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Cherish Lilibet? I wonder if that word is enough to express all within me. - Prince Philip. This blog is dedicated to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip and their family. The romance between the then Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip changed not only their lives but the monarchy forever. Their love is inspirational, life long and heartwarming - after 65 years marriage they remain as in love as the day they shared their vows. He is someone who doesn’t take easily to compliments, but he has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years.- Queen Elizabeth II

the-british-royal-family: Queen Elizabeth II with (from left) Princess Anne, Prince Phillip, Princess Michael of Kent, Peter Phillips, Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales on the balcony of Buckingham Palace at the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London on June 11, 1983.

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Queen Elizabeth II with (from left) Princess Anne, Prince Phillip, Princess Michael of Kent, Peter Phillips, Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales on the balcony of Buckingham Palace at the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London on June 11, 1983.





The Queen and Diana at the Canadian War Memorial, London, 1994. It’s unusual for royals to wear the same colour because aides are supposed to liaise about this. But on this occasion, both Diana and the Queen turned up in the same colour outfit – but they actually looked amused about it. Diana then said to me later on: “I had no idea what the Queen was going to be wearing today. I was a bit embarrassed.” -Kent Grant, photographer.

The Queen and Diana at the Canadian War Memorial, London, 1994.

It’s unusual for royals to wear the same colour because aides are supposed to liaise about this.

But on this occasion, both Diana and the Queen turned up in the same colour outfit – but they actually looked amused about it.

Diana then said to me later on: “I had no idea what the Queen was going to be wearing today. I was a bit embarrassed.” -Kent Grant, photographer.



William was christened on the Queen Mother’s 82nd birthday.

I was given the order of service for the official photographs and noticed they hadn’t planned for one of the Queen Mother holding William.

I was asked not to, but I broke ranks and went up to the Queen and said: “Excuse me Ma’am but there’s one very important picture missing.”

When I told her, she said: “Oh my goodness, how did we miss that?”

The next thing I knew the Queen Mother had put her drink down and was holding him with a big smile. - Kent Grant, photographer.

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The Cambridge Lovers Knot Tiara was designed and executed in 1913 by E. Wolff & Co. for the royal jewelers Garrards, who were commissioned by Queen Mary, the Queen consort of King George V, to create a tiara based on the design of one owned by her  maternal grandmother Princess Augusta of Hesse, the Duchess of Cambridge, wife of Prince Adolphus, the Duke of Cambridge, who was the seventh son of King George III. The Cambridge Lovers Knot Tiara gets its name from the original Lovers Knot Tiara  owned by Princess Augusta of Hesse, the Duchess of Cambridge, which was given to her by her family at the time of her marriage to Prince Adolphus in 1818. The original Lovers Knot Tiara was subsequently given as a gift by Princess Augusta to her eldest daughter Augusta Caroline at the time of her marriage to Grand Duke Friedrich Wilhelm of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Lovers Knot bows were part of the design of the tiara, which was repeated along the entire length of the tiara, and from which originated two drop-shaped pearls, one hanging down and the other rising up like a spike. Thus the name Lovers Knot is derived from the repeated theme of this Gothic revival tiara.

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Tiara Spam:

     4. The Cambridge Lovers Knot Tiara.

  • This gem was commissioned from Garrard in 1913/1914 by Queen Mary. She modeled it off of a tiara owned by her grandmother, Princess Augusta of Hesse. It wasn’t a unique design to begin with; several others exist that are quite similar.
  • Swinging pearls hang from 19 diamond arches capped with lovers knots. The piece was composed of existing jewels Queen Mary had in her collection: the dismantled Some Ladies of England Tiara, the original pearl uprights from the Girls of Great Britain & Ireland Tiara, and pearls off of a couple brooches belonging to Mary which were ultimately returned.
  • Originally, the design included upright pearls on top of the arches, but Mary had them removed eventually.
  • After Mary died in 1953, the tiara passed to Queen Elizabeth II. She wore it with some regularity in the early 1950s, but it eventually went back to storage as she narrowed down her favorite tiaras to the ones we see with regularity today.
  • Queen Elizabeth gave the Cambridge Lover’s Knot tiara to Diana, Princess of Wales as a wedding present in 1981. Diana famously found the piece to be too heavy and headache-inducing, and often opted to borrow the lighter-weight Spencer tiara from her family instead. It was returned to the Queen after the divorce.