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Is King Charlie3 a fake?

From 1688 to 1894, royal births were verified by the #PrivyCouncil, to prevent any switcheroo. In 1894, #QueenVictoria fired the PC, and allowed only the Home Secretary. The last verified royal birth was in 1936.

The last verified monarch was #ElizabethII, in 1926. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/content/100028

The monarch is chosen by birth. So verify the birth!

But not just by 730 privy counsellors. Livecast the birth on a multi-cam.

Obscene privilege deserves obscene intrusion.

#ukpol

Is King Charlie3 a fake?

From 1688 to 1894, royal births were verified by the #PrivyCouncil, to prevent any switcheroo. In 1894, #QueenVictoria fired the PC, and allowed only the Home Secretary. The last verified royal birth was in 1936.

The last verified monarch was #ElizabethII, in 1926. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/content/100028

The monarch is chosen by birth. So verify the birth!

But not just by 730 privy counsellors. Livecast the birth on a multi-cam.

Obscene privilege deserves obscene intrusion.

#ukpol

Gold's down from $5K, and from its recent comfy spot at $4,750. It's around $4K again, so now's a good time.
Here are some affordable #British #coins, these half-soverigns you can get for 12% #premium (over #spot or melt price).
If you can sink a grand (in NY state that becomes #TaxFree) into a (full) #sovereign, you can pay only a 4% premium.
>Buy a couple each year<
(You could collect the three #QueenVictoria busts or stick w/Georges & Edwards.)
#metals #gold #silver #ingot #bar #coin #round

New on the map: a Queen Victoria Type A Wall Box Wall Box in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/postbox/6a42c259836dcd4cf98f84fa #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #WallBox #TypeAWallBox #StandardRed #Sheffield

New on the map: a Queen Victoria Type A Wall Box Wall Box in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/postbox/6a42c259836dcd4cf98f84fa #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #WallBox #TypeAWallBox #StandardRed #Sheffield

A Queen Victoria Wall Box in Chilcomb, Hampshire. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/postbox/6a414daffb44ac37380407bc #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #WallBox #StandardRed #Chilcomb

A Queen Victoria Wall Box in Chilcomb, Hampshire. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/postbox/6a414daffb44ac37380407bc #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #WallBox #StandardRed #Chilcomb

A Queen Victoria Type C Wall Box in South Hams, Devon is now on the map. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/r/TQ9-37D #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #PostboxSaturday #QueenVictoria #WallBox #TypeC #StandardRed #SouthHams

A Queen Victoria Second National Standard Wall Box in Wickhambrook, Suffolk. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/postbox/6a282b8ad8fed848d565709c #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #WallBox #SecondNationalStandard #StandardRed #Wickhambrook

A Queen Victoria Wall Box in Rawcliffe, East Riding of Yorkshire. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/postbox/6a269eae6c392bdc7dc33f35 #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #WallBox #StandardRed #Rawcliffe

A Queen Victoria Wall Box in Sherburn in Elmet, North Yorkshire. See it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/postbox/6a26b5c46c392bdc7dc34280 #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #WallBox #StandardRed #SherburninElmet

Just added: Queen Victoria Wall Box in Sherburn in Elmet, North Yorkshire. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/postbox/6a26b6606c392bdc7dc3428d #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #WallBox #StandardRed #SherburninElmet

A Queen Victoria Wall Box in Hensall, North Yorkshire is now on the map. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/postbox/6a26b10a6c392bdc7dc341f0 #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #WallBox #StandardRed #Hensall

A Queen Victoria Pillar Box in Buxton, Derbyshire is now on the map. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/postbox/6a26a28e6c392bdc7dc3404c #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #PillarBox #StandardRed #Buxton

A Queen Victoria Type A Wall Box Wall Box in Scots Gap, Northumberland is now on the map. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/postbox/6a258cd06c392bdc7dc32d02 #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #WallBox #TypeAWallBox #StandardRed #ScotsGap

A Queen Victoria Wall Box in West Byfleet, Surrey. See it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/postbox/6a2474d56c392bdc7dc32665 #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #PostboxSaturday #QueenVictoria #WallBox #StandardRed #WestByfleet

A Queen Victoria Wall Box in Balcombe, West Sussex is now on the map. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/postbox/6a22edb069d714564f93c2a0 #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #PostboxSaturday #QueenVictoria #WallBox #StandardRed #Balcombe

A Queen Victoria postbox in Darley Hillside, Derbyshire. See it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/postbox/6a23242869d714564f93ca7b #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #PostboxSaturday #QueenVictoria #postbox #StandardRed #DarleyHillside

New on the map: a Queen Victoria Anonymous Type B Pillar Box in Greater London, England. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/r/E4-7D #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #PillarBox #AnonymousTypeB #StandardRed #GreaterLondon

A Queen Victoria Type A Pillar Box in Honor Oak, Greater London. See it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/r/SE22-18D #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #PillarBox #TypeA #StandardRed #HonorOak

New on the map: a Queen Victoria postbox in Markinch, Fife. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/postbox/6a206084946a60b72faf1f5b #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #postbox #StandardRed #Markinch

A Queen Victoria Liverpool Special Pillar Box in Debden Green, Essex. See it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/p/6a1ef1548dda0a5bc763eddd #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #PillarBox #LiverpoolSpecial #StandardRed #DebdenGreen

Just added: Queen Victoria Type B Wall Box Wall Box in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/postbox/6a1eeb578dda0a5bc763ed6e #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #WallBox #TypeBWallBox #StandardRed #Sheffield

A Queen Victoria Type A Pillar Box in Sheffield, South Yorkshire is now on the map. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/postbox/6a1ee3cf8dda0a5bc763ecf0 #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #PillarBox #TypeA #StandardRed #Sheffield

New on the map: a Queen Victoria Type A Pillar Box in Richmond, Greater London. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/r/TW9-52D #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #PillarBox #TypeA #StandardRed #Richmond

New on the map: a Queen Victoria Wall Box in Milton Combe, Devon. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/postbox/6a1c04294e89243d13799530 #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #WallBox #StandardRed #MiltonCombe

New on the map: a Queen Victoria Second National Standard Wall Box in Boscastle, Cornwall. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/postbox/6a1c5487baf72e925d3adfd1 #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #WallBox #SecondNationalStandard #StandardRed #Boscastle

A Queen Victoria Type A Wall Box Wall Box in Newton Poppleford, Devon. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/p/69f1c8217637fa3daf632b31 #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #WallBox #TypeAWallBox #StandardRed #NewtonPoppleford

A Queen Victoria Wall Ludlow Box in Matlock, Derbyshire. See it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/r/DE4-912 #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #LudlowBox #Wall #StandardRed #Matlock

A Queen Victoria Type B Pillar Box in Chipping Barnet, Greater London is now on the map. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/r/EN5-19D #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #PillarBox #TypeB #StandardRed #ChippingBarnet

A Queen Victoria Pillar Box in Greater London, Greater London is now on the map. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/r/NW6-24D #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #PillarBox #StandardRed #GreaterLondon

A Queen Victoria Type B Pillar Box in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. See it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/postbox/6a1c5ccbbad81d18898ef1d0 #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #PillarBox #TypeB #StandardRed #Sheffield

I never knew Queen Victoria was so into bowling.

#newbury #queenvictoria #bowling

A Queen Victoria EagleRange with tecessed CP Wall Box in Exeter, Devon. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/r/Ex4-436 #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #WallBox #EagleRangewithtecessedCP #StandardRed #Exeter

A Queen Victoria Pillar Box in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/postbox/6a00d6af48df5d4aefa6283b #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #PillarBox #StandardRed #Sheffield

Achievements in maths

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2027504/achievements-in-maths

A Queen Victoria Reproduction Penfold Pillar Box in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/postbox/69ebd479fb7db8bbd0de6c24 #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #QueenVictoria #PillarBox #ReproductionPenfold #StandardRed #Sheffield

Just added: Queen Victoria Wall Box in Oxford, Oxfordshire. View it here: https://postboxmap.co.uk/postbox/69ac83d451bab236e4e28e0d #PostboxMap #UKPostboxes #Postbox #PostboxSaturday #QueenVictoria #WallBox #StandardRed #Oxford

"Victoria's Secret" is the tongue-in-cheek title of this new 2025 #QueenVictoria #biography by @fernriddell asking what we REALLY know about the relationship of Victoria & John Brown

#BritishRoyalty #BritishStudies #History

Already binged the new #Bridgerton episodes & can't get enough of the British upper class?
May we suggest some further reading on #Diana & #QueenVictoria ? Details on each book in the replies! 👑

#BritishStudies #BritishHistory #EnglishHistory #Anglistik

A commentator had correctly stated that #QueenVictoria was essentially a drug lord; like a turbo-charged Dawood Ibrahim with a better headdress.

Amish Tripathi, Immortal India: Articles and Speeches by Amish

#quote #quotes

On January 25, 1858: #FelixMendelssohn's "Wedding March" is first played at the wedding of #QueenVictoria's daughter, Princess Victoria, and the Crown Prince of Prussia.

On the #IsleOfWight, we stayed on the grounds of #OsbornHouse, which has self-catered accommodation available. The main house was once the residence on the #Island of #QueenVictoria but is now owned by #EnglishHeritage. The grounds are immaculately maintained and are open to the public but as resident guests, we were able to access the site outside normal visiting hours.

The grounds are very tranquil and ideals for strolls.

#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #Android #Autumn #England #UK

In 1987, the statue of #QueenVictoria was re-erected on a pillar outside the Queen Victoria Building, a newly-renovated 19th-century shopping centre in #Sydney.

There the "auld bitch" remains.

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#QueenVictoria was moved in 1980 to another NMI storage site, the grounds of the disused St Conleth's reformatory, at #Daingean in County Offaly.

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THREAD: #QueenVictoria was transported to #Australia, in chains, by ship.

From Dublin, in 1986.

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For fans of all things British royalty is a new mystery starring none other than the young Princess Victoria – future Queen of England – as a rebellious amateur sleuth. Review--> #Bookthreads #BookSky #BookBlogger #BookReview #ARC #ALC #TheHeir #QueenVictoria #HighBridgeAudio #KensingtonBooks

http://bargain-sleuth.com/2025/09/11/%f0%9f%8e%a7%f0%9f%93%9a%f0%9f%91%b8%f0%9f%8f%bbthe-heir-young-queen-victoria-mystery-no-1-by-author-bookreview-highbridgeaudio-kensingtonpublishing-arcreview-historicalfiction-mystery/

Victoria Station: the thread abut a forgotten Royal rail halt you’ve probably never heard of

This thread was originally written and published in June 2020.

This is the sort of unexpected riddle that I like. You’re out for a walk and you see an old gateway that is rather too well made for the wall it sits in and doesn’t seem to lead anywhere.

Beyond the unimpressive wooden gate itself, there’s just a little wedge of grass and overgrowth beyond it, before it descends straight down towards the East Coast Mainline railway.

So why is this old gate here? Well, if you rake around in the books and maps you’ll find out that this isn’t just any old railway access gate, this is an old Royal railway access gate. You see, these gate piers are all that remains of Queen Victoria’s personal, private railway station for when she was visiting Edinburgh and lodging in the Palace of Holyroodhouse. We can just see the station in the below photo taken looking east from “Muschet’s Cairn” in Holyrood Park in the 1880s; to the right of the tenement there is a projection, with a distant chimney above it. This is a covered walkway and an iron archway over the gate.

Through the gateway, it was just a short royal stroll down a flight of steps to a private platform for the royal train. Here it could be met by one’s personal carriage so that one could be whisked the short distance away to the back gate of the Palace of Holyroodhouse, far from the prying eyes of the Edinburgh crowd.

In 1850 The Scotsman reported that the Directors of the North British Railway were “in the course of erection” of a platform at Meadowbank for the Royal Train to stop at following its inaugural run over the Tweed on the Royal Border Bridge.

The newspaper described the new station was” to be tastefully ornamented for the occasion, there is to be a stair leading up to the old public road at Meadowbank, and distant only a few yards from the gate into Holyrood Park. Her Majesty’s private carriage will here be in waiting to receive her; so that, in the course of ten minutes are the arrival of the train, the Queen and the Royal Consort will, in all likelihood, be occupying the apartments that have been fitted up for their reception in Holyrood Palace.“ Fortunately for us, the London Illustrated News sent ahead an artist who was there to capture the scene and gives us the only known image of the station. Notice the crown atop the royal carriage.

For the Queen’s visit to Edinburgh in September 1852, the Scotsman went so far as to refer to the “Victoria Station at Meadowbank“. Ten horses and two royal private carriages were sent ahead from London to Edinburgh via York, arriving by the afternoon mail train for her Majesty’s personal use in travelling between Meadowbank and Holyrood. When the Queen arrived on September 1st, “The engine was beautifully decorated, having in front the words “God Save the Queen” in large gilt letters.” After the formalities were concluded with the greeting party, the Queen and Prince Albert ascended the stairs from the platform to their waiting carriages, where a guard of honour of the 7th Hussars from Piershill Barracks was waiting, their band striking up God Save the Queen.

Once the royal party were officially in residence at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the Royal Standard was run up the flagpole and the gunners of Edinburgh castle fired a salute. This was however their second of the day; a signal hoisted earlier in the morning from the Nelson Memorial on the top of Calton Hill to a London steamer approaching Leith had been misinterpreted and an over-enthusiastic garrison had fired the royal salute. This created a minor panic amongst the dignitaries, railway officials and spectators of the city who suddenly feared that the Queen had arrived and nobody was there to greet her. One can only imagine the pandemonium until the railway telegraph office located the royal train outside Dunbar.

For the 1860 visit, a description is given of how the station was decorated for such visits. “The stair leading from the platform to the road was covered with an awning of white and pink calico, and the recesses on either side contained a neatly arranged assortment of flowers, evergreens and heather. The stair-case was covered with a merled carpet, with a stripe of Stuart tartan in the centre“.

As far as is known, there was only one occasion when a regular passenger train stopped here; on August 22nd 1872 a London to Edinburgh express was temporarily halted to allow some of Queen Victoria’s children to disembark. The last use of the station was for the Royal visit to Scotland in 1881. Even the Victorians realised stopping trains on the mainline into Edinburgh from London just a mile shy of the final destination for Royal purposes wasn’t the best use of the railway. The practice of also loading wagons onto the back of the royal train carrying state coaches and horses incurred further delays, as these had to be brought down the line from North Bridge Station (what would later become Waverley).

In 1882, an irate letter was written to the green ink page of the Scotsman to complain that the Town Council were now using the platform as a collection point for the “ashes and dirt” of one quarter of the city before its onwards transport by rail for disposal. The station was only “open” for 31 years – and even then it was used only once or twice a year – but those gate piers have survived 141 years longer than that. There’s a planning application out though to build on this gushet*, so catch them while you still can. (* = gushet is a Scots term for a triangular portion of land). The same stretch of wall has another (unresolved) little secret too. The ghost of a small building that I can’t quite unravel. It looks like two wall ends (green) with the back of a fireplace or window (yellow) in between.

If there was something here, it’s missing from the 1817 and 1849 town plans, so either is older than both or came and went in between. The boundary wall pre-dates the railway and this road was widened on a number of occasions starting with the Royal Visit of George IV in 1822. No structure is marked but this could have been a gardener’s bothy removed when the road was widened.

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