CSI 2024

 These names just floored me! Poet’s Corner Wow! Handel and Dickens.

Below, outside, in the nave, the coronation chair, the tomb of Elizabeth I.

 The Queen Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace snapped from a moving taxicab.

 In Canterbury, we stayed at a lovely hotel, below, opposite an old library. This is authentic Tudor architecture. In Dallas, the beams are attached to the front in a manner we call faux Tudor. Sometimes the “beams” are simply stripes painted onto stucco, in a manner we call imitation faux Tudor.

 In Canterbury, we visited with our dear friends, Brian Capper, recently retired from the university faculty at Canterbury, Irena Marie Rieband, horn player we met in Romania in 2009, and their son Theomel, age 6. What a pleasure it was to spend a couple of days with them and visit them in their home!

 Stained glass windows in the room where Becket was murdered depict Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville, his queen, and their five daughters. The two princes are to the left but not visible in this photograph. Elizabeth of York, who married Henry VII to end the War of the Roses, is second from the right. She has a barely visible gold crown. The high alter. The stained glass windows in the chapter house.

This is interesting: here in the room where Thomas Becket was murdered, Pope John Paul II and Abp. Runcie met together and prayed. The sculpture was created after that and fixed on the wall. Note the interesting symbolism.