggested – somewhat tentatively – that we had put them into this quandary and must therefore find a way out.”

Drukker continued: “He did not like any suggestions that holdings were not these days so embarrassing, given the wide knowledge of, for example, landed property held. Nor did he see that the problem might be resolved by any avoidance of holdings in particular companies. It was the knowledge per se that was objectionable.”

After being informed by Farrer “that he must now seek instruction” from his client, Drukker advised a colleague: “I think we must now do what you suggested we should eventually do – warn ministers.”

Three days later, another civil servant, CW Roberts, summarised the problem in a second memo.

“Mr Farrer was not only concerned that information about shares held for the Queen, and transactions in them, could become public knowledge (since it would appear on the company’s register) and thus the subject of possible controversy,” Roberts wrote.

“He regards any disclosure of beneficial ownership of shares by the crown, even if restricted to the directors of the company, as potentially embarrassing, because of the risk of leaks.”

He continued: “Mr Farrer has accepted an invitation to go into the matter with us, but has said that he will not be able to do so for a few days, until he has taken instructions from his principals.”

Secrecy clause

By the following month the Heath government had developed an ingenious proposal through which the Queen’s dilemma might be resolved.

“With the help of the Bank of England, my department have evolved the following solutions, which will appear in the bill,” wrote the Conservative trade secretary, Geoffrey Howe, to a fellow minister.

Howe proposed that the government would insert a new clause into the bill granting the government the power to exempt certain companies from the requirement to declare the identities of their shareholders.

Officially, the change would be for the benefit of a variety of wealthy investors. “Such a class could be generally defined to cover, say, heads of state, governments, central monetary authorities, investment boards and international bodies formed by governments,” Howe continued.

In practice, however, the Queen was plainly the intended beneficiary of the arrangement. The government intended to create a shell company through which a range of these investors could hold shares. It meant that any curious member of the public would be unable to pinpoint which of the shares owned by the company were held on behalf of the monarch.

“My department have discussed this solution with the legal advisers to the Queen,” Howe noted. “While they cannot of course commit themselves to using the suggested new facility, they accept that it is a perfectly reasonable solution to the problem which they face, and that they could not ask us to do more. I am therefore arranging that the necessary provisions should appear in the bill.”

Geoffrey Howe, September 1973. Photograph: William Lovelace/Getty Images

It would be three years before the bill and its secrecy clause would come into law. In February 1974 Heath called a general election, resulting in all legislation that was going through parliament being thrown out.

However, the proposal was resuscitated by the subsequent Labour government under Harold Wilson and became law in 1976, with much of the original bill simply copied into the second edition.

The exemption was almost immediately granted to a newly formed company called Bank of England Nominees Limited, operated by senior individuals at the Bank of England, which has previously been identified as a possible vehicle through which the Queen held shares.

Shares believed to be owned by the Queen were transferred to the company in April 1977, according to a 1989 book by the journalist Andrew Morton.

The exemption is believed to have helped conceal the Queen’s private fortune until at least 2011, when the government disclosed that Bank of England Nominees was no longer covered by it.

Four years ago, the company was closed down. Precisely what happened to the shares it held on behalf of others is not clear. As a dormant company, it never filed public accounts itemising its activities.

‘A possible landmine’

The use of Queen’s consent is normally recorded in Hansard, the official record of parliamentary debates, before a bill’s third reading. However, no notification of consent for the 1976 bill appears in the record, possibly because it was only sought for the 1973 version that never made it to third reading.

Howe, who died in 2015, appears to have disclosed the role of Queen’s consent – which is invoked when ministers believe a draft law might affect the royal prerogative or the private interests of the crown – during a parliamentary debate in 1975 in a previously unnoticed speech.

“In relation to that draft legislation, as to any other, the advisers of the Queen, as they do as a matter of routine, examined the bill to see whether it contained, inadvertently or otherwise, any curtailment of the royal prerogative,” Howe said.

Howe had been prompted to speak in the parliamentary debate during a row caused by the leak of high-level Whitehall papers to the Morning Star newspaper. The leak revealed the government’s intention to exempt the Windsor wealth from the companies bill.

It was a major scoop for the communist newspaper, but the leaked papers did not establish whether the Queen had lobbied the government to help conceal her wealth.

At the time, the Financial Times remarked that “a possible landmine for the Conservatives would be if Buckingham Palace in 1973 had taken the initiative in suggesting that disclosure of the Queen’s shareholdings should be excluded from the bill”.

The newly discovered papers reveal exactly that. “At the very least, it seems clear that representations on the part of the crown were material in altering the shape of the legislation,” Adams said.

When contacted by the Guardian, Buckingham Palace did not answer any questions about the Queen’s lobbying to alter the companies bill, or whether she had used the consent procedure to put pressure on the government.

In a statement, a spokesperson for the Queen said: “Queen’s consent is a parliamentary process, with the role of sovereign purely formal. Consent is always granted by the monarch where requested by government.

“Whether Queen’s consent is required is decided by parliament, independently from the royal household, in matters that would affect crown interests, including personal property and personal interests of the monarch,” she said.

“If consent is required, draft legislation is, by convention, put to the sovereign to grant solely on advice of ministers and as a matter of public record.”

#royals #queen elizabeth ii #doesnt she get millions and millions each year?#brf #british royal family #great britain #monarchy #queen elizabeth

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Texas: “Proud Muslim” Pleads Guilty to Recruiting for ISIS, Disseminating Propaganda & Bomb Making Instructions for Jihad Group

Texas isn’t as red as you think and certainly won’t be red much longer.

Read our notes at the end of this post.

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Monday, January 25, 2021

Cost Man Conspired to Provide Material Support to Terrorists

In San Antonio today, 22-year-old Cost resident Jaylyn Christopher Molina (aka Abdur Rahim) admitted to conspiring to provide material support to the designated foreign terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham/Syria (ISIS), announced Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney Gregg N. Sofer and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.

Appearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Richard Farrer, Molina pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to provide material support to ISIS and one count of receiving child pornography. By pleading guilty, Molina admitted that since May 2019, he conspired with 34-year-old South Carolina resident Kristopher Sean Matthews (aka Ali Jibreel) and others to provide services to ISIS by administering an encrypted, members-only chat group for persons who supported ISIS ideology; by collecting, generating and disseminating pro-ISIS propaganda; by attempting to recruit individuals to join ISIS; and by disseminating bomb-making instructions.

Molina also pleaded guilty to one count of receiving child pornography. On September 18, 2020, federal authorities executing a search warrant at the defendant’s residence seized his cell phone, which contained 18 images depicting child pornography.

Molina faces up to 20 years in federal prison on the conspiracy charge and up to 20 years in federal prison on the child pornography charge. He remains in federal custody pending sentencing scheduled for April 22, 2021, before Chief U.S. District Judge Orlando L. Garcia in San Antonio.

On November 24, 2020, Matthews pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge to provide material support to ISIS. Matthews, who remains in federal custody, faces up to 20 years in federal prison. Sentencing is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on March 4, 2021, before Judge Garcia.

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As reported by AP and others at the time of arrest, but apparently buried now:

The pair had discussed traveling to Syria to fight with the Islamic State group or carrying out attacks at Trump Tower, the White House, the New York Stock Exchange or the headquarters of federal law enforcement agencies, according to court records unsealed this week.

via KSAT at time of arrest:

The criminal complaint states that the two men also used social media platforms, some public, to “radicalize and recruit other online users to join ISIS.”

In a series of social media posts this spring, Molina wrote that America was his enemy and posted an extremely graphic photo collage of an American citizen being murdered by ISIS members, the criminal complaint states.

In May, Molina posted images in the encrypted chat that provided bomb-making instructions, the criminal complaint states.

That same month in the same encrypted chat, the two men discussed where attacks on U.S. soil would take place, at which point Matthews said he preferred hitting economic centers and government buildings, including CIA headquarters, the FBI and DEA headquarters, records show.

As recently as last month, Molina and Matthews told covert employees in the encrypted chat that they could use a “multi wave attack strategy” to carry out the attacks.

Only reported by Creeping Sharia at time of arrest: Texas & South Carolina: Two arrested for plotting jihad attacks on Trump Tower, NY Stock Exchange.

Keep in mind, one of these jihadis had a Twitter account and a Pinterest account. (both now archived)

That’s right - Pinterest - the company that openly bans any reference to “creeping sharia” and those who expose the jihad threat allow jihadis to have accounts…with jihad material.

The confessed jihadi’s Twitter account is STILL active.

#Islam #Muslim #Jihad #Sharia #Legal #Law #News #Media #Politics #Terror #Religion #Technology

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Title: Faces (2014) Author: Matthew Farrer Vote: 4/10 I vaguely understood the gist but for the most part the story was utterly incomprehensible. Bad intelligibility.

#book #warhammer40k #Faces #2014 #4 #Matthew Farrer #sci-fi #Eldar

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misslisterkeepsajournal · 4 years

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1826 Friday 7 April

6 1/4 11 25/60

Went out at 7 25/60 - set James Sykes to stub the small remains of hedge (to be planted with hollys) at the near low end of Medley Park wood - then walked forwards to Lightcliffe - got there about 8 - Had read 2 or 3 papers in the wold (British Essayists) before Mr. and Mrs. W.P- [William Priestley] made their appearance - mentioned what Mr. James Briggs had said about having plenty of time - then if that was the case Mr. P- [Priestley] would have him as steward in preference to Mitchell - should not like to have much to do with the latter he was an odd man - Knew nothing of Joseph Smith of Bradford -

Mr. and Mrs. P- [Priestley] called away when I had about 1/2 done breakfast to the gardener who wanted to know where to plant about 200 rose trees - Mrs Priestley was apologizing tho said Mr Priestley you know the man came by appointment somehow Mr Priestley is not a gentleman in his manners however worthy - Composedly finished my breakfast and went into the breakfast room to read the no. [number] for this month of the cottage visitor (a little thin 12mo. [duodecimo] monthly magazine from which copied a receipt for ginger beer and one for tooth powder) and in the Theological Journal (no. [number] 7 or 8) an apparently well reasoning article totally condemning Mrs. Schimmelpenninc's new and foolish English version of the psalms from the Hebrew - she has not read the best authors on her subject - too much influenced by the French who do not shine in biblical criticism, and too much depending on Parkhursts's Hebrew lexicon which is very faulty - and however innocent or good her motives, her work is dangerous from its fanciful and unsupported innovations - read also from the same part of an equally apparent good article on the Palaeoromaic Controversy, in which the anonymous author wildly maintains that the new testament was, the exception of St. Matthew etc. originally written in Hebrew, - originally written in Latin for which original Latin (now lost) the present Greek version is a translation ably contradicted by Bp. [Bishop] Burgess etc. etc.

Mrs. W.P- [William Priestley] came in about 10 - Miss Anne Walker of Crow nest called, and staid about 1/2 hour - Mrs William Priestley and I then got talking as often before about the falsity of saying not at home when it was not bon a fide the case pressed her rather too hard but seeing this turned it off with she was better than I etc. etc. and with some insinuated compliments obscurely gentleman like and a look or two ditto which I think she felt she knew not how said she had great advantages in arguing with me she had an influence I scarce could understand which could even decrease my powers of resistance more than it increased hers she thought me better than I was I knew her better than she knew me I was very odd thought I to myself I talk to ladies in this style as if I could not help it I certainly feel nothing of the sort to her Mr Priestley returned I fancied he did not expect to find me still there and perhaps wanted his wife for he said she had only about half an hour to spare

Mrs. P- [Priestley] walked with me as far as Hipperholme lane ends, and turned back with her and walked with her to their own gate - said I had been in the dismals; for I felt it was the last time I should breakfast there - was going to York, Mrs. L- [Lawton] was coming - the P-s [Priestleys] were going to Harrogate - it would be too far from Northgate, and we were going to sell our gig horse, and the weather would be hot - she was sorry and hoped to see as much of me as she could but her sorrow was not very warmly expressed but she does sometimes wish to seem more stoical than she really feels perhaps it might be the case now for she gave me to understand she would write in her close hand in which she writes to none but her brother Edmund and her friend Mrs Robinson I said I would not be too exhorbitant - would only ask for one letter a year but should be happy to hear from her as much oftener as she had time and inclination - I would not write till we were well settled for the winter - in the mean while she would hear of us from my sister - If my aunt, after all, could not go abroad, we must try Bath - might be introduced there by a friend to the bp. [bishop] of Bath and Wells - and might have introductions from Mrs. Farrer but I was not sure of the goodness of these latter and should try before accepting them - Mrs. P- [Priestley] too doubted their goodness in a manner which struck me, and made me in fact doubt in reality - She said the bp. [bishop] of Bath and Wells had expected the see of Durham just given to D. van Mildert (from the see of St. Asaph) and then he would have done something for her brother who lived 13 or 14 miles from Bath - indeed the bp. [bishop] was bound in duty to do something for him, and no doubt he would -

Mrs Priestley said when the Walkers went to Bath with Mrs Christopher Rawson that she could not therefore give them introductions to her friends there now she said nothing of giving them to us which rather struck me I cannot help fancying my visit was ill timed this morning made me say it was the last time I should be able to breakfast there for it struck me I might easily excuse myself and I really would not breakfast there again said I would go in an afternoon but was afraid I could not now see much more of her on leaving mused on these things annoyed determined to be less confidential and more particular always about what I say in future I have often thought this before but surely now I shall begin to act upon it speaking of Mr Briggs Mr Priestley had said he would see a good deal of my father I too hastily replied I did not think that a recommendation Mr Priestley looked and said no more I just observed you do not quite understand me yes said Mr Priestley I know you act quite independently of your father would not straighten the brook alter the new footpath etc. I assented not choosing to explain what I really meant which was my fathers being too familiar with my steward I felt sorry I had said this in short I came away out of love with my visit thinking I should be glad to get away abroad out of the way of all of them if I ever come back to settle here I shall begin anew and hope to be more guarded and to do better I mused on all this -

After parting with Mrs. P- [Priestley] at 1 1/4 at their own gate, returned direct to Lower brea lane where William Keighley and his son William were cutting and laying the hedge at the top of the wood (Mitholm wood) staid talking to them a long time - took young William to Wellroyde wood to get a few stakes - inquired about Mr. Mitchell 'he is rather rash in giving his opinions' - I think I shall not have him -

Got home at 4 1/2 - staid talking to my aunt till five - then went upstairs and read (a pamphlet taken from one of the bureau drawers) The Life of Betty Ireland a notorious bad woman - Dressed - dinner at 6 1/4 - tea and coffee at 8 - my aunt went to bed (and to bathe a hot bath in her room) at 9 1/4, when I sat down and wrote the whole of the above of today which took me till 10 40/60 Fine morning - just after I left Mrs. W.P- [William Priestley] there came on a little damp and rain afterwards a few slight showers - Barometer 1 2/3 degree above changeable Fahrenheit 51° at 9 1/4 p.m. - Went up to bed at 10 1/4 - E..O. -

Reference: SH:7/ML/E/9/0082 - SH:7/ML/E/9/0083

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