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Queen Victoria's royal household servants dressed in livery attire, Balmoral Castle, 1866

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I had a thought while watching the movie. Would it even make sense for Richard Ellis to get married being a Royal servant? Weren't Royal servants required to devote their lives to the King? Is this historically accurate? Does anyone know anything about this? Just curious.

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January 8th 1585 saw the death of the statesman and long time ally of the Scottish royal family George Seton.

Well it was either 1585 or 1586, another of those vague dates.

The Setons were the descendants of King Charles I of France and came over to the British Isles during the Norman conquest in 1066, they married into the Canmore family who featured in my post earlier on Alexander I. King Malcolm Canmore who gifted lands to the family.......

"gaif to the predecessour and forebear of my Lord Seytoun the surename of Seytoun... appearandlie be ressoun that the gentilman... possessit the landis of Seytoun for the tyme... thay landis ar callit Seytoun for ane grit caus, becaus thay ly hard upon the Sey cost and the Toun thairof is neir to the Sey."

It would be a connection that would last for centuries. One of oor George’s ancestors, Christopher Seton was Robert the Bruce’s brother-in-law and supporter. He is believed to have saved Bruce’s life at the Battle of Methven in 1306, but was captured after the battle and then brutally executed by the English.

George Seton, who was Lord Provost of Edinburgh when he was appointed by the Scottish Parliament to attend the negotiations and subsequent marriage of Mary Queen of Scots with the Dauphin of France on 17th December 1557. He went on to became one of Mary, Queen of Scot’s most loyal subjects, indeed the Seton family were all loyal to the Queen his half-sister Mary Seton was one of THE four Mary's. Seton had also fought for Mary's mother Mary of Guise during the Siege of Leith in 1560. He also held the office of Master of the Household to Mary Queen of Scots. In 1568 he was exiled in the Low Countries after Mary Queen of Scots was defeated at the Battle of Langside, but gained favour again in 1583 when he was appointed ambassador to France.

There are contradictions all over the place when I was reading up on this, Wiki have his death as February 1586 and call him the 7th Lord Seton, Burke's Peerage say January, who I have gone with. The confusion about whether he was 5th or 7th Lord seems to be that he was the fifth one called George, but I may be wrong. Either way this man dodged death a few times and his story would make a great film.

George Seton is buried at the beautiful Seton Collegiate Church in East Lothian along with many of the Setons, including his Grandfather, another George, who fell like many other members of our nobility at Flodden field in September 1513.

Read more about the Setons at the link below, but his wiki page is also worth a read.

http://www2.thesetonfamily.com:8080/history/History_of_the_Setons.htm

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Royal Servants - Part 1 of 2

Some time ago I got an anon that said employees only blab when there is no NDA, and in reality William and Kate are probably bad employees - they just have NDAs. So does Charles, according to this anon, and so no one has ever blabbed about Charles.

In truth everyone wh works for the royal family has to sign papers with a confintiality clause. In part 2, at the 8-minute park, they say that Ryan Parry, the MIrror’s undercover reporter who worked at BP as a servant for two months and got stories and photos was sued, the newspaper was injuncted. So BP very much makes everyone sign an NDA, it’s not just Charles and the Cambridges. And so there is no reason to think Meghan and Harry don’t.

Within the first 5 minutes, there’s criticism of Charles, and how he doesn’t lift a finger to do anything. There’s also criticism of Philip, Andrew, there’s loads of blabbing about Diana. (That’s old news by now.)

Later in the video we learn his butler Ken Stronach blabbed details. (Google reveals Charles then got an injunction to stop him from revealing more.) One of his motivations for doing so was to get even, one would think, because Charles grabbed him by the throat once.

In part two, they talk about how Charles likes soft boiled aggs after his hunting party, but since they never know when he’s coming back, so they keep boiling batches of twenty, until he gets home. In the end they go through 100 eggs. George Smith, Charles’ valet said he saw Charles in a compromising position with a servant of the palace. This was denied and then George some time in a mental health hospital.

We don’t know what’s true, but does all this sound like no one has blabbed about Charles, or the rest of the monarchy, or that it has anything to do with NDAs or the lack of them?

Around the 4-minute-mark, a journalist says something significant. Something that I had also told anon at the time. “If you treat employees badly they will want to talk.” Now consider why MM and Harry's employees talk so much, and William and Kate’s don’t as much.