Thanks, Maisie, for setting the record straight! J. xx ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maisie Egger" <campsiehills@sbcglobal.net> To: <irelandgenweb@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 10:10 AM Subject: Re: [Irish Genealogy] Recent Trip to Ireland - Cobh,Cork's marvelous "Queenstown Story" Museum > With all due respect: > > When Elizabeth of England died in 1603, as next in line, James VI of > Scotland inherited the throne of England, thus becoming James I of GREAT > BRITAIN, not just of ENGLAND!. (James VI of Scotland was the son of Mary > Stuart, Queen of Scots. She had been beheaded per her cousin Elizabeth's > signature.) > >>From the year 1603 on, therefore, all monarchs were not king or queen of > ENGLAND but of GREAT BRITAIN, etc. Both the crowns of Scotland and > England > were united under one CROWN in that year. Queen Victoria, therefore, can > not be Queen Victoria of ENGLAND. <snip>

THE QUEEN'S LAST RIDE The Queen is taking a drive to-day, They have hung with purple the carriage-way, They have dressed with purple the royal track Where the Queen goes forth and never comes back. Let no man labour as she goes by On her last appearance to mortal eye; With heads uncovered let all men wait For the Queen to pass, in her regal state. Army and Navy shall lead the way For that wonderful coach of the Queen's to-day. Kings and Princes and Lords of the land shall ride behind her, a humble band; And over the city and over the world Shall the Flags of all Nations be half-mast-furled, For the silent lady of royal birth Who is riding away from the Courts of earth, Riding away from the world's unrest To a mystical goal, on a secret quest. Though in royal splendour she drives through town, Her robes are simple, she wears no crown: And yet she wears one, for, widowed no more, She is crowned with the love that has gone before, And crowned with the love she has left behind In the hidden depths of each mourner's mind. Bow low your head -- lift your hearts on high -- The Queen in silence is driving by! (Note, in 1861 Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, died of typhoid). SNIPPET: I found a little volume of poetry entitled "Poems of Power" by Ella Wheeler WILCOX, published in London in 1910 by Gay & Hancock, Lt., 12 & 13, Henrietta St., Covent Garden, London. Per the poetess, the title of her volume refers to the divine power in every human being, the recognition of which is the secret to all success and happiness and that is the idea which many of her verses endeavour to illustrate. When Queen Victoria died, Ella, who was born in WI in 1850, was invited to join reporters of the NY "American" as their official poet at the royal funeral. The Britons already loved Ella's poems, which were taught in schools. Ella's burning desire as a child was to lift herself and her family out of poverty, and she chose writing as her means. Her father, Marcus Hatwell WHEELER, was a dance teacher, music teacher and farmer. Her mother was Sarah PRATT, a woman who sought solace in literature and who encouraged Ella to write. Ella's maternal grandmother from Boston, Abagail CONNOR, was of Irish ancestry and the wife of William PRATT, Bradford, VT. Ella produced an eleven-chapter novel when she was only nine, bound in kitchen wallpaper! Her professional career began at 14 when she submitted prose to the NY "Mercury" to pay for an expired subscription. Her work appeared in "Leslie's Weekly" & "Waverly" magazine. Ella, who died in 1919, made a small fortune writing. She was married to Robert Marius WILCOX; after he died from pneumonia Ella tried to reach him in the spirit world by means of a Ouija board. She is best remembered by these famous lines from "Solitude." Laugh and the world laughs with you/Weep, and you weep alone/For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth /But has trouble enough of its own/Sing and the hills will answer/Sigh, it is lost on the air/The echoes bound to a joyful sound/But shrink from voicing care. Another of her verses is entitled "The World's Need" - So many gods, so many creeds/So many paths that wind and wind/While just the art of being kind/Is all the sad world needs. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean R." <jeanrice@cet.com> To: <irelandgenweb@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 11:08 AM Subject: Re: [Irish Genealogy] Recent Trip to Ireland - Cobh,Cork's marvelous "Queenstown Story" Museum > Thanks, Maisie, for setting the record straight! J. xx