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The Princess Royal talks with artist Darren Baker after unveiling a portrait he produced of The Queen during a reception marking the 90th Anniversary of the Royal British Legion at Church House, Westminster , London , 20 September 2011.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 2:20 PM Saturday, July 30, 2011
Papers
I had an incredibly vivid dream earlier this morning that I awoke from and thought about writing down but decided not to. I thought about writing about it specifically because it was so vivid. There was no kind of dream quality to it. The details were vivid and it seemed no different from a strong memory that I can sit here write now and think about it my conscious mind.
Many of those vivid details have diminished now and that makes me feel kind of sad because I wish I could remember it as well as I did in the dream.
I decided to write about it because I just read the word 'tartan' in a news article and for some reason, that word made me think of the dream. The word itself is the opposite of a prevailing detail in the dream which was the color of a long overcoat worn the state security police of the country I was in.
The only part about the dream that wasn't vivid was the part at the beginning. I have thought about it since then and the details for the most part escape me but I seem to have been in a panic, at least in my mind. There was something about my cover being exposed and that created a life-and-death danger for me personally and I cannot recall the all the detail but there was something about me running through the streets to get someplace.
I seemed to be going to the airport. I passed by a lot of people and I think a lot of people standing in lines. I saw a group of people in plain red overcoats, and hats too, I think, but those details have also diminished. I might have been running by them or that sense of running just represents a sense of urgency in my mind that I needed to escape before getting caught.
I went by that group of people and a person, who I recognized as a person with the state security forces of that country, and I think I was in Russia, stepped away from the group and said to me, "Papers" as he walked up to me.
I had seen others like him and he was identifiable by the long overcoat he was wearing that was just a plain color of wool and a sort of yellowish color. It wasn't yellow but I cannot think of the color that would be called.
I am standing there and he is examining my identity cards. He tells me I haven't paid my bill for my hotel and I tell him it is charged to my credit and so my documents must have listed that on there because he says, "American Express," as though that is the explanation.
The other details are vague but we might have talked more or there was just more drama to it. Ah, yes, my presence as an American did not seem unusual. That detail was established right off because he asked if I was an American just after he asked for my papers and I think I said something that prompted him to ask if I am American. After he examined my documents, I think his precise words were "Well, the airport is right there" and he gestured behind him and that was the airport. Maybe a parking garage that was part of the facility.
I think he was going to escort me to the gate for my flight but there seemed to be some confusion and I just stood there and I saw him walking away through some passageways in a building nearby. Then I started trying to find my way to the gate for my aircraft flight and the details were all very vivid and I was seeing four digits numbers that were always in a combination of three. Even after waking up from the dream, I never did remember any precise numbers from that particular dream, which I thought about as well because I have done that before. Those numbers were similar to nnnn, nnnn, nnnn. The numbers were always four digits and were always in groups of three. Those combinations were what I was studying as I was trying to find the gate for my flight, because I think that was printed on a document I had in my hand but I don't recall that now for certain if I was holding a document with those numbers on it. That would make sense though because how else would I know. So I was having trouble with it though because I could not distinguish a pattern in the numbers I was seeing on the walls as I walked around. Those numbers were just about everywhere. The occurrence of those combination of numbers was in a frequency not unlike I have seen while serving on United States Navy warships.
So finally I seemed to have reached my destination or I was very close to figuring out how to get there and something about how I write this sentence doesn't seem right. But I think I was close to where I wanted to go. The point of this observation though is that I examined my documents, for the first time I think, and I noted that something was missing. There should have been two cards in the documents, similar to credit cards and such, and that should have been in a sleeve similar to the aircraft ticket that the airlines issue. But those cards were gone. I was aware that I could not get on the flight unless I had those cards. There was also a lingering uncertainty in my that I was going to miss the flight and it would take off without but that detail is never confirmed in the dream. I had the sense that I did have enough time though. So anyway I stood there looking at the documents and I might have awoken abruptly and non-startlingly at that point. At some point, that seems to be in my waking mind, I decided that the state security officer, of the government of Russia, the state police or whatever those national forces are called, had taken those cards out when he examined by documents. I woke with the sense, calming considering the drama of the dream because I was thinking in the dream I was there as a covert intelligence agent of the United States of America and I didn't want them to know that, that he had simply taken the cards and was going to escort me to the gate and he was probably standing there at the gate with my cards which would allow me to board the flight.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 30 July 2011 excerpt ends]
From 7/1/1961 ( Diana Spencer ) To 2/9/2011 ( Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II formally approves the marriage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton ) is 18120 days
18120 = 9060 + 9060
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/23/1990 ( the East Germany announcement that East Germany and West Germany will reunite ) is 9060 days
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-wedding/8465846/Queen-reveals-formal-consent-to-beloved-grandson-William-and-trusty-Catherine.html
The Telegraph
Royal Wedding
Queen reveals formal consent to 'beloved grandson William' and 'trusty Catherine'
The Queen's historic formal consent to Prince William's forthcoming marriage to Kate Middleton was unveiled today.
10:54AM BST 21 Apr 2011
Under the Great Seal of the Realm, she signed an elaborate notice of approval which proclaimed, in transcribed calligraphy, consent to the union of ''Our Most Dearly Beloved Grandson Prince William Arthur Philip Louis of Wales, K.G. and Our Trusty and Well-beloved Catherine Elizabeth Middleton''.
Tied to the bottom of the approval by gold braiding is a large red wax Great Seal of the Realm.
Prince William had to ask his grandmother's consent to marry because of a law dating from the 18th century.
Under the Royal Marriages Act 1772, all descendants of George II must obtain the sovereign's agreement before they wed, otherwise the marriage is invalid.
The ''Instrument of Consent'' features decorative artwork chosen by the artist to represent the groom and bride-to-be.
There is a gold cipher of the couple's entwined initials beneath the prince's coronet, but St James's Palace said this was not the couple's official symbol.
A white lily represents St Catherine of Siena, whose feast day falls on April 29th and with whom Kate Middleton shares her name.
Beneath it is a Welsh leek surrounded by William's white three-pronged second in line to the throne label and a tiny red escallop from the Spencer family Arms.
There is also a red dragon - the heraldic symbol of Wales, the UK's floral emblems - the rose, thistle and shamrock - and the Garter belt, William's blue and gold Order of the Garter belt, as well as a large gold E for Elizabeth.
The Queen's signature ''Elizabeth R'' can be seen at the top right of the Instrument of Consent, which is dated ''the ninth day of February Two Thousand and Eleven in the Sixtieth year of Our Reign''.
It was signed ''by the Queen herself, signed with her own hand'' at a Privy Council meeting after the monarch made a formal Declaration of Consent.
It reads: ''NOW KNOW YE that We have consented and do by these Presents signify Our Consent to the contracting of Matrimony between Our Most Dearly Beloved Grandson Prince William Arthur Philip Louis of Wales K.G. and Our Trusty and Well-beloved Catherine Elizabeth Middleton.''
The Instrument of Consent will be sent to the royal newlyweds following their marriage for them to keep.
Labour peer Lord Dubs once branded the 1772 law "the Dangerous Dogs Act of its day", saying it was "passed in haste owing to George III's chagrin that his relatives were getting married without consulting him".
King George III, George II's grandson, ordered the act after his younger brother the Duke of Cumberland secretly married Lady Anne Horton, deemed to be a highly disreputable widow of a commoner.
In practice, the Queen is most unlikely to ever withhold her blessing and would only say no on the advice of the Prime Minister.
If the Queen does not agree to a marriage, the member of the Royal family can - if aged 25 or over - inform the Privy Council of his or her intentions to wed.
The royal wedding could go ahead lawfully, but only if both Houses of Parliament do not expressly disapprove in the 12 months following.
There is no requirement that royals marry someone of royal or aristocratic blood.
But religion is a factor. Under the the Act of Settlement of 1701, those in the direct line of succession cannot marry Catholics.
Had William, who is second in line, wanted to marry a Catholic, he would have had to renounce his right to the throne.
The Queen authorised the Prince of Wales's marriage to Camilla, as she did for his first to Diana, Princess of Wales.
The Great Seal of the Realm is the chief seal of the Crown, used to show the monarch's approval of important state documents.
It is used for a range of documents requiring royal approval, such as letters patent and royal proclamations.
The seal originated in the reign of Edward the Confessor during the 11th century to prevent forgery and tampering, when a double-sided metal matrix with an image of the Sovereign was used to make an impression in wax for attachment by ribbon or cord to royal documents.
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East Germany chooses Oct. 3 for unification
Associated Press
THU 08/23/1990 HOUSTON CHRONICLE
EAST BERLIN - East German lawmakers ended their anguished and much-ridiculed battle over the date of unification, and early today voted to merge the foundering nation with West Germany on Oct. 3.
Parliament burst into applause when Parliament's president, Sabine Bergmann-Pohl, announced the "truly historic event."
After an 11-hour Parliament session that lasted until today's predawn hours, lawmakers voted 294 to 62 to make Oct. 3 the day the nation becomes part of a single Germany. Seven lawmakers abstained.
The date was a compromise between the major factions in Parliament after weeks of battling that tore apart the broad coalition government of Prime Minister Lothar de Maiziere.
Earlier, lawmakers rejected a proposal by the small German Social Union party to unify immediately.
Parliament also passed a treaty that will allow all-German elections on Dec. 2. The West German Parliament is to vote on the same treaty today. Easy passage is expected.
East Germany in effect has approved a clause, effective Oct. 3, in the West Germany constitution that allows former German lands to accede to the Western nation.
It is a major psychological boost to a nation troubled by economic and political chaos.
De Maiziere urged lawmakers to accept Oct. 3 as the historic day of German unity and end the seemingly pointless squabbling over whether unity should take place in August, September or October.
"Many people have gotten the impression discussions over a date are more important to us than the solution of crucial problems," he told Parliament.
"A binding commitment and an end to the discussion are long overdue," he said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-wedding/8786586/Royal-wedding-mishap-revealed-as-Kates-dress-destined-to-be-kept-under-wraps.html
The Telegraph
Royal Wedding
Royal wedding mishap revealed as Kate's dress destined to be kept under wraps
The Duke of Cambridge nearly ruined his father's prized Aston Martin DB6 when he drove it out of Buckingham Palace with his new bride on the day of the Royal Wedding because he had forgotten to take the handbrake off.
By Roya Nikkhah, Royal Correspondent
9:00AM BST 25 Sep 2011
It was one of the most memorable images of the Royal Wedding - Prince William driving his new bride down the Mall in a glamorous vintage sports car after a perfect day that went without hitch. Almost.
In fact, it has emerged that the Royal heirloom Prince William drove, a dark blue Aston Martin DB6 belonging to the Prince of Wales, suffered a mechanical mishap when the groom took to the wheel.
Driving from the wedding reception at Buckingham Palace to Clarence House while waving to the crowds, Prince William forgot to release the handbrake on the car, which Prince Harry had decorated with heart-shaped balloons and a number plate that read: "JU5T WED".
Thankfully for the newlyweds, the engine's groans appear to have been drowned out by the applause of well-wishers gathered along the Mall.
The incident emerged in an interview with the royal photographer Arthur Edwards for Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, which is broadcast today.
During the interview, he told the presenter Kirsty Young: "I was talking to Prince Charles about that [the car] and I said 'did you mind him borrowing that car?' because he loves that car, it's his birthday present from his mother for his 21st, and he said 'No, he asked me if he could use it.'
"I said 'there seemed to be a problem driving it' and he said, 'Yes, because he didn't take the hand brake off'."
