#Royal Ceremonies

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I won't lie. Not about this. Not about you.

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TIARA ALERT: Princess Sofia of Sweden wore Crown Princess Margaret's Aquamarine Kokoshnik Tiara for the King's Dinner for Nobel Laureates at the Royal Palace in Stockholm on 11 December 2024.

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Florence performing at Royal Albert Hall

2009 - 2012 - 2024

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Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, attends the Irish Guards Medal Parade at Victoria Barracks on June 25, 2011 in Windsor, England. 

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Prof Dorothy Bishop resigns from RS because it has continued to allow musk fellowship.

Dorothy Bishop's blog post on the whole thing:

'Any pleasure I may take in the distinction of the honour of an FRS is diminished by the fact it is shared with someone who appears to be modeling himself on a Bond villain, a man who has immeasurable wealth and power which he will use to threaten scientists who disagree with him.'

Please visit her blog and leave a kind, supportive comment if you wish to.

If you wish to leave a rude, negative or insulting comment for her, please do not visit her blog.

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JAMES FRECHEVILLE as TEETH in THE ROYAL HOTEL (2023), dir. Kitty Green

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I love how they call it a “mystery”.

This (iconic) moment during the Sochi 2014 opening ceremony where Anne whipped out an absolute bible of a book is enough to tell you why she won’t be there.

But also, that same year, she said this about opening ceremonies (and she’s right):

Princess Anne lamented to her fellow IOC members Wednesday that athletes have become an “add on” to a bigger celebration.

“I am old enough that I remember when the opening ceremony was only with the athletes,” said the British princess, who competed in equestrian at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. “To me, the balance has gone too far the other way.”

Plus, the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony is going to be four hours long and take place outdoors on the Seine for the most part. As someone who is not 73 and recovering from a head injury, I couldn’t be arsed with that, so I can’t imagine she could be either.

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Holly Willoughby on the red carpet at the Virgin TV BAFTA Television Awards held at The Royal Festival Hall on May 14, 2017 in London, England.

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Liber Regalis

Among the remarkable treasures in our collection is the Liber Regalis - or 'royal book.'

The beautifully illustrated 14th-century English medieval illuminated manuscript gives ceremonial instructions and the order of service for the coronation.

The Abbey has been the coronation church since 1066.

The manuscript is thought to have been made for the crowning of Richard II's queen, Anne of Bohemia, here in 1382.

Despite various changes over the centuries, the instructions it gives still form the basis of the coronation service today.

You can see the Liber Regalis on display in our museum, the Abbey Galleries.

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Richard II (6 January 1367 – c. 14 February 1400)

Anne of Bohemia (11 May 1366 – 7 June 1394)

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Peach's Castle From the "Royal Raceway" circuit. Mario Kart 64 (Nintendo EAD, 1996)

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TIARA ALERT: Princess Madeleine of Sweden wore Crown Princess Margaret's Connaught Diamond Tiara for the Nobel Prize ceremony at Stockholm Concert Hall and banquet at Stockholm City Hall on 10 December 2024.

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The Marriage of Queen Victoria, 10 February 1840

Artist: Sir George Hayter (English, 1792-1871)

Date: 1840-1842

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, United Kingdom

Description

The ceremony took place on the morning of 10 February 1840 in the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert clasp hands at the altar rails, before the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The Queen had been pleased with Sir George Hayter's painting of her Coronation 'which we thought a fine thing', and commissioned him to paint her marriage, in particular the moment of the joining of hands.

Hayter had been to see the Chapel Royal a few days before the event, and sketched hard before and during the ceremony. Preparatory drawings survive in the British Museum. As in his Coronation, Hayter decided to alter dramatically the setting of the ceremony from what it actually looked like. The tall Gothic canopy and the panelling below are invented and only the details of the huge door behind the bridal pair may have been suggested by the much smaller door at the entrance to the Chapel Royal.

Hayter included portraits of 56 of those present at the occasion and sittings took place over the next year. The Queen sat for him in March in her 'Bridal dress, veil, wreath & all', and Prince Albert also posed for his portrait several times during the following months. Hayter's family too helped out with his son, Henry, modelling the Prince's costume, while his daughter Mary posed for the Queen's arm and wearing the veil. Victoria's aunt Queen Adelaide, however, was unwilling to co-operate and the artist had to refer to a miniature for her likeness. Hayter included himself in the painting, on the lower right, with his sketchbook and pencil.

By the end of the year Hayter was committing himself to a third large picture of the Christening of the newly-born Prince of Wales, and Prince Albert said that the Marriage picture should be hung at Windsor during the festivities. When Hayter went to see it, however, he was disappointed as it was hung between windows with its back to the light, unlike the new portraits by Winterhalter which were hung in a beautiful light. The artist returned to London 'heavy hearted'.

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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge present operational medals to the Irish Guards in Windsor at Victoria Barracks London, England - 25.06.11