Utopia, you are standing in it!

Duke of Edinburgh, named after the city of Edinburgh in Scotland, is a substantive title that has been created four times since 1726 for members of the British royal family. It does not include any territorial landholdings and does not produce any revenue for the title holder.

1726 Creation

HRH Prince Frederick Louis, Duke of Edinburgh

The title was first created in the Peerage of Great Britain on July 26, 1726 by King George I of Great Britain, who bestowed it on his grandson Prince Frederick Louis, who also became Prince of Wales the following year.

The subsidiary titles of the dukedom were Marquess of the Isle of Ely, Earl of Eltham, in the County of Kent, Viscount of Launceston, in the County of Cornwall, and Baron of Snowdon, in the County of Caernarvon, all of which were also in the Peerage of Great Britain.

The marquessate was gazetted as…

Eventually, order emerges from chaos. Thanks to the chaos of Europe’s self-inflicted wind and solar disaster, reality is starting to take hold, with the promise of order on the horizon.

Investment in new wind turbines and solar panels has plummeted across Europe. Coal-fired power is back in vogue and nuclear plants are the next must-have.

Ralph Schoellhammer is an assistant professor in economics and political science at Webster University Vienna.

Here he is explaining why the end is nigh for the grand wind and solar transition, with its inevitable demise starting in Europe.

Is the eco-bubble about to burst?
Spiked Online
Ralph Schellhammer
14 February 2023

Economist Herbert Stein once said that ‘if something cannot go on forever, it will stop’. Today, there is growing evidence that ‘Stein’s law’ is coming for the renewables industry, particularly for wind and solar power.

After investing billions of dollars into the green-energy transition, many…

At a  time  when the nation is reeling from the impact of Cyclone Gabrielle, climate change campaigner  Greenpeace  is demanding answers on why the government has yet to come up with an effective plan to cut emissions from the country’s biggest polluter.

Where’s the long-awaited plan to cut agricultural emissions? Greenpeace climate campaigner Christine Rose demands.

Prime Minister  Christopher Hipkins has been working round the clock, helping New Zealanders get back into their flood-wrecked homes. So he  might be muttering “Give me a  break”.

William III-II (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; November 4, 1650 – March 8, 1702), also widely known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from the 1670s, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702.

William III-II was born in The Hague in the Dutch Republic on 4 November 4, 1650. Baptised William Henry (Dutch: Willem Hendrik), he was the only child of Mary, Princess Royal, and stadtholder Willem II, Prince of Orange. His mother was the eldest daughter of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and Princess Henrietta Marie de Bourbon of France. The Princess Royal was also the sister of King Charles II and King James II-VII.

Willem II, Prince of Orange and Mary, Princess Royal of England

Eight days before William was…

From the Emperor’s Desk:

Ever since the accession of King Charles III on the British throne the question of the titles of the children of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex has been raised. The question wasn’t what their titles would be, the question was did they even have titles?

Prior to the accession of the King, the children of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were not eligible to have the style of His or Her Royal Highness and the title of Prince or Princess of the United Kingdom because according to the Letters Patent of 1917 issued by King George V, which stipulated that only grandchildren of the sovereign in the male line were eligible for these styles and titles.

From their birth until the accession of the King, when Queen Elizabeth II was the reigning monarch, the Sussex children were ineligible for the titles and styles…