@freedom_007__ I would also like to see rules around admittance to the Line of Succession tightened. Confirmation/signed declaration by witnesses legally required and legitimate birth certificate must be provided and made public before admittance.
You already know Alfred The Great saved England. 🏴👑
But you don't know who he actually was.
He was the fifth son. Never supposed to be king.
His four older brothers were.
One by one, the Vikings killed them all.
He suffered from a painful illness his entire life. Something that left him unable to move for days.
This was the man who was supposed to stop the Vikings.
By 878 he was hiding in a swamp.
A peasant woman scolded him for burning her bread.
She didn't know he was the king.
That's how far he'd fallen.
From that swamp he rallied every man in Wessex who still believed.
At Edington he crushed the Viking army.
Then instead of destroying them, he made peace. He baptised their king.
Drew a line across the map. Mercy over slaughter.
He built fortified towns so no one was ever more than a day's march from safety.
Built ships. Rewrote the law. Added something radical: Mercy.
He could barely read until he was twelve. When he learned, it changed him.
He translated books into English himself. All because he believed ordinary people deserved to understand the world they lived in.
He wrote: "I desired to live worthily as long as I lived, and to leave after my life, to the men who should come after, a remembering of me in good works."
The only English monarch ever called "the Great." Not Henry. Not Elizabeth. Not Victoria. Alfred.
Before him, there was no England. After him, there could be.
These stories don't tell themselves.
They survive because people like you decide they matter.
No corporate backing. No agenda.
Just ordinary people who believe we deserve to know who we are.
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The MOST IMPORTANT piece of ground in HUMAN HISTORY is a park by the Thames. 🇬🇧
Before what happened here….
Any king, anywhere, could do whatever he wanted.
Take your land. Take your family. Kill you. No trial. No charge. No limit. No law on earth could touch him.
Then in 1215, England’s barons seized London and sent King John a message:
Meet us, or lose everything. ⚔️
He met them. In a wet field called Runnymede.
They handed him Magna Carta.
No imprisonment without trial. No taxation without consent. The king is under the law.
He sealed it. Then begged the Pope to destroy it.
Didn’t matter. You can’t kill an idea.
America built its Constitution on it. The Fifth Amendment? Straight from Clause 39.
The only monument there for 60 years? Built by Americans. 🇺🇸
They honour that field more than we do.
Every democracy on earth traces back to that patch of grass.
That’s your heritage.
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@ProudofusUK@janemilnerbarry Thank you for your posts - just to add a little more - the GWR Medical Fund actually pre-dates Tredegar, it was founded in 1847. Aneurin Bevan visited the GWR works and was inspired by both Tredegar & the unique cradle to grave service offered by the Swindon company.
@longsally The sound in the background is from the band Queen's Live Aid performance in 1985, just to make it appear as if there's crowd noise & atmosphere! https://t.co/sF0C8tjTDg
@TheRoyalGrift So the stepmother was recently got rid of, now the ‘Thomas Markle’s’ are sailing off into the sunset. The ‘family’ is gradually being deconstructed. On side note - I think it’s the journo that spent time with TM over Xmas not Trevor.
@irenebritusa The mother and baby group weren't special, important or significant enough for Archie's debut, were they? No, she wanted that to be with Archbishop Desmond TuTu.
The term ‘far right’ is a cheap buzz word that dehumanises people with genuine concerns.
Rather than solve the problem it radicalises individuals to commit insane reprehensible acts of criminality.
Condemn the violence and address the grievances. You can do both. #riots #nigelfarage @reformparty_uk
@usweekly Really? Is that why he blew off attending a Memorial Service for Marines killed in a terrorist attack when he was their Captain General to pimp his wife for voiceover work at The Lion King Premiere. That's not dedication in my book.
@ladymmce@PageSix Tried to force them to provide him with housing (in the UK) and other financial demands. He was not invited to meet the RF for a reason.