The Order of the Garter is the oldest and most senior Order of Chivalry in Britain. Each year, it is celebrated with a procession and service in the grounds of Windsor Castle.
The Complete Peerage, under "The Founders of the Order of the Garter", states the order was first instituted on 23 April 1344, listing each founding member as knighted in 1344. The Sovereign personally selects Knights and Ladies Companion of the Garter, without political influence. Appointments are typically announced on Saint George's Day (23 April).
In addition to members of the royal family and the highest English aristocracy, foreign knights and lady companions of the Order
today are: the Queen of Denmark, the King of Sweden, the Emperor of Japan, the King of Norway, the King of Spain, the King of the Netherlands. In addition, for example, the Knights of the Order of the Garter
were formerly Russian emperors: Alexander I (641st Knight), Nicholas I (661st Knight), Alexander II (755th Knight), Alexander III (773rd Knight), Nicholas II (802nd Knight).
Also this day, 23 April, is considered the birthday and the day of death of William Shakespeare (despite the fact that it is a Julian calendar date, today
National Shakespeare Day is celebrated all over the world as 23 April in the Gregorian calendar, not a couple of weeks later, on 3 May in the Gregorian calendar), who in 20 years of his work codified the modern English language (sometimes even called "
Shakespeare's language"). The notion that Shakespeare was born on 23 April is, contrary to belief, a tradition rather than a confirmed fact, but the date of death is considered a
monumentally confirmed fact.
Shakespeare's plays were first performed in 1588, when Shakespeare was 23.
The First Folio of Shakespeare's works was published in 1623.
Now 23 + 23 = 46.
The King James Bible was first published in 1611, when Shakespeare was 46.
"WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE" is an anagram of "HERE WAS I, LIKE A PSALM".
Now do this:
Count to word 46 in the Psalm 46. Note: Do not include the verse numbers in the count.
Then count to the 46th word from the end. Again, do not include the verse numbers in the count, nor the final Selah which is generally thought to be a liturgical or punctuation mark rather than a word.
In
Psalm 46, the 46th word from the beginning will be "shake", and the 46th word from the end will be "spear".
According to some writers, this is an indication that William Shakespeare was called upon to add his artistic touch to the English translation of the Bible done at the behest of King James. But
according to some theologians this means nothing, it is a mediocre coincidence, as "Shakespeare could not have subjectively inserted the words into the text in order to get his name in, since the Hebrew words for “shake” and “spear” had been there for thousands of years prior to 1611."
A number of Shakespeare scholars and literary historians, so-called
anti-Stratfordians, believe that several authors who lived in later times were hiding under the name of Shakespeare. Such a view is considered a fringe theory in academia. Some authors argue that "
Doubting Shakespeare’s Identity Isn’t a Conspiracy Theory", describing such doubts as "heresy", which has become the biggest taboo in literature. Along with this, there is the
revisionist theory that the now ubiquitous versions of scripture in various languages are translations from the English text of the King James Bible (and not translations from Greek or Hebrew, as the churches claim), spread by the efforts of national
Bible societies over the past couple of centuries.
It is also worth noting that despite the fact that
references to the oldest Order of Great Britain, which originated on 23 April, seem to be continuously present in English literature for more than four centuries, since the time of Shakespeare, but at the same time
references to the motto of the Order, inscribed on the garter of the official
coat of arms of Great Britain, "Honi soit qui mal y pense" (in Anglo-Norman meaning "Shame on him who thinks evil of it"), continuously begin to appear in English literature only about three centuries ago, even though the motto itself is depicted in
many images that today
date from much earlier times.
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