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This is a companion account to my main account @RoyalsOther to post mainly about places. @RoyalsOther will continue to focus on royalty and history. All photographs are my own. Photo of the historic White Bridge in Chelmsford.
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A stunning painting by Edith Grace Wheatley, depicting the life and times of Sir Winston Churchill. Displayed at his birthplace, Blenheim Palace.
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Never thought I would ever write the following sentence. Here are the curls of Sir Winston Churchill, displayed at his birthplace, Blenheim Palace.
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The bridesmaids of Mary of Teck, Alexandra of Edinburgh, Helena Victoria of Schleswig Holstein, Victoria Melita of Edinburgh, Victoria and Maud of Wales, Alice of Albany, Margaret of Connaught, Beatrice of Edinburgh, Ena of Battenberg and Patricia of Connaught.
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Princess Victoria, daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra was born on 6th July 1868.
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King Edward VI, the last Tudor King, died on 6th July 1553 aged fifteen. For the only time in English history, all viable heirs were female, but his plans to keep his Catholic sister away from the throne were thwarted. #Tudors
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I’ve gone a bit 1980s lately with some of my royal purchases. I used to have this one back in the day and couldn’t resist buying it when it came up on line.
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The future George V married Princess Mary of Teck on 6th July 1893 at the Chapel Royal, St James Palace. The scene was captured by the Danish artist Laurits Tuxen. @RCT
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Popped into @NPGLondon and saw this photograph of the late Queen by David Montgomery from 1967. I’ve never seen it before.
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The Royal Family: A Centenary Portrait, four generations of the Royal Family. John Wonnacott @NPGLondon
Wonderful Covent Garden has a beautiful flower installation by Kenny Wilding Raybould celebrating the 100 years of the Royal Ballet School.
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Found this stone in Looe, Cornwell (a town pretending to be in Devon in the BBC programme, Beyond Paradise). The Prince George is of course the Duke of Kent, not his elder brother the future George VI.
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A model of the proposed Queen Elizabeth II Memorial by Lord Foster of Thames Bank is displayed at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
The first or last postbox in England, sadly out of use. Lands End #postboxsaturday
All Saints Church, Royal Leamington Spa, built in the 19th Century, is the size of a small cathedral.
My first new QV statue in a while, Royal Leamington Spa. It was Victoria who gave the Royal to Leamington Spa in 1838. Statue could do with a little TLC, rather dirty and both the orb and sceptre are damaged.
