#English Rose

[florealegiardini]

Beautiful autumnal ivy decorated cottage

Rockingham, Northamptonshire, England, UK ~ James Lloyd Cole

[angelunderheaven]

[catherine-princess-of-wales]

[foxspit]

everything is romantic

[jt1674]

[5-and-a-half-acres]

This rose will be in bloom soon.

“Constance Spry”

[shelovesplants]

English Rose and lilies 🌹🌸😍

[wisteriaphilia]

This LEGEND! 💘

[spiritusloci]

The Midnight Garden 10 (2023)

[hauntedrose555]

my dad scared me when I was walking out the bathroom but then he bumped into a wall and I laughed but then I tripped over my bag

[angelunderheaven]

[catherine-princess-of-wales]

[poisonsome]

Maisie Williams 🇬🇧

maisie_williams

[jt1674]

[royaltyposts]

The Gentleman and the Fair Lady 📽️

[bitter69uk]

“Former sex kitten turned respected musician and actress – there’s no real equivalent to Jane Birkin on the American scene. The English bird who first gained notoriety doing the female Full Monty in Blow-Up, Birkin moved to France and fell in love with splay-faced boulevardier Serge Gainsbourg. They dueted on “Je T’Aime … Moi Non Plus”, a hit single in which she performed what remains the most convincing orgasm in the history of popular culture, Donna Summer and Meg Ryan notwithstanding. Notoriety wears thin over time, but Birkin hung in there and carved out a real career in her adopted country, acting in increasingly well-received films and, with Gainsbourg (until his death in 1991), recording increasingly well-received albums that made the most of her wispy but effective voice.”

/ Vanity Fair magazine on Jane Birkin /

“Serge Gainsbourg, French pop’s leering Marquis de Sade, first cast a predatory eye over British starlet Jane Birkin in 1968. Their orgasmic 1969 duet “Je T’Aime … Moi Non Plus” established them as a kinky Eurotrash Sonny and Cher. Even after their 1981 divorce, he continued to write songs for her until his death in 1991. While Gainsbourg composed songs for other French chanteuses (including Brigitte Bardot, Juliette Greco and Francoise Hardy), Birkin remains his definitive muse thanks to the intimacy of her fragile delivery in hesitant French of his toxic sweet nothings (often about herself) in a cut glass Chelsea girl accent. Now in her mid-50s, Birkin still looks every inch the ageless tomboy waif and is fiercely committed to maintaining the musical legacy of her mentor …”

/ Believe it or not, I wrote the above for The Guardian’s Weekend Guide in March 2003 (over twenty years ago!) when Birkin was performing her Arabesque album at The Barbican /

Wow – how sad to bid adieu to the truly great “Jane B” (14 December 1946 - 16 July 2023). I was lucky to see Birkin in concert many times over the years: she was reliably commanding, charismatic and exuded sheer elegance.