Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, United Kingdom’s Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox, Sir David Richards, UK Chief of Defence, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen render honors during the playing of the British and American national anthems at the Pentagon, April 26, 2011. Defense Department photo by Cherie Cullen (released)
The British Players arrive at the Creative Casino to play for all the marbles.
Sir Ian Easton was the head of College of Defence Studies in Washington where I believe he met Rena. It appears Ian Flemming opposed the entrance of Americans into this unit, and his Bond novels were a coded protest. I am sure he knew about Flemming’s feelings, they discussed on a regular basis, especially when the Bond movies came out. Did Ian marry Rena in hope of employing her in a real spy drama, but, she proved, difficult?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_College_of_Defence_Studies
I was told in a psychic reading in 1994, that I go each night to ‘The Cathedral of the Souls’ where I have a reserved seat at a great wooden table. I had a vision of Rena and I getting married in this place that is sacred to the Rosicrucians. Rose Sainte Croix in at the apex of this family tree that keeps Art and literature in a safe place. However, we are running out of members. They are dying off, and no new members qualify. Here is Flemming’s sketch of his Bond. He looks like me when I was young. I just found this in an old post.
“Deputy Sheriff Dan Mayland assured me several times that Rena was not attacking my blog in order to get all information about her removed. Dan seemed to go out of his way to assure me Rena wanted me to continue blogging about her. I am completely confused as to why she wants me to write wonderful and intimate things about her eighteen year old self, and, at the same time she demonizes me, takes out a stalking order so Dan will give me the message “Stay away from me!”
Rena said she was overwhelmed with fear most of the day. I think my letter contained too many hidden poetic riddles. She wasn’t sure if I was who I say I am, and wanted to study my response? Why did she come back to the States? She had her dream over there?
My mother, Rosemary Rosamond, joined the Navy and scored the second highest I.Q. score in the history of the Waves, and was sent to Seattle to spy on the Russians. Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor is kin to Ian Flemming.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2015
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In 1922 a cabinet committee under Winston Churchill, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, recommended the formation of the College.[1] The college was founded in 1927 as the Imperial Defence College and was located at 9 Buckingham Gate until 1939.[1] Its objective at that time was the defence of the Empire.[1] In 1946, following the end of World War II, the college reopened at Seaford House, Belgrave Square and members of the United States forces started attending courses.[1] It was renamed the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1970 and in 2007 the Queen and Prince Philip visited the college.[1]
Anglo-American relations[edit]
The Bond novels also dealt with the question of Anglo-American relations, reflecting the central role of the US in the defence of the West.[187] In the aftermath of the Second World War, tensions surfaced between a British government trying to retain its empire and the American desire for a capitalist new world order, but Fleming did not focus on this directly, instead creating “an impression of the normality of British imperial rule and action”.[171] Author and journalist Christopher Hitchens observed that “the central paradox of the classic Bond stories is that, although superficially devoted to the Anglo-American war against communism, they are full of contempt and resentment for America and Americans”.[188] Although Fleming was aware of this tension between the two countries, he did not focus on it strongly.[171] Kingsley Amis, in his exploration of Bond in The James Bond Dossier, pointed out that “Leiter, such a nonentity as a piece of characterization … he, the American, takes orders from Bond, the Britisher, and that Bond is constantly doing better than he”.[189]
For three of the novels, Goldfinger, Live and Let Die and Dr. No, it is Bond the British agent who has to sort out what turns out to be an American problem,[190] and Black points out that although it is American assets that are under threat in Dr. No, a British agent and a British warship, HMS Narvik, are sent with British soldiers to the island at the end of the novel to settle the matter.[191] Fleming became increasingly jaundiced about America, and his comments in the penultimate novel You Only Live Twice reflect this;[192] Bond’s responses to Tanaka’s comments reflect the declining relationship between Britain and America—in sharp contrast to the warm, co-operative relationship between Bond and Leiter in the earlier books.[161]
Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson DBE (18 December 1908 – 26 April 1982) was an English actress.[1]
She began her stage acting career in 1928, and subsequently achieved success in West End and Broadway productions. She also appeared in several films, including the romantic drama Brief Encounter (1945), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was nominated for BAFTA Awards on five occasions, and won twice, for her work in the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), and for the television production Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, a BBC Play for Today broadcast in 1973.
Much of her later work was for television, and she continued performing in theatre for the rest of her life. She suffered a stroke and died soon after at the age of 73.
Evelyn Rose was the daughter of George Alfred Sainte Croix Rose (1854-1926), a Berkshire Justice of the Peace and militia officer, by his marriage in 1880 to Beatrice Quain, the daughter of Sir Richard Quain. On 15 February 1906 she married Valentine Fleming (1882–1917),[2] and by that marriage was the mother of four sons: Peter Fleming, Ian Fleming – the novelist who wrote the James Bond books, Richard Fleming and Michael Fleming. She was known for her flamboyant beauty.
After her husband’s death in action in the Great War in May 1917, Evelyn Fleming inherited his large estate in trust, making her very wealthy. However, the conditions of the money in trust transferred it to others should she ever re-marry. She became the mistress of painter Augustus John, with whom she had a daughter, the cellist Amaryllis Fleming.
She died only two weeks before the death of her son Ian on 12 August 1964.[3]
Fleming was born in 1925, probably in Switzerland.[1] She was the illegitimate daughter of the painter Augustus John by his mistress Eve Fleming, mother of the writers Peter Fleming and Ian Fleming by her late husband, although most of her life she was raised as the adopted daughter of Eve Fleming as a pretence to hide her illegitimacy and only discovered her true parentage when she was in her twenties.[2]
She went away to school at Downe House in Berkshire, but went up to London every three weeks for cello lessons with John Snowden. In 1943 she won a scholarship to study full-time with Ivor James at the Royal College of Music.[1] She later studied at times under Gaspar Cassadó, Enrico Mainardi, Pablo Casals, Guilhermina Suggia and Pierre Fournier
In 1942 Fleming formed a unit of commandos, known as No. 30 Commando or 30 Assault Unit (30AU), composed of specialist intelligence troops.[38] 30AU’s job was to be near the front line of an advance—sometimes in front of it—to seize enemy documents from previously targeted headquarters.[39] The unit was based on a German group headed by Otto Skorzeny, who had undertaken similar activities in the Battle of Crete in May 1941.[40] The German unit was thought by Fleming to be “one of the most outstanding innovations in German intelligence”.[41]
Fleming did not fight in the field with the unit, but selected targets and directed operations from the rear.[40] On its formation the unit was only thirty strong, but it grew to five times that size.[41] The unit was filled with men from other commando units, and trained in unarmed combat, safe-cracking and lock-picking at the SOE facilities.[40] In late 1942 Captain (later Rear-Admiral) Edmund Rushbrooke replaced Godfrey as head of the Naval Intelligence Division, and Fleming’s influence in the organisation declined, although he retained control over 30AU.[1] Fleming was unpopular with the unit’s members,[41] who disliked his referring to them as his “Red Indians”.[42
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming
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https://rosamondpress.com/2013/07/21/irene-rena-victoria-easton/
Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere (29 May 1898 – 12 July 1978) was a British Conservative politician and press magnate.
Early life[edit]
Harmsworth was the son of Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, who had founded the Daily Mail in partnership with his brother Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe. He was educated at Eton College and commissioned into the Royal Marine Artillery in World War I. His two older brothers were both killed in action. Esmond served as Aide-de-Camp to the Prime Minister at the Paris Peace Conference. In 1919, he was elected as a Unionist Member of Parliament for the Isle of Thanet, one of the youngest MPs ever. He served until 1929.
Press career[edit]
After 1922, the Daily Mail and General Trust company was created to control the newspapers that Lord Rothermere retained after Lord Northcliffe’s death (The Times, for example, was sold). As his father dabbled in association with the Nazis and a flirtation with becoming King of Hungary, it fell to Harmsworth to manage the businesses. He was the chairman of Associated Newspapers from 1932 to 1971, after which he assumed the titles of President and Director of Group Finance, and chairman of Daily Mail & General Trust Ltd, the parent company, from 1938 until his death.
Harmsworth ran the businesses with sufficient skill that they remain firmly under family control today, majority ownership being voted by his grandson, the 4th Viscount Rothermere, and a significant minority by Vyvyan Harmsworth, the 2nd Viscount’s son by his third marriage. Never as flamboyant as his father or his son, he wielded his power on Fleet Street alongside other press lords whose families have all relinquished control of their holdings today.
Harmsworth also had a significant impact on the development of Memorial University of Newfoundland (the family has had a long-standing interest in Newfoundland, having built a paper mill in Grand Falls before the outbreak of the first world war). The University’s first residence in Paton College, known as Rothermere House, is named after the Viscount. Harmsworth was the first Chancellor of Memorial University and the benefactor who provided the funds to construct Rothermere House.
Personal life[edit]
Lord Rothermere succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1940. He married three times and had four children:.[1] His first marriage was to Margaret Hunam Redhead, daughter of William Lancelot Redhead, on 12 January 1920 (divorced 1938). They had three children:
- Hon. Lorna Peggy Vyvyan Harmsworth (1920-2014) who married Neill Cooper-Key MP (1907-1981), and had issue 2 sons and 2 daughters; her younger and only surviving son was 1st husband of Lady Mary-Gaye Curzon-Howe (mother by later marriages of actress Isabella Calthorpe and society beauty Cressida Bonas).
- Hon. Esmé Mary Gabrielle Harmsworth (1922–2011) who married Rowland Baring, 3rd Earl of Cromer, and had issue 2 sons and 1 daughter by her 1st marriage.
- Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere (1925–1998)
He married, secondly, Ann Geraldine Mary Charteris, widow of Shane Edward Robert O’Neill, 3rd Baron O’Neill, who was killed in action in 1944 at Italy. She also was the daughter of Captain Hon. Guy Lawrence Charteris and Frances Lucy Tennant and granddaughter of Hugo Richard Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss, on 28 June 1945 (divorced 1952). Ann Charteris then married the writer Ian Fleming in 1952.[2]
Lord Rothermere married, thirdly, Mary Murchison, daughter of Kenneth Murchison, on 28 March 1966, by whom he had a second son Esmond Vyvyan. Lord Rothermere died on 12 July 1978, aged 80, and was succeeded by his son, Vere Harmsworth.
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Racists in Britain are being blamed for the chaos. Bernstein claims Trump is appealing to Neo-Fascists like we see rising to power in Europe. I compared Rena Easton to Helen of Troy and suggested she was under the spell of Neo-Nazis in Montana. I was blogging on Sarah Churchill days before the fatal Brexit. Admiral Easton was the head of the organization that Churchill founded to prevent a fall-out between Britain and the U.S. This was a special Euro agreement that very few knew exists. Was Presdient Obama informed about this vote possibly going wrong? Ian Flemming and Winston are turning over in their grave, as is Sir Easton. Who saw this great disaster coming? I did! Who was called mad, and a sexist stalker for following his prophetic works of art – and his beautiful muses? This one of the most profound love stories in the last thousand years. “In 1922 a cabinet committee under Winston Churchill, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, recommended the formation of the College.[1] The college was founded in 1927 as the Imperial Defence College and was located at 9 Buckingham Gate until 1939.[1] Its objective at that time was the defence of the Empire.[1] In 1946, following the end of World War II, the college reopened at Seaford House, Belgrave Square and members of the United States forces started attending courses.[1] It was renamed the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1970 and in 2007 the Queen and Prince Philip visited the college.[1]