#commemorative
Platinum Jubilee Silk Scarf, Westminster Abbey Shop, 2022
Designed with artist Rory Hutton, to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee.
The coronation chair forms the centre of the scarf’s design, as the starting point of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. The martlets and oak leaves which originally decorated the coronation chair represent strength and nobility.
Surrounding the central motif are traditional symbols which are repeated throughout the architecture of Westminster Abbey - including the heraldic lion, the crown, the fleur-de-lis, the Tudor rose, the English rose, the Irish shamrock and the Scottish thistle. (No Welsh leek that I can see though!)
Silk scarves and cushion, Fortnum’s x Silken Favours, 2022
Designed by Vicki Murdoch. Commemorating the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. From £95.
Platinum Jubilee collection by Design Bridge for Fortnum & Mason
A corgi sits at the heart of design, topped by a truck wheel – a gesture to the then Princess Elizabeth’s time as a truck driver and mechanic during WW2. They are surrounded by racing pigeons, racehorses, a pearl necklace, royal swans, and lily of the valley, her favourite flower, which was included in her wedding bouquet. The cabbage is a nod to Prince Philip’s nickname for the Queen. All these elements together form the Crown.
…ENDURED HARDNESS/ FACED DANGER…
Lt John Edwin Kennedy
8 Seaforth Highlanders
Killed in action, Loos, 25th September 1915
‘He whom this scroll commemorates was numbered among those who at the call of King and Country, left all that was dear to them, endured hardness, faced danger, and finally passed out of sight of men by the path of duty and self-sacrifice, giving up their own lives that others might live in freedom. Let those who come after see to it that his name be not forgotten.
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