1977 Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Teapot And A Memorable Week For Royals

Well the last week was chock-ablock with royal things...

June 18-27th Royal Ascot, one of Queen Elizabeth II's favourite annual fixtures in her calendar...

 

Queen Maxima of the Netherlands and her husband the king were guests of honour of the Queen... and traveled in the landau to open Ascot...

the landau royal entrances are a highlight of the dressed up races with lots of amazing hats...

June 20th marked the 187th anniversary of the ascension of Victoria to the throne on the death of her uncle King William when she was 18....

June 21st was Prince William, Duke of Cambridge's 37th birthday....

A Wedgwood jasperware dish made for the birth in 1982...

June 22, 1911 was the date of the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary, Great great grandparents of William...

Shelley coronation mug from 1911...

June 23, 1897 was Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. She dies in 1901.

Royal Crown Derby thimbles for the anniversary of the coronation in 1987 on my saucer of a teacup my grandmother got at the 1897 Diamond Jubilee and gifted to me by her...

And I recently found a Rosina, Queens bone china teapot celebrating the 1977 Silver Jubilee of 25 years on the throne for Queen Elizabeth II.

The Julidee Year of 1977 culminated in Jubilee Days from June 6th to 20th.

Definitely a month of royal dates!

And I didn't even list them all!

June 8, 2019 Trooping the Colours For Her Majesty's Official Birthday

Queen Elizabeth's official birthday, is a moveable date in June as opposed to her actual birthday on April 21st... not always known for good weather...

So the nation celebrates Her Majesty's birthday in June...

this year today, June 8th, for her 93 official birthday...

There is first a carriage procession down the Mall... always packed with folks wanting to glimpse members of the royal family...

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Duchess of Cambridge and Duchess of Cornwall....

with other members of the family riding horseback....

Prince Charles, Prince William, Prince Andrew and Anne, Princess Royal...

to St. James for a review of the troops...

Queen Elizabeth used to do the review on horseback...here on her favorite horse Burmese in 1970... and depending on the temperature a guardsman usually  goes down.

My husband was in the Coldstream Guards, and remembers several of these incidents... one guardsman went down beside him once, but just after the Queen had passed by...

 Then it's back to Buckingham Palace for the balcony appearance...this year with Prince Louis and Meghan on a rare maternity leave appearance for the festivities...

aerial passby... and a lovely time had by all!

 Trooping the Colour was used as a motif for the coronation in 1953 of Her Majesty....

And her Majesty Trooping The Colour on Burmese was the subject of a commemorative coin struck for the Silver Jubilee in 1977 as well...

and

Happy birthday Ma'am!

 

June 2, 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

Just remembering staying up late with my family to watch the coronation in California with my mother and grandmother...aka Nana... on our tiny black and white TV...wrapped up in a blanket with hot chocolate and Union Jack bunting sent by relatives still in the UK.

I had a model sent by an aunt from the UK of the Royal coach and horses in plastic that my father helped me put together for the coronation....

wonder what happened to that?

 And one of my favorite things when in London is visiting the Royal Mews around the corner from the main Buckingham Palace Gates to see the coach...

So... congratulations Ma'am on another glorious year on the throne!

 Yesterday, June 1st at Epsom Downs race track for the Epsom Derby...

As our family affectionately says...

Well done Our Liz!