Wow! What an update! Great stuff, Opo!
I enjoyed the reference to the famous Honiton lace christening gown. Nice twist to make it made out of Queen Louise's bridal veil.
Opo, I'm sure sorry to hear about your father. I lost mine in 2007. Our Dads may no longer be physically present, but they live on in us. I've learned this as I've gotten older and hear myself saying something or reacting in a certain way to some circumstance exactly the way my Dad would...
I'm really enjoying this well-written & entertaining timeline. Looking forward to seeing what kind of man King George V becomes. The circumstances of life makes some bitter...others respond by becoming better. I'm hoping the king chooses the latter.
Some of my grandmother's people came from the woods just north of Dresden & Meissen. They were Germanized since at least the late 17th century although our DNA tells a different story. I have never been called a Slavo-Thuringian before but I suppose there's some truth to it. I think "Lusatia"...
I've thought the same thing for years. Walla Walla should be in Oregon! Beautiful town. Love the dogwoods in bloom in the spring there. In fact, it makes more sense for the Mormons to go there than to the confluence of the Snake & Columbia. IOTL, College Place, just west of Walla Walla became a...
Has the Great Migration of 1843 been completely butterflied away? Is Fort Walla Walla still a few miles down river from the new Mormon Deseret? As a kid, I used to swim at Levey Park up the Snake River from it's confluence with the Columbia. Imagining a city with a gleaming white LDS Temple out...