Royal Jewels

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Haven't posted in awhile, but this is certainly worth mentioning - the Windsor sparkle last night at their castle outside of London

The Queen in Elizabeth II's sapphires


The Princess of Wales with the Lover's Knot tiara and the Greville chandelier earrings


The Princess Royal with her Edwardian married parure


The Duchess of Edinburgh with her aquamarine tiara and a lovely diamond necklace


The Duchess of Gloucester pulled all stops with her turquoise parure. She's actually wearing two necklaces - a classic turquoise and diamond cluster necklace and a fringe of diamonds with alternating turquoise and pearl drops. To this she added a pair of matching earrings and two wide turquoise bracelets. Definitely the winner in the jewellery stakes last night!


Bonus tiara - the Duchess of Gloucester (tonight) at the Lord Mayor's Banquet for President and Mme Macron at the Guildhall. HRH is wearing Queen Mary's honeysuckle tiara with pink topaz centerpiece and matching jewels.

everybody looked wonderful
i love Anne's tighter hair style

 

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Diana's lovely bracelet

 

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my beautiful Queen

 

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ive got so behind, my apoligies to all our Euro and other foreign royals, i still love you
i think i have to go back to Royal Ascot and trooping the colour !

King and Queen receive royal welcome on Fiji State visit

Nuku'alofa, Tonga: King Tupou VI and Queen Nanasipau’u Tuku'aho were warmly welcomed in Fiji on Tuesday for a State Visit from 8-12 July that is reaffirming strong familial, cultural and regional connections, with high level engagements, military honours and cultural ceremonies.

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Princess Anne meets foreign royal as she arrives in Belgium with husband

Princess Anne and her husband, Sir Tim Laurence, arrived in Belgium on Monday, according to the local media.The royal couple landed in Belgium ahead of commemorations for the reopening of the Menin Gate Memorial...

www.geo.tv

with HRH Princess Clair, the king of the Belgians' sister

Anne rededicates First World War Menin Gate memorial to ‘remembrance and unity’

The princess also visited the grave of Queen Victoria’s grandson, Prince Maurice von Battenberg, who died fighting with the British Army.

www.independent.co.uk

 

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this is really good

 

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Catherine, Princess of Wales with AELTC chair Debbie Jevans as she arrives to attend the Ladies' Singles Final during day thirteen of Wimbledon.

 

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men's finals day and no pierced ears for Charlotte yet

 

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not sure what these age appropreate looking bracelets are but i'll take it as a win

 

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not from today but we must have missed Sophie


back to today ! or is it yesterday already !

 

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i dont know why its so hard finding pictures f the runners up
seems a bit mean if you ask me

 

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look at this picture one of my Bruce Springsteen forum friends found !

This was the first time the young royal has been seen wearing the Pandora piece, and so far, she’s collected three charms. The first is from Pandora’s Disney collection: the Eternity Circle Charm, featuring Charlotte’s emerald-green birthstone.

The second is a rose-gold figurine of Nala from The Lion King, a family favourite. In fact, Prince William revealed in 2017 that Prince George was ‘quite fond’ of the film. The third charm is a white engravable heart disc.

 

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Happy 75th, Ma'am!

 

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one more

Queen Camilla has revealed a new portrait with her beloved rescue puppy, Moley, following a sweet trip to Battersea Dogs & Cats Home

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Queen Camilla shares a never-before-seen portrait with her beloved rescue puppy Moley after an adorable outing to Battersea Dogs & Cats Home

Her Majesty very nearly returned home with a new addition to the family

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a present fit for a Queen with a fine sense of humour





What do you get the woman who has it all? A new title and a personalised clingfilm dispenser. At least, that’s what the Queen received when she visited Plymouth on the eve of her 78th birthday.

A new picture has been released to mark the occasion, showing her at ease in the garden of Ray Mill, her private Wiltshire home.
The Queen has been made vice-admiral of the Royal Navy, the first woman to hold the position in the UK, reflecting the “high regard” she commands among sailors.

She also received an engraved clingfilm holder as part of an “inside joke” from the HMS Astute crew, which she appeared to be thrilled with, for her 78th birthday on Thursday.

The joke relates to an incident that occurred on the nuclear-powered submarine.


As lady sponsor of HMS Astute, the Queen had been made aware that the submarine’s crew had once used the transparent plastic film to fix a problem with the engines on board.
She was said to have found the solution “quite amusing” and upon seeing her specially engraved gift, exclaimed: “Oh my goodness the famous clingfilm! Oh brilliant, it’s a useful substance … I’m sure it works. How lovely, thank you very much.”
Commander Christopher Bate, captain of HMS Astute, explained after her departure that the substance had saved the day for the submarine. “We had a defect on board and we were losing vacuum in the main engines,” he said.

“The engineers on board said we could either come back to port to fix it or use something on board. So they used clingfilm from the galley.”

He added: “[They] wrapped it in the engines and stopped air getting into it and reducing the vacuum, and therefore re-sorted propulsion at sea. And it’s been on there for the last two and a half years, because it’s such a big job to change the seals … Her Majesty found it quite amusing when she found out.”
The gift came with a gold plaque that read: “Clingfilm, keeping nuclear submarines at sea,” and “First in class, second to none”. Bate said Camilla was “very pleased”.

During a downpour at the garden party to mark the end of the submarine’s first commission, she said: “Within this ship’s company, those extraordinary endeavours range from the innovation of one petty officer … through to the resourceful solution to maintain a vacuum, in the middle of the Indian ocean, with clingfilm!

“I can only imagine what the unofficial toolkit in a submarine might look like.”
However her gift may have to stay at Raymill, rather than at Clarence House — the London residence she shares with the King — as he is said not to like clingfilm.

Tom Bower, the biographer, claimed the first time the King saw clingfilm he “shrieked” and asked what it was. “It’s clingfilm, darling,” she replied, according to reports.

The Queen spent the day in Plymouth touring HMS Astute and meeting submariners. She named the vessel in 2007, when she was Duchess of Cornwall, and said she was looking forward to its return after an upcoming four-year refit.

But with “global tectonics shifting unpredictably”, she warned the submarine may return to an “unfamiliar world”.
HMS Astute conducts a range of missions including homeland protection and intelligence gathering. It will now enter a mid-life revalidation programme, including a refit which will finally see the emergency clingfilm removed.

Discussing the Queen’s involvement as lady sponsor, and now vice admiral, Bate said Camilla had been “a really good supporter since day one”.

“For the last 15 years, she writes to the boat regularly,” he added, even sending tea and biscuits out to the crew when they had freezer failures. “We lost a member of the ship’s company two and a half years ago, which was quite difficult.

“She was very supportive, writing to the submarine [crew] and to his parents.”

 

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this series is really good

 

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this was a joy to watch

 

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Happy 75th, Ma'am!

I was three years too late, as HM was celebrating her 78th birthday last week.
Mind you, she was not even a majesty at 75

 

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I'm a bit bored at work this hot afternoon and scrolling down my FB feed, until I noticed this photo of Queen Maud with a large pin (or nail) sticking out of her forehead!


Then I remembered it's probably the same diamond-set stick pin which Queen Sonja used in the hair at the Lord Mayer's banquet during the 2005 State Visit to Britain. I think I've solved one of the little Norwegian mysteries I've had for years!

 

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I'm a bit bored at work this hot afternoon and scrolling down my FB feed, until I noticed this photo of Queen Maud with a large pin (or nail) sticking out of her forehead!


Then I remembered it's probably the same diamond-set stick pin which Queen Sonja used in the hair at the Lord Mayer's banquet during the 2005 State Visit to Britain. I think I've solved one of the little Norwegian mysteries I've had for years!

great detective work !
the royal faults must be full of hat pins and hair orniments
i had hoped when Princess opps cant remember if it was Bea or Eugene wore those ears of wheat at her wedding dance that they might come back into fashion and more of them would see the light of day

 

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great detective work !
the royal faults must be full of hat pins and hair orniments
i had hoped when Princess opps cant remember if it was Bea or Eugene wore those ears of wheat at her wedding dance that they might come back into fashion and more of them would see the light of day

It was Princess Eugenie for the evening reception after her wedding to Jack Brooksbank in 2018. A missed opportunity, indeed!

 

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It was Princess Eugenie for the evening reception after her wedding to Jack Brooksbank in 2018. A missed opportunity, indeed!

Cold day at my work today
And I work in a bakery
This was this morning

 

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It was Princess Eugenie for the evening reception after her wedding to Jack Brooksbank in 2018. A missed opportunity, indeed!

Would look lovely on lady Louise