i had a dream the other night that the queen had died and i didn’t know about it for a couple of days and when i found out my first thought was ‘now william is the prince of wales so george and charlotte and the new baby will use wales as their surname but george and charlotte are already in school with cambridge as their surname so are they going to have to change their surname in the middle of the school year???’

dream me was really concerned about the last name of 2 little british kids that i dont know

harryandmeghansussex:

“But I couldn’t quite shake a sense of sadness, too, at the powerful impression that this young family, happy in themselves, is struggling to adapt to life in the spotlight. Can you cope with this, I asked Meghan at the end? I don’t know, her demeanour seemed to suggest, I just don’t know. We are, she said, taking it one day at a time.

As we lifted off for home, I found myself left with a single question: if they can’t cope with this; if it is, as she says, existing not living; what then?”

The closing of Tom Bradby’s article about the documentary and his time spent with Harry and Meghan.

This is my struggle here there is a one part of me that wants them to leave for their own wellbeing and feel that they truly do not need BRF because they can do even bigger things without being held back. The other part of me is saying they should stay because leaving would just give the hateful, jealous, racist, bigots what they want and you should never allowed idiots to have control over you or life.

Leaving tells these people that any time someone joins the family that isn’t apart of the status quo or excels/shine brighter than others they could just repeat what they are doing to Harry and Meghan so that they can get what they want.

I will say that not only do Harry and Meghan have to make some hard choices here but also The Queen and Charles need to ask themselves if they really want to leave the future of the monarchy in the hands of Will, Kate and Andrew. Now we don’t know how the long the Queen has and Charles may not have the longevity of either of his parents. I mean what if in the next five years The Queen, Philip, and Charles die, and Harry and Meghan have departed from the BRF. BRF would be dependent on two lazy brats and a pedophile. That doesn’t sound like good options to me. Then again that family deserves the absolute worst so Will, Kate, and Andrew would be karma.

The Queen truly could not give two fucks anymore. If that didn’t manifest in her inviting Andrew to things I’d be so here for it

What are we so mean to Philip™ for

Tiaras at Buckingham Palace

As part of the many exhibitions celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, Buckingham Palace will be displaying two of the Queen’s most iconic tiaras along with other jewelry. The exhibition runs from July 22nd to October 2nd at the state rooms of Buckingham Palace and you can find out more about visiting here.

The Girls of Great Britain & Ireland Tiara

The Diamond Diadem

And they also released a wonderful new video of the Diamond Diadem which you’ll also see called the State Tiara, George IV State Diadem, or some other combination of Diamond, George, and State.

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#OTD in Irish History | 20 May:

#OTD in Irish History | 20 May:

1311 – The war of the O’Briens of Thomond escalates as the Norman-Irish become involved on both sides: the de Burghs support Dermot O’Brien and Richard de Clare supports Donough O’Brien. There is a pitched battle at Bunratty on this date, with heavy losses on both sides; de Burgh and others are imprisoned.
1648 – Truce between the confederates and Inchiquin; its adherents are excommunicated by…

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The Meghan Markle interview is a pair of millionaire nobles getting questioned by a billionaire in what I assume is the waiting room for paradise about their time with a monarchical dynisty and now people are discussing the rich tory propagandist who has just quit over a personal dispute with the millionaire super model. Screw them all I don’t care. Come the revolution.

To celebrate the Queen turning 89 years old we have picked out a selection of images of HRH at Buckingham Palace that capture some landmark moments from years gone by.

1888 The Eiffel Tower under construction in Paris, France. No. 4 in a series of 11. Théophile Féau captured the construction of the tower by taking photographs from the tower of the Trocadero at 15 day intervals.

1912 The Titanic leaves Southampton bound for New York. The Titanic left Southampton on her maiden voyage but on the night of 14th April 1912 struck an iceberg in the northern Atlantic and the ‘unsinkable’ ship went down with 1522 passengers and crew less than 3 hours later.

1934 Tramcar Collision. The wreckage after two tramcars collided on London’s Embankment, injuring six people.

1939: Crowds march through the streets of Dublin to commerate the Easter Rising, the armed uprising of Irish nationalists against British rule in Ireland.

1941: Members of the Nazi Afrika Korps on desert patrol, leading the Axis offensive in Libya.

1943 Tank making. Russian tanks in their winter white camouflage being assembled at a Ukrainian plant.

1944 Bombs Away. An American B25 Mitchell bomber blasts a Japanese warship just off the north west coast of New Zealand. The ship was eventually sunk off New Hanover. The bomb dropping is circled.

1945 Princess Elizabeth Drives an Ambulance. Now Queen, Elizabeth drove an ambulance during her wartime service in the A.T.S. (Auxiliary Territorial Service) as she began to undertake public duties.

1947 The Lie-Detector. A crowd studies the interpretation of the brainwaves of Mr W G Carradine (in the chair), an Assistant Regional Officer of the Minstry of Supply during a demonstration at Imperial College, London of the Edissen Divert Recording Electro-Encephalograph, which has come to be known as the lie-detector.

1947 Glass-Blower. A worker at Glass Developments Ltd in Didcot making glass animals shaped out of hot, pliable glass.

1951: Judy Garland (1922 - 1969), originally Frances Gumm, in London.

1954 Meccano Set. Two men examining a fairground ferris wheel made out of Meccano at the Toy Manufacturer’s Fair in Brighton.

1954 Toy Heaven. Shiny new toys on display at the Toy Manufacturers’ Fair at Brighton.

1957 Demonstrating an underwater camera. Two women in a glass tank at the British Photo Fair, National Hall, Olympia, London, taking photographs of people watching them with underwater cameras in order to demonstrate the equipment.

1961 US Missile. A US Air Force TM-76 B Mace tactical range ballistic missile blasts out of a prototype hard site at the US Air Force Missile Test Centre at Cape Canaveral.

1967 Academy Awards. Exterior of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, where a line of valets stands with their backs to the camera during the 39th Annual Academy Awards, Santa Monica, California. Crowds sit in bleachers awaiting the arrival of celebrities.

1972 General Idi Amin, Ugandan Dictator, born 1925 pictured playing with the Uganda Air Force band. Idi Amin seized power in 1971 and was responsible for the murder of thousands of Ugandans and the expulsion of thousands of Asians during his tyranny. He was forced into exile in 1979 after an invasion of Tanzanian forces.

1975 Patchwork A La Mode. Model Ellen Liu wears a woollen two-piece patchwork knit outfit with a matching hat and scarf. The outfit was designed and made in Hong Kong and is part of fashion show held at Hong Kong House in London.

1984 A-ha In London. Norwegian pop group A-ha posed in London on 10th April 1984. From left to right: Magne Furuholmen, Morten Harket and Pal Waaktaar.

1992 New PM. The new British Prime Minister John Major poses with Conservative Party Chairman Chris Patten outside Number 10 Downing Street, one day after his victory in the general election.

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.