スピーチの内容と並んで注目を集めているのが女王の横に置かれた写真たち。向かって左側からチャールズ皇太子とカミラ夫人、その後方にフィリップ王配、隣にウィリアム王子とキャサリン妃一家、女王の隣には父で前国王のジョージ6世の写真が飾られている。昨年の放送ではヘンリー王子とメーガン妃の結婚式の写真もあったのに、今年は見当たらないことにロイヤルファンは騒然！ ヘンリー王子とメーガン妃がクリスマスに女王の私邸サンドリンガムハウスを訪れないことも手伝って「不仲なのでは？」と推測する声も。
https://www.elle.com/jp/culture/celebgossip/a30326501/queen-elizabeth-christmas-message-191225/
エリザベス女王に楯突くようなことをお人好しのヘンリー王子が思いつくはずがない。“首謀者”とみられるメーガン妃の身勝手な理屈では、ソブリングラントを受け取る王室のシニアメンバーの地位を返上しさえすれば、財政的に王室から独立して自己資金を調達し、自分の思うように慈善活動や社会活動を展開できるということになる。
メーガン妃が当て込む収入はスピーチ料。世界のトップスピーカーは1回で最大50万ドル（約5500万円）を荒稼ぎする。2人はこの2～3週間でTシャツ、履物、帽子、コート、ジャケット、パジャマ、書籍、雑誌から教材に至るまで100以上の商品について「サセックスロイヤル」のブランドで商標登録したと報じられている。
このためバッキンガム宮殿の関係者は大衆紙に「何から何までメーガン妃の言うことを聞いてきたのに、とんでもない裏切りだ」「どうして何の非もないエリザベス女王にこんなひどいマネをする」「こんなに虫の良い話はない。彼女は良いとこ取りのマスタークラスだ」と腹の底から怒りをぶちまけている。
True Catholics, the Trump administration is the most conservative religious administration to lead the United States in a long time, perhaps ever. Trump is more anti-abortion even than previous conservative presidents and has cut off foreign aid to governments funding abortions. He has issued Executive Orders that stand up uncompromisingly for the right of religion to speak out without interference from the secular government. Trump himself appears to be relatively conservative religiously, with ties to old mainline (not Evangelical) Protestantism, particularly Presbyterian and Episcopalian. And now it appears that President Trump's Chief Advisor during the years of the campaign and early administration is a traditionalist Catholic!
Here’s one reason Catholics in the U.S. might be rooting for the small Central European country: Croatia is a deeply Catholic country, and the coach of its national team, Zlatko Dalic, is a man of sincere faith.
Dalic said recently that his current success is due to his faith in God, and that he always carries a rosary to hold onto in difficult times.
Dalic spoke about his faith on Croatian Catholic radio when the World Cup began.
“Everything I have done in my life and in my professional career I owe to my faith, and I am grateful to my Lord,” Dalic said.
During the time Jesus lived in Palestine, Croatia, along with the rest of the Balkan Peninsula, was a part of the Roman Empire- most of it a part of the Roman province of Dalmatia.
Located along the Adriatic Sea, Dalmatia, which was also sometimes referred to as Illyricum, an older Greek name, was home to Roman subjects and their religions from across the Empire. At the time Jesus lived, there was a Jewish population in the region. Some members of the Jewish community became Christians during the earliest periods of Christian evangelization.
Scripture records that Titus, a disciple of St. Paul, travelled to Dalmatia, and he might have died there. The region is mentioned in St. Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy.
Some old traditions hold that St. Paul might have gone to Dalmatia too, since he wrote in the Letter to the Romans about visiting “Illyricum,” but he probably was referring to a part of Greece close to modern-day Albania.
The Croatian people, who migrated to the Dalmatian region in the 6th century, probably followed tribal religions until natives to the region, along with Byzantine and Benedictine missionaries, some from France, converted them to Catholicism. By the 9th century, Croats could be considered a Christian people, and, by the end of that century, Croatian nobility had begun pledging their allegiance to the pope.
JERUSALEM - Last Night of the Proms - 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1XFCH1-WHo
And did those feet in ancient time ("Jerusalem")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MwCUNgVdjE
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Jerusalem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T25jOOrXvsE
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%AC%E3%83%A0_(%E8%81%96%E6%AD%8C)
