Royalty - Poems of Traditions and Continuity

This Lens Reflects on the Royal Houses
Kindly Take Your Leave
Order in the Kingdom
Kings and Queens and Dukes and Earls
A FairyTale
A Sonnet for the Royal Wedding of Kate and William 2011
Lovely Fountains of the Palace Gardens
To Diana Were Born
England Land of Blood Royal

This lens reflects on the Royal Houses of the ages in truth and in fiction
Using original poetry it gives an interesting and unique depiction
You'll read a story about a princess in a fairy tale
And also of real royal folks of England and of Wales

Alas, alas, there's trickery afoot
The palace lies in an uproar
To rest, this mayhem we must put
I am Queen. Do not my call ignore

Kings and queens and dukes and earls
And all who had a certain bloodline
Had royal courts and gems and pearls
Were guaranteed their lives so fine

To run the lands and tax the townsfolk
To fund their palaces and castles
To on a whim an edict invoke
For serfs and servants all the hassles

Nobility was just by matter of birth
And no matter that a man could think
If he weren't royal little chance of worth
Oh the unfairness if no blood link

The servants they were duty bound
To serve the feasts at royal tables
When knights chased foxes with the hounds
The liege would be working at the stables

High in a tower a princess waits
For destined knight to climb the vines
And carry her out the castle gates
After years in squalid, dank confines

Her uncle locked her away from sight
In a power play to rule this realm
Too superstitious to kill her outright
The land is black since he's at the helm

So she and her knight would gather a force
To take back what is rightfully hers
They would plan each detail; chart a course
To free her subjects from vile powers

Just in time; she's so thin; she would die
The man scales the stones to her tiny room
Pulls her to his back, down they hie
Onto his steed, away from her doom

By and by she's stronger
------- The attack this very night
Her knight is in command
------- And the force is ready
Onward and over the ramparts,
------- They're winning the fight
With small loss of life
------- Aiming true and steady

The crowds rejoice at the turn of events
The princess and knight soon to wed
But they have mercy on the evil tyrant
Consigned now to the tower instead

To Diana Princess of Hearts, were born
The lads, Fair William and Fair Harry
Who do their mother greatly mourn
Yet now they're old enough to marry

Shall Charles be King before his Son
Is not known to the British realm
Elizabeth II sits upon the throne
And seems to like it at the helm

So whene'er the time is right for Wills
To be named a King by Coronation
He shall have attained the modern skills
To be a great Royal for his Nation

England land of blood royal
Of Stonehenge and of Dover
Of citizens to Queen loyal
With Parliament ruling over
There's Wales to the West
And great Scotland above
Great Britain is blessed
With the peoples thereof