> It is ironic that the Prince, often regarded as being at odds with his
> father, the Duke of Edinburgh, is increasingly being influenced by Greek
> Orthodoxy. The Duke's father was Prince Andrew of Greece.
Doubly ironic when you consider that the Greek royal family (like many of those put on the throne by Palmerston and other British gunboat diplomats in the 19th century) were all minor German royalty and distant cousins of Queen Victoria. Is it my fertile imagination or was the first king of the Hellenes called Otto?
Bruce R
Earlier this
> month, a 24-hour retreat in the monastic community of Mount Athos turned
> into three days after the Prince was stranded by gales and heavy seas.
While
> there, the Prince attended the Divine Liturgy.
>
> The Prince meets regularly with local and national leaders of the Jewish,
> Muslim, Hindu, Sikh and other faiths. He has said that when he becomes
King
> he wants to be Defender of Faith rather than "the Faith".
>
> But this does not indicate any lessening of interest in the established
> Church. The Prince will often make unscheduled, private visits to parish
> churches.
>
> On church architecture, as with other architecture, his tastes are
> conservative and he recently became Patron of the Prayer Book Society,
which
> promotes the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.
>
> His references in his lecture to stewardship and the "sacred trust"
between
> mankind and the creator are framed in a fashion common to clergy in the
> Church of England.
>
> Last December, on BBC Radio 4, the Prince described God as "the source of
> our souls" and called for a redisovery of a "sense of the sacred" in the
way
> crops are grown and livestock raised.
>
> The Times 18.05.00
> Mark Jones
> http://www.egroups.com/group/CrashList
>