2014

Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Hannover (1789) by Thomas Lawrence. National Gallery.

King George V on the front cover of a Ladies Newspaper. May 21, 1910

Various photographs (colourised using MyHeritage) of York Cottage at Sandringham, all taken between 1893 and 1898, which was during the residence of the Duke and Duchess of York (the future King George V and Queen Mary)

Gloucester Cathedral, England

DAVID OAKES as GEORGE PLANTAGENET THE WHITE QUEEN (2013)  彡 1.02 'The Price of Power'

Pendant by Alfred H. Jones, 1910. Silver, gold, abalone, opals and baroque pearls.

Queen Mary's Ruby Cluster Earrings. King George V gave these earrings to his wife in 1926 for her 59th birthday

Royal Bumps (Part 2)

OFF TOPIC

This magnificent ball gown was worn by duchess of Portland Winifred Cavendish-Bentinck, a much admired and respected society beauty, a humanitarian and animal rights activist in fancy, dressed here as Duchess of Savoy, at Devonshire Ball 1897 (which ofc was also attended by George V and Queen Mary)

Norman R. Morrison was an American anti-war activist. On November 2, 1965, Morrison doused himself in kerosene and set himself on fire below the office of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at the Pentagon to protest United States involvement in the Vietnam War, leading to his death. 

 On February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old serviceman of the United States Air Force, died after setting himself on fire outside the front gate of the Embassy of Israel in Washington. Bushnell said that he was protesting against "what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers" and declared that he "will no longer be complicit in genocide", after which he doused himself with a flammable liquid and set himself on fire