HRH the Duke of Braganza and your humble Moderator

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royalcello

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Posted 1508195427	Reply with quote #1

This weekend I had the exciting opportunity to meet HRH Dom Duarte, Duke of Braganza, head of the Royal House of Portugal, and was deeply honoured by entry as a Knight of the Portuguese Royal House. Here I am with HRH at the Army & Navy Club in Washington, DC. HRH was charming and approachable.

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Posted 1508200194	Reply with quote #2

Congrats Theodore, that’s quite an honour! __________________ "For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free." - Anatole France Personal Motto: "Deō regī patriaeque fidelis."

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Posted 1508209878	Reply with quote #3

Well done Theodore and quite an impression the House of Braganza has made upon you with this award, do honour and cherish it accordingly. __________________ Yours Sincerely Queenslander

Peter

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Posted 1508226894	Reply with quote #4

Congratulations Theodore, that's brilliant and I'm very pleased for you.

DutchMonarchist

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Posted 1508238098	Reply with quote #5

Congratulations are in order indeed! Was there any specific activity of yours that you got the knighthood for? For example, does it have to do anything with your work for the society for Charles I?

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Posted 1508240645	Reply with quote #6

Congratulations, Royalcello, on meeting Dom Duarte. I wonder if there's any possibility that you could establish an ongoing dialogue with him about issues concerning the Portuguese monarchy. It would be an interesting and worthwhile discussion. __________________ Dis Aliter Visum "Beware of martyrs and those who would die for their beliefs; for they frequently make many others die with them, often before them, sometimes instead of them."

royalcello

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Posted 1508277808 · Edited	Reply with quote #7

Thanks everyone. My friend from Facebook, Red Bank NJ mayor Pasquale Menna, who is involved in several chivalric orders, kindly offered awhile ago to sponsor me. The honour was not directly in recognition of my monarchist work, though if it weren't for my online royalist connections I wouldn't have known him. The Duke has a delicate relationship with the Portuguese republican authorities, so while HRH also has relationships with royalist groups, restoration is probably a thorny subject.

steelcrown

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Posted 1508293161	Reply with quote #8

That's wonderful news, and congratulations!

House_of_Luxembourg

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Posted 1509367247	Reply with quote #9

Belated congratulations, Theodore! __________________ "With God's help it will never be that a Bohemian king would run from a fight!" - John the Blind (according to an account in the Cronica ecclesiae pragensis Benesii Krabice de Weitmile) ECH WUNN

Geoffrey

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Posted 1509528798	Reply with quote #10

Congratulations on being Knighted, wow, that means a lot. Now I want to understand what is going on in Portugal, may seem off the main road, but from my connections I understand that like Albania, it is a laboratory for bigger and better things. __________________ gms

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Posted 1509572751	Reply with quote #11

It's a bit late, but congratulations Theodore! I saw this on Facebook closer to the time actually and had intended to comment on it later on, but I don't think I ever did. I'm a bit jealous, to be honest-meeting the de jure King of Portugal is a great honour in and of itself, never mind being invested as a knight by him. __________________ That which concerns the mystery of the King's power is not lawful to be disputed; for that is to wade into the weakness of Princes, and to take away the mystical reverence that belongs unto them that sit in the throne of God. - James VI and I of England, Scotland and Ireland

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Posted 1509651711	Reply with quote #13

I already congratulated you on facebook at the time, but I'd like to do it again two weeks later. Did anyone take pictures of you enrobed? If so, please share? __________________ The Lion of Judah hath prevailed. Ethiopia stretches her hands unto God (Quote from Psalm 68 which served as the Imperial Motto of the Ethiopian Empire) "God and history shall remember your judgment." (Quote from Emperor Haile Selassie I's speech to the League of Nations to plead for assistance against the Italian Invasion, 1936.)

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