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Crown Princess Mary’s Outfits 2022

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Re: Lindsey Weedston’s essay:

It’s a mistake, I think, to assume that reception and fanbases of these shows are static and unchanging across such diverse periods in American history. Much of the phrases and metaphors of the alt-right derive from pop-culture big around the late 90s and early 2000s: the “red pill” from The Matrix, “snowflakes” from Fight Club, “working class hobbits” from The Lord of the Rings. But in terms of this time period itself, these references were more likely to signal left-leaning politics at the time when neoconservativism entrenched itself culturally.

The Matrix was an Afrofuturist cyberpunk narrative steeped in references to hacking, drug, and sex countercultures, along with postmodern philosophers, and inviting Cornel West to do the film commentary as a gesture to the profound degree he influenced the narrative. Created by two transwomen who hadn’t come out yet, the narrative anticipates the themes of the Black Lives Matter protest movement far more than the alt-right. Fight Club may have a certain homoerotic claim to return to violent aggression in a bare-knuckled boxing club reminiscent to a certain fin de siècle masculinity promoted by imperial powers prior to World War I. But it also tapped into the lingering frustrations about globalization after the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, and the anti-consumerist iconoclasm of Naomi Klein’s No Logo and Adbusters (the latter ultimately began the Occupy Wall Street protest movement). The Lord of the Rings films made a grand spectacle out of its battle scenes, but in terms of the core narrative of Frodo’s journey stuck to the pacifism and critique of power and corruption that so endeared Tolkein’s fantasy world to the hippies in the teeth of the post-9/11 era.

With the Cult of the Jerk Hero in the 90s and 2000s, and the correlated attacks on “censorship” and “political correctness”, in the scheme of things they speak to a certain young discontent with a perception that conservative and liberal politics in America tended toward mendacity. That is to say, toward the capacity to tell lies about ourselves, and to suppress alternative visions in words and in actions. The Jerk Hero harkens back to the Johnny Rotten persona of John Lydon, an iconoclastic punk rock sensibility attacking rhetoric surrounding paradigms of an allegedly harmonious society in the present like Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee. From Vivienne Westwood to The Slits to Riot Grrrl to the Matal v. Tam supreme court ruling surrounding the Asian American punk band The Slants, this has included offensive imagery and language designating the disgrace of how society is actually functioning. In the scheme of things, this kind of political strategy tends to favor leftists or rightists outside the bounds of who is generally invited to the table to form political policy. The more successful it proves, the more liberals and conservatives in the “traditional” sense a placed on the defensive.

In terms of South Park, perhaps antecedents like Oliver Stone’s Wall Street and shock jock radio might have a certain resonance. Oliver Stone’s films like Salvador do make use of a leftist Jerk Hero to attempt to tell the truth about U.S. sponsored neo-colonial brutality of death squads covered over by Reaganism. But probably the best approach would be comparative analysis of the genre of the family sitcom, televisual heir to the family melodrama. With much fame and infamy in the 1950s, daytime television in this Golden Age of Television was exemplified by family sitcoms like Leave it to Beaver and Father Knows Best presented suburban white patriarchy as idyllic and wholesome. Meanwhile, as gay horror historian and recurring critic of censorship and political correctness David J. Skal observes, young people reading E.C. horror comics and watching nighttime Shock Theater with horror hosts like Vampira got a much darker perspective on life and family after World War II. Such material was a point of fixation for angry young people (often male) who later became a generation of creatives, among them Tim Burton, Stephen King, Devo, and the first goth bands emerging out of punk.

By the 1960s, family sitcoms like Bewitched, The Addams Family, and The Munsters drew subversive camp humor from introducing gothic characters and motifs from the nighttime hours into the American nuclear family itself. In addition to the endless capacity for satire of normality this afforded, it also presented a greater degree of sexuality, romanticism, and the pleasures and possibilities of male submission to female power. (Yes, many of the same qualities decried by the alt-right in terms of “beta cuckolds” and the like.) Not coincidentally, two nineties films reviving The Addams Family for an era when “dysfunctional families” were a major buzzword proved both a massive box-office hit and a permanent part of the goth film canon. Of the irreverent and often politically incorrect aesthetic styles of goth, Carol Siegel cites Csuba Toth in terms that:

“‘They’ve dealt with their feelings of alienation from society by reinventing themselves as “monsters”… They position themselves as reporters or tour guides to the macabre, rarely its victims… In [the music video] Gothic land of the end of the long cycle (of the post-industrial war boom), boundaries between the “normal” and the pathologized “other” collapse, and the “normal” is often more dreadful than its “unnatural” opposite’… Consequently, it is fairly easy to understand why for many people sexual ‘queerness’ of all kinds is associated with Goth, why clubs often combine Goth and fetish nights, and why many shops and online emporia that cater to Goths also sell supplies for bondage and S/M. As many of the postings that appeared on www.gothic.net after Columbine tell us, a central principle of the Goth scene is open-mindedness, especially about gendered behaviors and characteristics and about sexualities condemned by the mainstream.” (Carol Siegel, Goth’s Dark Empire p. 30-31)

The other go-to series into the 90s in terms of the dysfunctional family in the sitcom has been the long-running The Simpsons. In this set-up, the archetypal “Springfield” always teeters close to nuclear disaster under the “Corruptus In Extremis” of authority figures like the mercilessly greedy Mr. Burns, the behaviorist authoritarian Principal Skinner, and Mayor Quimby. The nuclear family too is under constant strain of pressures from both chaotic realities and the cultural imaginary. The Simpson family the narrative follows pits the values of the young and the old. Homer Simpson recons that if he always plays dumb and maintains a certain standard of ignorance, he will prove impervious to social transformation and his wife’s intellectualism. Marge Simpson is knowledgeable enough to feel concern, but often feels powerless about anything happening outside her family. Lisa Simpson is a young and high-achieving liberal feminist, but her idealism clashes with the realities of the society around her, including when she inherits the bankruptcy of the Donald Trump presidency. Bart Simpson is the disaffected rebel without a cause, the punk Slacker Hero who tells it straight and prefers gaming the system.

At about the same time Bart Simpson became so iconic, Richard Linklater’s 1991 film Slacker took a quasi-ethnographic Cinéma vérité approach to express the discontent of dudes and dykes of Austin, Texas, a kind of alternative politics mingled with apathy as Bush Sr. of Texas continued Reaganism. This film is, I think, the Rosetta Stone to this kind of 90s sensibility. Into the Clinton era, there manifested a certain aesthetics of speed to try to slough off the parochialism of Reaganism toward a globalized cosmopolitanism: Sonic the Hedgehog, MTV, house music, alt-rock, anime, skateboarding, editing with rapid cuts, the Web with fast data transmission. Mingled in this was a certain punk rock irreverence and iconoclasm that made the ostensibly truth-telling Fool of the Jerk Hero appealing (jester hats likewise had a certain appeal at this time).

In terms of the alt-right, what can be said is that they have adopted a certain rhetorical style and approach to media that manifested in the 90s, exploiting the youth-alienating vulnerabilities of Clintonism (Bill and Hillary alike) and the sanctimonious tenor of online progressives (the Don Quixotesque term “social justice warrior” evokes this frustration). In previous generations, leftist politics had a powerful ability to attract angry young men to their cause, much like the continuum between the Angry Young Men playwrights and the British New Wave cinema in 50s and 60s radicalism. But the ways Obama era progressivism and feminism tended to define the angry young man as the archetypal enemy proved alienating to them, and they became more prone to the alt-right style reactionary radicalism. Consequently, all that creative force and fury they had lent to leftism becomes lent to American neo-fascism.

To my mind, the evocative document of the period around the turn of the 21st century when South Park came out is Michael Moore’s film Bowling for Columbine. The 1999 Columbine shooting is now an all-too-familiar precedent, two angry young men in Littleton self-radicalized by Hitler’s ultraviolent eugenics into applying the method of the Einsatzgruppen death squads and concentration camps toward the extermination of their high school. Once an angry and alienated young man himself, Moore perceived how so many creatives like himself started out this way, and applied this emotion as a power for creative and social transformation. Toward this end, he interviewed the angry young men responsible for creating angry pop culture blamed by the news media and authority figures for the mass shooting.

He found a lot of thematic common ground with Marilyn Manson and Matt Stone, the latter South Park co-creator with Trey Parker also forming an alienated tight-knit homosocial dyad from Littleton underscoring the queerbashing dimensions of then-recent events, especially in terms of a culture of fear. Stone and Parker would ultimately hate Moore for this film’s mini-cartoon in a style similar to their own. Regardless, Moore’s montage shows a lot of nascent neoconservative backlash against South Park in terms of ruthlessly scorning the “quiet little whitebread redneck mountain town” in Colorado where it is set. This is a narrative of dysfunctional families where even fourth graders are largely devoid of an innocence expected by the post-War American family sitcom, formally establishing animated narratives like these flaunting the taboos of the Hayes Code as a massively successful TV genre.

In terms of why South Park with Comedy Central, or the Adult Swim programming block in the early 2000s established such cultural credibility among young people, I think much of it goes back to the Bush Jr. era in which they gained prominence. After the September 11th attacks, the Bush Jr. administration had skillfully manipulated the climate of fear to the point most American media was deathly terrified of contradicting or challenging him about anything. After denouncing the Iraq War at the Academy Awards is built upon fabrications and lies, Michael Moore himself was given the “never work in this town again” treatment (although he didn’t work in Hollywood anyway). Correlative to a president with such credentials among American Christian evangelicals and fundamentalists, the image of a certain Eisenhowerian megachurch and shopping mall consumerism prevailed.

Within this context, it was late-night comedy blocks surrounding animation, stop-motion animation, and puppetry that satirized and openly challenged these paradigms. Adult Swim’s The Boondocks takes a titular rural setting and dysfunctional black family otherwise akin to South Park’s “whitebread town”, and ruthlessly lampoons both political correctness and pop culture toward underscoring its black leftist themes. Likewise, their airing of the stop-motion series Moral Orel evocatively set in an imaginary state between Kansas and Missouri (implicitly recalling the Kansas-Missouri Compromise of 1820) suggests that despite its protagonist’s earnest search for moral integrity, the paradigm of Midwestern Protestanism ultimately leads to monstrous perversions. South Park was a show willing to expose the megalomania of Bush Jr.’s neoconservativism and the Project for the New American Century think tank for what they were. This was most explicit in Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s irreverent 2004 American-German co-production Team America: World Police using the frame of militaristic puppet and stop-motion animated shows like Thunderbirds to critique these paradigms in a time most filmmakers were still most reluctant to do so.

So how have things ended up like the present described in Lindsey Weedston’s essay on South Park? Certainly, K-12 education in America has a distinct element of cruelty and toxicity. Just as German children vising ghettos in Poland were known to play “deportation Aktion” with Jewish children presaging the latter’s mass murder at concentration camps, so K-12 students have been documented to take up the themes of Donald Trump’s rhetoric to torment other students. If Republicans have long opposed anti-bullying initiatives, this is in no small part because the more bullies are permitted to operate with impunity, the more the social and political climate shifts to the right.

So it was with Cartman’s own bullying within a social milieu that in reality was almost preordained to go with Trump, possibly taking with him a number of those who identified with the boys all these years. If the series was apparently supposed to be finished by the 2016 finale, one detects a certain creative paralysis in this political climate. One might recall that if Mamoru Oshii criticized Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli in terms of nationalist undercurrents beneath the surface of Article 9 pacifism, Miyazaki retired in the context of the height of PM Shinzo Abe’s bid to remilitarize Japan after a metaphorically self-referential film about an ingenious aviation designer who sold out to Mitsubishi and the militarists in full knowledge they would lead both Japan and Germany to ruin. Perhaps the show will go on after all, but with more conflict about what they’re doing, where the story goes, what messages they’re sending.

In the years between Clinton and Obama with their cosmopolitanism and culture of diversity, there was a certain effectiveness to claim to be offended in terms of violation of political norms implied by complaints about “political correctness”. But now in the Trump years with their nativism and culture of impunity, to claim to be offended, triggered, etc. is no more effective than announcing “hit” in Battleship, insofar as offense is both intended and reinforced. In this context, establishment liberals and paleoconservatives or neoconservatives display an uncertainty and political paralysis, while leftists and rightists shift toward radical action. Looking back at the history of pop culture and media trends for the past 50 years through this lens can be deeply uncomfortable in the knowledge they established certain precursors to this state of affairs.

In the context of Brexit and Trump, there is a certain cultural debate about the future of punk. Is it a form direly needed as an act of resistance, as Jello Biafra and Amanda Palmer have said. Should punk be declared formally dead and irrelevant, as with Vivienne Westwood’s funerary burning of a ship loaded with £5 million of Sex Pistols merchandise along with the effigies of 2016 demagogues on a ship declaring “Extinction!: Your Future”? What do we make of John Lydon’s longstanding affinity for “the working class” resulting in an about-face in praise of Nigel Farange and UKIP (in 2014 he warned “Their talk about immigration is subdued racism”), support for Brexit, and declaration of Donald Trump as “a possible friend”? However exactly the question of punk is answered, it is imperative the left go on the offensive rather than stay besieged and defensive.

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250+ List of Top Schools in India You Must Know

The rankings were based upon a frying pan India study.

Respondents, that included principals, teachers and moms and dads were asked to rank these institutions on the following 15 specifications, particularly-- educator welfare and also advancement, proficiency of faculty, academic reputation, co-curricular tasks, sporting activities education, specific attention to trainees (teacher-pupil proportion), self-control and also life abilities education, framework, worth for cash, leadership/management quality, adult participation, impaired kindness, community service and also High quality of Alumni and Option of students for College in India and Abroad.

Have a look at if your school finds out in the listing of leading schools of India and also buy school products. Your remarks are welcome.

List of Top Schools in India

1. Vasant Valley School, Delhi 2. Doon School, Dehradoon 3. Bombay Scottish School, Mumbai 4. DPS, RK Puram, New Delhi 5. Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi 6. Woodstock, Mussorie , Mussorie 7. Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai 8. Valley School, Bangalore 9. The School – KFI, Chennai 10. La Martiniere for boys, Kolkata 11. The Shri Ram School, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi 12. Mallya Aditi International School, Bangalore 13. The Mother’s International School, New Delhi 14. Welham Girls, Dehradun 15. Mayo College, Ajmer 16. Springdales School, Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi 17. Campion School, Mumbai 18. National Public School, Indiranagar, Bangalore 19. Scindia School, Gwalior 20. Maharani Gayatri Devi Girl’s School, Jaipur 21. Padma Seshadri Bala Bhawan Senior Secondary School, Nungambakkam, Chennai 22. Ram Niranjan Podar School, Santacruz, Mumbai 23. DAV Boys Senior Secondary School, Chennai 24. South Point High School , Kolkata 25. Sanskriti School, New Delhi 26. Birla High School, Pilani 27. Gitanjali School, Hyderabad 28. Rishi Valley Public School 29. Vidya Niketan School, Bangalore 30. Step by Step, Noida 31. Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, New Delhi 32. The Shri Ram School, Aravali, Gurgaon 33. St. Xavier’s Collegiate School, Kolkata 34. The Riverside School, Ahmedabad 35. Sloka School, Hyderabad 36. St. James School, Kolkata 37. Amity International, Noida 38. La Martiniere Girls School, Kolkata 39. Jamna Bai Narsee School, Mumbai 40. Saint Xavier's High School, Jaipur 41. Vidyashilp Academy, Bangalore 42. Patha Bhavan , Kolkata 43. Ryan International School, Goregaon, Mumbai 44. St. Joseph’s Boys High School, Bangalore 45. Rajghat Besant School, Varansi 46. Pallikoodam School, Kottayam 47. Inventure Academy, Bangalore 48. DPS, Noida 49. Birla Public School, Pilani 50. SBOA School and Junior College, Annanagar, Chennai 51. St. Mary’s High School, Mazgaon, Mumbai 52. Springdales Public School, Pusa Road, New Delhi 53. BVB Vidyasharam , Jaipur 54. St. Xavier’s High School, Mumbai 55. Bishop Cotton Boys School, Bangalore 56. Eklavya, Ahmedabad 57. DPS, Mathura Road, New Delhi 58. DAV School, Sector , Gurgaon 59. Sishya School, Adyar, Chennai 60. CHIREC Public School, Hyderabad 61. J.B. Petit High School, Mumbai 62. National Public School, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 63. Neerja Modi School , Jaipur 64. St. Joseph’s Indian High School, Bangalore 65. St. John’s High School, Chandigarh 66. Smt. Sulochanadevi Singhania 67. Step By Step High School, Jaipur 68. Arya Vidya Mandir, Mumbai 69. Bishop Cotton Girls, Bangalore 70. Little Flower High School, Hyderabad 71. Birla Vidyapeeth, Pilani 72. National Public School, Koramangla, Bangalore 73. Loreto House, Middleton, Kolkata 74. DPS Ghaziabad 75. DPS, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 76. Modern School, Vasant Vihar, Delhi 77. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad 78. Oasis International School, Bangalore 79. The Bishop’s School, Pune 80. APS, Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi 81. Bombay International School 82. Carmel Convent School, Chandigarh 83. Don Bosco High School, Mumbai 84. St. Francis de Sales School, Janakpuri, New Delhi 85. St. Mary’s School, Pune 86. Convent of Jesus & Mary, Bangla Sahib Marg, New Delhi 87. Carmel Convent School, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi 88. Hiranandani Foundation School, Powai, Mumbai 89. Air Force Golden Jubilee Institute, Surbroto Park, New Delhi 90. Modern High School, Kolkata 91. St. Ann’s High School, Hyderabad 92. Lotus Valley International, Noida 93. Loreto Convent, Parade Road, New Delhi 94. P.S. Senior Secondary, Chennai 95. Kendriya Vidyalaya – IIT-Madras 96. NASR School, Hyderabad 97. Ryan International School, Whitefield, Bangalore 98. Don Bosco, Egmore, Chennai 99. St. Thomas School, New Delhi 100. St. Columba’s School, New Delhi 101. Amity School, Saket, New Delhi 102. The Ashram, Chennai 103. Apeejay School, Noida 104. Laxman Public School, New Delhi 105. Loreto Convent School, Lucknow 106. Don Bosco School, Park Circus, Kolkata 107. Sacred Heart Convent School, Jamshedpur 108. HPS, Begumpet, Hyderabad 109. Lawrence, Lovedale 110. St Joseph’s, Pune 111. Air Force School, Hebbal, Bangalore 112. Kothari International School, Noida 113. Mater Dei Convent School, Tilak Lane, New Delhi 114. All Saints High School, Hyderabad 115. St. Xavier’s Boys Academy, Marine Lines, Mumbai 116. Gopi Birla Public School, Mumbai 117. Pinegrove School, Dharampur 118. National Academy for Learning (NAFL), Bangalore 119. Air Force Bal Bharati School, Lodhi Road, New Delhi 120. Ashok Hall Girls Higher Secondary School, Kolkata 121. Utpal Shanghvi School, Mumbai 122. DPS, Dwarka, New Delhi 123. Lawrence, Sanawar 124. Birla Vidya Niketan, New Delhi 125. DPS Vashi, Navi Mumbai 126. India’s International School , Jaipur 127. Rachna High School, Ahmedabad 128. Villa Theresa High School, Mumbai 129. DPS, Ahmedabad 130. DPS, Gurgaon 131. DPS, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad 132. Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School, Chennai 133. Loyola High School, Pune 134. Kodaikanal International 135. Gyan Bharti, New Delhi 136. Ahlcon International School, New Delhi 137. St. Anne’s, Pune 138. Bishop Cotton, Shimla 139. St. George’s Girls Grammar School, Abids, Hyderabad 140. Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Chembur, Mumbai 141. St Michael, Patna 142. DPS Rohini, New Delhi 143. Fr. Agnel, Navi Mumbai 144. Montfort School, New Delhi 145. Sri Kumaran Public School , Bangalore 146. Apeejay School, Faridabad 147. Jubilee Hills Public School, Hyderabad 148. Yadavindra Public School, Chandigarh 149. Ryan International School, Khargar, Navi Mumbai 150. Apeejay, Shekh Sarai, New Delhi 151. Loreto Convent, Darjeeling 152. Maneckji Cooper School, Mumbai 153. Loyola School, Jamshedpur 154. Navrachana School, Vadodara 155. Symbiosis International School, Pune 156. Manav Sthali, Rajender Nagar, Delhi 157. St. Vincent’s School, Pune 158. Ryan International School, Kandivili, Mumbai 159. Vidyaranya High School, Hyderabad 160. DPS, Ruby Park, Kolkata 161. Sacred Heart Public School, Chandigarh 162. St. Stephen’s School, Chandigarh 163. DPS, Vadodara 164. Loreto, Shillong 165. St. Kabir Public School, Chandigarh 166. Apeejay School, Nerul, Navi Mumbai 167. Ramjas Sr Secondary School, Delhi 168. G.D. Somani Memorial School, Mumbai 169. La Martinere High School, Lucknow 170. St. Joseph’s Academy, Dehradun 171. St. Kabir School, Ahmedabad 172. Brightlands School, Dehradun 173. St. Germain High School, Bangalore 174. Abhinav Vidyalaya School, Pune 175. Don Bosco, Bandel, Kolkata 176. Salwan Public School, Gurgaon 177. Shaheed Rajpal DAV Public School, New Delhi 178. DPS, Faridabad 179. Maharana Mewar Public School, Udaipur 180. St. Paul’s, Agartala 181. DAV Public School, Shrestha Vihar, New Delhi 182. Ahlcon Public School, New Delhi 183. Eicher School, Faridabad 184. Ryan International School, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 185. M.P. Birla Foundation Higher Secondary School, Kolkata 186. Calcutta Boys School, Kolkata 187. Podar International School, Navi Mumbai 188. Vivek High School, Chandigarh 189. Amity School, Gurgaon 190. Bal Bharti School, Pitampura, Delhi 191. Seth M.R. Jaipuria School, Lucknow 192. Heritage School, Gurgaon 193. Chettinad Vidyashram, Chennai 194. Swaminarayan International School, Bangalore 195. Shishugriha, Bangalore 196. Sahyadri School. Pune 197. Assam Rifiles, Shillong 198. Venkateshwara International, Dwarka, New Delhi 199. Manav Rachna International School, Faridabad 200. Hans Raj Model School, Punjabi Bagh, New Delhi

201. Convent of Jesus & Mary, Dehradun 202. Salwan Public School, Rajender Nagar, New Delhi 203. The Gurukul, Panchkula, Chandigarh 204. Baldwin Boys High School, Bangalore 205. Blue Bells, New Delhi 206. St. Anthony High School, Mumbai 207. St. Mary’s High School, Hyderabad 208. Johnson Grammar, Hyderabad 209. PSBB Millennium School, Chennai 210. St. Anne’s Convent School, Chandigarh 211. All Saints High School, Pune 212. Guru Nanak Public School , Chandigarh 213. Tagore International, New Delhi 214. Udgam School, Ahmedabad 215. St. Ann’s High School, Mumbai 216. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Chennai 217. Apeejay, Pitampura, New Delhi 218. DPS, Patna 219. Chinmaya Central School, Hyderabad 220. Gear Foundation, Bangalore 221. St. Stanislaws High School, Mumbai 222. St. Anne’s Girls High School, Kalbadevi, Mumbai 223. Mount St. Mary’s, Delhi Cantt 224. Christ Church School, Clare Road, Mumbai 225. The Heritage School, Kolkata 226. DPS, Chandigarh 227. DPS, Bokaro 228. New Era School, Mumbai 229. Venkateshwara International, Bangalore 230. St. Helena’s, Pune 231. St. Mary’s, Navi Mumbai 232. Swami Vivekanand School, Chembur, Mumbai 233. St. Xavier’s Senior Sec School, New Delhi 234. Guru Harkishan Public School, Purana Quila Road, New Delhi 235. The Frank Anthony Public School, Bangalore 236. St. Augustines, Navi Mumbai 237. Doon International School, Dehradun 238. DPS Bhilai 239. Salt Lake School, Kolkata 240. Govt Sr Model School, Sector , Chandigarh 241. Govt Sr Model School, Sector , Chandigarh 242. Sacred Heart Marticulation High School, Churchpark, Chennai 243. Saraswati Vidya Mandir, Bhubaneswar 244. Ryan International, Faridabad 245. Holy Angels Matriculation Higher Secondary, Mogappari, Chennai 246. D.A.V. Public School, Bhubaneswar 247. St Gregorious High School, Chembur, Mumbai 248. Modern Vidya Niketan, Faridabad 249. Sacred Heart, Navi Mumbai 250. DPS, Kalinga, Bhubaneswar 251. Children’s Academy, Kandivli, (Ashok Nagar), Mumbai 252. St. Paul’s High School, Hyderabad 253. Sacred Heart Girls High School, Bangalore 254. Blue Bells Public School, Gurgaon 255. Sophia High School, Bangalore 256. Auxilium Convent, Bandel, Kolkata 257. Lovely Public Sr. Sec. School, Krishna Nagar, New Delhi 258. Holy Family School, Mumbai 259. Rosary Convent, Hyderabad 260. Assembly of God Church, Kolkata 261. Our Lady of Good Counsel High 262. School, Sion, Mumbai 263. Children’s Academy, Malad, Mumbai 264. St. Xavier School, Airoli, Navi Mumbai 265. Calcutta Girls Schools, Kolkata 266. Good Shepherd High School, Nungambakkam, Chennai 267. St Lawrence, Navi Mumbai 268. City Montessori School, Lucknow 269. SS Mody International School, Jhunjhunu 270. South Indian Education Society’s High School, Matunga, Mumbai 271. St. Mary’s Convent School, Mulund, Mumbai

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Royal ladies attending the gala performance at the Royal Theatre on the occasion of HM The Queen of Denmark’s 50th Jubilee on 10 September 2022:

HM Queen Margrethe II of Denmark

HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark

HRH Princess Isabella of Denmark

HRH Princess Marie of Denmark

HRH Princess Benedikte of Denmark

HH Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg

HH Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg

HM Queen Anne-Marie of Greece

HRH Crown Princess Marie-Chantel of Greece

HRH Princess Nina of Greece

HRH Princess Alexia of Greece

HRH Princess Theodora of Greece

HE Countess Sussie of Rosenborg

HM Queen Silvia of Sweden

HM Queen Sonja of Norway

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Princess Josephine borrowed a jacket from her mother Crown Princess Mary:

Crown Princess Mary - visit to Dusseldorf, Germany (2013)

Princess Josephine - church service for golden jubilee (2022)

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Crown Prince Frederik & Crown Princess Mary hosted a private family dinner at Amalienborg as a surprise for Queen Margrethe to celebrate her golden jubilee.

The dinnerware used is the priceless original set of Flora Danica made for Catherine the Great, but kept in Denmark when she died before it was completed. It consisted of 1,800 parts originally. 1,500 parts still exist & are exhibited at Rosenborg Castle & on the walls in the room "Rosen" in Christian VII's Palace. The last time it was used was for Queen Ingrid's 80th birthday in 1990.

From left to right, clockwise: 

Prince Vincent, Prince Nikolai, Prince Christian, Queen Margrethe, Crown Prince Frederik, Princess Marie, Princess Isabella, Prince Felix, Princess Benedikte, Prince Joachim, Crown Princess Mary, Prince Henrik, Princess Josephine, Princess Athena

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On the occasion of HM The Queen's 50th Jubilee, the Danish Royal Family attended a ballet gala in Tivoli's Concert Hall.

The ballet gala was with dancers from, among others, Hamburg Ballet, the Royal Ballet in London, the Paris Opera, the New York City Ballet and the Royal Ballet. Part of the performance consisted of works by the American choreographer John Neumeier from the Hamburg Ballet, who were also present. 

21 May 2022

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Queen Margrethe II has given a brooch to Princess Isabella from her private jewellery collection as a christening gift in 2007. The brooch was a christening gift for Queen Margrethe from her grandmother, Queen Alexandrine, in 1940. 

Princess Isabella first wore this brooch at a party for her uncle Prince Joachim’s 50th birthday in 2019. 

The brooch is now part of the exhibition "A Queen's Jewelry Box" at the Amalienborg Museum in Christian VIII's Palace at Amalienborg, which will opened later due to the current COVID restrictions.

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The Danish Royal Family celebrated Queen Margrethe II’s golden jubilee at the Danish Parliament (15/01/2022)

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Some jewellery from Queen Margrethe II to Crown Princess Mary:

Gold bracelet with pearls and diamonds: previously belonged to Queen Ingrid, Queen Margrethe herself had worn it in the days around the engagement to Prince Henrik. It was given to Crown Princess Mary as an engagement gift in 2003.

The Heart Bracelet in gold and enamel, with two hearts in diamonds: originally given to Princess Margrethe as a wedding gift in 1967. The queen wore the bracelet when she first presented newborn Crown Prince Frederik. On the outside of the bracelet is engraved "In shield I carry the lions strong in the gentle fence of hearts" and the wedding date 10-6-1967. 

The Sapphire Brooch with diamonds and pearls: given to Crown Princess Mary as a christening gift of Prince Christian from Queen Margrethe in January 2006. The brooch originally belonged to Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden, Queen Ingrid and then Queen Margrethe.

Earrings in white gold with diamonds and pearls, crowned with sapphires and rubies

The jewellery is now part of the exhibition “A Queen’s Jewellery Box” at the Amalienborg Museum in Christian VIII’s Palace at Amalienborg, which will be opened by the Queen on 21 January 2022.

Photo: Jens Peter Engedal (source)

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The Danish Royal Family held a wreath laying ceremony at Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid’s gravesite at Roskilde Cathedral in connection with the 50th anniversary of Frederik IX’s death. (14/1/2022)

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Mary & Frederk

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Queen Margrethe II opened the exhibition "A Queen's Jewellery Box - 50 Years on the Throne Told in Jewellery" at the Amalienborg Museum as part of the celebration of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee.

The exhibition features over 200 well-known and less-known jewellery from the Queen's collection, all referring to one or more private or official events during the Queen's 50 years on the throne. The Queen's private jewellery collection contains jewellery that is both inherited, honoured and newly acquired. 

Crown Prince Frederik, Crown Princess Mary, Princess Benedikte as well as Count Ingolf and Countess Sussie of Rosenborg also attended the opening ceremony.

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An official photo of the Danish Royal Family was taken in the Green Salon of the Christian VII’s Palace, Amalienborg, before the private dinner hosted by the Crown Prince Couple on 14 Jan 2022.

Photo: Steen Brogaard

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Crown Princess Mary’s Outfits 2022

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