Unanimous Winner In This Year’s Christmas Decorated Nautical Vessel. Seen In The Royal Harbour, Ramsgate, Kent.

Unanimous winner in this year’s Christmas Decorated Nautical Vessel. Seen in The Royal Harbour, Ramsgate, Kent.

One wonders how the Christmas Star was affixed to 

the Main Mast !!! Presumably a very tall ladder.

Reproduced with the permission of the Skipper.

The Harbour in Ramsgate is the only Royal Harbour in mainland Britain, the honour having been bestowed 

by King George IV in 1822.

King George IV (1762-1830).

Artist: Thomas Lawrence.

Date: 1821.

Collection: Royal Collection.

Source/Photographer: [1]

(Wikimedia Commons)

Coronation portrait of King George IV (1821).

King of The United Kingdom and Hanover.

King George IV is seen wearing Coronation Robes 

and four Collars of Chivalric Orders: 

The Golden Fleece;

The Royal Guelphic Order;

The Order Of The Bath;

The Order Of The Garter.

The Royal Guelphic Order (German: Königlicher Guelphen-Orden), sometimes referred to as the Hanoverian Guelphic Order, is a Hanoverian Order of Chivalry instituted on 

28 April 1815 by the Prince Regent (later King George IV).[1] 

It takes its name from the House of Guelph, 

of which the House of Hanover was a Branch. 

Since Hanover and The United Kingdom shared a 

Monarch until the year 1837, the Order was frequently bestowed upon British subjects.[2]

King George IV bestowed another honour on Ramsgate:

The flying of his Royal Standard three times a year:

On 29 January, his accession to the Throne;

On 19 July, his Coronation;

On 12 August, the King’s Birthday.

This custom is still observed every year.

[Zephyrinus was notified by the Skipper of the above Award-Winning Yacht, that King George IV had bestowed an award upon Ramsgate, inasmuch that the Harbour was forever to be called “The Royal Harbour”.

[Zephyrinus was somewhat amazed to realise

that the preceding Article, published today on this Blog, referring to the “English Gentleman” Newspaper, and

dated 17 September 1826, carried the moniker “GIVR”, thus also referring to King George IV.

[This somewhat strange coincidence was compounded 

by Zephyrinus suddenly realising that his Vestment Press 

(in which several Priestly Vestments are laid out for use by Priests in The Divine Mass) was made in 1820 and, 

would you believe it, carries the moniker “GIVR”, 

thus also referring to King George IV.]

Spooky !!!

After all these coincidences, Zephyrinus is now seriously giving consideration to buying a Lottery Ticket !!!