#Edward VII

[captainsamta]

Something I had done years ago on A4 size paper. I think I skipped a few due to lack of space. Kings and Queens of England (after king Henry IV)

[darlinggeorgiedear]

King Edward Vii, George V, Edward Viii, and George Vi matching in Scotland.

[royalwomeninhistory]

Four Generations

Queen Victoria with her son & heir the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), grandson the Duke of York (later George V), and great-grandson Prince Edward of York (later Edward VIII; Duke of Windsor), at Osborne House, 5 August 1899.

According to Frances Donaldson: “When they were children Prince Edward and Prince Albert were also terrified in the presence of their great-grandmother … they would frequently burst into tears in her presence for no obvious reason, which ‘both saddened and annoyed the Queen, who would ask, with the petulance of old age, what she had done wrong now. It also mortified the children’s parents’”. (Edward VIII: The Road to Abdication, p.17)

Source: Royal Collection (photographs), @kingedwardviii (text)

[thepastisalreadywritten]

A collage of The Record Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria — 63 years, 216 days.

The collage shows the Heir Apparent (Edward VII) - Heir Presumptive (George V) - David (Edward VIII).

Also, her other living children when attaining this historical reign. There are 8 miniatures of Queen Victoria.

Credit: Illustrated London News (special edition)

[duchesssoflennox]

Share with us, your favorite Potraits of Royals✨💋🥺🤍

my favorite royal portraits are infinite... However, I would love to share each and every one of them with you...🥺🫶💓

I'm obsessed with these 3 portraits of Queen Victoria's family, all painted by court painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter...🥰

1. Princess Alice of United Kingdom is wearing a white ball dress and a black shawl. Originally she held a wreath of flowers in her hand, but this was changed as the painting progressed. Franz Xaver Winterhalter began the painting on 4 June 1861 and on 13 June Queen Victoria wrote in her Journal that he had 'finished Alice's beautiful picture, which is so like & fine'.

Alice was the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Known for her sweet nature, she often took on the role of peacekeeper in the royal household. Princess Helena, her sister, described her as 'loving Daughter and Sister, the devoted Wife and Mother, and a perfect, true Woman'.

2. Princess Louise of United kingdom was the sixth of Queen Victoria's nine children. Beautiful and artistic, as an adult she supported the women's movement and helped launch the Girls Public Day School Company.

3. Queen Victoria with her Four Eldest Children, Victoria Princess Royal, Prince Edward, Princess Alice, Prince Alfred.

The Queen asked Winterhalter to copy and arrange to her own design ‘my portrait with the 4 children’ from the central group in his painting of The Reception of Louis-Philippe, King of the French, at Windsor Castle, 8 October 1844.

She was pleased with the painting and noted in her Journal that it ‘looks quite lovely’.

[royal-confessions]

“out of all the BRF documentaries that I've seen being made the War of the Waleses and Prince Philip are apparently fan favorite topics, but what I really need is a good in-depth documentary about George V that goes beyond the fact that he won WWI and a documentary about Edward VII that goes beyond that bloody sex chair.” - Submitted by Anonymous

[juanatrastamara]

queen charlotte & queen victoria + parallels

[stephensmithuk]

The Illustrious Client

First published in the US in 1924 and the UK in 1925, the latter as a two-parter, this forms part of Case-book.

The first part in The Strand ends with Watson seeing the newspaper headline about the attack on Holmes.

Northumberland Avenue is a street running from Trafalgar Square to the Thames Embankment. It includes a pub called The Sherlock Holmes.

The Carlton Club was founded by the Conservative Party and was long its defacto headquarters. Originally on Carlton Terrace, it moved to Pall Mall in 1835, with the building rebuilt in 1856. A direct hit by a German bomb in 1940 destroyed the building and the Club moved to 69 St James's Street, former home of Arthur's Club. Women were not allowed to be associate members until the 1970s and not full members until 2008, with Margaret Thatcher getting honorary membership when she become Tory leader in 1975. She later become club president in 2009, although by his point she had dementia and died in 2013.

The general consensus is that the "Illustrious Client" is no less than Edward VII himself, who Holmes may have previously gotten the Beryl Coronet back for.

Prague was then under Austrian rule.

The Splügen Pass, used for travel since Roman times, connects Switzerland and Italy and with its great height, hairpins and spectacular views, is considered one of the greatest driving challenges on the planet, having featured in Top Gear. The San Bernandino tunnel has taken most of the non-tourist traffic and it is now closed in winter for safety reasons.

Kingston upon Thames, known as Kingston for short, is a town located 10 miles SW of Charing Cross. Until 1965, it was in Surrey before becoming part of Greater London and part of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. Surrey County Council were based there until 2021, when their offices moved to Reigate.

The Hurlingham Club in Fulham is where horse polo's rules were established - it even hosted Olympic polo in the 1908 London Games, but the fields were compulsorily purchased by the local council after the Second World War for housing. It was also home to pigeon shooting and was home of world croquet, still holding major events in the latter. Edward VII was a keen patron of the site.

Charlie Peace was an English burglar and double murderer, executed in 1879. He ended up featuring in Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, which was oddly enough replaced between 2016 and 2022 with an immersive Sherlock Holmes Experience... which at £66.50 a ticket was a bit too expensive.

HMP Parkhurst, a Category B prison located on the Isle of Wight, merged in 2009 with HMP Albany to form HMP Isle of Wight, although each part retains its own name. Notable inmates include the Kray Twins, Peter Sutcliffe, Ian Brady and currently Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadžić.

Hypnotism was rather in vogue by this time.

Apaches were the name given to various criminal gangs in Paris; named after the Native American tribe. There are various suggestions as to how that came about.

Montmartre, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, was widely known for its artistic community during this time, with many a famous name living there due to the low rents. It's still there and development is restricted due to the historic character. Pigalle, Paris's red-light district, is next door.

Kitty Winter would feature as a character in Elementary, played by Ophelia Lovibond. Gruner turns up as well.

"Tinker’s curse" is Kitty saying, in the language of the time, that she does not give an [expletive deleted].

Ruritania is a fictional country first featured in the 1894 Anthony Hope novel The Prisoner of Zenda. It has become a byword for quaint small European countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

China was still an Empire in 1902, nominally ruled by the Guangxu Emperor, aka Zaitan, but an 1898 coup resulted in his loss of any real power; he was even in house arrest for a while. He died in 1908, probably poisoned by arsenic. His nephew, Puyi, would be the last Chinese Emperor and is beyond the scope of this article.

I cannot discuss Chinese pottery in any depth and so will not attempt to.

Some husbands might have questioned the gallantry of King Edward VII, who had a box for his mistresses at his coronation.

Armorial bearings are the "shield" part of a coat of arms. The British royal one traditionally depicted a bare-breasted woman as part of the harp on the bottom left, but this is no longer standard practice.

Edward VII, while having no actual political power, was able to exercise quite a bit of influence behind the scenes, especially in foreign and defence policy.

All criminal prosecutions are brought in the name of the monarch, rendered "R" (Rex or Regina) in text and "the Crown" when spoken). i.e. R vs. Winter. In addition, judicial reviews (i.e. is this government decision legal) are also brought in the name of the monarch, with the name of the actual plaintiff in brackets since a 2001 change to the format, e.g. R (Smith) vs. Secretary of State for the Home Department. It is common for initials to be used in those brackets to protect the identity of a plaintiff, such as the recent decision on flying migrants to Rwanda.

[ladygoehnio]

omg so cute👀✨

[ukfanpage]

Devonshire House Ball, 1897

The Devonshire House Ball or the Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball was an elaborate fancy dress ball, hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, held on 2 July 1897 at Devonshire House in Piccadilly to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.

The Prince and the Princess of Wales (Edward VII and Alexandra)

The Duke and the Duchess of York (George V and Mary)

Princess Mary Adelaide (the mother of Mary)

The Countess of Warwick dressed as Marie Antoinette

The Duchess of Devonshire

Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia and his wife

The Viscount D'Abernon

Daisy, Princess of Pless dressed as Cleopatra

Lady Randolph Spencer-Churchill in a byzantine dress

P.S (For every person I put at first their photo and then the inspo for their costume)

[romanovsonelastdance]

Nicholas, Alexandra and baby Olga with Queen Victoria and the future King Edward VII.

[collarsncrowns]

King Edward VII, Queen Alexandra, and The Prince and Princess of Wales (future George V and Queen Mary), with other members of royalty during a state visit to Portugal.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Today is the first occasion on which The King will open Parliament as Sovereign.

Pictured here, the then Prince of Wales first attended State Opening in 1970, alongside The Princess Royal, accompanying his mother Queen Elizabeth II and his father The former Duke of Edinburgh.

7 November 2023

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Take a look back at previous State Openings of Parliament. 👇

📷 Edward VII travels to Parliament in 1910.

📷 King George V and Queen Mary leave Parliament in 1930.

📷 Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by the former Duke of Edinburgh, opens Parliament for the first time in her reign in 1952.

📷 The former Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, accompanied by the then Duke of Cambridge, proceed behind the Imperial State Crown in 2022.

[duchesssoflennox]

ROYAL CHILDREN OF QUEEN VICTORIA AS BABIES 🥺💖

Nine Children Of Queen Victoria As Babies🥺✨️

We must admit that Queen Victoria gave birth to the cutest royal babies🥺✨️💖

[royal-confessions]

“If Me Too movement had existed in the 19th century, dirty men like King Edward VII would have been cancelled like prince Andrew is today. Bertie was a repulsive man, an abusive cheating husband, a neglectful abusive father and a disgusting human being overall. Poor Alexandra, she deserved better. His children deserved better. Imagine having a husband like that. Imagine having a father like that” - Submitted by Anonymous

[catherinetheprincessofwales]

Queen Mary of the United Kingdom and 3 Coronations

The Princess of Wales at the Coronation of Edward VII (1902)

The Queen at her own Coronation with her husband George V (1911)

The Queen Mother at the Coronation of George VI (1937)