This is a beautiful photo of QEII, PP and their young children
Aw, how she smiles at Andrew.
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Aw, how she smiles at Andrew.
It was shown in the Crown. Not sure how accurate it is, but it showed Phillip seeming somewhat embarrassed of his mother, and Anne absolutely loved her spirit!
I’m amazed this is allowed to be shown to be honest I’ve never watched it and don’t believe most of it is true
The wedding photo 20 Nov 1947 -how beautiful - the best man was Phillips cousin David Michael Mountbatten - the last bridesmaid on the back row had the amazing name of Diana Cinderella Mildred Bowes Lyon (the Queens cousin on her mothers side). The front row has Queen Mary wife of George V , Princess Alice of Battenburg Phillips mother and on the far right Phillips grandmother a granddaughter of Victoria such history in one photo
The page boys were Prince William of Gloucester and Prince Michael of Kent
The 8 lucky girls chosen from the creme de La creme of English nobility to assist the Queen at her Coronation
And showing my age the RF as I remember it from 1977 Silver Jubilee year - this was the Queens closest family her mother sister and cousins with their and her children - those Ogilvy children grew up with the Queens children as playmates as did the Kent’s children and the Queen always included them as close family right to the end and all their children and grandchildren
Only 2 of the bridesmaids have outlived the Queen - Princess Alexandra and Lady Pamela Hicks- the latter has a book coming out in 2023 I have it on order it should be a very good one her maiden name was Mountbatten so we will get all the gossip
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Sadly one of these ladies died just before the queens funeral
Don't worry 1977 was the year I got married, even if I was very young, it shows my age more than yours, lol
Lady Anne Coke, now Lady Glenconner, is still with us
Yes but she wasn’t a bridesmaid - she was one of the ladies at the Coronation - the Queen had close family friends as bridesmaids at her wedding -she had never met some of the girls chosen for the coronation many were daughters of friends of her parents chosen for their rank
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Anne Tennant ( Lady indeed now Baroness Glenconner ) was engaged to Johnnie Viscount Althorpe ( later Earl Spencer Diana's father ) but his father objected to the match on the grounds of “mad blood “ - one of her grandmothers was a Trefusis and the engagement was broken off
Two of the Queens cousins Nerissa and Katherine Bowes Lyon ( daughters of the Queen mothers brother John ) were the daughters of Fenella nee Hepburn -Stuart- Forbes -Trefusis and it is believed the Trefusis family had a genetic disorder that killed male children in infancy and caused insanity in females - Nerissa and Katherine were committed to a lunatic asylum as “imbeciles” and could not speak . Their sister Diana was the queens bridesmaid in the photo above
Two of the Queens cousins Nerissa and Katherine Bowes Lyon ( daughters of the Queen mothers brother John ) were the daughters of Fenella nee Hepburn -Stuart- Forbes -Trefusis and it is believed the Trefusis family had a genetic disorder that killed male children in infancy and caused insanity in females - Nerissa and Katherine were committed to a lunatic asylum as “imbeciles” and could not speak . Their sister Diana was the queens bridesmaid in the photo above
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