MYROYALS BLOG: March 2012

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Special Covers from Bihar..

Delicacies of Bihar

Nalanda Stamp Festival , Bihar Sharif

Gaya Stamp Festival

: Ashwani Dubey - Gorakhpur

From our Readers

Picture with Ramanujan stamp

While searching for philatelic acknowledgements to Srinivas Ramanujan, I found the above imagery. Here I could not identify the building and what this imagery stands for? If anyone could identify this picture ???

: Anil Nawlakhe – Pune email : anil_nawlakhe@yahoo.com

Cancellation on Kabir

Here is a sp cover with cancellation on Kabir issued some years ago at Sant Kabir Nagar near Gorakhpur. If anyone has the cover with clear cancellation , may send scan for publication.

: Sandeep Chaurasia - Gorakhpur

PRİNCESS LETİZİA İN MANGO

PRİNCESS CAROLİNE AND PRİNCESS ALEXANDRA ATTENDED ISU FIGURE SKATİNG CHAMPİONSHİPS İN NİCE

Princess Caroline and her daughter Alexandra watch Kim Lucine of Monaco perform during the men's free skating event at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Nice

photos(daylife:reuters,ap)

Random Royal Appreciation: The Windsors Pay Tribute

A service of thanksgiving was held yesterday to celebrate the lives of the Queen Mother (who died on March 30, 2002) and Princess Margaret (who died just a few weeks earlier, on February 9). Naturally, there was a big royal turnout, and everybody wore pretty much their usual fare - precisely as you would expect for an event like this, which is about fashion last.

Queen Elizabeth

As expected, Queen Elizabeth wore one of her mother's brooches - a diamond and pearl shell brooch that was a favorite in the Queen Mum's later years and has now become a favorite all over again.

Princess Michael of Kent, the Duchess of Cornwall, the Countess of Wessex

As expected, Princess Michael wore a big hat, the Duchess of Cornwall wore a better one, and the Countess of Wessex wore one with an explosion of feathers (which surely the Queen Mother, prone to feathery explosions of her own, would have appreciated).

Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice of York

The York sisters got it almost right, just missing a secure hat fastening (Eug) and the right jacket (Bea). (And maybe also the right hat.)

Lady Sarah Chatto; Viscount Linley, Arthur Chatto, Charles Armstrong-Jones, Margarita Armstrong-Jones, Samuel Chatto

Lady Sarah was elegant as always, and the kids were much more grown up than you thought you remembered them to be (as always).

Prince Harry of Wales and the Princess Royal

If anything, Princess Anne was the one who came closest to surprising (and even then, not really) with her ever-so-slightly Yorkish hat tilt.

And speaking of Anne: she's a grandmother once again! Peter and Autumn Phillips welcomed daughter Isla Elizabeth (a jubilee baby indeed) on March 29th. Isla and big sister Savannah Phillips, born just over a year ago, are Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh's first great-grandchildren. The announcement yesterday was a lovely note to a day devoted to remembering another Elizabeth.

Photos: Daylife/Getty Images/APA Picturedesk

Week in Review: Crown Princess Victoria, 18-24 March

At a lunch for the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, 23 March. Like I said, I'm so glad to a) see her, b) see her in a color, and c) see her in something other than a tent that I won't fuss that she went the full Kermit with the shoes.
New pictures of the parents with Princess Estelle were released, so awwwww.
a and b) And new formal photos of Victoria and Daniel were released (maybe taken quite some time ago?). The Six Button Tiara depresses me.

Photos: Svenskdam/Kungahuset