Crown Royal Flashcards by Keith Green

The Dodderidge School
(formerly The Dodderidge School for Girls)

an American private college preparatory school for girls founded in 1843 in Northampton, Massachusetts

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We have to accept that the king means different things to different people.

Senior courtier

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“I take deep offense at the notion that the oppressed and survivors of violence have to somehow be deferential or respectful when their oppressors die,”

Critic of the monarchy

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“I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May his pain be excruciating.”

Critic of the monarchy

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“Banish these thoughts from your mind.”

War hero George Washington admonished a writer when he received a letter that encouraged him to become king.

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“The greatest mischief that can befall my country.”

George Washington’s description of monarchy

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The royal family built up a fantasy that even the colonized could not help but buy into at times.

Critic of the monarchy

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“I cannot help but feel the weight of history, which surrounds us,”

New monarch

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Washington men make wonderful grandfathers

Saying that means Washington men make terrible fathers, but love their grandchildren excessively

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Our names are not important.

Saying at the Romanian school that reinforces the anonymity of its students.

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Footsteps made in concrete

The facts are so obvious, so easy to track

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toothpick

A person brought in after the meal for the amusement of the more important invitees.

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Cocktails of cocaine dissolved in wine

He survived the sittings for his famous full-length portrait by James McNeill Whistler by drinking these.

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Schooled her in the art of gaining attention.

One of Caroline’s relatives

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A morphine addict and reputed to have had an affair with a famous writer/artist who suffered from syphilis and eventually went mad.

A Washington relative

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“gratin”

upper crust, highest social class

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bal des bêtes
bal de têtes

ball of beasts
ball of heads

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beau monde

“beautiful world”
fashionable society
the world of high society and fashion

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Crown of thorns

How the Washington family describes the American throne

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The Huntleigh School

Rival girls school to Dodderidge

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He was essentially a man of duty and took life seriously with that persistent obstinacy with often carries stupid people further than the clever

Description of a Washington monarch

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1657 Club

A men’s club that requires that all its members be descended from John Washington whose ship ran aground during a storm on February 28, 1657

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Book Club

Queen Caroline’s quarterly meeting of lifelong friends where books and gossip are discussed, not necessarily in that order

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The Pope

A women’s club (named after Anne Pope (John Washington’s wife) that requires that all its member be descended from or married to a descendant of John Washington

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Capricho (whimsy)

a Michelin three-star restaurant whose Executive Chef is Lucas "Luke" Jiménez

“Earned money, no matter how abundant, is never impressive the way inherited money is.”

The Washington view of money and people

There were only ten buildings in Manhattan where people like us could live.

The Washington view of money and people

Grandfather King and Grandmother Queen are the center of everything

Summers on the Island

Nothing gave the members of the American royal family more pleasure than those vast reunions which took place every summer on the Island.

The Island

The Malachite Room

The formal dressing room for brides in the Columbia Palace by the ladies of the imperial family

Public speeches

Give secret messages to other people (e.g. Elizabeth's speeches about duty through shade on Margaret)

Everybody wanted to breathe the same air as Margaret and Tony

Margaret and Tony were a glamorous couple

Nobody You Would Ever Know

Yimmy to someone

Room 228

A private, sacred room at the 1657 Club named after the February 28, 1657 storm that ran John Washington's ship aground

Grand Duke of Westmoreland

A royal title named after John Washington's serving for many years in the House of Burgesses representing Westmoreland County, Virginia

Mattox Creek

the spot on the Potomac where John Washington's ship ran aground

Washington Old Hall

Washington Old Hall is a historic manor house in Washington, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom. It lies in the centre of Washington, being surrounded by other villages. The building was the ancestral home of the family of George Washington (1732–1799).

TND! Trés TND!

That's not Dodderidge! That's really not Dodderidge!

Archambau (SC) Bankhead (AZ, CO, NM, UT) Chastain (NJ) Chenlot (PA) Clowney (VA) Desjardins (DE) Dundee (PA) McAllister (NY) McAndrews Smallwood (MD) Stoddard (NY) Vandermeer (NY) Van Pelt (NY) Van Tyne (NY)

Political families

Mattox Creek

Mattox Creek is a tributary of the Potomac River in the Washington District of Westmoreland County, Virginia, A battle broke out on Mattox Creek in March 1865, with several ships being sunk and a landsman named Aaron Anderson becoming one of the first African Americans to receive the Medal of Honor for his bravery on the creek that day.

We're friendly but not friends

John III about the former Confederate states

We used to have a joke that he should have a revolving door in his bedroom

Royal Press Secretary about Prince Andrew

Summers on the Island

An almost make - believe existence of fishing, picnics, tennis parties, walks along the wisteria and shaded paths above the shimmering sea.

Pragma

A dating app for Royalty and people descended from royalty

She loved him in such a way that she had no love left after that. Thus when she was engaged to the Duke of Clarence in 1891, she accepted her fate, more with excitement at the distant prospect of becoming Queen Consort, than in entering a marriage of love.

A princess who loses her love and makes a commitment to marry a high position rather than a man.

Our role in this family is to applaud the others

Maximilian to Sisi in The Empress

Pragma

a royal dating app, named after a kind of practical love founded on reason or duty and one’s longer-term interests. Sexual attraction takes a back seat in favour of personal qualities and compatibilities, shared goals, and "making it work."

Hotevilla (formally: Royal Ski Lodge at Hotevilla)

The Royal Family's ski lodge where the court gathers to ski

Morris Street

The Rodeo Drive of the Capital (named after Robert Moriis who signed the Declaration of Independence, The Articles of Confederation, and the U.S. Constitution)

He’ll manufacture a pretext when his adversaries are too smart to give him one.

John III

Her mother thought I was white trash

John III about his mother in law

Cross the floor Party switching

Formally change their political affiliation to a different political party than which they were initially elected under

It is fantastic how Vanderbilt she looks! See the corners of her eyes, how they turn up?"

Reginald Vanderbilt about Little Gloria at her birth

When you're in the public eye, you have no choice but to be raped over and over again – they'll take every ounce of blood out of you until you're exhausted. ... I'm looking forward to the future. It will only be another year and then everyone will forget about it.

Kurt Cobain on the overwhelming media attention after Nevermind, 1992

He was always a singular individual.

A friend of his who elected to remain anonymous

The king is more a cousin to him that he is to the king

Saying

The boxes are closely controlled by aristocratic families and passed down from one generation to the next.

Opera House

When a Biddle gets drunk, he thinks he’s a Cadwalader.

Old Philadelphia saying

You're my sherpa.

Marissa to Art director

Fauxbergé

inauthentic (fake) Fabergé items

I think rich people are more interesting than poor people, don’t you?

Stephen Birmingham

Mr. Birmingham was not to the manner born himself, but to manners bred.

NY Times Stephen Birmingham obituary

She was more a cousin from his point of view than hers.”

Observation of a guest

Elizabeth Taylor is not beautiful, she is pretty—I was beautiful.

Ava Gardner

I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.

Ava Gardner

I've certainly never taken the care of myself that I should have. On the contrary. I've done a lot of late nights without enough sleep and all that. But I've had fun. Whatever wrinkles are there, I've enjoyed getting them.

Ava Gardner

All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I'm through.

Ava Gardner

When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place.

Ava Gardner

Knowing more and more about less and less until we know everything about nothing.

Saying

The image is one thing and the human being is another. it's very hard to live up to an image.

Elvis Presley

Royal Pollster

Key in judging public mood

Salic law

One tenet of the civil law is agnatic succession, explicitly excluding females from the inheritance of a throne or fief. Indeed, "Salic law" has often been used simply as a synonym for agnatic succession, but the importance of Salic law extends beyond the rules of inheritance, as it is a direct ancestor of the systems of law in use in many parts of continental Europe today.