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for-valour · 1 month
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‘The Greaze is an annual custom unique to Westminster School, held each Shrove Tuesday since at least the mid 1700s but in a tradition likely to be medieval. A school cook tosses a pancake over an iron bar and pupils scramble to retrieve what they can of the pancake. The pupil with the largest piece wins a guinea from the Dean of Westminster, who also grants the whole school an extra day’s holiday — the ‘Dean’s play’.
The Greaze is the most anticipated event in the School diary and is a popular spectator event, notably in 1919 when it was attended by King George V and Queen Mary, alongside their sons, the future Edward VIII and George VI.’
Source: Westminster School
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Aww, look at our baby-faced Bertie!
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royalsofhistory · 2 years
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A sweet photograph of King George V of the United Kingdom and his son, Edward, Duke of York, taken in Bernstorff, 1898. Prince Valdemar of Denmark can be seen in the background.
Source: 💌.
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wholelottarwrb · 7 months
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they beat the no chemistry allegations 😭😭😭💖💖💖💖
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royalchildreneurope · 2 months
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The Duke of Edinburgh and James, The Earl of Wessex attend the Christmas Day service at St Mary Magdalene Church in King's Lynn, England -December 25th 2023.
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grandmaster-anne · 11 months
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6 May 2023 The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh arriving with Lady Louise Windsor and the Earl of Wessex at the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla.
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world-of-wales · 11 months
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ED AND HIS NEW FRIEND
The Duke of Edinburgh seems to have found a new friend in Kermit, the frog 🐸 at the Coronation Concert | 7 MAY 2023 @leonisandmurex
Credits to the anon for the video
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ifreakingloveroyals · 11 months
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6 May 2023 | Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh and Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh arriving with Lady Louise Windsor and James, Earl of Wessex at the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla in London, England. The Coronation of Charles III and his wife, Camilla, as King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the other Commonwealth realms takes place at Westminster Abbey today. Charles acceded to the throne on 8 September 2022, upon the death of his mother, Elizabeth II. (c) Andrew Milligan - WPA Pool/Getty Images
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darlinggeorgiedear · 6 months
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King Edward Vii, George V, Edward Viii, and George Vi matching in Scotland.
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petermorwood · 25 days
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That aged less than well.
I picked up a few common-subject books (The 1936 Abdication of Edward VIII, and what came after) from the library a couple of weeks back, and after reading several non-fictions, started on the single example of fiction.
It's "To Catch A King", a thriller by Jack "The Eagle Has Landed" Higgins, and Hoo-Boy, the opening made me roll my eyes:
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The Higgins novel was first published in 1979.
The non-fiction books all came out much later.
"Much later" meant post-Charles / Diana / Camilla / Andy / Fergie / Harry / Meghan etc, and thus also meant "Much Less Deferential".
They used research material unavailable* when Higgins wrote his novel.
* That said, every single non-fiction writer commented about how many documents were Not Yet Available, or Lost, or Withheld, or Heavily Redacted, etcetera, etcetera.
Even without that excuse there's an unsavoury brown-nosing feel about the novel which seems very un-Higgins.
IMO, of course, and YMMV.
By contrast, one of the non-fiction books - this one by Andrew Lownie - was entitled "Traitor King". Make of that what you will.
Considering what came from the documents which WERE available, and wondering what might be in the ones kept out of reach - also WHY they're so out of reach - leaves me thinking there's a lot of "no smoke without fire" about the Duke of Windsor's doings before and during WW2.
And terms like "credit", "gallant", "honourable", even "gentleman" may be at best less than accurate, at worst completely false.
The show will, no doubt, go on.
Right now I'm turning attention to some novels from my TBR pile - including at long last a few "Redwall" titles - because after that other lot, fiction has a less dodgy flavour...
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aimeedaisies · 3 months
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Prince Edward, the Duke of Edinburgh and his daughter Lady Louise at London Horse Show on 14th December 2023.
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theroyalsandi · 1 year
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BREAKING NEWS!! 
King Charles III has made his brother Prince Edward The Duke of Edinburgh on his 59th birthday. His wife Sophie becomes Duchess of Edinburgh and his son James the new Earl of Wessex. The Duke of Edinburgh title will revert to the Crown after Prince Edward’s death. Lady Louise’s title remains unchanged. Prince Edward retains the Earl of Forfar but when he dies his son will be Earl of Wessex and Forfar.
Buckingham Palace: “His Majesty The King has been pleased to confer the Dukedom of Edinburgh upon The Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Forfar, on the occasion of His Royal Highness’s 59th birthday.  The title will be held by Prince Edward for His Royal Highness’s lifetime.” | March 10, 2023
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for-valour · 10 months
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Is it true that the rumors that say, it was the queen mother who influenced Bertie so that Simpson would not get the HRH title??
and I honestly fully support the queen mother :)
Thanks for your message! From everything I have personally read (other folks in the fandom might have read differently to me - please comment if so!), it seems most likely that multiple members of the Royal Household collectively played a part in denying Wallis Simpson the HRH title. What I don't know is who had the *most* influence!
In 1939, a letter written by David (I should probably write Edward but I prefer using his informal/family name, just as Albert is always 'Bertie'!) to Lord Beaverbrook complains about a newspaper article that was written about himself and Simpson. He writes, '...the matter of withholding the title of Royal Highness from the Duchess is an insult which I as her husband and a member of the Royal Family have always resented far more deeply than she has...'
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He then continues: '...whatever may be the behaviour of Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth towards the Duchess, it would in no way affect any plans we might make for going to England.' This could suggest that both Queen Mary and The Queen Mother had jointly decided Simpson not worthy of the title and so helped push the the matter further with King George VI. Bertie then also further discussed the HRH situation with the prime minister at the time, Stanley Baldwin, and between them they agreed that the best way to go about the issue was to first deny David of his royal rank, but then to 'reinstate' it with new restrictions (which I presume also meant the ability to restrict the use of HRH to Simpson). However, I believe that even Bertie himself was unsure --or misinformed-- about the complexities of how titles, peerages, etc, were supposed to be acquired through the royal lineage... and so the denial of Wallis' title was considered, in some circles, to be incredibly discriminatory regardless of the reasons why it happened.
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In any case, David did eventually vow never to return to the UK if his wife was denied her title, and they stuck to their word and lived in exile for the rest of their lives.
Hope this helps --sort of!-- answer your question! And apologies for taking ages to reply - I'm very very slowly trying to go through a BIG pile of asks!
P.S. Totally by chance I seem to have posted this on the 86th anniversary of David & Wallis’ wedding day 😆
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Sources: Traitor King by Andrew Lownie, Royal Central and The Daily Express archives. Photo Credits: Shutterstock, Getty, National Portrait Gallery.
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heavyarethecrowns · 3 months
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wholelottarwrb · 7 months
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image locking eyes with your soulmate across a crowded dance floor of people slut dropping
that’s the dream.
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❤ Queen Alexandra with her grandchildren ❤
Edit made by me using CapCut!
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littlemuoi · 11 months
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The Edinburghs greeted King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands at the Coronation.
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