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... marvellous horse. Aureole was bred by George VI and chased E&’“fififl&:’:@ ;%q*’?}fi??fl The Queen also had a soft spot for home Sir Gordon Richards’s mount, Pinza, in ) ' the enigmatic Aurcole (see box), who the Derby in Coronation Year. Although he TR . B w ended ...
... the form should not be taken at face value. Earlier, the Fabre-trained colt was unimpressive, when lifting Ascot’s King George VI on firm ground. But Hurricane Run, who prefers an easier surface and a fastrun race, should find his favourite conditions ...
... - 150,000 $150,000 - 230,000 - e L*;i - Lady Louis Mountbatten wearing the tiara for the ¢ . e fi;}:”;’f‘* :- = . Coronation of George VI 4 . . . ¢ i i e . - . Photograph by Yevonde, 1937 Private Collection. i -~ e «#.v«%»*:gl‘\;%% “ g - . % # _ ...
... hailed as a true champion. The disappointing run of the Derby fourth, Norse Dancer, in the mile-and-a-quarter T HE King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes at Ascot on Saturday, July 26, looks like being the race of the season and wiLl show if ...
... improves them out of all recognition,' says Richard Barber. CAROLINE BAILEY charted the early career of the subsequent King George VI Chase winner, Teeton Mill, in her Northamptonshire stable. The daughter of Grand National winner Grittar's jockey Dick Saunders ...
... DOUGLAS-HOME previews the Goodwood action. A LTHOUGH it will be hard to better Galileo's magnificent victory in Ascot's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes Although he was Bth at Ascot, he would have finished closer to Brevity with a clear run ...
... design her coronation dress in 1937, with most unmemorable results. However, Hartnell was entrusted with the task of designing the dresses of the maids of honour. For inspiration, the King and Q ueen studied the painting of Queen Victoria's coronation by Sir ...
... the celebrated British classical composer Sir William Walton, whose imperial music was played at both the Coronation of the Queen and George VI, makes us stop. We halt at a magnificent tree with broad fanlike leaves which stands in line with a tinkling ...
... the itself) was, in every sense, a historic occasion. As the wife Queen Mother, lying in state in Westminster Hall. The of George VI, the Queen Mother was a figure in history. queue stretched back over Westminster Bridge, along the By having lived to a great ...
... Weidenfeld, 2nd, h/b, £25, 0297851551 Lascelles was private secretary to four monarchs: George V, Edward VIII, George VI, and Elizabeth until her coronation. His hitherto unpublished diaries (his family waited until the death of the Queen Mother) reveal the inside ...
... room, or even 100 ft away. Princess Alice, and he then designed the gowns of her mother's ladies-in-waiting at the coronation of George VI, before being adopted as The Q ueen Mother's favourite designer. There are so many little details of interest, from ...
... Highlights include two purple-silk \·elver coronation robes with il·orv lace dresses beneath, which were worn by 11-year-old Princess Elizabeth and sel·en-vear-old Princess Margaret when their father was crollned George VI. There is a white muslin dress worn ...