Clearly I won't get to a day by day diary of the event. Better to start with highlights ( Read more... )

...originally published to the principality mailing list (retro, I know, just call me old-fashioned ( Read more... )

It's months away, but our neighbours in Anglia (shire of Flintheath) are hosting their annual Yule Ball in the Claret Centre, also called Buckden Towers.

We've already booked one of the apartments.

It's so cool to be excited about an event months away.

This note is just an observation, not a critique! And it's striking to me that I can see differences even within our principality.

In some shires, everyone knows you by your Society name; in some shires, everyone knows you by your legal name, but uses your Society name at events; in still others, everyone knows you by your legal name, and struggles ( Read more... )

Robert's message to our cousin in the East Kingdom, borne thence by Sir Vitus before the turn of the year.

Also - a recent piece of court business to support the industries of Insulae Draconis, reported in the Baelfyr.

And, not as prince but as poet, text for Sir Gerhardt's Albion scroll, which I posted to Dragon scribes. I'm still feeling pleased ( Read more... )

Something I hadn't banked on when becoming a princess is the magnetic hold I have over little girls.

We're now two-thirds of our way through the Yule revel season, and there's a definite trend of princess power. nusbacher's girls, who both knew me as a pre-royal person, were both extremely diligent in their curtseying, anytime I was even vaguely looking in ( Read more... )

(originally posted to principality newsgroup)

Greetings from Robert et Genevieve, Princeps Insulae Draconis,

We write to thank the staff and good people of Flintheath who put on a warm and intimate Yule Ball the mark the turn of this year. As ever we were welcomed with all courtesy, offered only the finest food from this year's harvest, and kept ( Read more... )

Originally posted to the principality and kingdom lists.

It was my great pleasure this week, to travel to visit my brother Nordmark at Holmrike, to attend Kingdom University. The welcome was warm (centrally heated even), the hospitality gracious, the food ample and excellent. 
I delighted in the classes I attended (in woodworking especially), and was ( Read more... )

Robert, Prince of Insulae Draconis unto all nobles of our court, good greetings,

This first Saturday of October at the Muster at Uffington Castle We were joined by,

Duke Alaric 
Baron Clancy 
Lady Aurianna the Walker
Alistair de Caithness
Jon of Westdragonshire
Sean of Westdragonshire
Lord Duncan Forbes 
All of whom present under arms and in accordance with ( Read more... )

Lady Nesta has graciously posted her photos to Flickr of the day.

It looks hazy and hot because it is - a rare late-summer heatwave has hit southern England. The dew in the grass kept it cool, acc to Robert, til it burned off by midday, and then they retreated to the pub.

It also looks like they're fighting on the edge of forever, with no background ( Read more... )