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! 

 

Happy 200th Birthday, Queen Victoria

Today, May 24th is the 200th birthday of Queen Victoria...

Coronation portrait by Sir George Hayter in the Royal Collection Trust 

Born May 24, 1819

Reigned 1837-1901

Married to Prince Albert Feb. 10, 1840

Death of Prince Albert 1861

Golden Jubilee 1887

Diamond Jubilee 1897

Died 1901

Victoria in 1837 while attending a performance at Drury Lane Theatre

She had an era named for her... an era of scientific achievements, insdustrial genius, worldwide explorationand un precedented belief in the superiority of the British way... which was often at fault.

Medal Queen Victoria Golden Jubilee 1887 Maltese Cross Commemorative

 

Her marriage to Prince Albert was a great example of love, marital fidelity and happinesss. They had 9 children before his death of typhoid fever in 1861... plunging Victoria into lifelong mourning...

Queen Victoria Death Of Albert 1861 Memorial Pair Of Brass Dishes Mourning

Victoria dies in 1901, and an era died... both good and bad...

 

Royal Windsor Horse Show and New Arrivals at Windsor

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth was all smiles yesterday as she enjoyed one of her favourite things of the year... the Royal Horse Show at Windsor...

and Windsor Castle has certainly been a co-star this last week....

 With her meeting her new great grandson Archie, born to Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex who was born on May 6th...

at Frogmore Cottage on Windsor Castle grounds...

Windsor Horse Show is near and dear to her majesty's heart.

In 2016, it was dedicated to her for her 90th birthday....

 The Queen’s 90^th birthday celebrations were to coincide with the annual Windsor Horse Show.  The Queen’s 90^th birthday was on April 21^st but special celebrations will take place at Home Park, Windsor between May 12^th and May 15^th 2016. This birthday show featured 600 horses and 1500 performers, and a crowd of 7,000 for each night’s performance, with the days filled with various coaching and equestrian competitions, often with world class contenders and Olympic hopefuls.

The special 90-minute show in the evening paid tribute to many of the things that have been so important to The Queen throughout her life. It featured horses and riders from Canada, New Zealand and Fiji among other countries and included pipers and drummers according to press reports.

The Queen will attended the last night while others members of the Royal Family were present on the other evenings. 

Simon Brooks-Ward, who produced and directed the birthday show and who also runs the Windsor Horse Show, said that the particular event was to ‘celebrate a truly remarkable life.’

 The Queen, the King of Bahrain and the Duke of York shared a laugh while watching the endurance phase of the trials.

So glad she can enjoy herself with all of her responsibilities. 

Always lots of English Royal commemoratives available at 
Time Was Antiques.
For more info on these two items, click on the photos. 

New Royal Baby For the Duke and Duchess of Sussex

Prince Harry and Meghan, or the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, welcomed a baby son today May 6th, 2019

The baby weighed 7 lbs 3 oz, and no name has yet been released, which is normal. It may not be until the christening...we will have to wait and see...

 The birth comes just a few days before the couple will celebrate their 1st wedding anniversary on May 19th... 

 Click HERE to read the official Royal palace announcement of the birth...

Sounds like an excuse for a Royal tea party to me!

Cheers! 

from

Time Was Antiques!

Duke And Duchess of Cambridge Wedding Anniversary, Princess Charlotte's Birthday

 April 29, 2011 was the day Catherine Middleton married Prince William. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge... as they were thereafter styled... celebrate their 8th anniversary today, April 29, 2019.

 I loved her wedding dress... definitely an elegant princess...

We actually even have just a few of the Royal Victorian wedding mugs at Time Was Antiques we sourced from the pottery for the festivities, although almost gone....

 And the famous Balcony Kiss on a tea towel... only a few left of those also....

May 2nd is Princess Charlotte's 4th birthday... born May 2, 2015.

Withe her big brother Prince George...
 

Last year at age 3...

And I love this photo of Catherine, George and Charlotte on a school visit in Ireland last year...

 

From the archives of Time Was Antiques, the mug we had from Adderley for the occasion of her birth in 2015... now sold out...

 

So definitely a week for Royal fans.

Prince Louis of Cambridge First Birthday April 23rd, Shakespeare And St. George and More!

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Hello there. Thanks for joining me for a post about English birthdays...

The youngest being little Prince Louis, son of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge who turns one year old today... April 23rd. The photo was taken by his mother, Catherine. So cute!

Wonder if he will face plant in his cake... if he does, it will be publicized!

This was taken of the entire Cambridge family in 2018 when Louis was 6 months old at Amner Hall near Sandringham...

Also...today is St. George's Day, and St. George is the symbol flag of England... ask any English sport fan...not the Union Jack....

 Which is the symbol of the United Kingdom, but the flag of St. George, or the George Cross is the flag of England, and is the symbol on the National teams of England. St. George is the patron saint of England and believed to have died on April 23rd. He is thought to have been a Roman soldier, and, of course...reputed to have killed a dragon.....

 This is a Dunoon, England bone china mug we have at Time Was Antiques with the ubiquitous image of the St. George Cross, symbol of England...so...

April 23rd is also famous in England because it is celebrated as William Shakespeare's birthday...

 

Who has the added distinction to be thought to have been born on April 23, 1564 and died on the same day in 1616...

 

 

We have just added an 1896 volume of Shakespeare's play King Henry IV part II that even has an actual etching of a castle bound into the book... click on the photo for more info at Time Was Antiques

And, lastly, April 23rd is also the anniversary of the founding of the Coldstream Guards, a unit of the Queen's Brigade of Guards... 5 units, and special to us because it was my husband's old unit. They take turns being actually a crack infantry unit mixed with guarding royal properties including Buckingham Palace...you know, changing the guard, etc. He has some great stories of his times on guard.  For more on the guards, I have posted previously about it HERE

 So... thanks for joining me!