[Artemisia] Re: Oh the Years

[LadyPDC at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/27/2003 8:52:58 PM Mountain Standard Time, 
carynvnk at comcast.net writes:
And as I said, the impression he made has colored
my decision to stay in the SCA ever since.
Geee, and I could say much the same thing about both the first King I knew 
(who also happens to be our current king) who showed that it was possible to be 
both regal and riotously funny at the same time.  How could I resist a group 
where ceremony is linked with fun and learning?

And even more so, a certain queen who exhibits what can only be termed a 
"presence" whether she was sitting on the dais or on the "throne". <e.g.>   My 
grandmother used to say "a lady is as a lady does".  I would expand that to "a 
queen is as a queen does" and our former queen Caryn exhibited that in 
everything from her speech to her carriage to her empathy.  In my time, short though it 
has been, I have seen queens trumpeted into court and often just into a room 
with grand names and much shouting and ceremony.  But my everlasting memory of 
a true queen is and shall always be seeing Queen Caryn enter a room with no 
announcement, no fanfare, and watching the room naturally turn and bow simply 
because all recognized that our Queen had arrived.  That is what is known in 
the military as "command presence" and what is known even today in European 
communities as "royal presence".  An example we should hope to see more often.




Lady Constance de la Rose
Baron of Loch Salann
Kingdom of Artemisia

"Never say a thing's impossible,
For chances are you'll rue it.
Because some fool who doesn't know,
Will come along and do it."
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