28^th day of March 2010

Warsaw March 28. 2010

Grand Prior of the Priory of the United Kingdom                                                  of the Order of St. Stanislas

Dame Mervyn Redding

Dear Grand Prior, 

I am very sorry to hear that you did not feel well for some time and hope sincerely that your health has improved now and that you recovered completely.

Allow me to question the perfect coincidence of a perfect match of your plans dating from the month of May 2009 to plan exactly on the very same day of the Berlin Investiture also an Investiture in your country. Such a twist of fate is nearly impossible. Especially when taking into account the intolerable ‘declaration’ of Richard some weeks earlier. This is clearly more than coincidence.

You say that you had confirmed all this by mail messages to me last year and never received any answer from me, not even after reminding me again.  I cannot recall having received such messages from you otherwise I would, of course, have answered you. I see such courtesy in communication as a major duty of my function and as a gentleman in general. For some time, because of much traveling, I used several mobile phones to read my mail messages. Maybe your message was not received, lost or not addressed to the right address. In any case, you could have transmitted your messages also to somebody else near me in copy when you did not receive an answer. In a normal circumstance it should have struck you that such neglect is beyond imagination, seen our mutual commitments in the Order. The Berlin Investiture was announced already in November 2009 and a match of date with your planned date should have alerted you more as it actually did. If you would have accepted me in my position you would have undertaken more decisive steps to clear this question that must lead to conflict. The content and general tenor of your message indicates that you all too readily concluded that I apparently had ‘no interest’ in the Grand Priory of Great Britain. What an idea!

This is also evident in the way you speak about Chevalier von Lison as ‘his interpreter’ although you know that he holds a similar important and high function in the Order as you yourself. It is manifest in every phrase of your letter that you show a fundamental non-respect towards me and that you are in total opposition to me as the Grand Master of the Order.

The fact that you mingle the Regency Council question into a discussion concerning simply a date of an event is evidence of your general unwillingness to recognize me or my function. It would have been more honest to say plainly what your position really is. In these circumstances, I would suggest that you better offer to retire from your function and from the Order.

If you intend to hold an Investiture ‘under the auspices of the Regency Council’ in direct opposition the Grand Master, who represents the authority in this Order as in any other Order in the world, it is a clearly hostile act of you which cannot be acceptable. You force me to act also in a hostile way towards you. I cannot allow your Counter-Investiture and will take the necessary steps to prevent you to go through with it. You should be aware that you expose your guests to the risk of spending much money for nothing because an official ceremony will not be held in public without challenge. If you keep an Investiture in the backroom, at low level, you harm the prestige of the Order and I will be obliged to nominate another, more loyal personality, to take responsibility of the affairs in the United Kingdom.

To end, I ask you most kindly, Dame Mervyn, to reconsider and to avoid a confrontation which harms the Order and its members.

Yours truly,

The Prince Grand Master of the Order of St. Stanislas

Jan Zbigniew hr. Potocki

 1^th day of March 2010

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

With regret we have to proclaim that because of his tendentious behavior, due to usurpation of powers from his former  position as member of the Regency Council, and, issuing correspondence containing many distorted facts about the Order and the Grand Master, the Member Richard Vaughan Rowlands is excluded with immediate effect from the Order of St. Stanislas under paragraph 8.1 of the Constitution dated 1999, revised in 2004 and 2006, referring to deliberate malicious propaganda detrimental to the Order, or its Officers. 

He may no longer use the postnominals or wear the insignia of the Order or purport to represent the Order in any form.

This exclusion extends to any members of the Order of St. Stanislas who ally themselves with, or support in any manner, the formally dissolved and therefore illegal ‘Regency Council of the Order of St. Stanislas’ set up by:

Richard Vaughan Rowlands

Dr. Don Hunsacker II.

Tomasz Ludwik Lorant

Michael Michaelski, Lt.Col.

Given under the seal of the Grand Master with approval of the Grand Magistry this 1^th day of March 2010 in Warsaw, Poland.

1.      The Grand Master of the Order of St. Stanislas  Jan Zbigniew hr. Potocki

2.      Grand Bailiff, Member of Grand Magistry, Zbigniew Roch G.C.C.St.S.

Signed.....................................................................................................................

Addendum to the aforementioned :

Chev. Willy Doms will explore the possibility to charge a specialized law firm to study the case in order to ask financial reparation for the damage caused to the reputation of the Order by this imprudent publication, worldwide.

Decyzja Wielkiej Kapituły

 Z przykrością zawiadamiamy, iż z powodu uzurpacyjnych działań niektórych członków byłej Rady Regencyjnej, rozsyłania materiałów szkodzących wizerunkowi Orderu, jak również nie zastosowaniu sie do żądan Wielkiego Bailiffa , jesteśmy zmuszeni  wykluczyć z Orderu św. Stanisława Kaw. Richard Vaughan Rowlands w trybie natychmiastowym.  

Decyzja ta została podjęta na podstawie paragrafu 8,1 Konstytucji z 1999 , poprawką 2004, 2006,  które sankcjonuje   umyślne  i złośliwe dzialania propagandowe na szkodę Orderu lub jego władz.

Wykluczonej osobie zabrania się używania nazw funkcyjnych, odznaczeń orderowych, czy prezentowania się w jakiejkolwiek formie jako członek Orderu św. Stanisława.

Podpisano i potwierdzono pieczęcią Wielkiego Mistrza za zgodą członków Wielkiej Kapituły,

1 marca 2010 r. w Warszawie, Polska.

Podpisali:

1.      Wielki Mistrz Ordeu św. Stanisława  Jan Zbigniew hr. Potocki

2.      Wielki Bailiff, członek Wielkiej Kapituły Zbigniew Roch G.C.C.St.S.

Podpis.....................................................................................................................

Uwaga:

Informujemy, że Kawaler Willy Doms zlecił kancelarii adwokackiej  określenie wielkości szkód  wyrządzonych Orderowi w celu podjęcia kroków prawnych związanych   z wyegzekwowaniem należego odszkodowania.

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