THE SOUTHERN BELL EMPRESS, HIM EMPRESS I, JULIE VAUGN
The Black Leather Thoroughbred Emperor, HIM Emperor I, Ray Allen (Appointed)
CORONATION THEME AND LOCATION: Stepped Up April 1982, No Theme Given at The Circus Disco, April 1983 A Spring Cotillion at the Sheraton Inn
PREPETIUL TITLES:
IMPERIAL PRINCE ROYALE THOM BRANSCUM
IMPERIAL PRINCESS ROYALE ADROMEDA STRANGE
IMPERIAL CROWN PRINCE BILL OLSTEN
IMPRIEAL CROWN PRINCESS MADAME XAVIER
DESIGNATED CHARITIES:
PERMANT TITLES AWARDED:
April, 28, 1982: First annual Coronation Ball for the Imperial Court of the Bluegrass Empire is held at The Circus Disco, 7:30pm-11:30pm with the Imperial Brunch at the Long & Narrow, 314 1/2 S. Ashland. Julie Vaughn (aka Rick Barnett) is elected Empress I, The Southern Belle Empress, out of a field of three candidates. No out-of-town courts are present at this first coronation.
Fall 1982: Ray Allen, a former Imperial Crown Prince of the People’s Court of Denver, is appointed Regent Emperor I, the Black Leather Thoroughbred Emperor, for the Kentucky court and is crowned at The Circus Disco. He and Julie Vaughn arrange for the Denver Sovereign Court of Denver to sponsor the Kentucky court in the International system and thus Denver becomes Kentucky’s mother court. Eventually two courts arose in Denver and later Denver Sovereign became defunct.