Programming Notes

[mtemplar_fic]

Per the BBC Press Office, highlights from this summer's Doctor Who At The Proms will accompany the Christmas Special, on BBC One. I'm guessing this is separate from the usual confidentials that usually follow DW on BBC Three. Does this mean there will be no confidential this year? *frets*

Link to the press release here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/11_november/24/christmas.shtml

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[editrx.livejournal.com]

I visited in Robert de Bruce's footsteps throughout Scotland one year with my husband and some friends from Ireland; I should dig out some photos someday, including some of Melrose Abbey. :)

We were also acquainted with the infamous Michel Lafosse, aka Prince Michael of Scotland, back when we were involved with the Scottish Knights Templar. It's all quite wild and woolly, those days. I rather miss them. I think all of them are a bit mad (well, Michel was more than mad, but he was a nice if completely insane young man back then), but the sort of mad we fit into. Fanboys with capes. Hah! (I hadn't thought of that before, but you know ... that's exactly what it is.)

ETA: I got so distracted with my own thoughts, I forgot to answer you. You reference, of course, the original medieval Knights of St. Andrew, named for the 63 knights who appeared on the field of battle at Bannockburn and helped Robert the Bruce win the field against the English. (Yes, seen Bannockburn, too, but alas that day didn't get to stop at Stirling Castle.) And of course it continues now as the Masonic Scottish Rite Order of the Knights of St. Andrew. :)

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

You know your stuff! *is duly impressed* I'm obviously going to have to pick your brain sometime... for research purposes, of course! ;) And fanboys with capes? *grins* Lucky you for getting to meet interesting people!

Yup, the Scottish Knights Templar is one of many pet research interests of mine, one of the few that's not biomedical in nature. Doesn't get funded, obviously, so I'm pretty much on my own.

[editrx.livejournal.com]

Oh Lord, I know more about the Scottish Knights Templar than I probably should admit publicly. ::grins wryly:: Pick my brains anytime. We started with them right before the flyup between them and the international order based in Portugal; we were inducted back in 1989 in St. Elizabeth's Episcopal Cathedral in Edinburgh. Now they do the inductions in Roslyn Chapel, of course (oh, those are lovely to see!).

Do you know the whole story of the Scottish Knights Templar and the Stone of Scone? The most recent story, that is. It involves Dull, Scotland (which is a fascinating little town in and of itself).

ETA: Changed my icon. There! (Sorry the motto is so tiny: Auxilio Dei. Your puzzle of the day.)

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

Clan Muirhead! *grins* What part of Scotland?

The best summary I've found regaring the stone is this piece, in .pdf format. http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/PSAS_2002/pdf/vol_008/8_068_099.pdf

Takes a while to load, apologies.

As to whether the Stone currently resides in Dull, I'm not sure if anyone will ever know for sure. It'd make a nice, modern parallel, though - if the Knights Templar are indeed hiding guarding Jacob's pillow, which supposedly became the pedestal of the Ark in the Temple of Solomon. Regardless, the 'official' stone (if not the real one) is safely in Edinburgh Castle, to be returned to Westminster Abbey for future coronations.

Interestingly, we took a tour of Westminster Abbey when we were in London recently, and the Coronation Chair itself apparently sustained some damage while they were moving it about in storage? I imagine that was a big to-do.