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Tuesday, 31 December 2013
How was 2013 for The Mad Monarchist? Not the best honestly, but a better year for The Mad Monarchist blog. In the month of October the blog had a record 109,750 views, passing the previous record, also set in 2013, in January, of 97,104 views. The most popular article of 2013 was, surprisingly enough, the profile on Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria with 6,261 people checking that one out, evidently after the link was shared by a school group (so that...
Sunday, 29 December 2013
2013 was a year of change in the world of monarchy and more than anything else it will probably be remembered as the year of the abdication. Monarchs were abdicating left, right and center in 2013. This was the year royals said, “I quit!” and the first was the most surprising when in February HH Pope Benedict XVI abdicated. This was the first time in roughly six hundred years that anything even remotely similar had ever happened so, that was certainly...
Wednesday, 25 December 2013
Friday, 20 December 2013
As your resident mad man seems a bit more weary than usual (and having some medication acting up at the moment) this seems as good a time as any to start my holiday break. It is a few days earlier than last year but hopefully that means it will end a few days sooner as well. There is the 'year in review' to work on and in the days and weeks ahead there will be posts on how South Vietnam was bungled, a country that championed monarchy in Asia, the...
Thursday, 19 December 2013
With the death of Nelson Mandela, many people have been curious as to what, if any “royal” connections Mandela had. It is a somewhat difficult issue to address since the tribal system of South Africa does not translate easily into the royal terms most are familiar with. For example, sometimes a chief is referred to as a king even though there are differences in the status of one chief or another and differences in how chiefs are chosen. A chief of...
Wednesday, 18 December 2013
Some time ago, I read an article by a prominent British politician (Tory Party) lamenting the diminishment of certain personal freedoms in the English-speaking countries outside of the United States. He singled out for particular illustration the diminishment of freedom of speech, due mostly to the modern-day champions of political correctness and the recent idea that no one should ever have to suffer the horror of being offended by something someone...
Tuesday, 17 December 2013
Monday, 16 December 2013
The man who would become Emperor of the French and one of the most renowned military commanders in history was born Napoleone di Buonaparte on August 15, 1769 in Ajaccio on the island of Corsica. His parents were Carlo Maria di Buonaparte and Maria Letezia Ramolino. The year before he was born the island of Corsica had been ceded to France from the Republic of Genoa and Carlo di Buonaparte, a lawyer, was chosen to represent Corsica at the court of...
Sunday, 15 December 2013
Starting up north, HRH Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark paid a visit to the Danish troops serving in Afghanistan while Princess Marie of Denmark is making plans to visit Ethiopia. In neighboring Norway it was announced that the King and Queen will be spending Christmas with Princess Martha Louise and her family while the Crown Prince and family will be in Uvdal. The Crown Princess is easing back into her royal duties after some health problems that...
Thursday, 12 December 2013
Dutch immigration to the New World has been extensive over the centuries but has mostly been concentrated in areas far removed from Texas. However, Dutch influence in Texas history goes back to the colonial period with the very first Dutchman in Texas being a very prominent figure in Texas history. That man was Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop. He was born Philip Hendrik Nering Bögel in the colony of Dutch Guiana (modern-day Surinam) in South...
Wednesday, 11 December 2013
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As most readers of this weblog at least will probably know, Mohammed Zahir Shah was the last King of Afghanistan. He was a member of the Barakzai dynasty which had held power in Afghanistan since 1826 after the fall of the Durrani Empire. Chaos had ensued after the fall of the Durrani and Afghanistan fragmented into warring tribal factions, something which will sound familiar to people today. Out of that chaos arose Dost Mohammad Khan who made himself...
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