by antiaristo » Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:09 am
Seamus,<br>I need to corect myself here.<br>I made my comment about the privy council taking control on the basis of this from Wikipedia:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Full meetings of the Privy Council are only held when the reigning Sovereign announces his or her own marriage, or when the monarch dies. In the latter case, the Privy Council—together with the Lords Spiritual, Lords Temporal, the Lord Mayor of London, the Aldermen of the City of London and representatives of Commonwealth nations—makes a proclamation declaring the accession of the new Sovereign. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>That special meeting of the Privy Council held to proclaim the accession of the new Sovereign and to receive the required statutory oath, is known as an Accession Council</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>But then I came across this:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The position of Lord High Steward of England - not to be confused with the Lord Steward, a court functionary - is the first of the Great Officers of State. Although initially the position was largely an honorary one, over time it grew in importance until its holder became one of the most powerful men of the kingdom. From the late 12th century, the office was considered to be bound with the Earldom of Leicester. When the House of Lancaster ascended the throne in 1399, Henry IV made his second son, Thomas of Lancaster, Duke of Clarence, Lord High Steward, but <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>following the latter's death in 1421 the office has generally remained vacant, except at coronations and during the trial of peers, when the Lord High Steward presides. In general, the Lord Chancellor was appointed to act as Lord High Steward in the latter situation.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> The trial of peers by their peers in the House of Lords was abolished in 1948.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>It looks to me as though the Lord High Steward was an arbiter between the monarchy and parliament. He presides when the legitimacy of either is at issue (coronation, trial of a lord). Simon de Montford held the position.<br><br>But the monarchy got rid of the position.<br>So it will be Lord Charles Falconer that will preside.<br>The man that lied to Parliament under another's name.<br>The man that gave us civil mariage in the royal family.<br><br>----------------------<br><br>While I'm on, let me add these remarks.<br>Charlie has to get through a coronation before the inquest does anything substantive (it was opened then adjourned nearly three years ago).<br><br>Because of this.<br><br><br><br><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>DIANA'S LETTER: IT WAS CHARLES<br><br>Jan 6 2004<br><br>EXCLUSIVE<br><br>By Jane Kerr, Royal Reporter<br><br>PRINCE Charles is the person Princess Diana claimed in a letter wanted to kill her, the Mirror sensationally reveals today.<br><br>Before she died in a car crash, Diana wrote: "My husband is planning 'an accident' in my car, brake failure and serious head injury...to make the path clear for him to marry."<br><br>She gave the note to butler Paul Burrell who revealed its existence in the Mirror last year. Charles's name was blanked out. Burrell has been asked to hand the document to the coroner who today opens the inquest into Diana's death.<br><br>Burrell said: "It has fulfilled its purpose. I wanted to give force to the argument that an inquest must be held."<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/content_objectid=13784399_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-DIANA%2DS%2DLETTER%2D%2DIT%2DWAS%2DCHARLES-name_page.html">www.mirror.co.uk/news/all..._page.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <br>or click: <<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://shorturl.net/?l=bb>">shorturl.net/?l=bb></a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>The link is dead, like all the links that covered this story back in January 2004. It has been scrubbed from history.<br><br>Not only did she write who it was that planned the "accident"; not only did she predict the method; she told us the reason:<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>to make the path clear for him to marry</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><br>And of course she was right about that as well, wasn't she?<br><br><br>Posrscript<br><br>The piece on the privy council is taking longer than expected, I've a touch of brain-blockage. Sorry. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=antiaristo>antiaristo</A> at: 10/31/06 8:14 am<br></i>