May The Posterity Endeavour

Our Hanseatic heritage is generally overlooked. But it may yet come into its own. These islands naturally belong to several worlds, and constitute their meeting-point.

One such is Teutonic, Nordic and Baltic. Attention must be paid to the cultivation of the closest possible social and cultural ties with Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, up to Iceland, and round through Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and indeed Slovenia and Croatia now that the Croats, in particular, are starting to wake up to the plight of their kith and kin in the land that Izetbegovic built. Such ties would have all sorts of economic and political benefits.

Various events would embody the reclaiming of this aspect of our identity (there are also the Huguenot and Jacobite aspects, of which other times), and the ideal anniversaries on which to hold them are coming up in a few years’ time, notably the restoration of the heirs of the Traitor Peers to their titles, and some sort of ceremonial reconciliation with the Duke of Bavaria (as Head of the Royal House of Stuart) in 2015.