[78-L] Royal Wedding - not OT [fwd]

[Mike Harkin]

Hard to tell, sounds like an extremely bad transatlantic cable connexion.

Kristjan:  Just goes to show, die Verschwoerung ist ueberall! [The Conspiracy is everywhere].

Mike in Plovdiv

--- On Mon, 5/2/11, Kristjan Saag <saag at telia.com> wrote:

> From: Kristjan Saag <saag at telia.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Royal Wedding - not OT
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Monday, May 2, 2011, 9:23 AM
> Mike Harkin wrote:
> 
> "Not OT - a number of the groom's ancestors made 78's" /
> snip/
> "Great=great=great=great grandma [not 78's but I vaguely
> recall an LP 
> reissue of cylinders recorded by eminent victorians,
> including Herself"
> 
> --
> Did she speak English or German on the recording?
> http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/audio/graphophone-band2.mp3
> 
> Remember: Queen Victoria was 3/4 German from ancestry. Her
> father, 
> Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, was half German
> and her 
> mother, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, was 100
> per cent German.
> Young Victoria's governess was German and German became her
> first language.
> She later married the German prince Albert and their
> household language 
> was always...you guessed it: German.
> Cheers! Or should we say: Prosit!?
> Kristjan
> 
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