It’s a charitable organisation that looks after the Royal Armouries museum, and I gave my expertise each month for nothing. It’s scaled up since then to a few hundred pounds a month. When I was a student I set up a direct debit for a few quid a month. I have also been giving money to Unicef my whole life. Through the company we give quite a few tens of thousands of pounds a year to SpecialEffect, a charity which helps people with special needs access and play computer games. For example, I’m commissioning craftspeople to make me medieval saddles – these cost a few thousand quid each – and you need one for each horse. I occasionally indulge in first-class flights if I’m travelling – because that means I can get to meetings in good spirits.Īt the moment I’m also spending quite a lot on buying video equipment and doing my own YouTube channel called Modern History TV. I don’t drink, fast cars don’t do anything for me, and I don’t have yachts. It doesn’t mean being a pushover, but standing up for what’s right.Īs for what else I spend my money on, I’ve collected quite a lot of original artwork from comics. In business the chivalric code means paying people on time, doing fair deals and being a decent person. Basically it comes down to ‘“be a nice person please’”. Respect the law, give honour to your king, don’t lie, treat your servants well, and so on. The chivalric code is about be strong, be true, be brave, be kind to women and treat them well. The idea is to moderate or modify “toxic masculinity”. It’s a way of attempting to control people who otherwise could just terrorise the landscape. The armour I joust in is late 15th century Milanese armour which is a specific type of armour from a specific period in history. Of course, it’s going to get damaged and need to be repaired too. A high quality harness (“suit of armour” is a Victorian term) designed to keep you alive in the joust would cost a bare minimum of £10,000, but more realistically £25,000 to £30,000. They are significantly more expensive than a very expensive Savile Row suit. I have suits of armour custom made for me. Horses are money pits, but they’re lovely money pits. But the big cost of horses is keeping them – every horse will probably cost a few hundred quid a week to look after – food, bedding, vets’ bills, getting hay cut from the fields and so on. Horses vary hugely in price and I have horses which have cost £25,000 or more to buy, while others are rescue horses which cost me nothing. I do all of that myself with my partner – she’s a horse person as well. Essentially for that you need land and horses. I expect that they will be embraced and evident in all we do: Faith, Service and Honour.I’m a medieval knight in my spare time. The values, ethics and expectations set out in this Code are intended to serve this purpose. Our members undertake to demonstrate by word and deed their commitment to the Order. George is a working Order which strives to be honourable and ethical in its actions. An ongoing commitment to service is expected to be undertaken without personal advantage or conflict of interest.įinally, Knights and Dames are expected to conduct themselves ethically in all matters both of a personal nature and of the Order. Such work could include constituency building, as well as fundraising for and/or donating to our Foundation to support its charitable activities. While the conferring of membership is, in large part, a recognition of a Postulant’s good works, it is only natural that every Knight and Dame is encouraged, as their resources permit, to contribute to the work of The Order. Fee of Passage and annual dues support the basic operational needs, but are insufficient to sustain the Order’s charitable purpose. Membership in The Order incurs an obligation to serve, support and promote its aims. Service is expected of each Knight and Dame. Although originally a Christian Chivalric Order, our modern Order is a secular organization that values the ideals of faith as they resonate personally with individual members.
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