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Narrator Samantha Bond told viewers: The rituals of this ancient order have been passed down through the generations. Every year on the traditional Garter Day, the Queen, Knights and Ladies process through Windsor Castle to St George s Chapel. There they attend a special service.
Mail on Sunday Royal Editor Emily Andrews added: Its members of the Royal Family dressing up in the most ridiculous costumes with hats and feathers, processing down to Windsor Castle.
Kate and Camilla get chance to laugh at husbands in most ridiculous yearly ceremony (Image: GETTY)
Ms Andrews said: I don t think we really, as a nation, have much idea what it s all about. (Image: CHANNEL 5)
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Fashion designer Normal Hartwell was charged with stitching together a dress for the Queen’s coronation and was told to include the national floral emblems of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Hartwell used this opportunity to include a small four-leaf clover on the coronation dress among the other flowers of the UK as a good luck charm for the new monarch. The dress also included floral emblems of nations under the Royal Family s dominion at the time including a maple leaf for Canada and a lotus flower for India.
Congrats! Courtauld team are the victors BBC
2021 got off to a flying start for the Courtauld Institute of Art when their crack team of alumni beat off stiff opposition from Manchester University to emerge victorious in the grand final of the special Christmas edition of the BBC quiz show University Challenge aired on New Year s Day.
Over the past few weeks 14 teams of illustrious alumni from some of the country’s leading institutions have been battling it out for the championship; the Courtauld’s line-up of artist Jeremy Deller, Design Museum director Tim Marlow, the writer and poet Lavinia Greenlaw and their team captain, the writer and publisher Jacky Klein, had already trounced Goldsmiths College and St John’s Oxford before beating Manchester.
Courtauld were victorious in BBC University Challenge courtesy BBC
It was fingers on buzzers and reputations on the line as two of the British art world’s top establishments the Courtauld Institute of Art and Goldsmiths College slugged it out in the first round of a special Christmas edition of the BBC quiz show University Challenge. On the Courtauld team was Turner prizewinning artist Jeremy Deller, who graduated with a BA in art history in 1988, and who was representing his alma mater alongside fellow alumni: the Design Museum director Tim Marlow, the writer and poet Lavinia Greenlaw and their team captain, the writer and publisher Jacky Klein.