Received a very kind email with an explanation of "another stone for your progress." What luck that a literary historian read this page! Otherwise I might never have found out what it meant.
Anyway, apparently the Romans said "to mark a day with a white stone" to mean remembering an important date on the calendar. Later "to mark a day with a stone" meant to take note of an important achievement & the phrase was used this way by Lewis Carroll. So the Portuguese gentleman who wrote was offering me a stepping stone towards continued achievement. Wow, and I thought his message was nice before!
Also I found a good photo on Prince Charles' official website: Prince Charles as a baby, his mother (then Princess Elizabeth), grandfather King George VI, and great-grandmother Queen Mary. Queen Mary shows up in my deck, as the little girl on the Princess of Cups. The little girl looks so different from the severe old lady!
This morning I woke up with a panicked belief that I had misidentified Prince Harry as "Prince Harold" in the family tree. Rummaged around in my study for a copy of the tree, to find that I had of course used his correct name, Prince Henry. I think maybe I need to take a step back.
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