30 November 2020

Commonwealth Points of Light Award Call

Last week: The Queen spoke to winners of the Commonwealth Points of Light award.
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Work at Windsor continues, with the small rubies on the Gold Trellis Brooch picking up on the red of this color blocked dress.
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19 November 2020

73rd Wedding Anniversary

The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh look at an anniversary card made by Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, alongside other cards and letters sent by well-wishers to celebrate their 73rd wedding anniversary tomorrow.
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Never one to miss a connection, The Queen is bringing back a brooch worn in two notable photographs of the couple: the Sapphire Chrysanthemum, worn for their honeymoon photo and for the recreation of that photo released for their 60th wedding anniversary (both seen in the brooch post linked below). Very sweet.

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08 November 2020

Remembrance Sunday and Centenary of the Burial of the Unknown Warrior

The Queen and members of the Royal Family attended the National Service of Remembrance at The Cenotaph, London. The service honors those that have died in armed conflicts.

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Remembrance services continued with modified pandemic protocols and The Queen watched from a balcony as she has done for the past few years. She anchored her cluster of poppies with the Dorset Bow Brooch, a frequent selection for this event.
 
 
 
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The Prince of Wales led the royal party on the ground, laying wreaths at the monument from himself and on behalf of The Queen. The Duke of Cambridge, The Princess Royal, The Earl of Wessex, and The Duke of Kent followed suit.

 
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The socially distanced Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Cambridge watched from another balcony. The Duchess of Cornwall took over the role of Colonel-in-Chief of The Rifles from The Duke of Edinburgh, and here she wears a Rifles brooch. It appears to be the same one she wore in her recently released new portrait. Clarence House noted the brooch was commissioned by The Rifles. She paired this with a favorite choker and earrings, while The Duchess of Cambridge wore the Silver Jubilee Diamond and Pearl Earrings.


November 4: The Queen visited Westminster Abbey for a ceremony to mark the centenary of the burial of the Unknown Warrior.
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Earlier in the week, The Queen emerged (wearing a mask in public for the first time) for a small ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the burial of the Unknown Warrior, an unidentified British serviceman who died on the battlefields in World War I. Royal brides send their wedding bouquets to be laid on the grave, a tradition that started when the late Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother laid her wedding bouquet on the grave in 1923 as an act of remembrance for the brother she lost during the war. As a nod to that tradition, the bouquet laid here by The Queen's equerry was based on The Queen's wedding bouquet from 1947.
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