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Sierra Leone, Royal Standard, 1961-1971
Sierra Leone is a country in West Africa. In 1808, the capital Freetown became a British Crown colony, and in 1896, the interior of the country became a British protectorate. In 1961 it became an independent country within the Commonwealth with Queen Elizabeth II as head of state.
There are personal flags for monarchs in many countries of the British Commonwealth. They are usually derived from the nation’s coat of arms and display the queen’s royal cypher in the centre. The zigzag border represents the Lion Mountains after which the country was named, the three torches symbolize peace and dignity.
After three military coups between 1967 and 1968, Sierra Leone became a one-party-state. In April 1971, a new republican constitution was adopted, making the royal standard obsolete.
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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.
18 year old HRH Princess Elizabeth watching parachutists during a visit to airborne forces at Netheravon Airfield, Salisbury, Wiltshire in England in the run-up to D-Day.
Standing next to her is Brigadier Stanley James Ledger Hill DSO, MC - Brigade HQ, 3rd Parachute Brigade, 19 May 1944.
Colour by RJM.
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Slideshow de la reine Elizabeth II d'Angleterre
Bel après-midi ♀️
Bonjour ,bonne journée ☕️ ⛅️
Elizabeth II au château de Windsor ,Angleterre 1944
Photo de Lisa Sheridan/ Getty Images
The Queen has been spotted arriving back at Windsor from Balmoral as she prepares to celebrate her Platinum Jubilee celebrations | May 31, 2022
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cw political rant
apparently the queens jubilee is worth £823 million. its just a wild guess but im sure if you divided that to every low income household then the cost of living crisis would be solved. but no apparently the Queen who was born into her position and stayed that way for 96 years is more important than people being able to afford food everyday, for children to have a decent education and for vulnerable elderly people to have heating in the winter
The “cost of living crisis” is larger than you’d think. If you split that up among the 22% of UK residents living in poverty, they’d each get only £56. Republic claims that the total annual cost of the royal family as a whole is £345 million, which ups that individual split to £79 for this year.
However,wage theft in the UK amounts to £35 billion a year, and the military budget has risen to over £50 billion a year, making the UK the world’s third-largest military spender despite having less than 1% of the world’s population. That’s enough to give the poorest 22% £5,748 each every year, or enough to give a family of four living in poverty an extra £23,000 a year.
We could also include in our figure that the police are spending £20 billion a year, or how food waste costs more than £19 billion a year, or how the income tax rate paid by low-income families is 30-50% higher than the income tax rate paid by the richest 1%.
Although the royal family is indeed wasteful and extravagant and should not be allowed to have the money they do, there are much larger wastes of money in the UK.
