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theempireroyals · 1 year
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Queen Mother Emma, Princess Emilia And Prince Alfred Return From Private Holiday With Queen Grace To Attend Easter Service
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It was a bright, sunlit Easter day at Chapel Royal of St Jameson in Merrimont this morning as members of the royal family gathered for services.
The Queen Mother, Princess Emilia, and Prince Alfred made their annual appearance at Easter church service. The royals gathered at Chapel Royal of St Jameson in Merrimont, where Queen Grace coronation took place over a few months ago.
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They were joined by Queen Grace for the Sunday service.
The service was led by the Right Reverend Dean Connel, the Dean of Merriment. HM receiving flowers after the service.
Reports say they were presented by “the sons of adult members of the choir.”
Princess Emilia and her mother, Emma, Queen Mother as they arrived at church.
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Queen Mother, Prince Alfred and Princess Emilia arriving.
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The Royal Family gather outside the chapel to greet the Queen.
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The Princess Emilia curtsies as HM passes on her way into church.
More about the service from an inside source:
In a sweet nod to the other big celebration that took place last at the church, after the family all took their seats, the organist played “God Save The Queen” in honor of the monarch coronation day.
Crowds gathered outside the chapel serenaded the Queen.
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qqueenofhades · 2 years
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Try to have some respect the queen just DIED. It's not like she was evil or anything
And why should I do that for the head of a family that oversaw the British Empire's legendarily brutal concentration camps in colonialist Kenya during the 1952-1960 Mau Mau rebellion, has personally and repeatedly shielded credibly accused rapist Prince Andrew and tried to get the scandal to go away, personally paid Andrew's financial settlement while the family treated Meghan Markle terribly and gave her none of the same protection, exerted a huge amount of control over UK public finances without any transparency or disclosure (while also receiving huge amounts of that money), got to personally edit laws according to her likes and dislikes, enjoyed sweeping legal immunities that are described as a "threat to UK democracy," is the most visible figurehead of British colonialism even as her descendants put on a horribly tone-deaf Caribbean tour (twice in one year!) that was basically about unreconstructed imperial imagery of the kind that is poisoning Britain, while the entire country buys into the fantasy that she is an impartial, uninvolved, kindly and benevolent grandmotherly figure....?
Nah.
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"Queen Mary took a big interest in the upbringing of her granddaughters, Elizabeth and Margaret. Their own parents thought it unnecessary for them to have a strong educational regime, so Mary felt it was up to her to educate the young princesses by taking them to art galleries and museums"
Today is Queen Mary' 71th death anniversary. She passed away on march 24, 1953 at the age of 85, in Marlborough House, London (same house where George V was born)
Rest in peace Queen Mary with all your loved ones 🌹
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krasivaa · 1 month
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A delightful photo of little Grand Duchesses Olga Nikolaevna and Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia with their auntie, Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna, circa 1898-1899. <3
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for-valour · 4 months
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Happy Heavenly Birthday to His Majesty King George VI; dearest Albert Frederick Arthur George; and, of course, our darling Bertie.
128 years old today, and forever handsome & delightful ❤️
14 Dec 1895 - 6 Feb 1952.
The Duke of York visits Penarth, South Wales , 1921. GIFs made by @for-valour
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iamashmoore · 11 months
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He did it better.
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appleteeth · 2 years
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justdonotaskmewhy · 3 months
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previously unpublished photo of 15 year old Diana at her sister’s Jane wedding
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Queen Elizabeth II, like her predecessors, affirmed old imperial fictions and cultivated new ones. This was her prescribed role, her monarchical duty. She reminded her grieving nation of its imperial greatness and the sacrifices being made to save empire from encroaching terrorism in the empire. “In Malaya,” she declared, “My Forces and the civil administration are carrying out a difficult task with patience and determination.”
This difficult task, meant to suppress an anticolonial, communist insurgency, included mass detention without trial, illegal deportations and one of the empire’s largest forced migrations, moving hundreds of thousands of colonial subjects into barbed-wire villages. Many lived in semi-starvation, under 24-hour guard, and were forced to labor and abused.
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zanderbobs · 2 years
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I've been seeing a lot of people on social media going "but decolonisation!" when trying to defend the Queen on social media and pointing at maps comparing the size of the British empire at the start and later on in the Queen's reign. And while it's technically true that most decolonisation happened under the Queen's rule, it's a gross simplification that makes it sound like the Queen came to power actively wanting to decolonise and changed everything, which really doesn't sit well with me.
Like, do you think around the 1950s and 60s all of the monarchy and government had a great epiphany that actually imperialism is bad and we should stop it? No! There were many factors that persuaded them to decolonise. Prime Ministers Churchill, Eden, and Macmillan (and even Attlee to an extent) only allowed change throughout the empire to occur because of the action and sacrifice of indigenous people for independence and changing public opinion, especially among the working classes, in Britain about how the government should focus on improving the lives of those at home rather than new conquests abroad. To suggest that the Queen wasn't bad because she decolonised is to erase and undermine the efforts of oppressed individuals across the empire and in Britain to make it clear that empire couldn't sustain itself post-WW2.
Were it not for such shifts, Britain would've likely held on much longer to its Empire. And heck, Britain actively tried at points. The Mau Mau uprising in Kenya was brutally suppressed during the Queen's rule, and the Troubles in Northern Ireland also occured. The only real outlier here is that the Queen did complain about Eden's conduct during the Suez Crisis, though that was unpopular with basically everyone (due to lack of transparency). Territories were generally lost either because they were too hard to control anymore or simply because they were no longer profitable- not because the British ruling class suddenly had a change of heart and realised dominating over countries they had no right to was morally wrong. And not all decolonisation was carried out equally- while it was quite plain-sailing for white settler colonies to gain independence (though indigenous populations there still endured oppression), it generally took much more pain and suffering for non-white countries to assert their own self-government.
The Queen, until her death, wore a crown decorated with the spoils of Empire. Were it not for the constant efforts of indigenous peoples to get rid of the British Empire, she likely would've kept a few more colonies to her name until her death too.
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ykzzr · 9 months
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Prince Edward of Wales, his wife Princess Alexandra of Wales and their two sons Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales 1870s.
Princess Alexandra’s face looks weirdly edited.
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theempireroyals · 2 years
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Earlier Christmas Morning With The Raymount Royal Family…
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qqueenofhades · 2 months
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The U.K. economy can’t handle another funeral and £10 million coronation. People can’t heat their homes or feed themselves but the government will ignore that to throw a party for William the Pegged. So as much as I hate myself for typing this, Chuck can’t die 😭
I mean... yeah, that's the really stupid part of this whole thing. The UK economy is in shambles, the whole country is broke, the government has been eager to make it worse at every opportunity, Labour's election strategy seems to be "say the most right-wing things we can while still technically not being the Tories," and another state funeral + royal coronation will bankrupt the lot (not that anyone in power actually cares about this). The only actual solution would be to abolish the monarchy, but as that is not happening any time soon... yeah. At least William the Pegged and White Supremacist Barbie would have a theoretically longer lifespan, but also, who knows?
Anyway, this and the fact that Charles will get top-quality and constant care, while the NHS continues to disintegrate in barely slow motion, is one of the things that should make a fervent republican out of anyone, but while I do have affection for the UK and obviously lived there for a while and did my PhD there, I still cannot fathom their continued attachment to the monarchy. Maybe this will continue to wane in the next generation, but also, why?
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krasivaa · 4 months
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Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanova in captivity in Tsarskoe Selo, Russia, April 1917. 💔💘
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for-valour · 7 months
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That adorable little shiver! OH BERTIE!🥹
Visiting his Duke of York Boys’ Camp, New Romney, 1927.
gif made by @for-valour
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