#George and Louise

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Screenshot from The Beatles Anthology.

“[I love] Hoagy Carmichael, who my mother was also into.” - George Harrison, Billboard, December 5, 1992 “My mother, ‘Who’s That Girl’ by the Eurythmics. My dad, ‘Barnacle Bill the Sailor’ by Hoagy Carmichael.  He would go up at parties to the DJ and say, ‘I’ve got something really amazing.’ ‘Cause he was who he was, they would listen to him, and then everyone would just be bummed out, it would clear the dance floor. And then he’d come back later — ‘I’ve got something else’ — and he’d put it on again. You know, he would just do this until the DJ was like [exasperated].” - Dhani Harrison (on what songs he associates with his parents), la minute rock, Rolling Stone France, November 28, 2017 “Hoagy Carmichael reminds me of being around the fireplace at home with my parents when I was young. It's [‘Stardust‘] just one of these songs that brings me comfort; it's just beautiful. My mother and father had a jukebox; this song was number 7806 in the jukebox. Don't quote me on that! But, yes, I think it was 7806.” - Dhani Harrison, The Line of Best Fit, October 20, 2023 “[W]hether he listened to Hoagy Carmichael or Cab Calloway, we would go on a musical journey for like months at a time. You would wake up to ‘Bugle Call Rag’ on the jukebox, that was his way of getting Dhani up for school. You know, loud. [Laughs] He probably would have covered Barnacle Bill the Sailor by now, you know, because he had a funny version of that. And it was all about the chords and notes and the sentiment.” - Olivia Harrison, Dark Horse Radio, 2018 (x)

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[diioonysus]

red + art

[weirdlookindog]

Louise Brooks

Die Büchse der Pandora (1929)

[victoriademedici]

Members of the British Royal Family depart St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham after attending the Christmas Day morning church service on 25 December 2024

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Four portraits taken by Annie Leibovitz in 2016

✨ Queen Elizabeth with her husband, Prince Philip

✨ Queen Elizabeth with her daughter, Princess Anne

✨ Queen Elizabeth with her daughter Princess Anne, her eldest granddaughter Zara Tindall and her great granddaughter Mia Tindall

✨ Queen Elizabeth with her two youngest grandchildren James Viscount Severn (now Earl of Wessex) and Lady Louise, and her great-grandchildren, Savannah Phillips, Isla Phillips, Mia Tindall, Prince George and Princess Charlotte

[crepesuzette2023]

Have you seen the quote of Paul talking about George's brother? Honestly I think that Paul had a crush on all of George's family.

Yes! George's older brother, who was "made a man" in the army, right? Thereby deeply impressing young Paul. I can see the Harrison family being attractive to Paul for a number of reasons: two parents, father a bus driver (thanks for the reminder, @pauls1967moustache), attractive older siblings...

I know we often joke about Paul stretching the age difference between himself and George, making George the same age as Paul's younger brother, Mike. But I wonder if part of Paul also saw the advantages of being the youngest in the house, and longed for it occasionally.

For no other reason than it's a beautiful picture: Here are George, his sister Louise, and his brother Peter, and Louise's daughter Leslie. George and Peter are visiting their sister in Illinois. (1963.)

[princessanneftw]

Today would have been Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s 97th birthday.

This photograph - showing her with some of her grandchildren and great grandchildren - was taken at Balmoral last summer.

📸 The Princess

@KensingtonRoyal | 21 April 2023

[leonisandmurex]

Savannah and...

[nofatclips]

I'm Away by Mounika. - Samples Wet Road by Scout Niblett and Machine Gun Funk by The Notorious B.I.G.

[royalchildreneurope]

The Princess of Wales, Prince George of Wales, Princess Charlotte of Wales, Prince Louis of Wales, The Duchess of Edinburgh and Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor attend Trooping the Colour on the occasion of King Charles III's 75th birthday celebrations, at Horse Guards Parade in London, England -June 15th 2024.

[harrisonarchive]

Photo by Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

On October 5, 1962, The Beatles’ debut single, “Love Me Do,” was released in the UK.

“I remember when they did ‘Love Me Do,’ their first record, and George told us it might be going to be on Radio Luxembourg. We stayed up till two o’clock, glued to the set, and nothing happened. Harold went to bed, as he had to be up at five for the early shift on the buses. In the end, I went up to bed as well. I was just in the bedroom, when George came rushing up the stairs with the radio, shouting ‘We’re on, we’re on.’ Harold woke up and said, ‘Who’s brought that noisy gramophone in here?’” - Louise Harrison, The Beatles: The Authorized Biography (1968) “The first time I heard ‘Love Me Do’ on the radio, I went shivery all over.” - George Harrison, ibid (x)

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Historical Portraits of Children // The Truth is a Cave – The Oh Hellos

Four Children Making Music – attributed to the master of the Countess of Warwick, 1565 // Three Children with a Dog or Two Sisters and a Brother of the Artist – Sofonisba Anguissola, 1570-1590 // The Children of Philip III of Spain (Ferdinand, Alfonso, and Margarita) – Bartolomé González y Serrano, 1612 // Three Children with a Goat-Cart – Frans Hals, 1620 // The Balbi Children – Anthony van Dyck, 1625-1627 // The Three Eldest Children of Charles I – Anthony van Dyck, 1635-1636 // Five Eldest Children of Charles I – Anthony van Dyck, 1637 // Portrait of the Children of Habert de Montmor – Philippe de Champaigne, 1649 // Group Portrait of Charlotte Eleonora zu Dohna, Amalia Louisa zu Dohna, and Friedrich Christoph zu Dohna-Carwinden – Pieter Nason, 1667 // The Graham Children – William Hogarth, 1742 // Portrait of Sir Edward Walpole’s Children – Stephen Slaughter, 1747 // The Bateson Children – Strickland Lowry, 1762 // The Gower Family: The Five Youngest Children of the 2nd Earl Gower – George Romney, 1776-1777 // Marie-Antoinette de Lorraine-Habsbourg, Queen of France, and Her Children – Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1787 // The Marsham Children – Thomas Gainsborough, 1787 // The Oddie Children – William Beechey, 1789 // Three Siblings – Johann Nepomuk Mayer, 1846 // Happy Children – Paul Barthel, 1898 // My Children – Joaquín Sorolla, 1904 // The Truth is a Cave – The Oh Hellos

[weirdlookindog]

Louise Brooks in Die Büchse der Pandora (1929)

[george-the-good]

Christening of PRINCE RICHARD OF GLOUCESTER, October 20, 1944 // RCT

‘The Duchess of Gloucester had another son a few days ago [August 26] - a Caesarian operation - and there is much discussion as to what name the child shall be given. The King favours Charles, which I think would be a good idea, but the Gloucesters apparently fancy Richard.’

Alan ‘Tommy’ Lascelles - diary entry, 31 August 1944 

photograph shows L to R. (standing): the Earl of Dalkeith, the Duke of Buccleuch, the King, the Duke of Gloucester, George II of the Hellenes, the Marquess of Cambridge. (seated): Lady Margaret Alexander (who stood proxy for General Sir Harold Alexander), Princess Margaret, Lady Sybil Phipps, the Queen, the Duchess of Gloucester with baby Richard, Queen Mary, Princess Marie Louise, Princess Elizabeth. (seated in front): Prince Michael and Princess Alexandra of Kent and Prince William of Gloucester.