Ganeida's Knots: Whisper who dares...
Posted by Ganeida at 11:39 PM
John Knox is in ours. Another less Bonnie Scot, of whose relationship my mother is inordinately proud!!
Ah yes, the bigoted & intolerant John Knox ~ but he got the job done. Unfortunately his bigotry & intolerance have plagued the Presbyterian church & that is a crying shame. One of the lovliest churches I've ever belonged to was the Presbyterian church in Toowoomba: the truth preached with love. Wonderful!
And what would we do if we could prove it? Bob is supposed to be descended from Margaret Tudor, sister to dear Henry VIII. She supposedly had a marriage annulled before consummation, but she stayed in a convent for awhile afterwards... Seems like she shared a tendency with her brother.
I'm reading a bio of Prince Charlie that I picked up in the Inverness airport for a pound. By 6 1/2 the boy could read, write, speak 3 languages, ride a horse and shoot both gun and crossbow with accuracy. He should have had the throne, from what I can tell, but things just didn't turn out. He was charismatic by all accounts, just not a great planner/warrior, I guess. Ill advised, according to the history we heard at Culloden.
You are kinder than I am, MamaO. Yes, he should have had the throne but then we'd all still be Catholic & goodness only knows what would have become of the Puritans.
The genetics of it merely amuses me, the way they get passed down through the generations but not everyone inherits the same things or in the same way.
Bonnie Prince Charles....one who seem to have the idea of making a country his by the way of each child being his own.
My uncle has Scottish roots, but he might be called a Black Scot, having a Spanish ancestor.
Ganeida's Knots: Whisper who dares...
Posted by Ganeida at 11:39 PM
John Knox is in ours. Another less Bonnie Scot, of whose relationship my mother is inordinately proud!!
Ah yes, the bigoted & intolerant John Knox ~ but he got the job done. Unfortunately his bigotry & intolerance have plagued the Presbyterian church & that is a crying shame. One of the lovliest churches I've ever belonged to was the Presbyterian church in Toowoomba: the truth preached with love. Wonderful!
And what would we do if we could prove it? Bob is supposed to be descended from Margaret Tudor, sister to dear Henry VIII. She supposedly had a marriage annulled before consummation, but she stayed in a convent for awhile afterwards... Seems like she shared a tendency with her brother.
I'm reading a bio of Prince Charlie that I picked up in the Inverness airport for a pound. By 6 1
/2 the boy could read, write, speak 3 languages, ride a horse and shoot both gun and crossbow with accuracy. He should have had the throne, from what I can tell, but things just didn't turn out. He was charismatic by all accounts, just not a great planner/warrior, I guess. Ill advised, according to the history we heard at Culloden.
You are kinder than I am, MamaO. Yes, he should have had the throne but then we'd all still be Catholic & goodness only knows what would have become of the Puritans.
The genetics of it merely amuses me, the way they get passed down through the generations but not everyone inherits the same things or in the same way.
Bonnie Prince Charles....one who seem to have the idea of making a country his by the way of each child being his own.
My uncle has Scottish roots, but he might be called a Black Scot, having a Spanish ancestor.