28 June 2013

Howe Barracks Visit

The Queen, Royal Colonel, this morning visited The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland at Howe Barracks, Canterbury.

So, this is amusing:
A Union Jack onesie! Now I know what my wardrobe's been missing all these years.
The Queen was far more standard, of course, in her corresponding badge.


Photo: PA
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26 June 2013

Grenadier Guards and Audience

The Queen, Colonel-in-Chief, hosted the Grenadier Guards in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. She inspected The Queen's Company, presented New Colours to Nijmegen Company, and held a Garden Party for the Grenadier Guards Association. Earlier, she received the Governor-General of the Bahamas for an audience.
Click for a video from ITN Source.
For the audience, it looks like the Pearl Trefoil (maybe? Eh, these printed dresses), but the Grenadier Guards is far more straightforward: regimental badge it is.


Photo: ITN Source screencap
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Grenadier Guards Badges

The Queen was appointed Colonel of the Grenadier Guards back in 1942, when she was still Princess Elizabeth. As Queen, she is their Colonel-in-Chief, and she has at least two badges she uses in connection with the regiment.
Badge examples
The first features a crown over the Royal Cypher mirrored within the blue Royal Garter bearing the words Honi soit qui mal y pense ("Evil be to him who evil thinks," or as it is translated elsewhere on this site, "Shame on he who thinks ill of it" which is also the motto of the Order of the Garter). Today's badges would include The Queen's ER cypher (Elizabeth Regina), though she still wears a badge bearing her father's cypher.
She has also worn the cap badge, which depicts a fired grenade, in brooch form. As with the rest of her regimental badges, these are worn as appropriate when on engagements pertaining to the Grenadier Guards.

Appearances:
22 March 2018: Grenadier Guards Ceremony for The Duke of York
26 June 2013: Grenadier Guards Colours and Garden Party

Photos: Grenadier Guards/WikiCommons/Cecil Beaton/PA
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25 June 2013

Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering and Audiences

The Queen presented the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, a £1 million global prize for groundbreaking engineering work with a worldwide benefit to humanity, at a reception at Buckingham Palace. Earlier, she received several people for audiences.
Click above for video from ITNSource.
For her audiences, she wore the Cambridge Pearl Pendant, but the prize reception is a little less clear - I'm going with the larger Nizam Rose brooch. Yes? No? (Updated with a clearer look via video: yes, this is the Nizam.)


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23 June 2013

Al Habtoor Royal Windsor Cup

The Queen attended the final of the Al Habtoor Royal Windsor Cup at the Guards Polo Club and presented the prizes.
 
She's been on a winning streak in the blues lately, why not keep it up?


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22 June 2013

Royal Ascot, Day Five

The Queen honored Ascot Races with her presence today.
And that's it! Ascot is over, and the Queen's going out in her Wedgwood best, complete with diamonds and pearls.
I'm quite pleased with the Ascot brooch show this year, aren't you? Something old, something new (and something kinda new), something borrowed (from the Queen Mother's look, that is), and something blue.

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21 June 2013

Royal Ascot, Day Four

The Queen honored Ascot Races with her presence today.

I love this tweet sent by @BritishMonarchy:
Somebody's still riding yesterday's high! Grinning from ear to ear indeed.
And she continues to celebrate her win with more delicious jewels. I never object to an outing of Albert's sapphire!


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