The Coronation of His Majesty King Charles IIIrd and H. M Queen Camilla Saturday 6th May. And What a Day It Was

We wish their majesties a most wonderful weekend this coronation holiday period, and to all his family, especially his most loyal and devoted son and daughter-in-law, the Prince and Princess of Wales, and to all the king’s grandchildren. A very special lady, The Princess Royal looked amazing, her late parents the HM Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh would have been especially proud. The family’s hardest working royal is a title she well deserves. Her ‘unique on the day’ dress bicorn and hackle was a visual treat, and remarkably effective.

The King and Queen looked truly incredible and his most loyal and true son and daughter-in-law looked utterly wonderful, we particularly loved her coronet of flowers, so typical of her real, genuine and natural modesty, she absolutely looked like she was born for the role. Not only William but the king and queen must be so proud of her loyalty and devotion to her family and the country.

We were closed for the coronation on the 6th, and will be on Sunday the 7th, and the following national holiday on Monday May 8th.

Our family has had the privilege to be loyal and faithful subjects of the crown for more generations than we can count, and past servants of the crown in the 16th century. More closely to the current day both our grandfathers loyally served, and survived, in the armed forces in WW1.

Our mothers grandfather served Queen Victoria and was KIA in the Boer War, and is buried in South Africa, and his father also died serving the Queen in the earlier Zulu War and is also buried in South Africa.

Our 16th century ancestor’s portrait in the gallery shows his standing {left} next to his cousin Sir Francis Drake, and his fellow Captain Sir Walter Raleigh {right of Drake}. The last photograph is of our grandfather who also served in Africa in the war like his father and grandfather before him, against the Ottoman Army in North Africa, fortunately he returned unharmed and was demobbed in 1918. Our great grandfather served in WW1 in the Royal Navy, in the top secret ‘Q Ship’ service, facing regular great danger and risk. Our father served as a regular in the RAF, and during part of his service was the personal body guard of Sir Barnes Wallis, one of the most significant and famed contributors to the development of RAF flight and bombing technology in the defeat of the third Reich. His father served to help design secret tank technology engineering in WW2 at the heavily bombed Alan West Factory in Brighton. And Mark’s late wife’s uncle was an RAF Air Marshal. In fact, like probably most of all British and Commonwealth families worldwide, we have over 45 members of our extended family, going back just three generations, who served the crown in the armed forces. Purely out of interest, around the Alan West factory in Brighton, where our grandfather worked, it was surrounded by a large wild park, and the Luftwaffe dropped toy dolls and pens into the park , laced with high explosives, in order to maim or even kill the tank factory’s workers children, a particularly unpleasant form of attempted morale destroying propaganda, that is still allegedly top secret to this day. Needless to say, the attempt failed miserably, in fact it made the workers all the more determined to continue their important work.

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