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[Barbara Benson]

> -Muiriath>  I would rather have soeone who cannot eat much at a feast then someone who has forbidden to have rapier at events where They may be present (and that just recently happened in another Kingdom)

Greetings,

In the interest of preventing yet another SCA Myth from perpetuating I
would like to address this statement. This is not, in fact, what
happened.

The post that was put onto the SCA Rapier list regarding Rapier and
the, at that time, Prince was penned by our Kingdom Rapier Marshall.
After it was removed from context and much circulated the Prince
himself wrote a clarification of his position and it came out on many
of our Kingdom Lists. But it not being as inflammatory or interesting
it did not receive quite the extensive exposure that the original post
did.

At no point did His Higness (now Majesty) say that there could not be
rapier at an event he was attending. He was simply attempting to
communicate that neither he nor his Lady had any interest in Rapier
and that they would not be promoting Rapier in the form of sponsoring
a Champions Battle or watching Rapier at events.

And while I believe that we would all prefer to have Crowns that are
passionate about our particular area of interest - unfortunately that
does not always happen. I have known many a Crown with a Late period
European Persona who would not in any way attend the ME Hafla,
preferring instead to attend the European Revel. It is indeed
unfortunate when the Crown does not pass on these preferences. If, in
this example, the organizers of the Hafla expect the Crown and make
extra efforts to comfort the Crown, and they never show up - there is
much embarassment and hard feelings.

Glad Tidings,
Serena da Riva