Timeline concerning the British Royal Family and the events of Thy Choicest Gifts.
Queen Victoria II's second son, Albert David Philip Arthur, is born.
Queen Victoria II's third child and only daughter, Annabell Catherine Mary Anne is born.
Prince George (later King William IV's second child, Prince David Henry Philip Edward, is born
Tells of starting piano lessons. Prince Edward, Sebastian's father, invites the ABC for lunch
Sebastian's journal indicates an interest in diving.
HRH writes that he will try out for diving team.
HRH writes that he made the dive team. He is excited but nervous. Alex Fielding is supportive.
HRH writes of the Boxing Day shoot, Christmas gifts, and his ring.
HRH writes of start of term stress, his first upcoming diving fixture and his friendship with Alex Fielding.
HRH writes of his first great placing at a diving fixture, an outing for horses, and his friendship with Alexander Fielding.
I think I still have a lot of things to reflect on and process. Maybe someday soon I'll be able to say the three letter word. Maybe I'll be the United Kingdom's first king like me? Is it me? I think it's me.
For my birthday , Gan gave me a beautiful new mat for the desk in my bedroom at home. She said my habit of earnestly keeping a diary would pair really nicely with a blotter pad and a stationary box from Grandpapa and Grandmum. I really like the idea of having a full desk to do writing. Annie - really Papa and Mummy - had some very fine personal stationary made. It has the seal of Clarence House on it with "His Royal Highness Prince Sebastian of Cambridge" under the seal. Papa said it's all easily changeable based on where I'm living. He called it a style of the life of a future monarch.
People have been using future monarch and future king language a lot lately. It's scary. Three pople I love so much have to die for that to happen. Not to mention what it actually means.
HRH writes of his time at Balmoral telling Milton Bentley-Keynes about his self acceptance.
The Prince of Wales warned Sebastian of his duties to not come out.
Merry Christmas. Sandringham is the only place for Christmas. Gan got here on the 23rd with Greatpapa. He's still wheezing rather badly but otherwise seems okay. Gan showed a picture of me taken about a month ago. She said I looked very sad. Greatpapa said I looked exactly the same right now. I guess that makes sense. I'm hardly a happy person. Gan didn't comment more on it but mentioned how happy it made her that I'm always wearing the signet ring she gave me.
It's hard to understand my feelings around anything right now. I can't talk to my family and I can't tell my few friends.
I talked to Gan about being unhappy and she actually did the 21st centruy thing and suggested a therapist. I told her I liked the idea of it but I didn't know how to get one or who to trust. She told me that the Palace would take care of it. This morning I was talking to Papa and he told me that we had to make sure whoever the therapist is we have to make sure they sign a nondisclosure agreement. I nodded along with him. Later he showed me on and said to make sure all the information was complete. Then he blankly intoned that NDAs were just as useful and effective with people I know. It lets you have conversations and protects us.
It seems a little extreme.
Today I took Alexander to the Royal Equestrian Center, like we often do. This time something seemed odd the whole drive there. Alex wasn't very talkative.
When we go there, Milton was there and he had gathered a group of lads to play a pick up game of polo.
It was a great game but it was a little weird because everyone stood on protocols. It was always "Your Royal Highness." I guess that's fine but when Alex and Milton started calling me my HRH title I got a little uncomfortable. After the lads all dispersed Alexander, Milton and I went into the clubhouse fur supper and Milton whent back to calling me Bash, like Gan calls me. Alex kept saying sir. It was odd.
After supper I went to the toilet and left the two of them alone at the table. THat might have been a mistake. When I got back Milton had already handled the bill. Absolutely inappropriate, I'm the senior. They'd alls clearly been talking about be because they shut up as soon as Milton saw me coming back.
After their talk and me weeing we left. Milton back to Lambeth and me and Alex back to Eton.
We were in the back of the car when alex finally spoke. He called me Bash too. It was a first. He asked me if I had known all the lads we'd played with were gay. I didn't. He asked me if Milton is gay. I said yes. He asked me if I I was okay that Milton is gay - of course I am. He put his hand on my thigh and suddenly my pants were really binding in my crotch. He told me he is gay too. Then he asked me if I am gay. I couldn't say anything. My heart was racing. Finally I stupidly said "We should probably change the subject." Alex smiled and gave me a peck of a kiss on the cheek.
I haven't been able to stop grinning since Alexander went back to his own room. that was probably the only kiss I'll ever get from a boy.
HRH writes of being made the captain of the Eton diving team.
Following a severe bout of pnemonia, the Prince Consort was taken St. Mary's hospital. In the early hours of the morning, the Royal family had gathered at Windsor out of fear that the Duke of Edinburgh might pass away.
Following a serious hospitilization, Michael, the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Consort retired from Royal work.
"Happy Christmas. Whatever that means."
South England Regional Diving Championship
3rd Place: Shariff Jaziri
2nd Place: Steven Eisenberg
1st Place: HRH Sebastian of Cambridge
While at Eton, Sebastian was admitted to hospital after accidentally striking the bottom of the pool while practice diving. He suffered a fracture of the skull and was operated on at St. Mary's Hospital. The incident received widespread media attention, and caused some to criticize his parents, the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall, for allowing him to participate in a sport that could irreparably injure the heir to the throne.
HRH writes that while in England for a film, Rene Baptiste travelled to Eton to visit him.
HRH writes about leaving Eton on a summer holiday and the feeling of being home at Clarence House.
Prime Minister forces resignation of most of Cabinet, leaving only the Foreign Minister, an ambitious woman named Lauren Weathersby.
Alexander Fielding describes Sebastian as his boyfriend. Sebastian pushes back saying they cannot be boyfriends - meaning he cannot have a relationship with a man, given his status as Prince. Alexander leaves. The two's friendship is terminated.
Following multiple comments from the Queen, Sebastian begins seeing Sally Reynolds as a therapist. He is begins a regimen of anti-anxiety and anti-depression medications.
South England Regional Championships
Ten Meter
3rd Place: Sam Hixon
2nd Place: Kenneth Lee
1st Place: HRH Sebastian of Cambridge
Five Meter
3rd Place: HRH Sebastian of Cambridge
2nd Place: Shariff Jaziri
1st Place: Cameron Dansk
Three Meter:
3rd Place: Shariff Jaziri
2nd Place Kenneth Lee
1st Place: HRH Sebastian of Cambridge
Tired of having no control over his public personna, the 18 year old heir created his own personnal instagram without the Firm's control. justsebastian
Sebastian and Anne participate in a 'bike-a-thon' in Keyna to raise money for the Sir Richard Attenborough Trust, which seeks to protect wildlife.
All England Diving Championships
Ten Meter
3rd Place: Shariff Jaziri
2nd Place: HRH Sebastian of Cambridge
1st Place: Christopher Davies
Five Meter
3rd Place: Simon Edwards
2nd Place: Sean McCaulley
1st Place: Daniel Hough
Three Meter
3rd Place: Daniel Hough
2nd Place: Carl Frank
1st Place: Richard Bitzer
South England Regional Diving Championships
Ten Meter
3rd Place: Kenneth Lee
2nd Place: Sam Hixon
1st Place: HRH Sebastian of Cambridge
Five Meter
3rd Place: Sam Hixon
2nd Place: HRH Sebastian of Cambridge
1st Place: Cameron Dansk
Three Meter
3rd Place: Shariff Jaziri
2nd Place: Matty Heron
1st Place: HRH Sebastian of Cambridge
All England Diving Championships
Ten Meter
3rd Place: Matty Heron
2nd Place: HRH Sebastian of Cambridge
1st Place: Shariff Jaziri
Five Meter
3rd Place: Sean McCaulley
2nd Place: HRH Sebastian of Cambridge
1st Place: Daniel Hough
Three Meter
3rd Place: Daniel Hough
2nd Place: HRH Sebastian of Cambridge
1st Place: Richard Blitzer
The United Kingdom celebrates Queen Victoria II's sixty fife years on the throne. This celebration included multiple events such a charity launches and a Jubilee Concert on the 7th and a Service of Thanksgiving on the 8th. At the concert, Her Majesty asked that Prince Sebastian give the closing speech.
I got a call from Papa around 4:30 this morning, urging me to get to London. As soon as I told him I was dropping everything, he told me that a helicopter would take me to collect Anne and we'd get a plane down from Cambridge together.
Once I'd gotten to Cambridge I received more news. Greatpapa had been released from hospital, not because he's better but because he 'wants to die in his own bed.'
Annie was practically silent the whole flight to London. From the airport, we had police escort and we went straight to Buckingham Palace. The escort made the urgency rather clear. I can't help but wonder what anyone who saw might have thought, seeing a small motorcade with police escort hurrying down the Mall and through the Palace gates.
When we got to BP it was so quiet. All the cousins and Aunts and Uncles were there. We'd gotten there at about 10:30am.
Anne and I were given a few minutes alon with him. He was fully aware and seemed at peace.
Around noon, Gran went in and spent time alone with him. She was with Greatpapa when it happened, just the two of them.
It was a quiet passing, from what we could hear in the corridor, peaceful.
It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty the Queen announces the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness, Prince Michael, Duke of Edinburgh. His Royal Highness died peacefully at Buckingham Palace at1:07pm. He was with Her Majesty the Queen as he breathed his last. The Royal Family with people the world over in mourning the Prince's loss.
Gran asked me to handle a good deal of the correspondence.
Officially it's being handled by St James's Palace, even though I don't move in until next week. And even then not really until the end of the term.
Sebastian takes a break from writing his dissertation to hook up with a young man who's been lead to believe HRH's name is Charlie.
Upon graduation from university, Sebastian was made Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Stratheern, and Baron of Carrickfergus by Her Majesty Queen Victoria II.
Four months after suffering a massive heart attack that left the sovereign mostly bed ridden, Queen Victoria the Second passed away peacefully.
Following the period of mourning after the death of Queen Victoria II, called 'The Great Sorrow', the United Kingdom's longest reigning monarch is laid to rest in a large, elaborate, state funeral at Westminster Abbey followed by a more intimate private commital at Windsor Chapel.
Prince Sebastian, Duke of Cambridge, makes state visit to Jordan, Israel, and Palestine.
Rory runs is first Exposition for the King. After Expo Rory thinks Sebastian is courting Lady Wolcott and leaves the reception early. Anne and Sebastian chase after him and explain.
The first leg of the Commonwealth Tour. Southampton through the Suez and Red Sea.
HMY Britannia sails down the African Coast.
HMY Britannia was attacked by pirates, the Royal Navy eliminates threat.
The HMY Britannia crosses the Indian Ocean, escorted by the HMS Dauntless. This crossing is peaceful until the docking in Sydney.
HM and HRH in Australia. 08/26/100 08/28/100 HM and HRH visit Ularu 08/29/100 HM and HRH lunch with Ryan Joyce 08/31/100 Britannia Departs Sydney Harbour
Britannia peacefully crosses the Pacific Ocean.
Sebastian Visits Ottawa Canada. Sees Cabaret Musical.