Borrowing Amy's great idea (thanks, Amy), I think it is time to start a photo hunt in the UK forum.

Here are the guidelines: You select one of your own photos to post that in some way utilizes the topic. Use the topic as a concrete prompt, or find a novel approach. Each person, just one post/photo per thread topic, (or two if you must)please. Photos should be resized to be no wider than 600 pixels. Too-large photos slow down the loading of the thread, and will be deleted. Read about how to post a photo in a thread, here. If you have an idea for a photo hunt topic, contact one of the Mods to offer the suggestion instead of beginning another thread.

Posting photos in the thread gives your permission for SlowTrav to eventually move the photos over to Photohunt albums in the SlowPhotos site.

This week's prompt is "Royalty."

You're encouraged to describe your photo--where you shot it, details of what you were doing or what was going on, etc.

Judy

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I am always fascinated where you find the signs of royalty.

Detail on the exterior of Westminster Abbey, where many members of the Royal Family are buried. Here is a list of some who are resting peacefully within the walls of the Abbey:
* St Edward the Confessor and wife Edith of Wessex
* Henry III of England
* Edward I of England and wife Eleanor of Castile
* Edward III of England and wife Philippa of Hainault
* Richard II of England and wife Anne of Bohemia
* Henry V of England and wife Catherine of Valois
* Edward V of England
* Henry VII of England and wife Elizabeth of York
* Edward VI of England
* Mary I of England
* Elizabeth I of England
* James I of England and wife Anne of Denmark
* Charles II of England
* Mary II of England
* William III of England
* Anne of Great Britain and husband Prince George of Denmark
* George II of Great Britain and wife Caroline of Ansbach
* Anne Neville
* Anne of Cleves
* Mary Queen of Scots
* Elizabeth of Bohemia

Here's a link with the list of people buried in the Abbey. Seems to me there are a huge number of people who have passed who are interred inside that cathedral. Wow!

"The following were buried in the Abbey but later removed on the orders of Charles II:
* Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector
* Adm. Robert Blake
* John Pym
~ Wikipedia
Brenda

The monuments at Westminster Abbey are fascinating, aren't they? Did you see the funeral effigies as well?

Here's one of the family's cars. It's in the museum at Sandringham House, the modest little place in Norfolk where they go for Christmas each year.

You can mingle with British royalty at Madame Tussaud's in London, the living and the dead. Here's a much younger Kelly (2002) with Henry VIII and one of his wives.

Kathy

I am posing in front of the London statue of Florence Nightingale, a woman I would consider as "royalty" of the nursing profession.

Colleen, GREAT photo!

Here is Queen Victoria, in front of Buckingham Palace.

Colleen~

Another sign of royalty.

Here's a picture of the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, built by George IV when he was Prince Regent in the early 1800's. It is a great example of "exoticism", with its very Indian exterior, and an interior full of chinoiserie and further Indian elements. The seaside town of Brighton is an easy train ride from London.

I thought you and Terry would appreciate that photo Sandy.

Curtains of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Having seen these in old videos and on TV for decades, it was so exciting to finally sit in front of the real thing, waiting for them to open up for a live performance.