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<DIV>In a message dated 10/27/2003 8:52:58 PM Mountain Standard Time, carynvnk@comcast.net writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>And as I said, the impression he made has colored<BR>my decision to stay in the SCA ever since.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>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?</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>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.</FONT></STRONG></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 PTSIZE="10"><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><B>Lady Constance de la Rose<BR>Baron of Loch Salann<BR>Kingdom of Artemisia<BR><BR>"Never say a thing's impossible,<BR>For chances are you'll rue it.<BR>Because some fool who doesn't know,<BR>Will come along and do it."</B></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>