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| Poster: Timoleon de Carmain-Perillos Reply Post Message Date: Tue Jul 6 15:04:17 2004 |
| Subject: Viet Royalty to be Honored in Washington DC |
| Post No: 1243 |
The International Monarchist League will host a grand reception in honor of Their Imperial Highnesses Prince Nguyen-Phuc Buu Chanh and Princess Buu Phan Lien of Vietnam on Thursday, July 29th, 2004 at the DACOR Bacon House in Washington, DC. Over 100 guests have been invited, including senators, congressional representatives, diplomatic and consular officials, and members of the Washington press corps. King Kigeli V of Rwanda and Prince Ermias of Ethiopia are scheduled to attend, as are representatives of the Portuguese Royal House. The International Monarchist League is expected to announce that HIH Prince Buu Chanh has been named as a patron of the organization, founded in London in 1943, and currently headed by Count Tolstoy-Miloslavsky. Last February the Prince was chosen by the Imperial Family Overseas Council, organized by the late Emperor Bao Dai in 1993 and currently headed by HIH Prince Nguyen Phuc Buu Phuc, of Cannes, France, to assume the regency of the Imperial Nguyen Dynasty and grand mastership of the Imperial Order of the Dragon of Annam, founded in 1886. The Almanach de Bruxelles, the "Who's Who" of non-European royalty, named the Prince Regent to their board earlier this year. The Most Venerable Hoa Thuong Thich Giac Minh of Quan Am Tinh Xa Buddhist Temple in El Monte, California will lead a delegation of Buddhist, Hoa Hao and Cao Dai religious delegates to welcome the Prince and Princess upon their arrival. The priest will also present the Prince Regent with a dragon-shaped gold ring formerly belonging to the Emperor Khai Dinh, and entrusted to the priest by the Dowager Empress Doan Huy Hoang Thi Hau Tu Cung, consort of Khai Dinh and mother of Vietnam's last monarch, Bao Dai. The presentation will take place at the reception. On Friday, July 30th, Prince Buu Chanh and Princess Buu Phan Lien will join King Kigeli in a private wreath-laying ceremony at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum remembering the victims of the Rwandan genocide and the recent atrocities committed by the Communist government of Vietnam against the Montagnard minority. On Saturday, July 31st a wreath will be laid at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in honor of fallen American and Vietnamese soldiers. The DACOR Bacon House is an historic mansion run by the Diplomatic and Consular Officers, Retired (DACOR) Trust. Further information can be obtained by writing here: carmainperillos@yahoo.com |