The #Frockingfabulous#QueenElizabethII was crowned at Westminster Abbey on this day in 1953. On the left, the glove Elizabeth I wore at her Westminster Abbey coronation in 1559, via Dents Museum Collection. Note the fashionably graceful, elongated fingers. On the right, that worn by Queen Elizabeth II at her own coronation, via the Glove Collection Trust.
Charles II was crowned on 23 April 1661 at Westminster Abbey, restoring the monarchy after the English Commonwealth. Following his return in 1660, the ceremony was staged as a grand act of legitimacy, affirming his divine and constitutional authority in traditional form. #Stuart
My mother, toddler sister Sarah, and Dutch barge dog (Keeshond) Saskia, in the garden of Park House, my family home for 20 years till 1975. My mother married young - she had me, her fifth child, when still only 28. A different timeโฆ. Tender photograph taken by my father.
Official Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid taken in the Throne Room of Christiansborg Palace on the occasion of the British State Visit to Denmark, 1957
This rare photo of Napoleon III and Victoria taken during the Crimean War in 1855. It is the only known photo of a British Monarch and a French Monarch together.
@Gertsroyals Not a word of sympathy from Crown Prince Haakon or in Crown Princess Mette-Maritโs statement for the victims of Epstein.
Their lack of humanity and morality is disturbing. The Norwegian people deserve better than this duo or any child raised by them.