Illustrated envelope of the "Wiener Werkstaette" franked with Emperor Franz Joseph I and Postage Due stamps, Austria 1908. Note: The Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshops) operated from 1903 to 1932. Two of the founders were the artists Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser and Important members included the painters Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka.
Events; ceremonies; royalty; stamps; design; graphics; Typography; Anniversary; 25 years; Silver Wedding; Prince Albert; Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon; postage; stamp; two and half pence; 1923-1948;
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They married on 26 April 1923, at Westminster Abbey. Unexpectedly, Elizabeth laid her bouquet at the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior on her way into the Abbey; a gesture which every royal bride since has copied, though subsequent brides have chosen to do this on the way back from the altar rather than to it. She became styled Her Royal Highness The Duchess of York. Following a wedding breakfast at Buckingham Palace prepared by chef Gabriel Tschumi, they honeymooned at Polesden Lacey, a manor house in Surrey, and then went to Scotland, where she caught "unromantic" whooping cough
Events; birthdays; royalty; design; graphics; typography; Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon; Queen mother; Eightieth; 80 years of age; birthday; stamps; stamp; postage; twelve pence;
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Born into a family of Scottish nobility as The Honourable Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, she became Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon when her father inherited the Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne in 1904. She came to prominence in 1923 when she married Albert, Duke of York, the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. As Duchess of York, she – along with her husband and their two daughters Elizabeth and Margaret – embodied traditional ideas of family and public service. She undertook a variety of public engagements, and became known as the "Smiling Duchess" because of her consistent public expression
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Events; ceremonies; Coronation; graphics; design; typography; stamps; King George VI; 12th.May; 1937; one and half pence; postage; stamp; coronation; philately;
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George VI's coronation took place on 12 May 1937, the date previously intended for Edward's coronation. In a break with tradition, Queen Mary attended the ceremony as a show of support for her son. There was no Durbar held in Delhi for George VI, as had occurred for his father, as the cost would have been a burden to the government of India. Rising Indian nationalism made the welcome that the royal couple would have received likely to be muted at best, and a prolonged absence from Britain would have been undesirable in the tense period before World War II. Two overseas tours were undertaken, to France and to North America, both of which promised greater strategic advantages in the event of war.
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