ANST - need for kings

[Mark.S Harris]

Duchess Larissa wrote:
> 
> km writes: 
> "but it's the seneshals who do all the work. they sign all the checks. they
> answer all the questions. they write all the reports. they are the ones
> responceble for everything".....********
> 
> ummmmmmmmmmmmm no!  Not in my two reign recollection. I remember long hours
> on the road, the phone, reading letters of recommendations, Kingdom Law
> changes, voting for territorial representatives ie: Baron and Baroness,
> tedious treaty talks with other Kingdoms.
> 
> Then the phone bill came, representing those long hours, the gas bill, the
> over the counter headache medicine bill (just kidding here, but only on this
> item)...

Thank you, Your Grace. I have mentioned before this Florilegium file:
crown-cost-msg    (18K) 12/30/96    The monetary and other costs of being a  
                                       crown in the SCA.

If you or any other past crowns, here or from out-of-kingdom, have additional
comments to make on this subject, I would love to have them for this file.
These are some of the hidden costs that are often not known by potential
competitors for the Crown or others.

Crowns have lost jobs, driven their cars into the ground, run up enormous
phone bills and more trying to meet our (and their) expectations of what an 
SCA Crown should do. Reading these messages years ago gave me another
perspective on what is required of our Crowns.

Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net
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