Oath reinstated
Two years ago I expressed dismay in these pages that since 2006 the Oath of the Order of the Thistle had expunged the Christian religion, God, fellow companions of the Order and the existence of evil, notably treason.
The revised oath made a mockery of the Thistle as an Order of Chivalry by transmuting it into a secular Order of Merit.
The Dean of the Thistle is therefore to be warmly congratulated for reinstating at the Earl of Strathearn’s installation earlier this month, as a Royal Knight of the Thistle, the vows “I shall fortify and defend the Christian religion, and God’s most holy Evangel, to the utmost of my power” and “So defend me God”, thus reaffirming the Christian vocation of knighthood.
Duncan McAra
Beresford Gardens
Edinburgh
The Order of the Thistle. More mummery. We’re certainly getting the circuses. Pity about the bread.
MARY KALUGEROVICH
Bowling Green Road
Whitburn, West Lothian
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