Jill, Duchess of Hamilton

Jill, Duchess of Hamilton (née Jillian Robertson; 30 January 1940 – 22 April 2018) was an Australian-born British journalist, environmentalist, and author of several books. Her book ‘’Marengo: The Myth of Napoleon’s Horse’’ (2000, 4th Estate — an imprint of HarperCollins UK) was a New York Times bestseller.

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KENSINGTON PALACE where George II died and where Queen Victoria was born is still used as apartments for the sovereign's relatives: Princess Margaret, the Duke of Kent, and Princess Alice. The State Apartments and suite occupied by Princess Victoria are open.
- The Royal Race for the British Crown, 1817-19. Blond & Briggs. 1977. p. 160. ISBN 9780856340680.

Banks proposed David Nelson as the chief gardener and William Brown as his assistant. Nelson had already 'sailed round the world in my service for the purpose of collecting plants and seeds and was eminently successful in the object of his mission,' wrote Banks.
- The Flower Chain: The Early Discovery of Australian Plants. Kangaroo Press. 1998. p. 102. ISBN 9780864179227. (160 pages; illustrated by Julia Bruce)

On 1 October 1918, when only sixteen, my father rode into Damascus with the Australian Light Horse, hours ahead of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), Prince Faisal and the colourful Arab Irregulars. Fighting in the sane campaign were another 100,000 soldiers including the 38th Royal Fusiliers, known as the Jewish Legion, the only armed Jewish force fighting in Palestine for nearly 2,000 years. From their first steps on the moors of Devonshire in 1917, these Jewish soldiers were trained to be part of the British Army. After fighting alongside my father on the road to Damascus, some of these fighters went underground to eventually become founding members of Israel's biggest and most effective militia, the Haganah, which in 1948 would form the Jewish state's original army with a force in mid-May of 35,000 fighters.
- "Preface". God, Guns and Israel: Britain, the First World War and the Jews in the Holy City. The History Press. 2009. ISBN 9780752495071. (352 pages; 1st edition 2004)

There is a Christmas card that I will probably never send. I would not dare to. It is a cross of Jesus drawn in fresh blood from an animal sacrifice. Although slaughter for sacrifice contradicts a basic belief of Christianity, it is practiced by local Catholics, Greek Orthodox and other Christians at the ruined Byzantine church of Saint George in the village of Taybeh, 20 miles from Jerusalem. "Around 70 to 80 lambs are sacrificed here each year," said the Roman Catholic priest, Father Raed. Similar sacrifices are also made in the towns of Lodd, Jaffa, al-Khadar and elsewhere in the Holy Land.
Yet bloodless altars are a distinguishing feature of Christian churches. One of the tenets of the faith is that Jesus was the ultimate and final sacrifice. Christians atone for their sins without the shedding of blood. They look to Jesus as the lamb of God who made the ancient belief in sacrifice obsolete.
It is surely hypocritical of the churches to encourage millions of tourists and pilgrims to visit Jerusalem to see where Jesus Christ was crucified, but not halt this ritualised sacrifice.
- (15 December 2011) "There is no role for animal sacrifice in Christianity. Christians believe Jesus's death made sacrifice obsolete. Yet in some places in the Holy Land, the gruesome practice continues". The Guardian.

... In 1961 she trained as a newspaper reporter and was sent to London to work for the Murdoch papers on Fleet Street. She filed reports from all over the world and interviewed such celebrities as the Dalai Lama, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton and PG Wodehouse.
The Duchess was despatched on several hazardous missions – notably to war-torn Vietnam and gave a graphic account of a strike mission she flew with the US 8th Bomb Squadron carrying Napalm gas. In 1963, she attended a dinner for President Kennedy in Miami four nights before he was assassinated in Dallas.
Two years later, she returned to Vietnam, and was one of the first women to write about the effects of the bombing raids launched from Danang, the top secret centre where the US stockpiled its most deadly bombs.
- Alasdair Steven, (April 25, 2018) "Obituary - Jill, Duchess of Hamilton, journalist, environmentalist and former wife of the 15th Duke of Hamilton". The Herald (Glasgow).