British royal expert Robert Hardman looks back on when Queen Elizabeth II took the throne 70 years ago and reflects on how much the country has changed, but the monarch has remained the same.
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Queen Elizabeth Wears Lilac Day Dress and Hat at a Scaled-Back State Opening of Parliament
The State Opening was the 95-year-old Queen’s first public appearance since Prince Philip’s funeral on April 17, although she has held audiences and engagements digitally from Windsor Castle. CHRIS JACKSONGetty Images
One of the Queen’s most important ceremonial functions is to formally open Parliament, which traditionally involves her wearing the glittering Imperial State Crown and ceremonial robes and traveling by coach to make a speech. However, this year the ceremony was scaled back due to the coronavirus pandemic, and today the Queen made the journey to the Palace of Westminster by car and wore a lilac day dress and hat.
Pandemic Pastimes: Binge-watching Favorite Shows
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Like many of you right now, I’ve spent the last few months retreating into comforts comfort food, comfort clothes, and comfort TV. And nothing is more comforting than re-watching your favorites, the shows and movies you’ve seen hundreds of times and can recite line by line. After watching the much anticipated season 4 of
The Crown (whether you liked this season or not, Gillian Anderson was INCREDIBLE), I found myself going back to seasons 1 and 2 again.
The Queen’s jewelry reproductions were amazingly accurate, something I found lacking in seasons 3 and 4. For her visit to the Duke of Windsor, depicted in season 3, the Queen wears a rather modest brooch, and I can’t even tell what the Duchess of Windsor has on her collar. When the visit did happen, Her Majesty wore the stunning Dorset Bow, a wedding gift from her grandmother Queen Mary. Made by Carrington, the brooch was a gift from the County of Dorset to