pdas1201
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The kid must be a republican!HMQueenElizabethII said:I saw this funny photo: A boy refused to give The Queen a bunch of flowers on The Queen's visit to the University of Oxford.
Canada's 26th Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson (who is sort of like our Queen in lieu of the actual Queen!) and her husband John Ralston Saul, an essayist and novelist. The Right Honourable Adrienne leads ceremonies in Canada that QEII would carry out in Great Britain, such as giving the speech from the throne, leading the Trooping of the Colour in June, etc. In the fourth picture of QEII dressed in green, she is planting trees at Adrienne's residence, Rideau Hall.HMQueenElizabethII said:The Queen with Canadian Gornvernor at Sandringham house yesterday:
Queen Elizabeth looks lovely in red, and a very stylish outfit! Does anyone know where this Castle Ridding is, and what she was doing there?pdas1201 said:January 23, 2005: Queen Elizabeth arrives for the Sunday service at St. Lawrence Church in Castle Ridding
I don't have a clue as to where Castle Ridding. Maybe someone from the UK can tell us exactly where it is situated. What I understood from the picture caption was that she was at St. Lawrence Church for a Sunday service.Elspeth said:No idea, actually. Wonder if pdas is still around and can come and tell us.
ElisaR said:Castle Rising (not Ridding) is near King's Lynn, Norfolk.
This is an article from "King's Lynn Today":
Queen at Rising
Fifty people turned out on Sunday to see The Queen attend church at Castle Rising.
The Queen, wearing a striking cerise coat and matching hat, and the Duke of Edinburgh were driven to the church of St Lawrence from Sandringham House.
They were met at the lych gate by the Rector of the Sandringham Group of Parishes, the Rev Jonathan Riviere, and Lord Greville Howard.
After the hour-long service, the Queen was escorted out of church and up the path by churchwarden Mr Richard Shipp.
The duke was escorted by the other churchwarden, Lady Howard.
Children and adults presented The Queen with flowers.
The service was taken by the Rev Jonathan Riviere and the preacher was the Bishop of Lincoln, the Rt Rev John Saxbee.
26 January 2005
Perhaps The Queen was invited by people to attend this church instead of the usual one, like it happend once in Scotland last summer.
GrandDuchess said:Sunday, 6 February, 2005
Queen marks 53rd year of her rule
The Queen has marked the 53rd anniversary of her accession to the throne with a trip to church.
She attended a morning service at West Newton Church on the Sandringham royal estate in Norfolk, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh.
The Queen does not celebrate Accession Day as it also commemorates the death of her father, George VI.
She prefers to stay at Sandringham, where the King died in his sleep early in the morning of 6 February, 1952.
During the service, the Queen presented around 20 Sunday school pupils with awards for good attendance.
Onlookers' welcome
The children, who each received a bible or prayer book, performed a Russian religious folk tale called Papa Panov for the Queen.
The monarch attended church wearing a lime green coat with a matching hat over an orange dress.
Some 50 onlookers gathered outside the church to welcome the Queen.
Royal watcher Sheila Clark, 47, from Glasgow, said she had come down from Scotland especially to mark the anniversary.
She said the Queen had stopped in the nearby village of Wolferton on Saturday to say hello when she recognised her and fellow royal watcher Alan Morton.
"She was just driving past, she saw us and stopped her car. She knows us both and said she knew why we were here so we could see her at the service today.
"She just chatted about the weather and said how nice the station was.
"I told her we had come down especially for today."
Union jacks have been flown from government buildings to mark the anniversary of the date that the Queen succeeded her father. Her official coronation did not follow until the next year.
The 78-year-old monarch will return to Buckingham Palace this week from Sandringham, where she has been since before Christmas.
Her royal duties next week include opening new offices for the British Red Cross and presenting a CBE to rock star Roger DaTRFey for services to charity, music and entertainment.
ElisaR said:Very interesting. Unfortunately, I don't see any possibility that the show is broadcast in Italy. They never broadcast such things.