Tea at Trianon: The Queen's Solemn Oath

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Monday, July 8, 2019

The Queen's Solemn Oath

From The Conservative Woman:

I would like courteously to challenge Prince William as a Christian pastor. The Biblical teaching on homosexuality is unequivocal. What the prince has just stated in effect is that he will support his children if they choose to defy God’s moral law and providence, either by embracing the homosexual lifestyle, or by seeking to change the gender which God has assigned to them. He is therefore dismissing as invalid the views of those who hold the Bible to be the word of God. It should be added that the Duke is also publicly rejecting as a meaningless archaism his grandmother’s solemn promise in 1953 as our head of state ‘to the utmost of her power to maintain the laws of God’.

I therefore respectfully submit that the Duke’s recent comments represent nothing less than a public repudiation of the Christian Scriptures and of the God-ordained family unit, and are accordingly deeply to be regretted. And lest anyone should be in any doubt, I uphold God’s moral law in respect of homosexuality precisely because I love my homosexual neighbour and seek the best for him. (Read more.)