Posted on 09/08/2022 10:36:13 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
She passed.
She reminds me a lot of Wallis Simpson.
Maybe not surprising that Prince William drove his carload of family there, while Prince Harry was a back-seat rider in his vehicle:
https://nypost.com/2022/09/08/prince-harry-arrives-too-late-to-say-bye-to-queen-elizabeth/
Pass the Pub that saps your body
And the church who'll snatch your money
The Queen is dead, boys
And it's so lonely on a limb
Life is very long when you're lonely
I believe they said she is the longest serving in the world, not just England.
1955 portrait[edit]
The 1955 painting was commissioned by the City of London livery company, the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers. It was first displayed in 1955 and later loaned by the Fishmonger’s Company in 1958 and 1986 before the National Portrait Gallery’s 2012 exhibition. It is displayed at their livery hall, Fishmongers’ Hall, adjacent to London Bridge.[1]
It is a full-length portrait in tempera, oil and ink on paper on canvas. Wearing the robes of the Order of the Garter, Elizabeth stands in a pastoral landscape, inspired by a comment that she made to Annigoni of how much she liked to watch people and traffic from a window as a child. The National Portrait Gallery described the painting as showing Elizabeth “in a sylvan idyll yet outward looking and connected to her surroundings” and wrote that when first shown “it drew crowds said to be ten-deep with viewers fascinated by the portrait’s idealised yet penetrating character”.[1] It was first displayed at the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition and was shown alongside a recent portrait of Elizabeth by Simon Elwes
The Times placed the portrait in the tradition of works that sacrificed “the reality of the monarch to the idea of the monarchy”, saying that Annigoni had “managed to capture some of her Majesty’s dignity and beauty. All he has failed to capture is her vitality”.[2] The paper compared the work unfavourably to Hans Holbein the Younger’s portrait of Jane Seymour, in which they felt “the complexity of the detail creates a coherent and deliberate abstract pattern, which has a life and meaning of its own”, transforming the sitter into a “more than human symbol”, whereas with Annigoni “...there is no such purpose and eloquence in the actual marks on the canvas; something has been subtracted from reality, but nothing has been added”.[2]
In 1972, The Times reported that the 1955 portrait was “dismissed by some critics as romanticized and ‘chocolate boxy’, but the public liked it. The Queen, too, is known to have done so”.[3]
In a 2013 article for The Daily Telegraph on the difficulties of painting Elizabeth, Harry Wallop wrote that the 1955 portrait has subsequently been “deemed to be the most successful of all” as it “...makes no attempt to unearth the inner life of the young woman. She stands aloof, regal but none the less a beautiful 28-year-old. It is undoubtedly a portrait of a queen.”[4]
Unless you're Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and take possession of the new young king, son of your brother Edward IV, while he's on his way to London to prepare for his Coronation. You murder his uncle who is escorting him, and then you spirit him, and his only brother away to The Tower of London, after which you declare his brother's marriage to their mother (the Queen) was never legal, and all children born of that relationship are declared illegitimate, and not eligible for the throne...then you claim the throne for yourself, because your oldest brother has already been executed as a traitor, and his children removed from the line of succession.
A number of us do. I did a subject search on "Vera Lynn" and retrieved over a dozen threads.
My favorite song of hers is Calling Me Home (1936)
The anthem was God save the King when her father was alive. It just switches back now.
In my opinion, if he does not strip their titles, he will seriously be seen as weak. I really think he owes it to the rest of the family to take those titles which they are cashing in on and loathing the Windsor household all at the same time.
He invited them to Balmoral a few days ago. They refused. The queen also invited them. They turned that down too.
That’s a great point..
I know her name, and have some of her songs on albums I have bought over the years. I'm a big fan of big band music, and have a couple of albums that specifically feature British music from the WWII era.
She served much longer than Edward VIII who Abdicated in favour of his brother George VI in order to marry Wallis Simpson, a twice-divorced American socialite. not related to Meghan Markle
Edward was still king until Parliament deposed him. I think that’s how it happened. And when he was deposed, Richard at once became king. Coronation is only a ceremony.
A prolific hitmaker, Vera Lynn had a string of hits that lasted from 1936-1957. She continued to wax discs long after the hits ran out. In 1977, for example, she traveled to Nashville, Tenn. to team up with the Jordanaires, who had backed Elvis Presley and others, to cut an LP. Some of her CDs even charted in this century.
If only every world leader had her steadfastness and dedication to duty and to her people.
God save Queen Elizabeth II and may her soul and souls of all the faithful departed rest In Peace. Amen! May perpetual light shine upon her. Lord, those who die still live in Your presence; their lives change but do not end. In company with Christ Who died and now lives may they rejoice in Your kingdom where all our tears are wiped away. Unite us together as one family, to sing Your praise forever and ever.
The anthem AND the money changes.
By my quick and dirty research, the longest in history, unless someone digs up an obscure king of somewhere.
The longest reigning Monarchs are...
Franz Joseph I. Reign length: 67 years, 355 days.
K’inich Janaab Pakal. Reign length: 68 years, 33 days.
Johann II. Reign length: 70 years, 91 days.
Bhumibol Adulyadej the Great. Reign length : 70 years, 126 days.
Elizabeth II. Reign length: 70 years 127+ days (and counting)
That’s what I’ve been reflecting on this afternoon. Her death represents the end of so much that I once took for granted, but still cherished. That’s what many of us boomers will mourn. I was born the year she was coronated. She’s always been the Queen of England.
I think she took the monarchy as a duty- a sacred one- and avoided political issues at all costs, as is correct in the royal family. We see Charles hasn’t given much weight to that principle, what with his green foolishness and Henny Penny proclamations. Regardless, the UK is our friend and I hope the best for them all.
RIP
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