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16 Sep 2022, 4:47 pm
16 Sep 2022, 5:17 pm
KitLily wrote:
I've heard them already saying 'the king', and lots of other people saying it too. Times they are a-changing... 
True, at last. I've heard "King Charles" and "The King" more frequently - even on the BBC.
16 Sep 2022, 5:21 pm
16 Sep 2022, 9:43 pm
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16 Sep 2022, 9:46 pm
16 Sep 2022, 9:47 pm
Matrix Glitch wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
Matrix Glitch wrote:
In this portrait I think King Charles II looks a lot like Vincent Price:
What image is there of Charles II where his ears can be seen?
cyberdad wrote:
Oh yes, with my spectacles on there is a difference. Probably just the nose and ears that resonated.
What image is there of Charles II where his ears can be seen?
The image I saw of Charles II was stylised. In this one he certainly looks different but is that a wig he's wearing?
It's a wig. But in all the portraits I've seen of him, even ones of him as a child, if he wasn't in a wig he had really long hair covering his ears. It's like exposed ears were taboo back then.
I'm guessing this had something to do with warding off headlice. HRH could strut around the court displaying long flowing curly locks like some type of Romano-Grecian deity and take of their hair piece at night where the night servants would busily remove the lice with tweezers.
17 Sep 2022, 4:04 am
17 Sep 2022, 4:37 am
17 Sep 2022, 5:49 am
17 Sep 2022, 6:07 am
cyberdad wrote:
She told me that 3 months prior to a visit from the queen in the 1990s the whole museum was scoped by members of MI5 and they had plans of all entry points into and out of the museum. No stone was left unturned if it posed a risk to HRH. When the day came for her visit, she wasn't flanked by security (as is her style) but there were armed security covertly place all over the museum.
Pre-screening and covert armed security, sure.But following her around in Windsor Great Park? Nope.
Typical sightings:
Mind you, she does have quite a big back yard -
The reason why it's called "The Long Walk" should be clear.
KitLily wrote:
... they asked her assistant if he'd ever met the Queen and he said he knew her pretty well. The Americans they got the Queen to take a photo of him with them to show their friends back home, and they took a photo of the Queen with the assistant.
I bet she loved that sort of thing.
17 Sep 2022, 6:09 am
Cornflake wrote:
KitLily wrote:
... they asked her assistant if he'd ever met the Queen and he said he knew her pretty well. The Americans they got the Queen to take a photo of him with them to show their friends back home, and they took a photo of the Queen with the assistant.
I bet she loved that sort of thing.There are so many stories floating around at the moment about people's experiences of meeting her. Fun times!
17 Sep 2022, 6:25 am
cyberdad wrote:
Matrix Glitch wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
Matrix Glitch wrote:
In this portrait I think King Charles II looks a lot like Vincent Price:
What image is there of Charles II where his ears can be seen?
cyberdad wrote:
Oh yes, with my spectacles on there is a difference. Probably just the nose and ears that resonated.
What image is there of Charles II where his ears can be seen?
The image I saw of Charles II was stylised. In this one he certainly looks different but is that a wig he's wearing?
It's a wig. But in all the portraits I've seen of him, even ones of him as a child, if he wasn't in a wig he had really long hair covering his ears. It's like exposed ears were taboo back then.
I'm guessing this had something to do with warding off headlice. HRH could strut around the court displaying long flowing curly locks like some type of Romano-Grecian deity and take of their hair piece at night where the night servants would busily remove the lice with tweezers.
That was the style back then. LOOOONG dark wigs (or real hair). There is a Rembrandt painting of a "convention of physicians" a dozen dignitaries of medicine in a room, and they all had that long hair thing.
In fact that is how the two sides IDed each other during the English Civil War. The two sides were known as "the Round Heads", and "the Cavaliers". The former shaved their heads, the later had that long hair do or wig.
Apparently long hair was associated with 'the establishment' and with "the aristocracy". And rebels had shaved heads.
The opposite of the late 20th Century.
A Century later they were wearing short wigs. And the wigs were powdered white. So All guys (old or young) looked old, and mature, and looked like they had gravatas. And thats was the look of America's Founding Fathers (Washington, Jefferson, Adams, et al).
18 Sep 2022, 6:02 am
Cornflake wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
She told me that 3 months prior to a visit from the queen in the 1990s the whole museum was scoped by members of MI5 and they had plans of all entry points into and out of the museum. No stone was left unturned if it posed a risk to HRH. When the day came for her visit, she wasn't flanked by security (as is her style) but there were armed security covertly place all over the museum.
Pre-screening and covert armed security, sure.But following her around in Windsor Great Park? Nope.
Typical sightings:
Mind you, she does have quite a big back yard -
The reason why it's called "The Long Walk" should be clear.
KitLily wrote:
... they asked her assistant if he'd ever met the Queen and he said he knew her pretty well. The Americans they got the Queen to take a photo of him with them to show their friends back home, and they took a photo of the Queen with the assistant.
I bet she loved that sort of thing.There's a sniper somewhere in the bushes
18 Sep 2022, 6:05 am
18 Sep 2022, 8:58 am
cyberdad wrote:
There's a sniper somewhere in the bushes
Too late!
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