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发帖数: 6973 | 1 Cecilie Rohwedder, Waiting in Line l Britain's Royal Family Tree. Wall
Street Journal, Apr 30, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870433040457629106
Note: In print, the above is the title. The lower half of the report has a
heading: The Traditions Behind Crowns, Carriages and a Historic Abbey--whose
print, though not online, edition shows
* a painting of youngQueen Victoria in white silk veil and a headdress of
orange blossoms; and a photo with caption: "Charles and Diana ride in the
State Landau carriage in 1981."
(a) Norman conquest of England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_England
(began on 28 September 1066 with the invasion of England by William, Duke of
Normandy, who became known as William the Conqueror after his victory at
the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, defeating the then [and last
Anglo-Saxon] king Harold II of England)
(b) Westminster Abbey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminister_Abbey
(located in Westminster, London; A stone abbey was built around 1045–1050
by King Edward the Confessor as part of his palace there and was consecrated
on 28 December 1065, only a week before the Confessor's death)
The Confessor in 1045 married Edith of Wessex, whose brother was Harold,
successor to throne upon the Confessor's death.
* Westminster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster
(Its name derives from the West Minster, or monastery church, west of the
City of London's St Paul's)
* minster (n; Old English mynster, from Late Latin monasterium monastery):
www/m-w.com
(c) Edward I of England (1239-1307; reign 1272-1307)
(d) Queen Victoria (1819-1901; reign 1837-1901) married for love. In 1840 at
the Chapel Royal of St. James's Palace, She married Prince Albert of Saxe-
Coburg and Gotha (in present-day Germany), who deid in 1861. She was the
last British monarch of the House of Hanover; her son and successor King
Edward VII belonged to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Wikipedia.
(e) 1902 State Landau
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902_State_Landau
* Landau (carriage)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau_(carriage)
(convertible; named after the German city of Landau in the Rhenish
Palatinate where they were first produced)
(f) Edward VII's son and successor was King George V, whose son and
successor was George VI, subject of the film The King's Speech.
(g) The Unknown Warrior
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_Warrior
(holds an unidentified British soldier killed on a European battlefield
during the First World War.[1] He was buried in Westminster Abbey, London on
11 November 1920, simultaneously with a similar interrment of a French
unknown soldier at the Arc de Triomphe in France, making both tombs the
first to honour the unknown dead of the First World War)
(h) Myrtus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrtus
(myrtle; native to southern Europe and north Africa; evergreen; fragrant
leaf and white flower which has five petals
(i) The last sentence of the report says, "The top of an English wedding
cake is usually kept for the christening of the couple's first child."
That refers to the top layer of the cake, known as "christening cake." |
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