Queen Elizabeth.Photo: STEVE PARSONS/getty
Queen Elizabethhad an art appreciation day on Wednesday.
The viewing took place in the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle, with the Queen looking back on some of the company’s earliest designs from the 1950s alongside pieces from their current collections, including English fine bone china.
The company, which was established the same year the Queen ascended the throne, was founded in order to revive the artisan craft of enameling on copper, according to the palace statement, and “continue to employ traditional techniques that have been handed down for generations.” Halcyon Days also happens to be one of only 14 companies in the world that holds all three Royal Warrants.
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The in-person audience was a special one for the Queen, who has been"pacing herself"lately since she wasdiagnosedwith, and has since been recovering from, COVID-19 in late February.
The Queen’s COVID news came after her son,Prince Charles, and his wife,Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, alsotested positive for coronavirus.
“Her Majesty is experiencing mild cold-like symptoms but expects to continue light duties at Windsor over the coming week,” Buckingham Palace revealed in a statement on Feb. 20.
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Since recovering, she has welcomed a select few people to Windsor for in-person engagement, presenting aGold Medal for Poetry to Guyanese poet Grace Nicholson March 16 andhosting a teafor the new Governor-General of Canada and her husband on March 15 — both of which were part of Commonwealth Day celebrations, though theQueen had to skipthis year’s service in service of her continued recovery.
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But, as ever, the monarch remains committed to serving her country.
In her traditionalCommonwealth Day messageon March 14, she pledged to continue the promise she made 75 years ago that she will be forever “devoted” to her public work.
“In this year of my Platinum Jubilee, it has given me pleasure to renew the promise I made in 1947,” she stated, “that my life will always be devoted in service.”
source: people.com
