04 Mar 2018 11 Comments
in Challenges Tags: #AnnualBloggersBash, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Royalty, Writing competition
Just entered a second time, come on folks, get your entries in!
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04 Mar 2018 6 Comments
in Challenges, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Annual Bloggers Bash Awards, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Ravens, Royalty, Writing competition
A second entry into the Annual Bloggers Bash writing competition – a piece used for Charli Mills Writing prompt too!
“It is a worry indeed, Your Majesty, yes. We’ve had to sack three of them this year, and getting decent replacements, well that is an increasingly tough task.”
Beefeater Chambers looked out of the window, whilst speaking to the Queen on the Royal telephone.
The requirement was six ravens to be guarding the Tower of London at any one time, or the Tower and Kingdom would fall, and this new generation, well they were useless.
They didn’t have the spunk of their ancestors, calling in sick all the time, too busy posing for the tourists and Instagram selfies.
Really!
01 Mar 2018 24 Comments
in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #AnnualBloggersBash, annual bloggers bash, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Royalty, Writing Competion
I remember that day so clearly. I was only six. The excitement of the first royal wedding I was to be a witness (albeit via the television) to.
Prince Charles was marrying Lady Diana Spencer.
What a beautiful day.
That huge dress!
All the pomp and circumstance!
We sat around the television, engrossed in the minutiae of the ceremony.
And then, a few months later, I got a chance to actually see the Prince and Princess, in the flesh! They were doing a drive-by near our school in Solihull.
The whole school was to line the roads they were to pass, waving flags, cheesy smiles at the ready, as the royal car passed us by.
It was a matter of seconds really. As long as it takes for a car to drive by you. But those seconds felt so precious. She probably didn’t, but in my seven-year-old mind, I held the gaze of that Princess, the Princess of the People, and felt a connection.
Other royal weddings came and went, but none held my interest as much as that first one, until the wedding of the late Princess Diana’s firstborn.
It was another memorable date.
Not necessarily for a positive reason.
The day of their wedding coincided with the day my grandmother-in-law was admitted to hospital… and she never left that place. I recall seeing the royal couple’s first public kiss on the balcony, sat at the bedside of Bebeji.
But within the new Royal bride, the Duchess of Cambridge, I felt that same compassion that her mother-in-law had shown.
As the day draws closer to another wedding where the UK’s Royalty will welcome a new member, I wonder… will this day be filled with fond memories too?
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