<span style="font-size:24pt;line-height:100%]Be it so Noted
The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify Her intention of conferring a peerage, and honours befitting their station upon the undermentioned:
Commodore O'Dukes is here to fore to be known as Lord Hamilton.
Admiral Lady Evyn Hunter is here after to be named Baroness Snowdown.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to approve that the undermentioned:
Omega-3 is here after to be known as the Fifedom of Snowdown in Bretonian records, to reflect the new Military Governor of the system on the Omega Front.
Her Majesty also wishes her troops to know the following on this, the eve of yet another struggle for our freedom.
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In this grave hour.
Perhaps the most fateful in our history.
I send to every household of my people, this message:
We are faced with the spectre of war!
Over and over again, we have tried to find a peaceful way out of the differences between our two peoples, those of our nation and those of the nation who desires to be our enemy.
It has been in Vain, we are being forced into a conflict. And we are called, with our allies to meet the challenge of our principles. Were they to prevail, it would be fateful to the freedom loving people of this great house.
It is with solemn regret that I must sanction the threat of force against those who threaten our peace.
With God's help, Bretonia will prevail. May he bless and keep us all.
On Behalf of Her Royal Highness,
Sir Gerald Hammond,
Personal Secretary to Her Majesty
[font=Times New Roman]Tally-ho, pip-pip and huzzah!
I am pile-piercingly proud to see old Duffer Dukes get the regal leg-up (as opposed to the leg-over, to which many of the errant and pinkish shepherdesses in Totleigh-in-the-Wold can shame-facedly attest). An excellent prop forward too, if rumour be true. Baaahhh!
I also elicited an enormously audible ejacualtion at word of the Madam Hunter's baroneting. (I had long hoped to give her a "peerage" of the sort not normally advertised in polite society.) May her attitude to the working proles be as uncomplimentary as her treatment of our foes!
My Lords and Ladies, a toast!
To Her Majesty's Long Life and Health and A Right Royal Kick Up The Chocolate Canal of Johnny Foreigner!!