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Kensington Palace is a royal residence set in Kensington Gardens, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. It has been a residence of the British Royal Family since the 17th century, and is the official London residence of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Kent, and Prince and Princess Michael of Kent.
It was the official residence of Diana, Princess of Wales (until her death in 1997), of Princess Margaret (until her death in 2002) and of Princess Alice (until her death in 2004).
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A wave from one of DB Cargo's finest in the cab of Class 67, 67005 "Queen's Messenger" as it roars through Hartford station with the Royal Train.
The train was conveying the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (aka William and Kate) on a tour of the UK to thank key workers.
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Lovers walking and waiting for their love to bloom.
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Made for "Art Official Concept", an art gallery based in Cape Verde.
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Walk and Let Love Bloom
A poem by Peter S. Quinn
Walk and let love bloom
...In two peaceful hearts
There inside is much room
Where a feeling once starts
A bouquet of balloons
To faraway mountain tops
In spring fresh afternoons
Where a brainwave never stops
Stop and listen to a heart
As it boom booms away
It’s where all love will start
Making colors out of gray
And the wishful roads along
In a heart that wonders still
With a beat to beat mood song
That every love shall fulfill
Walk and let the bridge find
Every aspect of our explore
Leave your worries behind
Drift your mind to lover’s shore
Like the birds that wing free
To their waiting new spring
Same to you it then must be
If your feelings of love do sing
The Duke of Cambridge (Prince William), photographed while leaving Whitehorse International Airport for downtown on September 27th, 2016.
Windsor Castle was Her Majesty, the late Queen Elizabeth II's official London Residence. The Royal standard can be seen at the top left of the photo, meaning that The Queen was in residence on that day.
I took this before landing at Heathrow, back in 2016 on my way to the USA via London.
In London, Whitehall, opposite the Old War Office Building. A work by Adrian Jones (1845-1938), erected in 1907. A very noble horse is under the nobleman, grandson of King George III, cousin of Queen Victoria, and maternal uncle of Queen Mary, consort of King George V., however, an army officer by profession.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge travel in a 1902 State Landau along the Procession Route after their wedding in Westminster Abbey, 29 April 2011.
His Royal Highness visited RAF Coningsby on the Gala day to celebrate with the veterans of WW2 with the Battle of Britain memorial Flight
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London: Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace has served as the official London residence of Britain's sovereigns since 1837 and today is the administrative headquarters of the Monarch.
Buckingham Palace a servi de résidence officielle à Londres des souverains britanniques depuis 1837 et est aujourd'hui le siège administratif de la Monarch.
Congratulations to Prince William and Catherine Middleton on their engagement. A Royal Wedding is in the offing.
His Royal Highness visited RAF Coningsby on the Gala day to celebrate with the veterans of WW2 with the Battle of Britain memorial Flight
It was the village fair in Brockham this last weekend. To celebrate the arrival of the royal baby, they had babygro bunting decorating the village green!
We didn't go to the fair, but came across this scene while we were out this morning.
There are more photos in the comments section below.
Painting the bond of love....a new portrait , inspired by photographs sent to the expressionist artist Stephen B. Whatley by an American couple, Jerry and Janet, who have been great collectors of the artist's work; in particular his Catholic tribute paintings.
As they are devout Catholics, the painting was started on the Feast of The Most Holy Trinity and completed throughout The Feasts of The Sacred Heart of Jesus and The Immaculate Heart of Mary; during which the little heart emerged between them.
The original painting recently arrived on the East coast of the USA and the collectors emailed a happy photograph of the two of them holding the painting.
Their accompanying message to the artist : " The portrait has arrived. It brightened our day immensely! The original version is so vibrant, full of depth and energy. Thanks for sharing your artistic and spiritual gifts to capture our essence in this portrait tribute. We look forward to sharing it with our children over time as they come to visit..."
Whatley's portraits of The Prince of Wales and Princes William & Harry - commissioned by American collectors - were published in HELLO magazine in 2008 and 2011; his portrait of Princess Margaret (Private collection, USA) was published in The Times(London) and HELLO; whilst his portrait of Barack Obama was published in TIME magazine's Person of The Year issue of 2008.
Stephen B. Whatley also has a history of painting portraits from life in a single sitting and his many portrait sitters in the past 30 years include actors of stage and screen such as Frances Barber, Elizabeth Dawn MBE, Dame Judi Dench, Susan Hampshire OBE, Dame Siân Phillips CBE, Alison Steadman OBE, Dame Julie Walters, Barbara Young, Carol Royle, Virginia McKenna OBE, , Finty Williams & Dame Barbara Windsor; TV presenter Sarah Greene; comedienne & writer Jo Brand; Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year, Patsy Bloom; entrepreneur, Ivan Massow; fashion designer, Matthew Williamson; and barrister, Michael Mansfield QC.
In 2000 Whatley was commissioned to paint a series of 30 paintings for the Tower of London - all of which are permanently reproduced outside Tower Hill Station, throughout Tower Hill Underpass, as a permanent vibrant art exhibit welcoming visitors to the Tower of London.
In 2004 Stephen B. Whatley was presented to HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh at a reception at the Tower of London, in recognition of his work.
Jerry and Janet Enos. 2020
Oil on canvas, 24 x 30in/61 x 76cm
Private collection, USA
The building is the headquarters of two major Army commands: the London District and the Household Cavalry. The building is the formal entrance to St. James's Palace via St. James's Park. Only the monarch is allowed to drive through its central archway. Today Prince William and Princess Kate rode through the central archway on their royal carriage on the way to Buckingham Palace from Westminster Abbey.
Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, and Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge visited our nation's capital on Parliament Hill during Canada Day festivities. Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the background look at...
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in the Carriage Procession from Westminster Abbey to Buckingham Palace, 29 April 2011.
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TED: "Hooray! There's gonna be anuvver Royal baby! Jest 'eard the news that Willium an' Kate are 'avin' a baby next year! So I've got a congratoolashuns card to send to 'em, an' I've bawt sum 'new baby' cards fer when the baby's born - one fer a boy an' one fer a girl, an' one in case they 'ave a lickle bear...well, yew never know..."
This is a Magic Lantern Slide showing the view looking east in New Bridge Street, City of London, it shows the statue of Queen Victoria who looks roughly west along Victoria Embankment. The sculpture is by Charles Bell Birch who is known for his many London statues, he also sculpted the Griffin on the Temple Bar Memorial outside the Royal Courts of Justice. He was born in Brixton but as a child moved with his parents to Berlin where he studied at the Berlin Royal Academy. As a result of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee in 1887, he was commissioned to create a statue of Queen Victoria by the Maharana of Udaipur, Futteh Singh, to stand outside the new Victoria Hall in Udaipur, Rajasthan. The statue was made of Carrara marble and the plinth was locally made to the design and model provided by Mr. Birch. The statue was unveiled in late 1889 by Prince Albert Victor, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales who was on a tour of India and Burma. After India’s independence the statue was removed to Victoria Hall where it remains and was replaced by a statue of Gandhi using the same plinth. Victoria Hall is now known as the Saraswati Bhawan Library. The statue in New Bridge Street was given to the City Corporation by Sir Alfred Seale Haslam, he was an Engineer and former Mayor of Derby and Newcastle-Under-Lyme and later M.P. for Newcastle-Under-Lyme. He invented an improved Ammonia compressor used in refrigeration ships which transported frozen meat from Australia and New Zealand. Sir Alfred was a generous man because not only did he give this statue to the City of London, he gave the same statue to Derby and one to Newcastle-Under-Lyme. There were seven more casts made at the Thames Ditton Foundry owned at the time by Moore and Company. The foundry was famous throughout the 19th Century for producing statues for which there was a great demand. One of the other seven casts was sent to Australia where it was erected in Victoria Square, Adelaide, South Australia. In this case the statue was given to the city by local Brewer, Parliamentarian and Philanthropist, Sir Edwin Thomas Smith. He insisted that the Copper and tin to make the Bronze casting come from Australia and both metals were obtained from the Wallaroo mine near the town of Kadina on the Yorke peninsular. That leaves six castings, if you know where they are or what became of them, please feel free. The City of London statue was unveiled on Tuesday 21st July 1896 by the Duke of Cambridge, Queen Victoria’s uncle and head of the British Army for 50 years despite being born in Germany, he was known to the licentious soldiery as “The German Sausage”. The 1st London Volunteer Rifle Corps (City of London Volunteer Rifle Brigade) were in attendance, the Duke was their Colonel-in-Chief, together with the Lord Mayor of London and other Corporation worthies. The City of London police constable is standing by to direct traffic when needed, succeeding generations of City police did the same duty until February 1937 when traffic lights were installed, and the statue was moved several yards to accommodate them. I think that the statue may have been moved since then, if it has, then not by much.
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Britain's newest Princess was named today.
The fourth in line to the throne will be known as Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Cambridge..
She was born on Saturday in the Lindo Wing of London's St Mary's Hospital weighing 8lbs 3oz (3.7kg)..
Miss Philippa Middleton with other bridesmaids and a pageboy returning in the Carriage Procession to Buckingham Palace from Westminster Abbey, 29 April 2011.
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This is a postcard published by F. Hartmann of 45 Farringdon Road and printed in Saxony. Hartmann was one of the voices which convinced the GPO to change its rules and allow a divided back postcard to be used so that messages could be written on the reverse instead of the obverse where publishers had been leaving blank spaces for messages. This postcard has a divided back and is unused and the photograph dates from just before the change in the rules. The view is looking roughly north west from St. Martin’s Place with the corner of the National Portrait Gallery on the left, the offices of the Corporation of Westminster on the right and the southern end of Charing Cross Road in the centre. The statue is of General Charles George Gordon wearing the uniform of an Egyptian General as Governor General of the Sudan. The circumstances surrounding the death of Gordon are well known so I will not go into them here, save to say that his death at the hands of the Mahdi caused a great swell of sympathy and indignation amongst the British public which lasted for some time. The statue is a copy of one which was commissioned by a committee of Royal Engineer and artillery officers of the army who sought funds so that several memorials to the General could be made. The statue is by Edward Onslow Ford who like many 19th Century British Sculptors had received training in Germany, at the time of the commission he was in his late 30s and a member of the Royal Academy. The statue of Gordon riding a camel was placed in front of the Royal Engineer Institute at Old Brompton Barracks in Chatham and was unveiled by the Prince of Wales accompanied by the Duke of Cambridge, the head of the Army, on Monday 19th May 1890. It is now a Grade II listed monument and has been there for 130 years unlike the second casting which was due to become an international traveller and had several homes. In 1898 an Anglo-Egyptian army under the command of Lord Herbert Kitchener defeated the Mahdi’s successor, Abdullah-al-Taashie at the Battle of Omdurman, in the wake of the victory Kitchener appealed to the British public for funds to create a college for Sudanese students in Khartoum and a statue of Gordon to be placed near where he was killed. The “Morning Post” newspaper took up the call for the funding of the statue and its readers contributed the cash in quick time, funds were also obtained for the College which became known as the Gordon College and was opened by Lord Kitchener on Sunday 9th November 1902, however the statue was still in transit. It was felt by the organisers of the appeal that the statue should be displayed in London before being shipped to the Sudan especially as it was a Coronation year, to this end the Corporation of Westminster agreed to have the statue displayed outside their offices in St. Martin’s Place on a traffic island which is now the home of the Nurse Edith Cavell statue and memorial. The Gordon statue was unveiled by the Duke of Cambridge, no longer head of the Army, on Friday 18th July 1902. The sculptor of the statue, Edward Onslow Ford, had overseen the recasting at the Bronze foundry after making a few changes to the original design, he caught a chill whilst at the foundry which turned into double pneumonia from which he died at the age of 49 years, his best work was expected to be still ahead of him and his loss was a great blow to British sculpture. The statue was placed aboard the SS Cedardene at Millwall Docks and she set sail for Alexandria on a very foggy 9th October, she hadn’t gone too far down the Thames when she was in a collision with a Russian ship bound for Riga. The Captain steered her to shore where she sank, she was refloated very quickly and returned to Millwall Docks where the now very muddy statue and wooden case were unloaded and hosed down and it was reported, none the worse for the experience. A few days later the statue was placed aboard the SS Lesbian for another attempt which was successful, and she arrived at Alexandria in mid-November. The statue remained on the Quay for the next seven weeks before it was put on a Nile steamer on 29th January 1903 for the two-week journey to Khartoum. Some reports say that the Nile steamer also sank whilst in transit but I have not been able to confirm this, in any event the statue arrived at Khartoum where it was placed on a ready made plinth by soldiers of the Egyptian army and there it stayed for the next 55 years until December 1958 when it was re-veiled in a ceremony attended by members of the British and Sudanese armies and placed in the Khartoum museum. The Sudan had declared Independence from Britain and Egypt in 1955, both Governments recognised its Independence on 1st January 1956. In 1958 as a gesture of friendship the Sudanese Government gave the Gordon statue and a subsequent statue of Lord Kitchener to the British People, thereby making space in their museum and both began the long journey back to the UK. The statues left Alexandria on the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Ship, Fort Dunvegan and arrived at Chatham on 25th March 1959. The Kitchener statue was donated to the School of Military Engineering at Chatham and the Gordon statue was sent to the Gordon Boys Home in Woking. The home was founded in 1885 and moved to Woking in 1887. It became a school in the early 1960s and now has Academy status. In 2014 the statue underwent a full restoration by UK Bronze, I wonder whether they found any Thames mud?
The Duke And Duchess Of Cambridge visit the memorial site to Leicester City Chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha during a visit to Leicester City Football Club
Georgian doorway - Montpelier Hill, Dublin. A house with some history....
"No 41, Cambridge House is large and grand: four bays and two stories over a basement with a Pain-style limestone doorcase on the r. It looks 1770 though the earliest known lease is of 1783. In the mid c19 it was the residence of the 2nd Duke Of Cambridge, commander of the armed forces in Dublin from 1846 to 1851[Christine Casey]
This was the late Duke of Cambridge, then Prince George of Cambridge, grandson of George III, and first cousin of Queen Victoria. He was in Dublin as an officer of the army and member of the Dublin garrison. He afterwards commanded the Dublin District, and a few years later served in the Crimea, and was Commander-in-Chief of the British Army for many years. He lived here for a very short time, his residence for the greater part of his stay in Dublin being at his quarters in the adjoining 'Royal Barracks. While quartered here he was married in Arbour Hill Garrison Church to Miss Louisa Farebrother, an actress. As this marriage was contracted without the consent of the then sovereign, Queen Victoria, it was contrary to the Royal Marriage Act, passed in the reign, and at the wish of George III. [Shears Family Genealogy]