London - The Parnassian (Page 14)

Art · London · Observations · Society · Humour

Britain Impoverished by the Liberals Begs on the Thames Embankment with Her Battered Lion, the Palace of Westminster in Ruins Behind Her

Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1891. On the whole, 130 years on, the subject is topical once more. Only now the old lady Britannia must also sit there with a black eye, courtesy of her cultural enrichers.

NB! · London · Monarchies · Observations · People

I Had Never Noticed This Striking Resemblance Between Elizabeth II and Her Grandmother Mary of Teck

NB! · Archive · London · Monarchies

Two Kings: Fifty-Six-Year-Old George VI and Three-Year-Old Charles III

NB! · Archive · London · Monarchies

Charles III in the courtyard of Buckingham Palace after the State Opening of Parliament in 2023, for the first time as king, and in 1952 with Elizabeth II, who opened Parliament for the first time as queen

NB! · London · People · Humour

Oliver Cromwell on the London Underground

NB! · Coming Up · Art · London · Monarchies · Museums

Holbein exhibition opens at Buckingham Palace on 10 November, with more than 100 works by the royal painter on show

Faith · Art · London · Madrid · Museums

The Archangel Michael Triumphs over the Devil

1468. The first known painting by the Spanish artist Bartolomé Bermejo, who was almost forgotten until the early twentieth century and to this day has not received the worldwide fame his talent deserves. Photo from the Bermejo exhibition at the National Gallery in London, 2019

Cinema · London · Monarchies · Humour

It is not often that a grandfather hands the throne to a grandson rather than a son

It is not often that a grandfather hands the throne to a grandson rather than a son. But George II and George III are precisely such a case. True, if George III quite conventionally passed the baton to his son, George IV, the latter was succeeded by his younger brother

Art · London · Museums

William Hogarth's 1742 painting "The Graham Children" is famous for its sad symbolism

William Hogarth's 1742 painting "The Graham Children" is famous for its sad symbolism. The youngest child, little Thomas, died before work on the picture was finished. There is a version according to which the artist conceived the canvas as a memorial to the dead child. His

Geography · London · Moscow · Society

The first flight from London to Moscow and from Moscow to London took place in May 1959

The first flight from London to Moscow and from Moscow to London took place in May 1959. The British side assigned a Vickers 806 Viscount, G-AOYS, to the service, the Soviet side a Tu-104A of Aeroflot. The route included a stopover in Copenhagen, and the journey time with

Architecture · Art · London · Monarchies · Heritage

189 years ago in London the medieval Palace of Westminster, the ancient residence of the English kings, burned down

189 years ago in London the medieval Palace of Westminster, the ancient residence of the English kings, burned down. The painter William Turner, like most Londoners, watched the fire to the very end. The palace, where Parliament had sat since the sixteenth century, was almost completely destroyed. Turner got into

Aristocracy · Faith · London · Monarchies · People

A woman in a nun's habit among personages in crowns and diamonds: Alice of Battenberg, mother of Prince Philip and founder of the sisterhood of Greek Orthodox nuns, the Order of Martha and Mary, at the coronation of her daughter-in-law, Elizabeth II

A woman in a nun's habit among personages in crowns and diamonds: the founder of the sisterhood of Greek Orthodox nuns, the Order of Martha and Mary, Prince Philip's mother, Alice of Battenberg, at the coronation of her daughter-in-law, Elizabeth II. At birth Alice