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14 The Parish Magazine - September 2022 Please mention The Parish Magazine when responding to advertisements Follow Us @ShiplakeCollege • Top brand name flooring at the lowest price • Samples to view in your home/office day/evening • Free Advice / FreeQuotes • Old flooring uplifted & furniture moved • Fast turn around on fitting if required • Carpet, design and wood flooring specialists Next Open Mornings Saturday 1 October (Sixth Form) Saturday 19 November (All Years) Excellent in All Areas ISI Inspection (May 2022) www.shiplake.org.uk/opendays We supply and install: Amtico Carpets - Laminate - Wood - Vinyl Non-slip and more... Tel: 0118 958 0445 10 Richfield Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 8EQ info@richfieldflooring.co.uk/www.richfieldflooring.eo.uk
PLATINUM JUBILEE MEMORIES The Parish Magazine - September 2022 15 BELIZE Tomas Griger, dreamstime.com September evokes royal memories for Penny We continue our Jubilee series of royal memories with one from Charvil resident and active Sonning and Sonning Eye Society member, Penny Feathers. If you have a royal memory to share please let us know. On 21 September 1981 Belize, called British Honduras until 1973, became the last British colony on the American mainland to gain its independence. Unlike other British colonies, Belize chose Elizabeth II as their hereditary monarch and constitutional head of state, giving her the unique title, Queen of Belize. What the future has in store for this role is uncertain. Queen Elizabeth therefore has two official styles and titles: — 'Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of her other realms and territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.' — Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Belize and her other realms and territories, Head of the Commonwealth. In all her official duties relating to Belize, Elizabeth II speaks and acts as Queen of Belize, and not as Queen of the UK. Royal visits during her reign have helped build the relationship between the Commonwealth nation and the Royal Family. GOVERNOR-GENERAL As a constitutional monarch, The Queen is not involved in the day-today business of the Government of Belize, though she continues to play important ceremonial and symbolic roles in the life of the nation. The Queen of Belize is officially 'the guarantor of continuous and stable governance and a nonpartisan safeguard against the abuse of power.' Some of the Queen of Belize's powers can only be exercised by her, but most, however, are undertaken by her representative, the governorgeneral of Belize. Since since May 2021 this has been Dame Froyla Tzalam, GCMG (pictured right). wikimedia.commons Dame Froyla is a Belizean Mopan Maya anthropologist and community leader. She is the first indigenous person of Maya descent to serve as governor-general in the Commonwealth. For Belizeans, their ancestry is important, and it can usually be traced back to Creoles, Cariba, Mestzos, Mayas, Europeans/Scottish, North Americans, Chinese, East Indians or Lebanese, making it a truly multicultural society. Belize is only 174 miles by 68 miles at its widest parts, has 175 small islands, and borders on Mexico, Guatemala, and the Caribbean Sea. In 1981 it had a population of about 147,000, today it is over 400,000. Dame Froyla Tzalam, at one of the Platinum Jubilee receptions in London earlier this year. wikimedia.commoms Oleg Kachura, dreamstime.com Christianity is the country's main religion with Roman Catholicism being historically the largest. Other popular denominations are Seventh Day Adventists, Baptists, Anglicans, and Pentecostals. Interestingly, the largest group after the Roman Catholics in the 2010 census was 'the people who said they didn't belong to any religion.' PENNY? So where, you may be thinking, does Penny fit into all this? Penny was British Pro-Consul in Yokohama, Japan where she met Bob Feathers who was to become her husband. He was an American and worked in the US consulate and together they lived in nine countries including Belize, where Bob served for 3 years. On a Wednesday morning Penny attended the mid-week communion service in St John's Cathedral and it was here that she met, and became good friends, with Lady Erica Wolffsohm whose husband, Sir Arthur Norman Wolffsohn was the colonial administrator. Despite the quality of life for the majority of Belizeans — which would today be classed as 'poverty' — Penny remembers the local people as being 'wonderfully, sunny natured and always smiling'. Most people lived in wooden structured houses, and the more wealthy would have homes on stilts with steps to the front door decorated turn to page 17
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