#queen mother
and then i thought, he stammers so beautifully, they’ll leave us alone7/??? favourite films: The King’s Speech (2010) dir. Tom Hooper
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Work of Ghana’s 1st female photographer, Felicia Abban, was one of Kwame Nkrumah’s personal photographers.
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Eleanor Roosevelt and Queen Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother on their way to the White House
Gelatin silver print, 1939
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The Queen Mother with her grandchildren Prince Charles and Princess Anne, 1953
Elizabeth at 90 - A Family Tribute / © British Royal Family
The Duchess of York with her newborn daughter Princess Elizabeth, April 1926
The Queen Mother: The official biography / © The Queen Mother
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Prince Albert and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, September 1920
The Queen Mother: The official biography / © The Queen Mother
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The Duke and Duchess of York with their daughter Princess Elizabeth, June 1927
Royal Collection Trust / © Marcus Adams
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Prince Albert and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, January 1923
Royal Collection Trust / © Vandyk
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King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, were crowned at Westminster Abbey, London, on 12 May 1937.
Some years later, on 24 October 1946, the Bodleian Libraries hosted the King and Queen when they came to officially open the New Bodleian, now the Weston Library. It was an occasion so momentous that something simply had to go wrong.
So it did, and the ceremonial silver key that King George VI was given to open the library door broke off in the lock.
Somehow, Mr GW Beesley, the then secretary to the University of Oxford’s Vice-Chancellor and the Bedel of Arts, managed to get purchase on the key’s broken shaft and turn it, unlocking the door and allowing the King inside.
The broken key is now kept as one of the Bodleian’s most personal treasures; that’s it you can see at the head of this post. It was designed personally by Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of the New Bodleian.
The door has seen very little use of any kind since but remains ‘The George VI door’ in tribute.
This Pathe video shows newsreel footage from the day. Unfortunately it doesn’t work too well as a recap of key-breaking drama but it does offer some very vivid glimpses of the Oxford of 1946.
Still chugging along on my “L'Ordre Nouveau Des Jedi” series of Star Wars Legends/Alphonse Mucha crossover pieces that I’m redoing. I’m going to continue to make these comparison posts of my original attempt at the same thing several years ago. It gives me such a huge boost to my confidence to see what’s possible in just a few short years of work.
And I love Tenel Ka.
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Still in love with the majestic & stunning beauty of The Queen Mother,RamondaofWakanda& her lovely snow-white dreads. Angela Bassett’s natural beauty truly has no parallel & her performance brought such life to The Queen Mother. Until rekindled, ‘Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever!’, 2022 can’t come fast enough..
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The Duke and Duchess of York (King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) and Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) arrive in Southampton, 1939
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The Duchess of York (Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) with Lady Stubbs and Barbara Stubbs in Kingston, Jamaica, 1927
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The Duke and Duchess of York (King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) with baby Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) at their home at 145 Piccadilly wave to well-wishers after their Empire tour, 1927
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Prince George (later Duke of Kent) and the Duke and Duchess of York (Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and King George VI) visit RRS Discovery, 1929
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The Duchess of York (Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) with Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) arrives at Royal Tournament at Olympia, 1935
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The Duke and Duchess of York (King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) with golden lab Glen and the stationmaster of Glamis, Scotland, 1926
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Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother), King George VI, Queen Mary and the Duke of Gloucester, Sandringham estate, January 10, 1937
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The Duke and Duchess of York (King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) receive a cradle made for Princess Margaret during a visit to the Royal Orthopedic Hospital in Bath, May 1933
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