SR - principalities else where..

[Carey]

I thought that some of us might fine this letter interesting..

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> Hello, I am Connor mac Clure and I live in Ansteorra (TX.)
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>  I want to know what a principality is like as we here in the southern
> region are seriously talking about it....history files and others there
> in your area that would like to send me their thoughts, that would be
> great!     Thanks....Key Connor
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> >Susan Carroll-Clark wrote:
> 	Greetings! 
> First thing, go visit www.ealdormere.midrealm.org.  That's our Principality
> web page, and there's a fair number of resources there you can look at,
> including the short history I  did for the Kingdom bid, descriptions of our
> awards, and that kind of thing.
> 
> I can tell you a little why we chose that route.  I think it was in the back
> of the mind of the first group members up here to someday have a Northern
> Kingdom.  Round about 1986 or so, we decided to select a regional
> champion--this is the route Calontir had taken towards becoming a kingdom
> some years before.  But things had changed;  the Middle Kingdom decided that
> regions could not have champions or even names.  This was decided without
> consulting us here in Ealdormere, so we felt crushed.  However, two years
> later, we became a Crown Principality (that's a principality in name, but
> without Royalty) and about 2 1/2 years after that, in 1990, we advanced to
> full Principality status.  Last January, we were approved to advance to
> Kingdom status, which we will do next October.
> 
> One of the driving reasons why we became a Principality was the size of the
> Middle Kingdom.  It's huge.  We also thought we had a somewhat different
> culture here (being all Canadians, for one thing, and tending towards lots
> of smaller groups instead of fewer huge groups).  We also, as I mentioned,
> wanted to see our own folks as Royalty--the King and Queen were people we
> saw once a reign, if we were lucky, at that point.
> 
> I guess what you need to make a Principality work is the desire to make it
> work.  You have to have officers willing to run it and the imagination to
> turn it into what you want it to be (whether that be a permanent
> Principality which never leaves your Kingdom, or its own Kingdom someday).
> 
> Nicolaa de Bracton

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