#Coronation Year

[bargainsleuthbooks]

Coronation Year by Jennifer Robson #HouseofWindsor #HistoricalFiction #BookReview #QueenElizabethII

Here's another royal-adjacent novel that was unputdownable: #CoronationYear by #JenniferRobson, who authored #TheGown, too. Give me more fiction like this! #historicalfiction #houseofwindsor #queenelizabethii #williammorrow #coronationroute #bookreview

The USA Today bestselling author of The Gown returns with another enthralling and royal-adjacent historical novel—as the lives of three very different residents of London’s historic Blue Lion hotel converge in a potentially explosive climax on the day of Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation. It is Coronation Year, 1953, and a new queen is about to be crowned. The people of London are in a mood to…

[fennekfox]

[clumsycapitolunicorn]

"Mmm, truffle-y." "What did you expect?"

CARLA CONNOR & LISA SWAIN | CORONATION STREET

[damnamour]

CORONATION STREET ― 22nd November 2024

[thescreaminghat]

shuttles are his type ig

[lizmitches]

: )

[kavohh707]

That's it for 2024. It is midnight here in Germany. I finish my traditional New Year's eve posting of bird tushes and of my birding year in review. Time to go to bed.

To all of you, have a Happy New Year with many, many birds, because birds make everything better.

[lovers-instead]

crazy parallel my friend pointed out!

[luthqrs]

“What you’re doing is immoral, not to mention cruel… but your super won’t hear about it from me.” LISA SWAIN in CORONATION STREET ↝ 18.09.2022

[kellyvela]

lady.of.light.- PO no. 3 of #ComicConFinland: Kit Harington ❄️ I was finally reunited with Kit yesterday after Walker Stalker in Germany some years back and it was such a lovely moment 🥺❤️ He was really sweet and I asked if he could hold my hand as I thought that pose would suit Jon and Sansa well. Plus it's a little different from all my other POs and I'm really liking how this turned out 🥺 He also really appreciated my costume, which means a lot. Ah I'm just sooo happy he was invited to be our guest at this event and I was able to have this experience. And just wait till I share the story from his panel/autograph, it cracked the whole crowd up 😂🙈 Have a great day everyone! ❤️ * #ComicConFinland2024 #HeroesComicCon #ComicCon #KitHarington #GameOfThrones #JonSnow #HouseStark #WinterIsComing #SansaStark #geeklife #fangirling #photoop #convention #dreamcometrue #HBOMaxNordic

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[electric-eccentricity]

Coming Home for Christmas, Carla Connor/Lisa Swain, Rated E

[my take on what might’ve happened between the eggnog cheers and the dressing down discovery. Took a bit longer than I wanted, but the week between Christmas and New Year’s doesn’t count anyway, so here’s a belated gift from me to you 😘]

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The walk back to her flat isn’t a long one. It would have been Carla’s preference to stroll down the road arm-in-arm, hand-in-hand even, but Lisa seems in no mood to dilly dally, taking long, sure strides across the cobbles; she only pauses to wait for Carla to catch up with her keys.

“Hurry up, it’s cold out here.”

“Oh, I see, just keen for the warmth, are you?”

“Something like that, yeah.”

keep reading on ao3.

[princessanneftw]

Princess Anne in 2023

[worstloki]

AU where Loki gets banished for Thor/Warriors 4 going to Jotunheim and he just settles down on Earth. Copes with the blue arm by ignoring it completely since he's been disowned and dumped on Earth anyway. There's probably a way to 'prove himself worthy' and 'get back to Asgard' but he never bothers with it.

[justfirelordizumithings]

It's the 10 year anniversary of the LOK episode "The Coronation"

Which means it's also the 10 year anniversary of Fire Lord Izumi's first appearance!

[wonder-worker]

"[Matilda of Boulogne's office as Queen of England], initiated and broadly defined by the coronation ordo, gave her royal power and authority to share in governance. Her obligations and activities were shaped by custom established by previous queens and the ad hoc needs of king and realm. [...] [Matilda's] thorough integration into the governance of the realm was not repeated in [Eleanor of Aquitaine’s] years as queen of England. Eleanor's coronation followed a new model that emphasized the queen as progenitor of royal heirs and subordinate to the king rather than as sharer of royal power. Though Eleanor acted as regent in England between 1156 and 1158 and in Poitou on several occasions from 1165 on, her writs suggest delegated rather than shared royal authority. In England, her power was limited by the lack of lands assigned to her use and by the elaboration of financial and judicial administration. Whereas [Matilda of Boulogne's] inheritance allowed her to play an integral role in politics by securing the Londoners' loyalty and a steady supply of mercenaries, Eleanor's inheritance provided her with more extensive power in Poitou and Aquitaine than in England. Until 1163, Eleanor withdrew funds from the Exchequer by her own writ, but unlike her Anglo-Norman predecessors, she was not a member of its council nor did she issue judgments from the royal court. Eleanor's counsel and diplomatic activities, in contrast to Matilda's, are rarely mentioned. She did, however, encourage the 1159 Toulouse campaign and supported Henry in the Becket affair and the coronation of young Henry. Eleanor was not a prominent curialis; she rarely witnessed Henry's charters or interceded to secure the king's mercy. She did follow in Matilda's footsteps in her promotion of her sons, cultivation of dynastic goals through the Fontevraudian tombs, and patronage that reflected her family's traditions. For Matilda, to be queen encompassed a variety of functions-curialis, diplomat, judge, intercessor, and "regent." Through a combination of factors, Eleanor's role as queen was much more restricted."

-Heather J. Tanner, "Queenship: Office, Custom or Ad Hoc", Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady (Edited by Bonnie Wheeler and John Carmi Parsons)

[kavohh707]

2024 - Bird year in review - part 6.

The last part of my review belongs to my crows, the crows of my neighbourhood that know and trust me, which makes each encounter special. Not every encounter leads to pictures because I don't always have the camera with me (and since they trust me they sometimes come too close to take pictures, I know, what a problem to have as a bird photographer).

There were also changes, a new pair of crows wedged itself in between two already occupied territories and that lead to another crow couple to move its territory a bit further away.

I had hoped that my neighborhood crows would have some baby crows this year, but that didn't happen and I blame the many birds of prey. But there were baby crows a bit further from my home and the parent birds seem to know me from previous encounters and so I could take many cute baby crow pictures.

And remember the way to a crow's heart is by offering snacks, especially peanuts.