The Kiss!
[Image from Telegraph.co.uk]
See more pictures at the British Monarchy Flickr photostream, and more of everything at the offical wedding website.
Tag: Great Britain
Royal Wedding Dresses at Kensington Palace
From the BBC News website:
To celebrate the marriage of Prince William and Kate, Kensington Palace has brought out six sumptuous gowns – seldom seen by the public – all worn by royal brides over the past 200 years.
Take a look with Senior Curator Joanna Marschner, and see how fashions changed through the decades.
[Image: Princess Margaret’s wedding dress, 1960, from the Kensington Palace website]
Watch the slideshow with close-up detail of the dresses here at Kensington Palace: http://www.hrp.org.uk/learninganddiscovery/discoverthehistoricroyalpalaces/royal-wedding-dresses.aspx
or here at the BBC News http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13207649
[Image: Princess Charlotte’s 1816 wedding dress at Kensington Palace; on right, the wedding dress of Princess Alexandra of Denmark in 1863]
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Strange Bedfellows ~ Jane Austen and Simon Cowell
From Tom Meltzer of the Guardian:
“Who made Britain what it is today? ~ Barack Obama’s new children’s book pays tribute to 13 iconic figures who have helped shape America. So which great Britons have done the same for their country?”
Nice to know that Jane Austen made the list:
More British even than etiquette itself is an awareness of the daftness of our manners and social norms. Jane Austen combined biting social commentary with observations as accurate and hilarious as anything from The Office. Though her work has come to be associated with period drama, her real achievement was to prove that, beneath the bonnets and parasols, the minds of British women were razor-sharp .
She’s among good company – the others in Meltzer’s list? Boudicca; Elizabeth I; William Shakespeare; Admiral nelson; Charles Darwin; Queen Victoria; Winston Churchill; Margaret Thatcher; The Beatles; Trevor McDonald; Stephen Fry; and Simon Cowell. [!]
See the full article here at The Guardian, along with some scathing comments on those included and those left out – [Dickens for instance?] – the reason I hate lists…
“Between the Covers” ~ Magazine Exhibition in London
There is a new exhibition at the Women’s Library in East London: “Between the Covers: Women’s Magazines and their Readers” chronicling the history of women’s magazines since 1600 in the U.K.. See this article on the exhibit at the Newham Recorder, and then visit the Library. Hopefully there will be a catalogue of the exhibition which opens on November 1st.
and what magazines did Jane Austen read? ….. aah! another post in the offing perhaps?? …. but in the meantime, you might want to start with this Lady’s Magazine site…
Jane Austen in Vermont 