Cattle graze peacefully under the watchful eye of Doonagore Castle
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Cricket match on a quintessential English afternoon in high summer.
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It appears the Age of Elegance lasted into the Great Depression
H.W. Shrimpton (Dates Unknown - Humber Snipe "80" Sports Saloon 1932. - source vintagePress.
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'When one is tired of the Lake District, one is tired of life.. '
Loughrigg Fell, Lake District, England by dpc_photography_
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Happy 6th birthday to our adorable Prince Louis of Wales 23 April 24
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Newlyweds Princess Elizabeth & Prince Philip - 76 years ago today
23 April 1948: The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh in procession after the 600th Anniversary Service of the Order of the Garter on St. George’s Day.
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Who better to be born on St George's Day than the Bard of Avon?
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The long goodbye - Canada's 2023 coins still bore the Queen's image
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The greening of Hampshire on a glorious spring evening
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The Prince also toured Australia as a baby with his parents in 1983
Prince William and Catherine, The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge walk down Kuniya Walk at the base of Uluru in Ayers Rock, during their Royal Tour of Australia. — 22 April 2014
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All you wanted was a quiet life, but it was not to be. Destiny makes its own rules.. Happy Birthday in heaven, Your Majesty. 21 April 1926
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Despite his reputation as a bon-vivant, or perhaps because of it, King Edward VII did much to foster unity with his European counterparts.
King Edward VII (1841-1910) at races , one of his loved elements together with house and shooting parties. Differently from his parents Queen Victoria and Prince Albert who considered horse racing and house parties decadent, in his younger years as Prince of Wales with plenty of money ‘Bertie’ made his vision of life, full of pleasures, the fashionable trend of the British Society , thus leading it out from the severe Victorian Age. Great aristocrats and High Society members immediately followed the Prince and his desires, as a friendship with him was the best guarantee of social success. That was the start of the Edwardian era ( 1860s-1914), during which all the main components of the elegant way of life of the British Aristocracy and upper classes were established and became major events and traditions :during the Season race meetings such as Epsom , Royal Ascot, Newmarket and Goodwood with the involvement of ladies that were expected to talk about racing and to be well dressed at races; after the Season (August and September) country house and shooting parties in which the host and the hostess had to supply rooms in their homes for all the guests and the guest’s maids and footmen as well as meals ,outdoor sports activities in addition to shooting such as tennis, cricket, golf, and evening balls. That kind of gatherings has been so perfectly described in Gosford Park movie by Robert Altman (2002). This Edwardian way of life has had also a great influence on the classic menswear history as fabric patterns and cloth styles, which had origin in country wear, were subsequently adopted, in a beautiful admixture of the two clothing worlds, also for town wear with particular regard , but not exclusively, to informal occasions such as attending sports events, leisure strolling and traveling. This is another relevant legacy left to us by Edward VII , King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India , whose world ended with the start of the World War I ( 1914-1918).
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A very under-rated county, Wiltshire truly has something for everyone
Wylye in Wiltshire,
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British soldiers reclaiming the Falkland Islands in winter - June 1982
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The quiet backstreets of Oxford will soon be teeming with students
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