Queen Elizabeth II has surpassed even Queen Victoria, her great great grandmother, in the length of her reign. To celebrate the Queen’s 90th birthday, Buckingham Palace displayed 65 years of her royal wardrobe, including hits and misses.
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A young Queen Elizabeth was quite the off-the-shoulder fashion plate back in the day.
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Even a lamp in Buckingham Palace had to shield eyes from Queen Elizabeth’s later fashion choices.
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The Queen’s style choices are politely described as “highly visible”. To quote QEII, “I can never wear beige, because nobody will know who I am.”
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Buckingham Palace’s art collection includes the original Andy Warhol from 1985, sprinkled with actual diamond dust.
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We danced in our seats to the Olivier award winning production of Carole King’s Beautiful.
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“The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime” was a mind bending insight into one child’s autism spectrum.
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Navigating the vast London Underground.
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The Tube in London is so easy – our only cabs were to and from the Heathrow Express station.
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Paddington Bear, alive and well at Paddington Station.
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Our transportation up the Thames river to Greenwich.
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The Prime Meridian, at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, longitude zero, where the Eastern hemisphere meets the West. Also home to GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).
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Gotta love the Brits.
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