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Lisbonian
Magazine
January 2011
The Lisbonian
– The magazine of the Lisbonian Society
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The Editor
Kevin Hartley
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Lisbonian Society
Lisbonian Society
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new address
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V Rev Canon Gerard Hetherington, KHS
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WINCHESTER SO23 8BW
Editorial ............................................................. 4
The New Society Treasurer ................................. 5
Lisbonian Annual General Meeting 2010 ........... 6
Alma Mater – The Lisbonian Society .................. 8
Interview – Dr Michael Williams .........................12
Letters to the Editor ...........................................17
Royal English College – Valladolid ......................19
Good Causes .....................................................24
A Fado to Savour ...............................................27
Re�ections – Looking Back on the Papal Visit… ..28
The Last King of Portugal ...................................29
Street Pastors .....................................................38
Lest We Forget ...................................................39
When is it a-Coming?
And what of the AGM itself?
Certainly there was discussion
about the possible appearance of
the definitive College History –
something akin to the expectation
of the Messiah. As in previous years,
© 2010 Peter J Harrison – Hinsley Hall
© 2010 Peter J Harrison – Lisbonian Society Dinner 2010 –Toasting Alma Mater
College Association
The Association is strong and
active. In June forty stayed
Good Causes
Every year, at the Meeting, the brethren are given the opportunity to
designate a number of causes which they would like to see benefiting
from the resources of the Lisbon Fund administered by CaTEW. It is
good to be able to record the responses of some of the recipients.
A Fado to Savour
In the July 2010 edition readers were invited to attempt the
t r a n s l a t i o n o f a f a d o . H e r e i s A n t h o n y H o g a r t h ’s o f f e r i n g .
There are as many words in the fado as to make it a language in itself, words of
the sur�ng wave, twisting and turning on the sea, or the twinkling star hovering
over the lost rooftops of a town I have always loved.
Those hushed words I sing in the fado speak of lost dreams, promises, journeys
of times past… and of fate.
Whichever way I look at it, in truth the fado is to me a story book, a painted
masterpiece, sun set over a lost roof of a town I love, the words of the fado as
everyday language: breath, love and beautiful light.
Royal Marriage
There had been talk of Manoel
marrying into the British Royal
Family – an engagement to the
Princess Patricia, daughter of the
Duke of Connaught was rumoured
and later, during his State Visit to
Britain in 1909 Princess Alexandra,
daughter of the Duke of Fife was
King Dom Manoel II of Portugal thought to be a likely candidate.
In the event, Manoel went into charms that she had brought with
exile a bachelor but in April her to Portugal: in June 1910 the
1913 he became engaged to king was diagnosed as suffering
Augusta Viktoria, Princess of from syphilis. Whether it was this
Hoensollern who, in the familiar disease that was the reality behind
way of European royals, was a her alleged kidney infection that
second cousin. The marriage cut short their honeymoon in
was celebrated in September of the Black Forest is not recorded.
the year with much pomp and Whatever the reality, the marriage
ceremony and conducted by the was to remain childless.
exiled Patriarch of Lisbon. It was
unfortunate for both of them that Church and State Separate
Manoel had, on the way back One consequence of the revolution
from his visit to Britain in 1909, was the introduction, the following
stopped off in Paris where he year, of the Law of Separation of
had become enamoured of Gaby Church and State and a savage
Deslys, a royal trophy whom he assault on long-accepted religious
brought back home with him liberties and privileges. The College
and settled her in the palace was inevitably affected. Such were
at Bussaco. It was not only her
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became regular worshippers at St
A savage assault on long- James’ church in Pope’s Grove,
accepted religious liberties donated silverware for use at the
altar, silver communion cruets, a
and privileges. The College was ciborium and a silver baptismal
inevitably affected. Such were the shell, as well as stained glass
restrictions that would have been windows to commemorate the
700th anniversary of St Anthony
imposed by the Law that closure of Lisbon – Santo António de Lisboa,
seemed the only option if it were rogas por nós.
to be implemented… After Manoel’s death his widow
also donated the organ from
the restrictions that would have Fulwell Park. The house was
been imposed by the Law that demolished in 1934 and a housing
closure seemed the only option estate built on the site but the road
if it were to be implemented. The names preserve the memory of
wearing of clerical dress in public the royal couple and their sojourn
was prohibited and, as regards in Twickenham: Manoel Road,
seminaries, the entire academic Augusta Road, Lisbon Avenue,
course was under government Portugal Gardens.
control, down to the choice of
Attempts at Restoration
text-books. Thanks to the efforts
of of�cials of the British Legation Perhaps Manoel was resigned to
and Consulate, together with his comfortable exile, welcome
representatives of the German among the British royalty – he
French and Italian diplomatic was a Knight of the Order of the
missions, not only the College Garter and faithfully attended
but Corpo Santo and Bom Sucesso the annual service in St George’s
(Ireland at this time being part of Chapel in Windsor – but there were
the United Kingdom), as well as attempts among the Portuguese
the Protestant communities, were Royalists to restore him to the
exempted from the restrictions. throne. The north was always,
and possibly still is, the centre of
Back in England resistance to republicanism.
The ex-royals settled at Fulwell Park Royalists had also established
in comfortable exile, furnished by a base in Galicia and it was
kind permission of the Republican from there that the half-English
Government with property from Henrique Armstrong Mitchell de
the royal palaces. Manoel was also Paive Couçeiro led an incursion
awarded a monthly allowance of into Portugal, bearing the
a thousand guineas. The couple Braganza blue and white �ag, but
Lest We Forget