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...

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Happy birthday Ma'am!

 

Queen Elizabeth's Official Birthday, Trooping The Colour

Today, Saturday June 17th, is the day Queen Elizabeth II gets to celebrate her second birthday this year....

Queen Elizabeth was actually born on April 21, 1926, but the April 21st date tends to be more private and family oriented. But when you are Queen, everyone wants to celebrate with you! So as the weather is more amenable in June, the 3rd Saturday is set aside as her official or public birthday...and she was 91 in April!

In the earlier years of her reign, she attended the Trooping Of The Colour annual birthday celebration by the Brigade Of Guards on horseback, until a would be assassin shot at her as she rode down the Mall in 1983. The photo above is the Queen on the horse Burmese, whom she was riding that day.  A life long skilled horsewoman, she weathered it well, but after that she has ridden with other family members in coaches to the military tribute.  

The Queen and Burmese were on the special 1977 Silver Jubilee coin struck to honour Her Majesty for 25 years on the throne...

Below is an almost yearly occurrence...one of the Guardsmen goes down...especially if it is a warm day.
My husband participated in several Trooping The Colours for Her Majesty as he was a Coldstream Guard, one of the Queens Own Brigade of 5 regiments.

He said he never fainted, but one year the Guardsman next to him went down.

Adding insult to injury, they were ragged, and charged with being Idle On Parade and had the UK equivalent of KP....

These photos are all from previous years...looking forward to seeing the 2017 versions...

Look for bands, carriages and family members...Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall always ride in carriages, because their husbands are usually part of the procession on horseback...

 

This is from 2013 with Prince Charles, Prince William and the Duke of Gloucester...Princess Anne is just out of sight...

 The Queen rode in a carriage last year, and I assume she will again this year...

 Pretty spectacular! And then, there will the group on the balcony...always love that....

Fun to see what George and Charlotte will get up to this year...

 William helped his Grandmother, the Queen, console victims and first responders of the Grenville fire in London yesterday June,16th...he and the younger family members are taking up many duties now that Prince Philip has retired from the many engagements he accompanied the Queen to.

 And June 21 is William's birthday...having been born on June 21, 1982..so happy birthday to William, Duke of Cambridge as well. 

 Happy Official Birthday Ma'am!
Images from today's birthday, 2017