The Queen is Dead. Long live the King.

[belamyi]

It’s completely beyond me how you can justify the expense of that.

It is completely beyond anyone how any American has the nerve to denounce overspending (earmark or big-budget) and efficiency in any other nation.

 

[unloadonme]

It is completely beyond anyone how any American has the nerve to denounce overspending (earmark or big-budget) and efficiency in any other nation.

It's not as if all postboxes are being replaced with C III R ones. The present King's cypher is only going on new postboxes manufactured as and when required. After I posted about this earlier, I went to Sainsbury's and drove past a G VI R postbox still in place and doing its job over 70 years after it was made. Hardly an extravagance.

There are postboxes from the reign of Queen Victoria still in use. This one is in Warwick.

 

[belamyi]

It is completely beyond anyone how any American has the nerve to denounce overspending (earmark or big-budget) and efficiency in any other nation.

INefficiency.

I always found it way more strangely wasteful all those tiny memorial monuments that get restored at a whopping expense but, at least, are privately funded... I won't denounce that any more than I would anyone partying or pigging out on a meal because there are unhappy or starving people everywhere in the world.

 

[rareboy]

It's not as if all postboxes are being replaced with C III R ones. The present King's cypher is only going on new postboxes manufactured as and when required. After I posted about this earlier, I went to Sainsbury's and drove past a G VI R postbox still in place and doing its job over 70 years after it was made. Hardly an extravagance.

There are postboxes from the reign of Queen Victoria still in use. This one is in Warwick.

God knows they are built like tanks.

 

[Latimer]

It is probably one of the few monuments they will have to his reign.

The King's Gallery at Buckingham Palace--previously the Queen's Gallery--was his baby. I visited a few months ago and it's OTT classical and quite idiosyncratic. Impressive, extravagant and, frankly, not that good. Disappointing:

John Simpson Architects

The best parts are what remains of the original John Nash rooms, as shown in the first picture from John Simpson's website.

 

[belamyi]

^ Ah, youth memories..!

Johann Christian Fischer - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Must be the best piece in the room, which is not saying much...

Well, the Americans got their tackiness, language and Christian cults from somewhere...

A Van Dyck?! Not among his best, anyway...

 

[belamyi]

Canova shit, Canova shat too?

Oooh, Golden Dutch... again (poor helplessly overresourceful Anglos), not the cream of the crop either...

Feature: The good and the bad at the Queen's Gallery | Arts critics | guardian.co.uk Arts

www.theguardian.com

Oh, HERE is the real deal...

Masterpieces From Buckingham Palace - The Queen's Gallery, London – Salterton Arts Review

A review of Masterpieces from Buckingham Palace, on until February 2022 at the Queen's Gallery. A rare assemblage of top-notch Old Masters.

saltertonartsreview.com

 

[Alistair]

It is completely beyond anyone how any American has the nerve to denounce overspending (earmark or big-budget) and efficiency in any other nation.

And that matters how?

 

[belamyi]

And that matters how?

Soon it may be obvious

If it is not the trumpist nightmare, the far more fearful wake up to reality will

 

[belamyi]

 

[fredroy]

^^ I like his shorts.

I keep hearing the screeches about that horrible Project 2025. Anyone got a link? I don't care enough to look it up. My give a shit supply is empty.

 

[rareboy]

"This Tube-platform gap between good and ghastly taste is not perhaps surprising. Just think of the royal taste in architecture, which over the years has descended from Parnassus (Wren's Fountain Court at Hampton Court for William and Mary) to the marketplace (the Duke and Duchess of York's Kentucky Fried Georgian mansion in Windsor Great Park). In a national museum or major gallery, the aardvark and turkey might well have been culled, yet here they help to tell the story of the ups and downs of royal taste over several centuries."

It looks ghastly.

But it also looks like the galleries suffer as much from the collections as from the hysterically overwrought historicism of the interiors.

And it will now look like this for many decades.

 

[belamyi]

^ Godzilla, WWIII... do not despair.

 

[belamyi]

 

[rareboy]

 

[Alistair]

 

[belamyi]

 

[belamyi]

 

[rareboy]

^ I could totally beleive this of him.

 

[pornoboy]

CRIII new coins...​