I just had to add this photo to my account of the Midrealm Kingdom’s Twelfth Night celebration last weekend. Someone sent me the picture on Facebook earlier today.
The photo shows Count Cellach MacChormach kneeling beside me before the King and Queen in Court. One of the other three finalists in the King’s Arts & Sciences Competition is on my other side (neither she nor I was the winner–LOL).
This is what happened: when the Royal Herald called my name to come before His Majesty, Count Cellach immediately appeared by my side, gave me his hand, and escorted me into the Royal Presence, where he bowed, then kneeled, which showed me what to do, since this was the first time I had ever been called to Court.
I say the goofy expression on my face is due to my big crush on the Count (although I would never tell him that–and most of the ladies I know feel the same way about him!), and also because of his gallantry toward me. He, on the other hand, attributes my expression to shock at being called before the Court, which is a very formal affair, unlike the Competition itself. Count Cellach is always so diplomatic!
Whichever may be the case, he kindly helped me arise again afterwards–no mean feat, considering the state of my 65-year-old arthritic knees and hips! 😛
Chivalry is not dead! 🙂
Let Us Live Like We Mean It! 
Oh, how wonderful! Butterflies in your stomach? 🙂 Quite an excitement you had there, Timi. 🙂 It’s fantastic to see life being enjoyed.
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Thank you, Anne! It was indeed an exciting moment in my life these days. 🙂
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The photo is excellent and your expression is a picture in itself! How flattering to have the attention of such a handsome and gallant man, Timi – arthritic knees and hips or not. (I know the problems of both so well myself!) A wonderful evening all round. 😀
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You have the right of it there, Millie, all ways round. As to the Perfect Gentle Knight, he is both thirty years too young and so happily married as to seem to be in a dream–and I am happy for him! Still, having an impossible crush on someone so admirable lends a bit of frisson to my mundane life. 😉
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Indeed chivalry is not dead. It is well alive, in the midrealm kingdom, and hopefully pervades back into our realm of life!
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Yes, Mel & Suan, I hope that we may each experience chivalry even in our mundane day-to-day lives. It is often a matter of recognizing that it is actually there–we just need to see it for what it is! 🙂
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Priceless, your expression is priceless. Of course chivalry is not dead…..one simply needs to travel in chivalrous circles.
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Sometimes, though, chivalrous circles can be hard to find. Speaking of which, I shed a tear or several during President Obama’s farewell speech… 😦
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Shed a tear….hell, I cried my eyes out. I shall miss the grace, the charm, the wit, the intelligence, the tact, the class that is moving out of the White House.
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He’s so sweet.
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You look enthralled!
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I was gobsmacked! 😛
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