{"id":843,"date":"2008-12-18T23:04:55","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T04:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=843"},"modified":"2008-12-18T23:04:55","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T04:04:55","slug":"new-meaning-to-an-old-christmas-carol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/18\/new-meaning-to-an-old-christmas-carol\/","title":{"rendered":"New meaning to an old Christmas carol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s later than our period, but I have to agree with Kathy (who sent this in) that it is fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>From The Daily Mail:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It has been sung at carol services across the country but a centuries-old secret political code has been found in a popular Christmas song.<\/p>\n<p>According to one musical expert, O Come All Ye Faithful, also called Adeste Fideles, is actually a birth ode to Jacobite pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie.<\/p>\n<p>Born on December 20 1720, Bonnie Prince Charlie was the grandson of England&#8217;s last Catholic monarch, James II.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8216;Fideles is Faithful Catholic Jacobites. Bethlehem is a common Jacobite cipher for England, and Regem Angelorum is a well-known pun on Angelorum, angels, and Anglorum, English.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The meaning of the Christmas carol is clear: &#8216;Come and Behold Him, Born the King of Angels&#8217; really means, &#8216;Come and Behold Him, Born the King of the English&#8217; &#8211; Bonnie Prince Charlie!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Professor Zon said there were other clues to the subversive political message contained in the carol.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1096974\/Christmas-carol-really-rebel-song-celebration-Bonnie-Prince-Charlie-claims-expert.html\" target=\"new\">Full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s later than our period, but I have to agree with Kathy (who sent this in) that it is fascinating. From The Daily Mail: It has been sung at carol services across the country but a centuries-old secret political code has been found in a popular Christmas song. According to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/18\/new-meaning-to-an-old-christmas-carol\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}