#prince bertie

[spiritundaunted]

"Arms are so difficult to draw"...

While the Duke and Duchess of York (the future King George V and Queen Mary) were away on a royal tour in 1901, King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra commissioned an artist, Mrs. Gertrude Massey, to paint miniature portraits of their children, David, Bertie, Mary and Harry, as surprise gifts for them on their return. Mrs. Massey spent a lot of time with the children and got to know them well, and they became very fond of her.

In her memoir, Kings, Commoners and Me (1934), Massey described each of the children. She saw Prince Edward (David) as the "the most interesting" and Princess Mary as "the most mischievous".

As for little Bertie, she related a story of how one day he asked if he could draw her, "for a change", and she obliged him. As he drew, she observed "His face was so expressive, one could almost read his thoughts." His expression showed that he was pleased with his drawing, except for one thing.

"Would you mind if I don't give you any arms?'' he asked. "Arms are so difficult to draw."

Aw, Bertie!!! <3

I enjoy reading about these little moments throughout his life when Bertie's creative side would shyly show itself. I think he did have a creativity about him; he just didn't really get a lot of opportunity to explore it. Although he was never interested in fine arts and culture the way his younger brother the Duke of Kent was, I think he enjoyed designing and creating and was proud of these accomplishments in his humble way.

For instance, he loved landscape gardening, (once he wrote a letter in the "language of Rhododendrum"!). He did needlepoint, and created a set of 12 chair covers for Royal Lodge. He also designed the George Cross and George Medal himself. And of course there was his life long interest in photography and filming, which I can particularly relate to and understand. Even during his last Sandringham Christmas, King George designed trousers to be worn with the Order of the Garter robes instead of the traditional knee pants and Prince Philip photographed him wearing them. It has been repeated often that when he got interested in something, he was all in! That is the essence of a creative spirit, in my eyes.

What a sweet, sensitive soul.

Sources: Kings, Commoners and Me (1934) by Gertrude Massey; George and Elizabeth, A Royal Marriage (1983) by David Duff; Bonhams; The Royal Collection Trust

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

Princess Victoria of Wales wrangling her nephews Prince Bertie (Albert), and Prince David of York, and her niece Princess Mary of York, 1900

[lepetitdragonvert]

Charles Perrault

Contes du temps passé

Librairie Delagrave

1925

Artist : Maurice Berty

[davbertieloml]

The Duke of Edinburgh and his father-in-law, King George VI attending Armistice Day (Remembrance Day), 1948 🌺

[goodoldroyalty]

The Prince of Wales and Prince Albert in France, 1918. Those smiles🤭

[for-valour]

That adorable little shiver! OH BERTIE!🥹

Visiting his Duke of York Boys’ Camp, New Romney, 1927.

gif made by @for-valour

[blueeyeddarkknight]

Me listening to Hugh Laurie talking : hmmm he kinda sounds like Dan Stevens

Also me : 😲

Behind Blue eyes 👁️

Dumb but confident prince in a grey wig and cake makeup 💅

Sense and sensibility

Caterpillar mustache

Britney, b!tch

Ps : they both graduated from Cambridge as well

[vvyvernicus]

Gary's first interaction with the Lemoncarbs felt like—

I think he and Bertie would be good friends.

[buffyfan145]

Just watched the first 2 episodes of "The Crown" season 6 Part 2 and could be wrong but were two of Prince William's classmates shown supposed to be Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hiddleston? I know they did all go to Eton around the same time and the episode showed not only William receiving condolence letters from his classmates but also playing rugby and attending classes with others and two of the boys looked like Eddie and Tom when they were teens including having the same hairstyles they had back then. LOL It's more of an Easter Egg if you know their pasts but that's so funny if it really is supposed to be them.

Also Ed McVey's already impressed me as William and we got a bit of Luther Ford's Prince Harry too, and I remember them being teen idols as they actually were two of mine. LOL And being a fan of Bertie Carvel I'm very happy he did get his own focused episode as Tony Blair like they did with the other PMs. So far happy with these episodes and only got 4 more to go.

[leonisandmurex]

Windsor family members featuring in the documentary, Elizabeth: The unseen Queen

[princessanneftw]

Prince Charles and Princess Anne with their grandfather, King George VI, in the gardens of Royal Lodge at Windsor in 1951.

[spiritundaunted]

Just needed a dash of cuteness today! ;)

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

Little Princess David and Bertie of York (later Kings Edward VIII and George VI) photographed in the pram, 1896

Source: Princess Victoria of Wales’s albums

[ilovetheroyals1]

Oh, those Windsor boys! 😍

[davbertieloml]

BERTIEEEE SUPREMACYYYYY

[goodoldroyalty]

Smiling Bertie.