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The Prince of Wales has asked four wealthy entrepreneurs and their wives to Buckingham Palace to discuss a fantastic idea: the construction of a six-thousand-mile railroad that would stretch the full length of Africa. But the prince’s gathering proves disastrous when the mutilated body of a prostitute turns up in a linen closet among the queen’s monogrammed sheets. With great haste, Thomas Pitt, the brilliant mainstay of Special Services, is summoned to resolve the crisis. The Pitts’ cockney maid, Gracie, is also recruited to pose as a palace servant and listen in on the guests’ conversations. If Pitt and Gracie fail to find out who brutally murdered the young woman, Pitt’s career will be over, and the scandal may just cause the monarchy to fall.
Presents the story of the renowned Buckingham Palace garden in London, from its beginnings as a seventeenth-century mulberry plantation frequented by Samuel Pepys to the role it plays today in the private and public life of the royal family, accompanied by photographs and historic illustrations.
The Prince of Wales has asked four wealthy entrepreneurs and their wives to Buckingham Palace to discuss a fantastic idea: the construction of a six-thousand-mile railroad that would stretch the full length of Africa. But the prince’s gathering proves disastrous when the mutilated body of a prostitute turns up in a linen closet among the queen’s monogrammed sheets. With great haste, Thomas Pitt, the brilliant mainstay of Special Services, is summoned to resolve the crisis. The Pitts’ cockney maid, Gracie, is also recruited to pose as a palace servant and listen in on the guests’ conversations. If Pitt and Gracie fail to find out who brutally murdered the young woman, Pitt’s career will be over, and the scandal may just cause the monarchy to fall.
Interior designer and artist Ashley Hicks presents his photographs and description of the interior design of Buckingham Palace, home of Britain's royal family since 1837. An important representation of Regency, Victorian, and Edwardian styles, the palace is the work of such noted architects as John Nash and Sir Aston Webb. Hicks records the formal spaces with vibrancy, capturing the magnificent rooms furnished with treasures from the Royal Collection. Starting at the Grand Staircase, Hicks leads us through the state rooms, which include the White Drawing Room and the Blue Drawing Room that both overlook the palace gardens; the Ballroom, which is the setting for twenty investiture ceremonies each year; and the Throne Room, used by Queen Victoria for spectacular costume balls in the 1840s. The long, skylit Picture Gallery is hung with important works of art from the Royal Collection by Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens, Nicolas Poussin, Anthony van Dyck, Johannes Vermeer, and Canaletto, among others. Decorative furnishings from George IV's exotic Brighton Pavilion lend a fanciful turn to many of the rooms.
Buckingham Palace Gardens by Anne Perry,Luc Baranger Pdf
Thomas Pitt, agent des services très secrets de la reine Victoria, la Special Branch, et son supérieur, le glacial Narraway, sont convoqués de toute urgence au palais de Buckingham. L'impensable vient de se produire : un crime barbare a été commis sur la personne d'une prostituée, retrouvée au petit matin dans un placard. La jeune femme était " invitée " à une fête très privée donnée par le prince de Galles... Le coupable doit être désigné et l'affaire étouffée au plus vite, avant que le scandale ne s'ébruite hors du palais, au risque de mettre le Couronne en péril...
Great Gardens of London by Victoria Summerley,Hugo Rittson Thomas,Marianne Majerus Pdf
London's gardeners are twice blessed: not only do they live in one of the world's most vibrant capitals, it is also one of the most verdant. Gardens of every imaginable style, shape and size abound on rooftops, within palaces, surrounding churches, behind walls - on every piece of dry land - even if it is floating on or lapped by the river Thames. In Great Gardens of London, Victoria Summerley and Hugo Rittson Thomas collaborate to unearth the most fascinating stories of plants and people inside London's most exciting gardens. Some of the gardens are strictly private, while others are regularly open to visitors, but all can now be savoured and enjoyed along with those who know them best. Great Gardens of London is a captivating photographic portrait of the greatest gardens of the capital which are primarily closed to the public or rarely open their gates. It will feature gardens designed by some of the leading contemporary garden designers from across the world. Accompanying the photographs will be essays on the design and planting that explain the designers' inspiration and passion.
The Gardens of Buckingham Palace by Peter Coats Pdf
In the very heat of London lie the thirty nine acres of the Queen's own garden at Buckingham Palace. Peter Coats traces the gardens' history and the lives of the often eccentric, not always Royal owners of the house that was to become Buckingham Palace. He gives a detailed description of the gardens today, providing a summary that will be of interest to gardeners and everyone who loves walking in a beautiful garden. Finally, he tells of the host of wild life that exists behind those high walls. -- Provided by publisher
Packed full of incident and insight, No Cunning Plan is a funny, self-deprecating and always entertaining memoir by Sir Tony Robinson. Sir Tony Robinson is a much-loved actor, presenter and author with a stellar career lasting over fifty years. In this autobiography he reveals how the boy from South Woodford went from child stardom in the first stage production of Oliver!, a pint-sized pickpocket desperately bleaching his incipient moustache, to comedy icon Baldrick, the loyal servant and turnip aficionado in Blackadder. It wasn't all plain sailing though. Along the way he was bullied by Steve Marriott, failed to impress Liza Minnelli and was pushed into a stinking London dock by John Wayne. He also entertained us with Maid Marion and Her Merry Men (which he wrote and starred in) and coped manfully when locked naked outside a theatre in Lincoln during the live tour of comedy series Who Dares Wins. He presented Time Team for twenty years, watching countless gardens ruthlessly dug up in the name of archaeology, and risked life and limb filming The Worst Jobs in History.
Victoria's Lost Pavilion by Paul Fyfe,Antony Harrison,David B. Hill,Sharon L. Joffe,Sharon M. Setzer Pdf
This book explores the significance of the now-lost pavilion built in the Buckingham Palace Gardens in the time of Queen Victoria for understanding experiments in British art and architecture at the outset of the Victorian era. It introduces the curious history of the garden pavilion, its experimental contents, the controversies of its critical reception, and how it has been digitally remediated. The chapters discuss how the pavilion, decorated with frescos and encaustics by some of the most prominent painters of the mid-nineteenth century, became the center of a national conversation about an identity for British art, the capacity of its artists, and the quality of Royal and public taste. Beyond an examination of the pavilion's history, this book also introduces a digital model which restores the pavilion to virtual life, underscoring the importance of the pavilion for Victorian aesthetics and culture.
Royal Teas by Mark Flanagan,Kathryn Cuthbertson Pdf
There is no more quintessentially British tradition than afternoon tea, and nowhere is that tradition taken more seriously than at Buckingham Palace, where 30,000 afternoon teas are served every year at the summer Garden Parties. Inspired by this British institution, and following on from the success of A Royal Cookbook, Mark Flanagan, the Royal Chef, shares here his favourite tea-time treats. Recipes and clear instruction will guide you through making pastries and savouries, biscuits and show-stopping cakes, from a springtime picnic to a festive Christmas tea, all with the royal touch. This elegant recipe book also tells the story of the local and seasonal ingredients used by Mark Flanagan, such as the deliciously syrupy jam made from the mulberry trees of Buckingham Palace gardens, and the bee hives that keep the Royal Household in honey all year round.
Secret Gardens of the City of London by Stephen Liddell Pdf
There is London and then there is the City of London, or Londinium as the Romans called it. The oldest part of the city; the City or Square Mile. Full of the buildings and institutions that have shaped our lives and not just our world, but the world.Greater London itself has just been declared the world's first National Park City with 50% of it being in some way green or indeed blue; gardens, footpaths and bridleways of course, canals, rivers, woods and parks. Many of them are known well beyond our shores, Hyde Park, Richmond Park, Wimbledon Common, Hampstead Heath to name but a few. Like many of the most famous districts, streets and buildings, they are not really in London but in places such as Westminster or Chelsea.The real London, the City of London, is something of a mystery to many, even those who work here every day, decade after decade. It has none of the wide streets of the West End or the mile upon mile of well-to-do housing of Notting Hill or Kensington. And maybe that is why it remains a mystery. Between St Paul's Cathedral and the Tower of London is largely a hidden world all shaped by geography, Romans, Vikings, Saxons and the dynasties that came after the Norman invasions, the Great and not so great fires, the plagues and other natural disasters and all those wars.I still remember the day when the first steps towards writing this book took place. It was a freezing cold, muddy December day in 2017. I was out exploring so many of the multitude of lanes and courts that Dr Johnson himself would have been proud of me. There came a point towards the end of the day when I realised my shoes were muddy. Not dirty from the odd puddle or the natural winter grime of a big city but caked in mud. I realised that in all my life I had been to London to work, to study, to live, to shop, to eat, to enjoy culture, to date even but never before had my shoes got so muddy that I might as well have trudged miles through the Lake District.It piqued my curiosity, all those little green spaces I vaguely knew of and no doubt countless more I was blissfully unaware of. Every one of these gardens or squares had a reason for being. They were all different and largely overlooked even by workers passing the nearest busy road, often just feet away.I didn't think anyone else would be interested in my hare-brained line of thought. Of all the things to see in London, who would want to literally get away from it all? As it turned out tourists, like myself, were in awe that we could be standing in the middle of perhaps the most powerful and epic city of all time and yet be totally alone save for flowers, bushes, trees, butterflies, birds, mammals and more. Weekdays would see us barely meet anyone; weekends would see us meeting fewer still. I remember Boxing Day in 2018 and the 2nd of January 2020, when we didn't see a single person in the entire City of London.I've tried to make this as exhaustive as possible. I've walked down every road, lane and alley I could find and have been doing so for years. I've played hunches, and looked at old books and maps and the latest satellite imagery too. London is always changing, that's one of its great and sometimes annoying qualities. Several parks each year are renovated, new buildings spring up and even in the last year or two new developments have brought us gleaming new parks and open spaces in the City of London. This book doesn't claim to be in any way a garden encyclopaedia, it is just a guide to hopefully encourage more people to get the train or tube into the City of London and go off and explore this great old city that is so well visited and yet unexplored. Go out and find your own favourite garden, bench, tree or statue. I would say how badly could you get lost in a square mile? The answer is not only 'very' but also 'totally and utterly'.If this book is anything then it is an act of love; I hope you'll forgive me this act of indulgence.
