Out of Her Tree
Posted on December 6, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
The Royal Janitor
by
John Presco
Copyright 2023
Victoria Bond got to see how BAD and British Intelligence dealt with an agent, or employee, who was definitely – out of her/his tree! The Wizard was able to piece together the delusions her wife was experiencing, and got a good look at the Christian Replacement Plan of the Mount Shasta Evangelicals who were apologists for the glaring flaws of Biblical stories. Noah and The Flood was a huge problem in the Christian plot to take over te United States Government, and the British Empire. Real scientists had proven the earth was billions of years old, and humanoids had roamed the earth for millions of years – and did evolve from primates! This was a slap in the face to the Lovers of the Bible, and Jesus Christ. It kept the real Christ in the margins of what is – not real. There are genealogies that depict Jesus’ descent from Adam ad Eve, but, are not clear about his decent from Noah and his children. Why did God wipe out all the human beings on the planet – but spared Noah and his family?
Victoria refused to get into theological discussion with Starfish, because she was not a believer, and thus knew next to nothing about the one God of the Jews, who she doubted was the Creator of Everything. With the appearance of many shooting stats, comets, asteroids and Northern lights, Miriam Starfish Christling was convinced God was bringing a new wave of Near-Men-Primates from The Creator Planet – to earth – so they an replace the last wave of primates who were damaged when the Dark Star broke the beam of the Rainbow Bridge that transported God’s Children to Earth. This Rainbow Arc in the Heavens became Noah’s Ark in the damaged history report, that left out the severe mental illness that overcame Man, that is…..The Fall! God’s plan was to create a New Arc of Colorful Light, and bring a undamaged Race of Men and Women to His beloved planet – so they can kill off the Damaged Ones – and rebuild the World the way God intended. The timing of all this, was explained in The New Timing, which Starfish mastered by the age of eleven. She was the Chosen Clock of God! The Wizard found her Book of God’s Timing, which explained how God could speed up HIS EVOLUTION. In God Time, the Near-Men will evolve into a far superior race – that will rule God’s Green Earth,
“We’re already here! We have – evolved!” Starfish told The Wizard, who gave his report to M15.
“Are you saying you are not the person-primate I interviewed for a job?”
“Yes! A billion years had gone by since the attach on the Super Nova Music Festival on the Sukkot. “
The Wizard had mastered in psychology at Harvard and surmised Starfish was suffered from Disassociation due to the death of her parents, and her beloved Nova Dancers. M15 wanted to dispose of Starfish.
“She is a danger to herself and others!”
“If we do that, then we lose Victoria – who has an uncanny sixth sense. Her dream about the Ghost Fleet had come true. In the last threes years the super powers have build over two hundred warships. Several Nations are sending a fleet to the Mediterranean in anticipation of a widening war, that some experts are saying is the coming War of Armageddon. I tried to coax information on the Biblical War of God, out of Starfish. She said the battle is already raging, and what we are seeing is, Divine Time Leaks.”
“I am instructed to join the battle. Ive ‘been drafted. I am a colonel in the Royal Christian Airforce of King Jesus. I’m on a bombing mission right now!”
“What are you bombing!” asked The Wizard.
“If I told you, I would have to kill you!”
The British agents came for Starfish in the middle of the night – with giant nets that caught er after she was darted. She cried out like a wild chimpanzee. She told Victoria she was mastering Near-Human Speak. As a coincidence, a primate answered her. There was a hunt for a pet chimpanzee in the South Eugene Hills. KEZI asked the owner to come fortth.
A month after Starfish was put on a military jet for England, Victoria finally felt she had got caught up. On her desk was the Tuberville report, along with the Mike Johnson evaluation. Both men were giving signals to the Christian Nationalist – who wanted Trump reelected. Then there was the attack on college presidents for not demonizing Hamas. But what was truly profound was her report on Navy buildups. She saw a pattern that seemed to have a mind of its own. How could billions of dollars be diverted to a massive build-up with anyone’s intelligence agency taking note. BAD was the only one on it. Victoria hd to admit that she was the most powerful spy in the world. She had been move to the center of th vortex, the labyrinth of secret information. She got to play – God!
Owning this secular idea, Victoria went to an AI Image generator. Other agent were doing self-portraits. V was serious to see the results. She typed in….”The Spy of Roses” and hit the “Generate” button, and gasped! She had icy pale blue eyes, as did other members of the Rosemond family she had summonsed on the internet. She discovered she was related to Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, and….
“Cheeeekha – ook, ookmm cha!”
The hair on Victoria was tingling. She was covered in goosebumps! She raced to the balcony overlooing the night nights of Eugene Oregon!
“Youre not a chimpanzee! Your a human being. Are you a male, or, a female!” A neighbor’s light went on. A button was pushed that turned on a camera and recorder. Evidence was being collected to fuell a lawsuit. An irate woman – wanted Victoria – out of there, before her crazy mate returned.
“Ook! Oook!”
“You’re a male! Why do I know this?”
Just then, the phone rang!
“Starfish has escaped!”
“She might be….”
“She was just spotted in splashing for joy in the Princess Diana monument. She was making monkey sounds. Children ran to her and joined her in a wild dance!”
To be continued.
TZK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana,_Princess_of_Wales_Memorial_Fountain
The Royal Janitor
by
John Presco
Copyright 2023
Chapter: Colonel Christling of The CCAF
Victoria Rosemond Bond refused to return to BAD headquarters on the Isle of Wight. She loved her home in Eugene, and was experiencing total clarity, now that “The Nutcase” was gone. Bond winced every time The Wizard called her wife that. But, it was true. There was no escaping the truth. She had not been spotted for nearly a year. They almost caught her at the Princess Di Monument, but she sprinted into the woods. The children – cheered! The news in America and Britain called her Shena of the Jungle. A doll was made and was a hot seller. Swift wrote a hit song. that made a connection to her last name and how fast Starfish ran.
With her morning cup of Java beside her, V turned on her three giant televisions, and began to map the sightings of the renegade air force that called itself The Cosmic Crusader Airforce. They were made up of Americans, Russians, and Israelis who were bonded by two passages of the Old Testament, and two passages in the New. These messages from God, had yet to be identified. Those in the know, deciphered the clues. If Starfish had not gone AWOL, then BAD and M15 – would know.
Suddenly, the doorbell rang. V put her coffee cup down, and went the door, irritated with her new bodyguard who lived in the converted gardening shack. She had given orders to Thomas to not let anyone near the house. Who could it be…..The Jehovah’s Witnesses. Opening the door, she suppressed a scream.
“Hello, Love! I’m back!”
Because she was still in love with her wife, who never looked so handsome, and masculine, she wanted her so much, to be her husband for a change. But when Starfish did not pickup on hw hot she was, V looked into her eyes, and her hot blood turned as cold as ice.. V went deeper, very deep into the blankness of her look that was hiding something, hiding a powerful emotion. What was this look saying.
“Did I ever tell you the story of the fish that lived in the depth of Lake….”
“What? What did you say!”
“I didn’t say anything. Did you see my lips move?”
“No, I….Oh my God! You have cuts on your face that needed to be treated or they will scar. Your beautiful face will be scarred for life!” V took a step towards the love of her life so she could caress her wounds and heal them somehow, But was stopped in her tracks by this statement.
“I want to have scars. They were made by God when my cockpit exploded when a Czech fighter got me in his crosshairs. I saw it explode – and the large bullet whiz past my ear. It was like slow-motion – and a near-death experience. I came that close, and barely made it back to the base. Can you read what my scars say. I tried to teach you the Hebrew alphabet, but you were closed to the truth. Read my scars, Victoria. What is the first letter? It’s a T. The second letter is a Z. The third letter is a K. What am I? “
“What? What are you talking about? You’re Miriam Starfish Bond – my wife!”
“WRONG! I am a TZADIK. I am one of the Righteous Ones, if not – THE Righteous One!
V was able to step back and get the complete picture. For sure, the woman, the human being she loved to death, was the craziest person on earth. And this was a consolation prize that comes with the total madness of her.
“Can I come in. I have something very important to show you!”
V looked even deeper into Starfish’s eyes, that were bottomless. They kept retreating from her so she would not read……God’s Message? Starfish was visualizing doing something, and her mind was almost made up she was going to do it.
“You can come in. but you have to take that hat off – and leave it outside. I will not allow it in my home!”
V almost buckled at the knees. She was following the Wizard’s instruction who was a Aikido Master..
“Never allow the aggressor to own a picture of what they want to do to you. Distract him/her. Be aggressive, first, then retreat into be the little wheel as they come at you with rage!”
“What did you just ask me to do? No one tells me what to do. I don’t take this hat off for anyone! I’m coming in!” Starfish’s boot came across the threshold.
“Take that – FUCKING HAT OFF!” Shouted V, and she backhanded it off Starfish’s head. When she bent over to pick it up, V saw a golden opportunity and opening. Grabbing the heady oak door, she slammed it with all her might….And it hit her love on her beautiful ass and she went flying ten feet off the stoop, and lay theor spread-eagled – IN FUCKIMG SHOCK!
“And STAY THE FUCK OUT until you can dress like a civilized human being!”
Locking thee door, V ran up the stairs as fast as she could to the safe room the Wizard had built. Throwing the bolts into place, V called her bodyguards. When he did not answer, V knew he was dead, and Starfish killed him. V began to weep. Then, she heard the muffled pounding of footsteps racing up the stairs. V stopped breathing. She was what was in the depth of Starfishes eyes…….Death.
Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45495/the-ballad-of-reading-gaol
To be continued.
I have seen a lot of AI Art on the internet and only a handful of images caught my eye, and were worthy of a study. When I saw this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzadik
EXTRA! I just woke up from my nap 12-6-23 at 12:37 and saw this on my phone. I got permission from the gentleman on Facebook who generated the top image on AI – that looks like Starfish and Yulia Rose. I wrote about Noah’s flood this morning, in the last chapter. It’ official. We are in Biblical Holy War with Prophecy!
John Presco
They were made up of Americans, Russians, and Israelis who were bonded by two passages of the Old Testament, and two passages in the New.
Gazans say IDF dropped leaflets with Quran verse about flood carrying away ‘wrongdoers’
Residents of Khan Younis, the largest city in southern Gaza and the latest focus of the Israeli military’s ground offensive, say the army has showered the area with leaflets quoting a verse in the Quran.
Palestinians deciding whether to flee Khan Younis as Israeli tanks draw closer say they view the quoted verse, “The flood overtook them as they were wrongdoers,” as an ominous portent.
The Israeli military does not immediate respond to a request for comment.
Journalist Aamer Tabsh in Khan Younis says he saw Israeli planes drop thousands of the fliers.
Tabsh says residents are convinced the reference to the epic flood of Noah in the Quran and the Bible “means that something much worse is coming.”
Some are linking it to Hamas’s name for its October 7 onslaught against Israel, “Al Aqsa Deluge,” or flood. Others point to recent reports that the IDF is considering flooding Hamas’s subterranean tunnel network with seawater to force out the terrorists.
(29:14) We did indeed send Noah to his people21 and he lived among them a thousand years save fifty.22 Eventually the Flood overtook them while they were engaged in wrongdoing.23
22. This does not mean that the Prophet Noah (peace be upon him) lived for 950 years, but it means that after his appointment to prophethood till the coming of the flood, he went on making efforts for 950 years for the reformation of his wicked people, and he did not lose heart even though he suffered persecutions for such a long time. The same is the aim of the discourse here. The believers are being told: “You have been suffering persecutions and experiencing stubbornness of your wicked opponents hardly for six years or so. Just imagine the patience and resolution and firmness of Our servant who braved such afflictions and hardships continuously for nine and a half centuries.”
The Quran and the Bible differ about the age of the Prophet Noah (peace be upon him). The Bible says that he lived for 950 years. He was 600 years old when the flood came, and lived for another 350 years after the flood. But according to the Quran, he must have lived for at least a thousand years, because 950 years is the time that he spent in preaching his mission after his appointment to prophethood till the coming of the flood. Evidently, he must have been appointed to prophethood after he had attained his maturity, and must have lived some life after the flood also.
For some people such a long life is inconceivable. But in this world of God strange happenings are not rare. Wherever one may look one will see extraordinary manifestations of His power. The occurrence of certain events and things in a usual form and manner is no proof that the event or thing cannot happen in an unusual and extraordinary way. To break these assumptions there exists a long list of unusual events and things that have taken place in every kind of creation in every part of the universe. In particular, the person who has a clear concept of God’s being All- Powerful, cannot be involved in the misunderstanding that it is not possible for God, Who is the Creator of life and death, to grant a life of a thousand years or so to any man. The fact is that man of his own will and wish cannot live even for a moment, but if Allah wills, He can make him live for as long as He pleases.
23. That is, the flood came when they still persisted in their wickedness. Had they desisted from it before the coming of the flood, Allah would not have sent this torment on them.
RAMATAMAR OF KORE
Posted on December 28, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
I was raised a Catholic was taught there were consequences for lying – for telling falsehoods! As Christmas music slowly took over my classical music station, I said to myself..
“Tis the season of The Creeping Lie’. Soon, the lying will be total. The Pope will speak, and not declare Donald Trump – A DAMN LIAR -because he held up a Bible in front of a church, and, Christians went crazy! Hot dog – 1984 is here. Time to hear – JINGLE BELLS! Time to – grease up and bend over – whie the BIG LIE is slowly inserted in the next seventy hours!”
I reasoned, it was THE SEASON OF LIES, and why not go along with it, even bring out MORE LIES, such as the Prophet Jeremiah brought two Jewish Princesses to Ireland – AND THERE REALLY IS A SANTA CLAUS – guarded by the Knight’s Templars of Rougemont! Wasn’t the famous Jewish philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein interested in the writing of Black Mask authors who hung with my grandparents, suggesting there are hidden truths in fantastic fiction?
Yesterday, I spent four hours on my phone Scrolling For Models and Actresses to play James Bond. I hereby lay a copyright on the APP…..’HUNTING FOR BOND’. A major casino should build The Bond Room’ where the Bond Wanna-bes can strut their stuff. There will be The Bond Singers.
Before I went to bed, I noted once again that Ramatamar, resembles Starfish (modeled after Yulia Rose) who I said would be killed-off, and thus she would not contend for the spotlight with Victoria Bond who is somewhat frail and mousy. I refrained from telling Rotem Sela – to put some more meat on those bones! I didn’t want to scare her off by suggesting she’s my – NEW MUSE – who is allot like Miriam Starfish.
I have claimed more than once that God is dictating my books. I think Spooky Noodles wants me to put God’s Word’s in red, and his THOUGHTS – in Irish green? The truth is, Israel stands to gain from my Religious Fables, verses the oppression of Jews by the Popes – and Martin Luthar. Here is the Genesis of ‘The Royal Janitor’.
Rotem means “desert plant” and Sela means “rock” Hmmm!
Vincent Rosemond Rice
Our “Vile” Navy Ship
Posted on April 30, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
The USS Mustin has been labeled “vile” by the heads of the People’s Liberation Army. I suggest our Leaders pass a law, stating WARSHIPS ARE PEOPLE TOO! After all, they are named after people. I just sent this message to Peter DeFazio.
“Dear Congressman: I have been reading articles about the cost of building more Navy ships, that could be seen as being immoral due to other pressing social needs. What I suggest, is for every billion dollars spent on a new ship, a hundred thousand go to solving our nations homeless problem. Both Russia and China have a homeless problem, which can be blamed on socialism. Perhaps these rival competing nations will follow suit? To view a brand new Destroyer over the tops of homeless tents on Venice Beach, is a vile contrast we Americans can rid ourselves of. Victory at Sea, begins with Victory on land. Our bragging rights will be a boon to the needy, and the citizens who despair”.
It is extremely uncanny, and, in The Twilight Zone, that the USS Hull escorted Lee’s battleships, after surviving the attack on Pearl Harbor. AND, it is a Divine Permission to learn an hour ago, that the USS Mustin was named after a famous Naval family founded by Captain Arthur Sinclair, who was a Captain of the Argus, as was my alleged great grandfather, Sir Isaac Hull, who also captained the USS Enterprise. The Argus and USS Constitution was built by Edmund Hart. The Sea Fates are on our side! China now knows this is they read this blog!
I just lost the beginning of a new chapter where Miriam Starfish Christling explains why and how she dispatched a middle-aged couple who threatened her family. Her code name is Cottinella, which is a fish that lives in the dark at the bottom of Lake Baikal. I will rewrite it. Shit happens. Starfish is an expert on ‘Personal Honor’ that gives her the infamous right to kill.
“She called me a vile little creature. And he threatened to force my father’s VW bus off a cliff!” Starfish told the Wizard, who could not take notes. His hands were frozen.
“Beware the Abyss of Cottinella!” say those is the spy and assassin game. “If she gives you the fish-eye, that’s it. You’re going to end up at the bottom of Lake Baikal.”
John Presco
The brig Argus was built at Boston, in 1803, bv Edmund Hart. She had a tonnage of 298; the length of her keel was 80 feet; the breadth of her beam was 20 feet, and the depth of her hold was 12 feet and 8 inches.4 From a record of 1806, it appears that she had cost originally She then carried sixteen guns, the highest number of any brig in the navy.6 In 1803 she went to the Mediterranean; was in the harbor of Tripoli, in August, 1804, with 121 men commanded by Lieutenant Isaac Hull, in the American squadron under Commodore Edward Preble. That year and the next she had repairs made to her in the Mediterranean. She was repaired in March, 1808, at Norfolk. Va, and again in March, 1809, at the navy yard in New York. These repairs cost more than In 1811, she had her new berth deck calked, her bottom hove out, calked and coppered. At a cost of In june, 1812, with a complement of 120 men, she was under Master Commandant Arthur Sinclair. In Ocotober, of that year, she was stationed in the North Atlantic under the same commander. Later Sinclair was given a leave to visit his friends and, by order of Commodore Decatur.
HOW POWERFUL USS MUSTIN IS AND WHY CHINA SHOULD FEAR IT? – YouTube
Definition of vile
1a: morally despicable or abhorrentnothing is so vile as intellectual dishonestyb: physically repulsive : FOULa vile slum2: of little worth or account : COMMONalso: MEAN3: tending to degradevile employments4: disgustingly or utterly bad : OBNOXIOUS, CONTEMPTIBLEvile weatherhad a vile temper
At a press conference on Thursday, China’s defense ministry spokesperson Wu Qian accused the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer of “persistent close-range reconnaissance” as the People’s Liberation Army task group led by Liaoning conducted exercises this month.https://products.gobankingrates.com/r/e48f149e71a19f66115d5f5c8edaefd8?subid=
USS Mustin “severely disrupted” China’s naval exercises and “threatened … the safety of vessels and crew,” said Wu, who described the conduct as “very vile in nature.”
Wu, who claimed PLA Navy warships “warned and expelled” the USS Mustin, said the U.S. should “rein in its front-line forces” and adhere to jointly agreed contact guidelines at sea and in the air in order to avoid “similar dangerous incidents” in future.
Responding to Wu’s statement, a U.S. Navy official told Newsweek that its encounters were lawful and did not affect other operations.
“The U.S. Navy maintains a persistent presence in the Indo-Pacific as it has for many years and regularly interacts with foreign vessels/aircraft,” the official said. “All interactions with our forces have been in accordance with international law and did not impact any ongoing operations.”
On 10 June 1807 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. On 13 December 1811, he was ordered to the command of Argus; and, between 12 October and 17 December 1812, cruised in Argus with the North Atlantic Squadron and took a number of prizes. During the cruise, he became separated from the squadron and was chased for three days and nights by an enemy squadron before his superior ship handling enabled him to escape.
The Mustin family has recorded a tradition of service in the United States Navy extending from 1896 to the present. Their naval roots trace back to Commodore Arthur Sinclair.
Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake by volume in the world, containing 22 to 23% of the world’s fresh surface water.[5][6] With 23,615.39 km3 (5,670 cu mi) of fresh water,[1] it contains more water than all of the North American Great Lakes combined.[7] With a maximum depth of 1,642 m (5,387 ft),[1] Baikal is the world’s deepest lake.[8] It is among the world’s clearest[9] lakes and is the world’s oldest lake,[10] at 25–30 million years.[11][12] It is the seventh-largest lake in the world by surface area.
Deep Down in The Dark of The
Since some cottoid fish species live at large depths, where no sunlight can reach the question arises: how do they navigate in the dark and how do they find food? The fish not only have five sense modalities (vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch), which all invertebrate animals have, but also a sixth sense, the so-called seismic sensor. This system is responsive to water vibrations occurring due to movements of waves, fish, and invertebrate animals.
The notions of personal honor that governed the first generation of officers in the US Navy
were not new. It is not difficult to imagine the concept of personal or familial honor existing in
some form for millennia. The particular system of honor that came to dominate in America,
however, has more recent roots. Historian William Oliver Stevens argues that this particular
form of honor first coalesced around 1066 when William the Conqueror took the throne of
England. Stevens argues that William first introduced the code of chivalry in order to promote
peaceful relations between his knights, who were prone to frequent infighting. 1 The code of
chivalry gradually spread throughout Europe as borders and rulers shifted, so that the continent and the colonies incorporated similar rules by the time of the French Revolution.2
In his Treatise on Orders, published in 1610, the French legal scholar Charles Loyseau
describes the origins of the nobility in France as a product of medieval invasions, and he traces
the French nobility back to the Frankish invasion of Gaul. As time went on, knights developed
into a landed gentry class and the tradition of chivalry gradually evolved, but the core ideas
remained the same. The landowning elites – now called the “gentility” because they did not till
the land for their livelihood – distanced themselves from the peasants who worked their lands
through privileges or “honors,” which they received based on their status as leaders. 3 The
French political thinker the baron de Montesquieu, writing in 1748, presented one of the most
globally influential descriptions of honor in his The Spirit of the Laws.
Our Navy Must Have More Ships
Posted on April 30, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
DeFazio has long advocated for constraint on using our Armed Forces. He is a recognized expert on Congress’ constitutional prerogative to declare war and has fought for fiscal responsibility and accountability at the Pentagon so that scare funds can be better spent on the basic needs of our troops, obligations to veterans of past wars, and other domestic priorities.
National Security | Congressman Peter DeFazio (house.gov)
This morning I read the US Navy is required to HAVE MORE SHIPS! That we do not, is THE GHOST FLEET I had visions of in my James Bond book ‘The Royal Janitor’. I just sent this message to my Congressman. We are not in Vietnam fighting a illegal war. Peter is determined that will never happen – again! If you are pro or anti-war, now is the time to speak up and let your voice be heard. Do no consult your wild preacher man, your witch doctor, or, the I Ching about OUR collective fate. Write your elected Representative and let them know where you stand, where you are coming from, and for more information so you can own a educated opinion. Make use of our Democracy – or we will lose it!
At this time, no one has my permission to record any telephone conversations I have, or, relay them in any manner to an audience I am not aware of.
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
Dear Congressman Defazio: On March 17, 2018, I began my James Bond novel ‘The Royal Janitor’. I am related to Ian Fleming via my cousin, Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor. It is a pro-Naval Alliance between Britain and the United States. Inspired by my muse, Rena Easton, who married Commodore Ian Easton of the British Defense Staff Washington. This aspect of our mutual defense was founded by Winston Churchill at the end of the war. If you have any information, can you help me? I have been anti-war for most of my life. I am a original hippie who has been on the bus. I own thirty-four years of sobriety. I have turned my life around. Due to the threat from China and Russia I am for a powerful armed force to meet this threat to Democracy – everywhere! I am offering my book and my blog, Royal Rosamond Press to the effort to secure The Peace. I and my friend, Casey Farrell have had many long conversations on the phone on this topic – that I wish was recorded – because we realized we are a Think Tank that offers a real pro and con when it comes to Defense Spending. The Antiwar Movement did harry the United States Government and Military causing it to do what it did not want to do. This is why I have one of my characters being a hippie whose parents were an American and a Russian. It is alleged Beatlemania brought down the Iron Curtain. Can this be done again? Mr. Farrell and our conversations should be made a part of the National Conversation. We are both in our seventies and can recall so much – and explore our minds for present day solutions. I would like to volunteer my services to my State and Nation.
National Security | Congressman Peter DeFazio (house.gov)
By law, the Navy must have a 355-ship fleet but presently has just 296 ships, and its latest 30-year shipbuilding plan would not reach the requirement until 2031 to 2033 if it was funded fully. But that plan projects 4.1% budget increases each year. This year’s defense budget is flat (0% growth), making the benchmark to keep pace with China’s rapidly growing navy impossible, service officials and hawkish lawmakers
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“Competition on, under, and above the seas is intensifying,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday told members of the House Appropriations Committee in a hearing on the fiscal year 2022 Navy and Marine Corps budget.
“China and Russia are rapidly modernizing their militaries, attempting to undermine our alliances, undermining the free and the open international order we’ve worked so hard to sustain,” he said.
‘LESS TALK AND MORE ACTION’: NAVY SAYS IT HAS A CLEAR VISION DESPITE CONFLICTING SHIPBUILDING PLANS
To put the challenge into context, Gilday said the last time the Navy had to build so many ships to keep pace with an adversary was the period from 1981 to 1985. The foe back then: the Soviet Union.
“We were trying to recapitalize the strategic deterrent and grow the conventional force,” he said. “During that time, the DOD budget rose at an annual rate of 7.5%. Right now, our buying power has been flat since 2010.”
The fiscal year 2021 budget does not put the Navy on a funding trajectory to afford 300 ships, while assessments by the Navy, industry, and think tanks call for a sea service larger than 355 ships to meet America’s national security and global alliance needs.
“In terms of challenges in the future, I would tell you, I think it comes down to not technology, per se, but numbers of ships,” he said, responding to a question about increasing competition in the Arctic and far north, where the Navy has conducted some 20 exercises in the past 18 months as polar ice caps melt and open new waterways.
“While our fleet can deliver on those missions today, we’ll be increasingly challenged to do so in the future,” he said. “America needs a larger, more capable Navy. We need greater numbers of submarines, smaller and more numerous surface combatants, and more lethal offensive capabilities, a host of unmanned platforms under and above the seas, and modern strategic deterrents.”
Much of the Navy’s shipbuilding budget is wrapped up in modernization efforts.
Some 30% of the budget alone is part of the Columbia-class ballistic submarine meant to replace the 40-year-old Ohio-class sub to perform a “no fail” nuclear deterrent mission.
To fulfill its need for strategic sealift, the Navy got congressional permission to buy used ships at one-tenth the cost.
Tens of billions of dollars more are wrapped up in modernizing America’s four shipyards, each of which is over 100 years old.
Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Harker told lawmakers he hoped some of the Navy’s $20 billion, 20-year shipyard upgrade plan might be wrapped into President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill.
Gilday told lawmakers the U.S. Navy was not going to keep up with China and can only barely maintain the fleet size it currently has.
“We’re moving out on that to close a capability gap that is only widening with China,” Gilday said of the plan to buy used ships. “Three fifty-five is the law. The short answer from the Navy is more ships, but they gotta be manned, they’ve got to be filled with weapons.”
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Capturing Beauty – The Sea Lord
Posted on March 16, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press
With Great Britain leading a united force against Putin. I can come to the end of our amazing story, that Rena did not know about. She is the Muse of the Ages.
Caspar John is in my rosy family tree. He was a Sea Lord, and half-brother of Poppet Pol (John) There is no doubt that Rena’s late husband, Commander Sir Ian Easton, and John, knew each other. Tabitha Getty is Caspar’s second-niece. She was a Bohemian fashion model, and step-mother of John Paul, who was abducted. John is the subject of a movie and television series titled ‘Trust’. Why are these knighted men marrying beautiful American women? May I dare wonder?
Rena was the muse of my late, Christine Rosamond, and I. This is the love story of our time. The children born at the end of the World War were given a special mission. Rena and I were destined to meet – and part – so our spirits can rescue Britain from her enemies. Britannia rules the waves! Like Phoenix Birds…………..We will rise from the ashes?
“We now come to the History of Jon.
Jon, Jôn, Jhon, Jan, are all the same name, though the pronunciation varies, as the seamen like to shorten everything to be able to make it easier to call. Jon—that is, “Given”—was a sea-king, born at Alberga.”
King Henry the second claims he descends from Trojans. I have compared Rena to Helen of Troy – and the goddess, Britannia! I began a painting of her as Fair Rosamond, who captured Henry’s heart. This King of England placed her in a Labyrinth. I can not yet reveal what the movie ‘The Shape of Water’ revealed to me. It has much to do with Pharamond, the King of Franks.
I am going to contact Boyle and send him a movie script ‘Capturing Beauty’. If he won’t produce it, I will send it to de Toro.
Everyone wants to overlook the truth that I rescued Rena in the City of Venice, by the sea. At the premiure of OUR MOVIE, we will unite. When she comes down the isle, the audience will stand as one, and sing: for the world is saved by many means, but, it is the love the artist has for his muse, that forever gets our special attention. This is what we come back for, again, and again.
The Muses, still with freedom found,
Shall to thy happy coasts repair.
Blest isle! with matchless beauty crowned,
And manly hearts to guard the fair.
Jon Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
Copyright 2017
In the medieval romances, the lance with which Saint George slew the dragon was called Ascalon after the Levantine city of Ashkelon, today in Israel. The name Ascalon was used by Winston Churchill for his personal aircraft during World War II, according to records at Bletchley Park.[citation needed] In Sweden, the princess rescued by Saint George is held to represent the kingdom of Sweden, while the dragon represents an invading army.[citation needed] Several sculptures of Saint George battling the dragon can be found in Stockholm, the earliest inside Storkyrkan (“The Great Church”) in the Old Town. Iconography of the horseman with spear overcoming evil was widespread throughout the Christian period.[33]
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Talitha Getty (18 October 1940 – 14 July 1971) was an actress and model of Dutch extraction, born in the former Dutch East Indies, who was regarded as a style icon of the late 1960s. She lived much of her adult life in Britain and, in her final years, was closely associated with the Moroccan city of Marrakesh. Her husband was the oil heir and subsequent philanthropist John Paul Getty, Jr.
Talitha Getty, 1970In 1968, Talitha gave birth to her son, whom she named Tara Gabriel Gramophone Galaxy Getty (not surprisingly, as a grown-up, Tara would remove ‘Gramophone Galaxy’ from his name). Although the baby temporarily brought a little bit of stability into their hectic lifestyles, they still struggled to control their drug addictions. Their relationship started deteriorating , too. In 1971 Paul had an affair, and Talitha left their Rome apartament and went to London. In London she started her own affair – with a shady French aristocrat Count Jean De Breteuil. De Breteuil stayed at Keith Richards’ house in Chayne Walk and was a self-proclaimed ‘drug dealer to rock stars’. After some time, Talitha decided to go back to Rome to fix her marriage (around the same time, Count De Breteuil went to Paris with Marianne Faithful, where he sold a lethal dose of heroin to Jim Morrison). On 14 July 1971, Talitha died in Rome of heroin overdose. The exact circumstances of her death are unknown. She was taken to a private clinic, where initial verdict was ‘death from a barbiturate overdose’. It wasn’t until six months later, when it was reaveled that the drug in question was heroin (Count De Breteuil’s stuff, most likely).Guilt stricken Paul Getty, thinking in paranoid state, that he might be arrested in connection with Talitha’s death, fled Rome and came to London. Several dark years followed. He never completely recovered from Talitha’s death and he succumbed deeper into his heroin addiction. In 1973, another tragedy happened. Paul’s son from his first marriage – 17 year-old John Paul Getty III was kidnapped in Calabria. Kidnappers demanded $17 million ransom. Because Paul’s trust fund was not enough to cover such sum, he turned to help to his father, J.P. Getty Sr., who refused saying: I have fourteen other grandchildren. If I pay a penny now, I will have fourteen kidnapped grandchildren. But when kidnappers cut off young Paul’s ear, and posted it to an Italian newspaper, He agreed to lend Paul II money with a 4% interest. Paul III was eventually freed (just like his father, he was a drug addict. In 1981 he took an overdose, which resulted in stroke, which left him paralysed from a neck down and nearly blind at the age of 25. He died in 2008).Paul Getty II started overcoming his addiction in early 1980’s, thanks to a lenghty and expensive (£500 per day for approximately 500 days) period in London Clinic. After inheriting his father’s money in 1976, he started making a slow transformation from a drug addicted jet-setter to a prolific philantropist. He shared his $3 billion fortune with poor and needy. His donations included £50 million to National Gallery, £20 million to British Film Institute and £5 million to St. Paul’s Cathedral. He purchase Canova’s Three Graces for National Galleries of Scotland for £1 million. During miners’ strike in 1984 (even though he was a lifelong Conservative supporter) he was helping financially miners’ families. He set up Paul Getty Jr. Charitable Trust which he claimed supported ‘unpopular’ causes – rehabilitation for young offenders, assistance to victims of domestic abuse, preserving dilapidated buildings, etc. Countless little businesses around the country benefited from Getty’s generosity. For his charitable work, he had been rewarded KBE (Knight Commander of the British Empire) in 1987, although he could not use a title ‘Sir’ because of his American citizenship – which he eventually renounced when he was granted British citizenship in 1997.Paul Getty Jr. died in 2003, aged 70 – a respactable, slightly eccentric English gentleman,a philantropist, friend of many Conservative politicians – a very far journey from young American Playboy of 1960’s, who, along with his’ beautiful and damned’ wife, led a life of pleasures. And tragedies.
Talitha Dina Pol was born in Java, then part of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), daughter of the artists Willem Jilts Pol (nl) (1905–88) and Arnoldine Adriana “Adine” Mees (1908–1948).[1]
Her father subsequently married Poppet John (1912–97), daughter of the painter Augustus John (1878–1961), a pivotal figure in the world of Bohemian culture and fashion. She was thus the step-granddaughter of both Augustus John and his muse and second wife, Dorothy “Dorelia” McNeil (1881–1969), who was a fashion icon in the early years of the 20th century. By Ian Fleming‘s widowed mother, Evelyn Ste Croix Fleming née Rose, Augustus John had a daughter and Talitha’s aunt, Amaryllis Fleming (1925–1999), who became a noted cellist.
Pol spent her early years, during the Second World War, with her mother in a Japanese prison camp. Her father was interned in a separate camp and her parents went their own ways after the war, Pol moving to Britain with her mother, who died in 1948 in The Hague.[2]
Pol studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. Writer and journalist Jonathan Meades, who was at RADA several years later, recalled that, after first coming to London in 1964, he saw Pol with her stepmother at Seal House, Holland Park (home of Poppet John’s sister, Vivien). Meades thought her “the most beautiful young woman I had ever seen … I gaped, unable to dissemble my amazement”.[3] In 1988, a former Labour Member of the British Parliament Woodrow, Lord Wyatt recalled, with reference to the “success with women” of Anthony, Lord Lambton, former Conservative Government Minister, that
…there was that Talitha Pol who was very pretty and had a little starlet job in Yugoslavia; and he went and stayed at the hotel and sent her huge bunches of flowers about every two hours and showered her with presents.[4]
Another to come under Pol’s spell was the dancer Rudolf Nureyev, who first met her at a party in 1965. According to Nureyev’s biographer, Julie Kavanagh, the two were in thrall to each other, to the extent that Nureyev “had never felt so erotically stirred by a woman” and told several friends that he wished to marry Pol.[5] In the event, Nureyev was unable to attend a dinner party given by Claus von Bülow, at which he and Pol were to have been seated next to each other, and so von Bülow invited instead John Paul Getty, son of his employer, the oil tycoon Paul Getty. Pol and Getty Jr forged a relationship that led to their marriage in 1966.
Marriage to John Paul Getty[edit]
Pol became the second wife of John Paul Getty, Jr. on 10 December 1966. She was married in a white miniskirt, trimmed with mink.[6] The Gettys became part of Swinging London‘s fashionable scene, becoming friends with, among others, singers Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones and his girl-friend Marianne Faithfull. Faithfull has recounted her apprehension, through “ingrained agoraphobia“, about an invitation to spend five weeks with the Gettys in Morocco (“but for Mick this is an essential part of his life”) and how, after splitting from Jagger, she took up with Talitha Getty’s lover, Count Jean de Breteuil, a young French aristocrat (1949–1971). Breteuil supplied drugs to musicians such as Jim Morrison of The Doors, Keith Richards, and Marianne Faithfull, who wrote that Breteuil “saw himself as dealer to the stars”[7][8][9] and has claimed that he delivered the drugs that accidentally killed Morrison[10] less than two weeks before Talitha’s own death in 1971. For his part, Richards recalled that John Paul and Talitha Getty “had the best and finest opium“.[11]
Print designer Celia Birtwell, who married designer Ossie Clark, recalled Talitha Getty as one of a number of “beautiful people” who crossed her threshold in the late 1960s, while couturier Yves Saint Laurent likened the Gettys to the title of a 1922 novel by F Scott Fitzgerald as “beautiful and damned”.[12] Among other glamorous figures of the Sixties, the fashion designer Michael Rainey, who founded the Hung on You boutique in Chelsea, and his wife Jane Ormsby-Gore, daughter of British ambassador David Ormsby-Gore to the United States during the Kennedy era, “hung out” with the Gettys in Marrakesh between their moving from Gozo to the Welsh Marches.[13]
John Paul Getty, who has been described as “a swinging playboy who drove fast cars, drank heavily, experimented with drugs and squired raunchy starlets”,[14] eschewed the family business, Getty Oil, during this period, much to the chagrin of his father. However, in later years, he became a philanthropist and, as a U.S. citizen, received an honorary British knighthood in 1986. His luxury yacht, built in 1927 and renovated in 1994, was the MY Talitha G.
In July 1968, the Gettys had a son, Tara Gabriel Gramophone Galaxy,[15] who became a noted ecological conservationist in Africa, dropped his third and fourth forenames, and took Irish citizenship in 1999. He and his wife Jessica (a chalet maid he met in Verbier) had three children, including a daughter named Talitha.[16]
Marrakesh photo[edit]
Talitha Getty is probably best remembered for an iconic photograph taken on a roof-top in Marrakesh, Morocco in January 1969 by Patrick Lichfield.[17] With her hooded husband in the background, this image, part of the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London, portrayed her in a crouching pose, wearing a multi-coloured kaftan, white harem pants and white and cream boots.
The look seemed stylishly to typify the hippie fashion of the time and became a model over the years for what, more recently, has been referred to variously as “hippie chic“, “boho-chic” and “Talitha Getty chic”.[18]
Film career[edit]
As an actress, Pol appeared in several films, including Village of Daughters (1962) (as a daughter, Gioia Spartaco); an Edgar Wallace mystery, We Shall See (1964) (as Jirina); The System (1964) (as Helga); Return from the Ashes (1965) (as Claudine, alongside Maximilian Schell, Ingrid Thulin and Samantha Eggar); and Barbarella (1968), a sexually charged science-fiction fantasy starring Jane Fonda, in which she had the minor uncredited role of a girl smoking a pipe.
Death[edit]
Talitha Getty is rumored to have died of a heroin overdose in Rome, Italy on 14 July 1971; however, her death certificate listed the cause as cardiac arrest, and high levels of alcohol and barbiturates were found in her blood (source: source: 1930-, Pearson, John, (1995). Painfully rich : the outrageous fortune and misfortunes of the heirs of J. Paul Getty (1st ed ed.). New York: St. Martin’s Press. ISBN 0312135793). Ostensibly, she was in Rome to patch up her marriage.[16] She died within the same twelve-month period as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Edie Sedgwick and, as noted, Jim Morrison, other cultural icons of the 1960s. Her friend Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, with whom she had spent time in Marrakesh, had predeceased Hendrix by a little over a year. [19]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_John
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Caspar John GCB (22 March 1903 – 11 July 1984) was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as First Sea Lord from 1960 to 1963. He was a pioneer in the Fleet Air Arm and fought in the Second World War in a cruiser taking part in the Atlantic convoys, participating in the Norwegian campaign and transporting arms around the Cape of Good Hope to Egypt for use in the western desert campaign. His war service continued as Director-General of Naval Aircraft Production, as naval air attaché at the British embassy in Washington D.C. and then as Commanding Officer of two aircraft carriers. He went on to serve as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in the early 1960s. In that capacity he was primarily concerned with plans for the building of the new CVA-01 aircraft-carriers.
Born the second of the five sons of the artist Augustus John (1878–1961) and his first wife, Ida John (née Nettleship),[1] John was raised with his siblings in an undisciplined manner, frequently dressing as ragamuffins, to such an extent that his maternal grandmother attempted to secure and raise them herself.[2] At the age of nine, he went with his brothers to Dane Court preparatory school in Parkstone, Dorset.[3] There he won the prize for the best gentleman in the school and a copy of Jane’s Fighting Ships, and it was this, together with a wish to seek a more orderly existence, that inspired him to join the Royal Navy.[1] His father strenuously objected, but his stepmother help persuade him to support his son.[4] In 1916 he entered the Royal Naval College, Osborne on the Isle of Wight, at the age of thirteen.[5] He transferred to the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1917 and passed out eighty-third of a hundred in 1920.[6] John is remembered at Dartmouth by the naming of the college’s theatre and lecture hall, the Caspar John Hall.[7]
Early years in the Royal Navy[edit]
Promoted to midshipman on 15 January 1921, John was posted to battleship HMS Centurion in the Mediterranean Fleet in February 1921 and then to the flagship of that fleet, HMS Iron Duke, in April 1922.[8] He transferred to the destroyer HMS Spear in August 1922 and took part in operations during the Chanak Crisis later that year.[8] He was promoted to sub-lieutenant on 30 January 1924.[9] It was at this time that the future of naval aviation was being debated; the issue caught his imagination and during his qualifying exams at the RAF Flying Training School at Netheravon in 1925 (he gained first class certificates in gunnery and torpedo), he applied to train as a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm, then under the dual administration of the navy and Royal Air Force.[8] Promoted to lieutenant on 30 August 1925, he gained his ‘wings’ in 1926 and from then on committed himself to the Fleet Air Arm,[8] being attached to the Royal Air Force for a period of four years as a flying officer.[10] In April 1926 he was posted to RAF Leuchars in Scotland.[8]
An Avro Avian, the aircraft type in which John took part in three King’s Cup Races
In December 1926, John joined the aircraft carrier HMS Hermes for flying duties on the China station during the conflict between the communists and Chiang Kai-shek‘s nationalist armies.[6] On returning from China he bought his own aeroplane, an open cockpit Avro Avian and took part in three Royal Aero Club King’s Cup Races.[8] He was posted to the aircraft carrier HMS Furious in the Atlantic Fleet in April 1930, the battleship HMS Malaya in the Atlantic Fleet in January 1931 and then the cruiser HMS Exeter in the Home Fleet in December 1931.[8]
Promoted to lieutenant commander on 30 August 1933,[11] John joined the battlecruiser HMS Renown in October 1933 and transferred to the aircraft carrier HMS Courageous as Staff Officer (Operations) for the Home Fleet in August 1934.[8] During the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, he spent much of 1936 based in the western desert outside Alexandria.[6] Promoted to commander on 31 December 1936,[12] he was appointed to the Admiralty’s naval air division, where he was involved in discussions about the transfer of the Fleet Air Arm to the sole control of the Navy.[8] He was posted to the cruiser HMS York on the America and West Indies Station as Second-in-Command in June 1939.[13]
John served in the Second World War initially with HMS York, taking part in the Atlantic convoys, participating in the Norwegian campaign and transporting arms around the Cape of Good Hope to Egypt for use in the western desert campaign.[13] He was mentioned in despatches on 11 March 1941.[14] Promoted to captain on 30 June 1941, he became Director-General of Naval Aircraft Production at the Ministry of Aircraft Production in summer 1941 and then naval air attaché at the British embassy in Washington D.C. from March 1943.[13] There he arranged the training of British pilots in Canada and the USA and met the Russian aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky, with whom he discussed the introduction of helicopters for the Royal Navy after the War.[6] He was given command of the aircraft-carrier HMS Pretoria Castle in August 1944 and of the brand-new light carrier HMS Ocean in June 1945.[13]
The aircraft-carrier HMS Pretoria Castle which John commanded towards the end of the Second World War
Post-war career[edit]
After attending the Imperial Defence College in 1947, John was given command of the Royal Naval Air Station Lossiemouth in January 1948.[13] He then returned to the Admiralty, first as Deputy Chief of Naval Air Equipment and then as Director of Air Organization and Training.[13] He was appointed a Naval Aide-de-Camp to the King on 7 July 1950[15] and promoted to rear admiral on 8 January 1951[16] on appointment as Commander of the Third Aircraft Carrier Squadron, later renamed the Heavy Squadron, Home Fleet.[13] Appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1952 Birthday Honours,[17] he was posted to the Ministry of Supply as Deputy Controller of Aircraft that year and, having been promoted to vice admiral on 30 March 1954,[18] he became Flag Officer (Air) Home at Lee-on-Solent in June 1955.[13] He was advanced to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1956 Birthday Honours,[19] promoted to full admiral on 10 January 1957, and became Vice Chief of the Naval Staff in May 1957.[13]
John became First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in May 1960.[20] He was advanced to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in the 1960 Birthday Honours.[21] As First Sea Lord he was primarily concerned with plans for the building of the CVA-01 aircraft-carriers (which were eventually cancelled in 1966).[20] He was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet on 23 May 1962[22] and retired in August 1963.[20]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Easton
Easton joined the Royal Navy in 1931 and qualified as a pilot at the start of World War II in which he saw active service on aircraft carriers.[1] On 4 January 1941, flying a Fairey Fulmar of 803 Squadron from HMS Formidable during a raid on Dakar he force landed, with his aircrewman Naval Airman James Burkey and was taken prisoner and held by the Vichy French at a camp near Timbuktu until released in November 1942.[2] He was appointed Assistant Director of the Tactical and Weapons Policy Division at the Admiralty in 1960 and was seconded to the Royal Australian Navy as Captain of HMAS Watson in 1962.[1] He went on to be Naval Assistant to the Naval Member of the Templer Committee on Rationalisation of Air Power in 1965, Director of Naval Tactical and Weapons Policy Division at the Admiralty in 1966 and Captain of the aircraft carrier HMS Triumph in 1968.[1] After that he was made Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Policy) in 1969, Flag Officer for the Admiralty Interview Board in 1971 and Head of British Defence Staff and Senior Defence Attaché in Washington, D.C. in 1973.[1] He last posting was as Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1976: he commissioned armourial bearings for the College which were presented during a visit by the Queen in November 1977.[3] He retired in 1978.[1
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talitha_Getty
Poppet (Elizabeth Anne) Pol (born John)
- Collection:MyHeritage Family Trees
- Site name:Houwelingen, van Web Site
- Site manager:Mary van Houwelingen
- Birth:1912
- Death:1997
- Parents:Augustus John, Dorothy (Dorelia) Mcneill
- Siblings:…rd Sir John, Unknown, Unknown, Gwyneth Johnstone, Vivien White (geboren John), Amaryllis Marie-louise Fleming, <Private> Vere Cole, De
- Husband:Willem Jilts Pol
- Ex-husband:Derek Ainslie Jackson
Immediate Family
- Willem Jilt Polhusband
Derek Ainslie Jacksonex-husband
Dorothy Johnmother
Augustus Johnfather
Vivien Whitesister
Talitha Dina Gettystepdaughter- Ida Margaret Johnstepmother
Sir Caspar Johnhalf brother- Edwin Johnhalf brother
- Lady Ottoline Cavendish-Bentinckfather’s ex-partner
- Evelyn Beatrice Saint Croix Rosefather’s ex-partner
Amaryllis Marie-Louise Fleminghalf sister
About Poppet John
Elizabeth Anne (“Poppet”) John: born Alderney, Dorset 9 March 1912; married 1930 Derek Jackson (marriage dissolved 1935), 1942 Villiers Bergne (marriage dissolved 1945), 1952 Willem Pol (died 1988; one stepdaughter); died London 22 October 1997.
Poppet always seemed faintly glamorous to the younger members of the John family; she was the aunt who lived in the South of France, mixed with grand people and loved a cocktail party. She had an exotically named stepdaughter, Talitha, and a charming husband, a Dutch painter who was always known by his surname, Pol. At their best they were a delightful, animated couple, who none the less suffered devastating turns of fate.
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Lyric Fantasy circa 1913-4 Augustus John OM 1878-1961 Bequeathed by Mrs Reine Pitman 1972 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/T01540
Yesterday I discovered Augustus John was the inspiration for ‘The Horse’s Mouth’ which was Bill Arnold’s favorite movie. Bill was the love of Christine Rosamond Benton’s life, and it was her desire to marry him one day. Then he was killed by a train the night of my eighteenth birthday. Exactly how and why this gifted artist and writer left the planet, remains a mystery, as does Christine’s death. What we know for certain, is Bill, Christine, and myself, were gifted artists. When my sister took up art, I was her role model. She wanted us to paint together, and be famous together.
He is said to have been the model for the bohemian painter depicted in Joyce Cary‘s novel The Horse’s Mouth, which was later made into a 1958 film of the same name with Alec Guinness in the lead role.
Do you recall this video where Michael and I talk about the Horse’s Mouth connection?
What’s going on? Are we back on the trail?
In the mural ‘Lyric Fantasy’ John’s employs members of his family, including a muse or two. Dorothy McNeill may be the center of attention. Here is Rena as Eurydice. Why is she half naked before the beautiful man playing the lyre?
I heard from no member of my family yesterday. For some reason, they all thought they were Art Experts, and when I disagreed, they fought me. My muses fought me! As a Art Historian, there is nothing I can do – but put them in my Literary Mural – just to render them stationary and well-behaved! I am not going to live forever and am compelled to leave behind a enduring legacy. Nothing has been easy. John managed to do it all. He got his muse and wife in bed with him, and, other women. He sired a hundred children between rendering masterpieces. John was surrounded by people. Like Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, and her good friend, Baron Rosenberg Rede, Augustus let everyone play. For him art was a group endeavor. The Gypsy Life is about adults playing and dancing together. Hippies did associate with his work.
John was known as a colourful personality who adopted an individualistic and bohemian lifestyle. Intrigued by gypsy culture and the Romany language, he spent periods traveling with gypsy caravans over Wales, Ireland, and Dorset. He based much of his work on these experiences, such as the painting Encampment on Dartmoor (1906). John was more modern in his approach to landscape painting, as seen in the bright palette and loose brushwork of paintings such as Llyn Trewereyn (1911–12) and The Little Railway, Martigues (1928).
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After World War I, John’s creative vitality declined even as his reputation continued to grow. He painted portraits of many of the leading European personalities—politicians, society ladies, and literary figures—in a slick and somewhat superficial style, occasionally recapturing his former boldness and integrity of form. His most significant portraits include those of novelist James Joyce, playwright George Bernard Shaw, cellist Guilhermina Suggia, and poets Dylan Thomas and William Butler Yeats. John’s sister, Gwen John, was also a highly regarded artist who worked with the painter James McNeill Whistler and the sculptor Auguste Rodin.
This is one of four murals commissioned in 1909 to decorate the hall of the house in Chelsea of Hugh Lane, a private dealer in old master paintings. John designed the composition using his own family and friends as models, including at the right his wife Ida, who had recently died. It was painted from a full size drawing. John then painted out a figure at the centre, and suggested alterations to compensate. Hugh Lane died in 1915, and his paintings were never finished.
Lyric Fantasy was not displayed, nor given its title, until 1940. John devoted his early career to these decorative murals, which he based on drawings and colour sketches.
During her years in Paris she met many of the leading artistic personalities of her time, including Matisse, Picasso, Brâncuși, and Rainer Maria Rilke,[20] but the new developments in the art of her time had little effect on her, and she worked in solitude.[21] In 1910 she found living quarters in Meudon, a suburb of Paris where she would remain for the rest of her life. As her affair with Rodin drew to a close, Gwen John sought comfort in Catholicism, and around 1913 she was received into the Church.[22] Her notebooks of the period include meditations and prayers; she wrote of her desire to be “God’s little artist”[23] and to “become a saint.”[22] In an often-quoted letter of ca. 1912, she wrote: “As to whether I have anything worth expressing that is apart from the question. I may never have anything to express, except this desire for a more interior life”.[24]
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In 1972 Redé had his portrait painted by the fashionable painter Anthony Christian. In 1975 the Hôtel Lambert was purchased by Baron Guy de Rothschild, whose wife, Marie-Hélène de Rothschild was a close friend of Redé, who inherited her beloved dachshund “Whiskey”; the Rothschilds henceforth used it as their Paris residence.
The Gypsy Lore Society was founded in Great Britain in 1888 to unite persons interested in the history and lore of Gypsies and rovers and to establish closer contacts among scholars studying aspects of such cultures. David MacRitchie was one of its founders and he worked with Francis Hindes Groome until 1892 to produce its quarterly journal. From 1892, the organisation was dormant until its revival in 1907, when MacRitchie became its president.
Another early member of the society was Sir Richard Burton, who wrote from Trieste in 1888:
| “ | We [The Gypsy Lore Society] must advance slowly and depend for success upon our work pleasing the public. Of course, all of us must do our best to secure new members, and byThe Two Jamaican Girls (ca. 1937)Augustus John poses for the American press on board a ship.Early in 1900, he married his first wife, Ida Nettleship (1877–1907); the couple had five children. After her death in 1907, his mistress Dorothy “Dorelia” McNeill, a Bohemian style icon, became his partner and later became his second wife, with whom he had two children. One of his sons (by his first wife) was the prominent British Admiral and First Sea Lord Sir Caspar John. His daughter Vivien John (1915–1994) was a notable painter.[24]By Ian Fleming‘s widowed mother, Evelyn Ste Croix Fleming née Rose, he had a daughter, Amaryllis Fleming (1925–1999), who became a noted cellist. Another of his sons, by Mavis de Vere Cole, is the television director Tristan de Vere Cole noted for his contributions to TV series from the Sixties to the Eighties. His son Romilly (1906–1986) was in the RAF, briefly a civil servant, then a poet, author and an amateur physicist. Poppet (1912–1997), John’s daughter by his second wife, married the Dutch painter Willem Jilts Pol (1905–1988) whose daughter Talitha (1940–1971), a fashion icon of 1960s London, married John Paul Getty, was famously photographed in Marrakesh by Patrick Lichfield, and, after a brief hedonistic life, died of a drug overdose. His daughter Gwyneth Johnstone (1915–2010), by musician Nora Brownsword, was an artist.[25]Augustus John’s promiscuity gave rise to rumours that he had fathered as many as 100 children over the course of his life.[26http://www.geni.com/people/Augustus-John/6000000011071262498Christmas I hope that we shall find ourselves on the right road. Mr. Pincherle writes to me hopefully about his practical studies of Gypsy life in Trieste. As regards Orientalism in England generally I simply despair of it. Every year the study is more wanted and we do less. It is the same with anthropology, so cultivated in France, so stolidly neglected in England. I am perfectly ashamed of our wretched “Institution” in Hanover Square when compared with the palace in Paris. However, this must come to an end some day.[page needed] | ” |
Since 1989 it has been headquartered in the United States. Its goals include promotion of the study of Roma, Gypsies and Travelers. Gypsy Lore Society publications include journal ROMANI STUDIES continuing Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society and Newsletter of the Gypsy Lore Society. The biannual journal, Romani Studies, concerned with disseminating accurate information aimed at increasing understanding of these cultures in their diverse forms. The Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society appeared in four series, starting in July 1888. The Society’s archives are held at the University of Liverpool.
Among the Gypsy and Traveler cultures represented include those traditionally known as Roma, Sinti, Calé, Romnichels, Ludar, Irish Travellers, Scottish Travellers and others.
The Society also sponsors programs and conferences. The Society has established the Victor Weybright Archives of Gypsy Studies, specializing in recent scholarly work on Gypsy, Traveler and related studies, for the benefit of researchers and students.
Current president of the Gypsy Lore Society is Elena Marushiakova.
Talitha Pol married John Paul Getty, Her father was Willem Jilts Pol, a painter who subsequently married Poppet John daughter of the painter. Tlaitha is related to Peter and Ian Fleming, and my kin, Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, who descends from the Dutch families of Rover and Rosemondt. We are looking at a modern-day Dutch Bohemian Renaissance!
Ian Fleming’s novels generated more money from his books made into movies than Dan Brown, and was a real spy working with real codes.
Note how Garth Benton’s mural blends with Talitha’s shoot at the Getty mansion, where this photo of the world famous artist ‘Rosamond’ was taken.
Talitha was a Libra, a Bohemian Venus and lover to famous Rock Stars. She was a wild Bohemian woman, and is in my Family Tree.
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Dorothy (Dorelia) McNeill (19 December 1881- 23 July 1969) was best known as a model for the Welsh artists Gwen John and Augustus John, was the common-law wife of the latter, and has been credited for inspiring “his first unequivocally personal work”.[1] In her time she was regarded by some as an exemplar of bohemian fashion.[2]
Dorothy McNeill was born in Camberwell, the daughter of a clerk and the fourth of seven children.[3] While attending the Westminster School of Art in 1903 she met Gwen John, who in turn introduced her to her brother Augustus. That year Gwen and McNeill traveled together on foot through France, following the Garonne River.[4] During a stay in Toulouse Gwen John painted several oils of McNeill, including Dorelia in a Black Dress,[5] before the two proceeded to Paris, where they briefly shared quarters in 1904.[6] McNeill left for Bruges with a Belgian artist, and was pursued by Augustus, with whom she returned to England. She lived in a ménage à trois with Augustus John and his wife Ida Nettleship, sometimes as part of a Gypsy caravan that would grow to include John’s children by both women.[7] The arrangement lasted until Nettleship’s death in 1907, when McNeill became the principal female figure in the John household.[3][8] Later she had an affair, at Augustus’ encouragement, with the painter Henry Lamb.[3]
McNeill is often described as quiet and enigmatic.[4][9] In Gwen John’s work she appears detached and simply dressed; in Augustus John’s art she at times served more exotic purposes, wearing scarves and long dresses,[10] but was also the subject of domestic scenes, including those which show her with Augustus’ first wife and their children.[9][11] It is said that she “made a significant contribution to the ‘bohemian utopianism’ of the artist’s most intensely creative period, c. 1903-1914.”[9] Eventually she had two sons and two daughters with Augustus. She lived with him until his death in 1961.[3] Her step-granddaughter was the 1960s bohemian fashion icon Talitha Getty.
Known for “a compelling stare when he looked at a woman,” Augustus John’s quest for the next enigmatic face was a compulsion he made no apologies for. It was a congenital weakness. A coquettish voice emanating from a plumply pretty face sustained his imagination at least for the duration of a portrait–as long as the coquettish voice knew to silence itself. He didn’t like talkative women.
Mistresses and wives overlapped in the same household. Sometimes his women shacked up with each other when the mystery had faded for him and a new intimacy had bloomed between them. He needed to consummate every passion for it to be meaningful to his work. To that end he would send his chosen one heartfelt letters, chase her to Paris, beseech and promise until she succumbed. They always succumbed. He was a roguish long-haired six-footer wearing dramatic Victorian coats and sporting an untamed beard.
Before he ever put brush to canvas, his vision often propelled him to style his muses in costumes. He looked to women for clues to the world and his existence in it. But he didn’t care for intellectual women. Although some of the letters written by Ida, his simple, long-suffering first wife, to her friend are the loveliest to read:
“You know I was very near the laudanum bottle–somehow it seemed the next thing. Like when you’re tired, you see an armchair and sit down on it. Now you ‘know all’, I feel a sort of support–it is funny. Others know, but no one has given me the support in the right place as you have. One held up an arm, another a leg, one told me I wasn’t tired and there was nothing the matter…With you I have something to sit on!”
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