r/UKmonarchs • u/Ok-Membership3343 • 16d ago
r/UKmonarchs • u/Curtmantle_ • Mar 23 '25
Photo Queen Victoria photobombing her son’s (the future Edward VII) wedding.
What a lovely woman
r/UKmonarchs • u/volitaiee1233 • Mar 28 '25
Photo Edward VII had a custom made ‘love chair’
r/UKmonarchs • u/Curious_Name_9448 • Jul 15 '24
Photo The remains of Richard III
I know we’re all aware of this and all but I still think it’s a really interesting photo and it’s just so insane when you think about it. We literally discovered the skeleton of the last Plantagenet King of England in a random car park 500 years later. Absolutely wild.
r/UKmonarchs • u/volitaiee1233 • Feb 17 '25
Photo The last photo taken of George VI, on the 31st of January 1952.
r/UKmonarchs • u/volitaiee1233 • Feb 25 '25
Photo Queen Victoria on her death bed in 1901
r/UKmonarchs • u/Curtmantle_ • May 04 '25
Photo Rare photo of Edward VIII's highly secret departure from Windsor, the day after his abdication.
r/UKmonarchs • u/volitaiee1233 • Nov 21 '24
Photo George VI (Duke of York at the time) in 1925 having the time of his life
r/UKmonarchs • u/Glennplays_2305 • Mar 07 '25
Photo Elizabeth II with all 15 of her PM.
Winston Churchill (1951-1955)
Anthony Eden (1955-1957)
Harold Macmillan (1957-1963)
Alec Douglas Home (1963-1964)
Harold Wilson (1964-1970, 1974-1976)
Edward Heath (1970-1974)
James Callaghan (1976-1979)
Margaret Thatcher (1979-1990)
John Major (1990-1997)
Tony Blair (1997-2007)
Gordon Brown (2007-2010)
David Cameron (2010-2016)
Theresa May (2016-2019)
Boris Johnson (2019-2022)
Liz Truss (2022)
Excluded Churchill first term since she wasn’t Queen at the time.
r/UKmonarchs • u/volitaiee1233 • Dec 29 '24
Photo Everyone in this photo is dead as of today with the death of Jimmy Carter. All made it to at least 95 years old.
r/UKmonarchs • u/volitaiee1233 • Apr 26 '24
Photo A dress worn by Queen Victoria in her later years
r/UKmonarchs • u/Glennplays_2305 • Mar 09 '25
Photo All UK monarchs that has pictures of them smiling.
Picture 1: only picture I can find of Victoria smiling
Picture 2: the best I can find Edward VII smiling
Picture 3: one of few pictures I found of George V smiling
Picture 4: a Nazi doing an evil smile
The rest is George VI, Elizabeth II, and Charles III
r/UKmonarchs • u/kim_jong_un4 • Feb 03 '25
Photo Whenever I see a picture of Mary of Teck, I'm struck by how much she resembles Elizabeth II and Charles III. Her genes must be where the "Windsor look" comes from.
r/UKmonarchs • u/Bipolar03 • Feb 26 '25
Photo George, Duke of York (later King George V) and Tsesarevich Nicholas of Russia (later Tsar Nicholas II)
George, Duke of York (later King George V) (left) and Tsesarevich Nicholas of Russia (later Tsar Nicholas II) (right), photographed in July 1893 in England during the wedding celebrations of George and Mary. George and Nicholas were first cousins as their mothers, Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom and Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia, were sisters.
r/UKmonarchs • u/Curtmantle_ • May 26 '24
Photo A special chair made for Edward VII so he could have sex with women without crushing them under his weight.
r/UKmonarchs • u/volitaiee1233 • Feb 10 '24
Photo The last known photo of Elizabeth II. Taken just three days before her death.
r/UKmonarchs • u/Curtmantle_ • Feb 14 '24
Photo Woodrow Wilson and King George V outside Buckingham Palace in 1918. This is the first known photo of an American President with a British Monarch
r/UKmonarchs • u/H3-An_maA • 28d ago
Photo A rare photo of Elizabeth II and her former page boys
• Captain Edward Lowther = Captain Hon. Edward John Lowther; younger son of 2nd Viscount Ullswater
• Mr William Vestey = William Guy Vestey, 4th Baron Vestey; elder son of 3rd Baron Vestey (Master of the Horse)
• Mr Thomas Howard = Hon. Thomas Henry Greville Howard; elder son of Baron Howard of Rising
• Mr Walter Beckett = Walter Gervase Beckett; only son of Sir Richard Beckett, 3rd Bt and grand-nephew of Lady Rosemary Muir (Maid of Honour at the coronation of QEII)
• Mr Andrew Douglas-Hamilton = John Andrew Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Earl of Selkirk; elder son of Baron Selkirk of Douglas (son of the 14th Duke of Hamilton)
• Mr John Bowes-Lyon = Hon. John Fergus Bowes-Lyon; second son of the 18th Earl of Strathmore & Kinghorne (grandson of QEII's first cousin)
• Mr Archibald Young = Archibald Blair Cecil Young; grandson of Sir Blair Stewart-Wilson (Deputy Master of the Household); Sir Blair's sister, Prudence, was David Penn's mother and Rory Penn's grandmother (both listed below)
• Mr Alexander Fraser = Hon. Alexander William Malise Fraser, Master of Saltoun; only son of Katharine Fraser, 22nd Lady Saltoun (granddaughter of Princess Patricia of Connaught)
• Mr Arthur Hussey = Arthur Eric Hussey; grandson of Lady Susan Hussey (Lady-in-waiting to QEII) and son of James Hussey (listed below)
• Mr Henry Naylor = Henry James Huntley Naylor; grandson of Baroness Farnham (Lady of the Bedchamber to QEII)
• Mr Jack Soames = Jack Soames; younger son of Hon. Rupert Soames (son of Baron Soames and grandson of Winston Churchill)
• Mr Rory Penn = Rory David Arthur Penn; grandson of Lady Mary Colman (first cousin of QEII and Extra Lady-in-waiting to Princess Alexandra) and nephew of David Penn (listed below)
• Mr James Bowes-Lyon = James Francis John Bowes-Lyon; son of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (daughter of Sir Jock Colville, goddaughter of QEII and Lady-in-waiting to Princess Anne) and David Bowes-Lyon (son of QEII's second cousin)
• Mr Rowley Baring = Rowley Mark Thomas Baring; grandson of the Countess of Cromer (Lady of the Bedchamber to QEII) and son of Lavinia Baring (Lady-in-waiting to Diana, Princess of Wales)
• Mr Charles Tryon = Charles George Barrington Tryon, 4th Baron Tryon; elder son of 3rd Baron Tryon (close friend of then-Prince Charles) and Dale "Kanga" Tryon, Baroness Tryon
• Mr Piers Blewitt = Piers Blewitt; son of Major Sir Shane Blewitt (Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to QEII)
• Mr Malcolm Maclean = Captain Malcolm Lachlan Charles Maclean of Duart and Morven, Younger; elder son of Sir Lachlan Maclean of Duart and Morven, 12th Bt
• Mr Harry Legge-Bourke = Captain Harry Russell Legge-Bourke; grandson of Sir Harry Legge-Bourke, brother of Tiggy Pettifer (Princes William and Harry's former nanny) and nephew of Heneage Legge-Bourke (listed below)
• Mr Hugh Crossley = Hugh Francis Savile Crossley, 4th Baron Somerleyton; son of 3rd Baron Somerleyton (Master of the Horse)
• Mr Guy Macpherson-Grant = Guy Ewan Macpherson-Grant of Ballindalloch, Younger; elder son of Oliver Russell (listed below) and grandson of Sir Ewan Macpherson-Grant, 6th Bt
• Mr Richard Lytton-Cobbold = Hon. Richard Stucley Fromanteel Lytton-Cobbold; youngest son of 2nd Baron Cobbold
• Mr James Maudslay = James Maudslay; only son of Sir Rennie Maudslay (Keeper of the Privy Purse)
• Mr James Basset = James Bryan Basset; grandson of Lady Elizabeth Basset (Extra Lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen Mother)
• Mr Heneage Legge-Bourke = Heneage Legge-Bourke; second son of Sir Harry Legge-Bourke and uncle of Harry Legge-Bourke (listed above)
• Mr Edward Hay = Edward Philip Gerald Hay; godson of QEII and son of Lady Margaret Hay (Lady-in-waiting to QEII and niece of the Marchioness of Cambridge, Queen Mary's sister-in-law)
• Mr Harry Fane = Hon. Harry St Clair Fane; younger son of the 15th Earl of Westmorland (Lord-in-waiting to QEII, Master of the Horse and godfather of Lady Sarah Chatto)
• Mr John Maudslay = ?
• Mr David Hicks-Beach = Hon. David Seymour Hicks-Beach; youngest son of 2nd Earl St Aldwyn
• Mr Louis Greig = Louis Stourton Greig; eldest son of Sir Carron Greig (Gentleman Usher to QEII)
• Mr David Bland = ?
• Mr Napier Marten = Napier Anthony Sturt Marten; only son of Lieutenant-Commander George Marten (equerry to King George VI) and Hon. Mary Anna Marten (goddaughter of the Queen Mother)
• Captain Edward Gordon-Lennox = Captain Edward Charles Gordon-Lennox; eldest son of Major-General Bernard Gordon-Lennox (page to King George VI) and grandson of Lieutenant-General Sir George Gordon-Lennox (page to King George V and grandson of the 7th Duke of Richmond)
• Mr James Hussey = Hon. James Arthur Hussey; son of Lady Susan Hussey (Lady-in-waiting to QEII) and father of Arthur Hussey (listed above)
• Mr John Ponsonby = John Piers Ponsonby; youngest son of Sir Ashley Ponsonby, 2nd Bt
• Captain William Oswald = Captain William Alexander Michael Oswald; only son of Sir Michael Oswald (Manager of The Royal Studs, Sandringham and Racing Manager to the Queen Mother) and Lady Angela Oswald (Woman of the Bedchamber to QEII and niece of Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester)
• Mr Charles Loyd = Charles Anthony Loyd; only son of Sir Julian Loyd (Sandringham Land Agent) and grandson of Sir Christopher Steel
• Mr Mark Tennant = Captain Mark Edward Tennant; son of Sir Iain Tennant and Lady Margaret Tennant (sister-in-law of Princess Alexandra)
• Mr Oliver Russell = Oliver Henry Russell; younger son of Admiral Hon. Sir Guy Russell (First and Principal Naval Aide-de-camp to QEII) and father of Guy Macpherson-Grant (listed above)
• Mr Duncan Davidson = Duncan Henry Davidson; son of Lady Rachel Pepys (Lady-in-waiting to Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent and daughter of the 15th Duke of Norfolk)
• Mr Edward Adeane = Hon. George Edward Adeane; son of Baron Adeane (Private Secretary to QEII); former Private Secretary to King Charles III (1979–1985)
• Mr Douglas Gordon = Douglas Herriot Gordon; son of Major Lord Adam Gordon (Comptroller and Assistant Private Secretary to the Queen Mother)
• Mr Michael Anson = Michael Anson; grandson of the 2nd Earl of Lichfield and the 5th Marquess of Waterford; previously page to King George VI
• Mr Andrew Gordon = ?
• Mr David Penn = David Penn; nephew of Sir Blair Stewart-Wilson (Deputy Master of the Household) and uncle of Rory Penn (listed above)
• Mr Rory Wolfe-Murray = Rory James Wolfe-Murray; grandson of Alec Douglas-Home
r/UKmonarchs • u/volitaiee1233 • Mar 12 '24
Photo This absolutely metal photo of George V
r/UKmonarchs • u/Bipolar03 • Jun 23 '25
Photo Royalty in colour
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia photographed with his first cousin Prince George (future King George V of the United Kingdom), and their heirs Prince Edward (future King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom) and Tsarevich Alexei. Photograph taken in England on the 4 August 1909.
r/UKmonarchs • u/Ok-Membership3343 • May 29 '24
Photo A hat worn by Henry VIII, likely the only surviving clothing worn by him.
r/UKmonarchs • u/Curtmantle_ • Apr 23 '25
Photo Every Pope Elizabeth II met
She met Francis in 2014
Benedict XIII in 2010
John Paul I in 1980 (and on 2 other occasions)
John XXIII in 1961
And Pius XII as Princess in 1951 (unfortunately no pictures of this meeting exist. But this is a picture of Elizabeth with Vatican officials during that visit)