Tag Archives: Rule Britannia
HISTORIC PASSING: QUEEN ELIZABETH II 1926 – 2022
Though I lived in England as a child, I didn’t experience a local royal visit until I was a teenager and our family had moved to British Columbia, Canada. The above picture was taken in Kelowna in 1971. R.I.P., Your Majesty. In the medieval tradition: The Queen is dead. Long live the King. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/queen-funeral-watch-king-charles-1.6576646 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/queen-elizabeth-monarchy-wherry-analysis-1.6576628 […]
HISTORIC FAILURE: SPANISH ARMADA TRIES TO INVADE ENGLAND
In July, 1588, one hundred and thirty warships, twenty-two of them fearsome fighting galleons, set sail from Spain, bent on invading England. They’d tried to do that back in the spring, but had to return to port after a bad storm damaged several ships. They should have taken that as an omen, because the July […]