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It’s another episode that suddenly makes fans of the British royal family happy. With the difficulties of walking alone already visible, this time, Queen Elizabeth II did not move with the help of a cane. To tour the gardens and exhibitions of the Chelsea Flower Show, the sovereign had the help, for the first time, of a buggy. but it’s not a buggy anyone: it belongs to the Danish company Garia, a manufacturer of luxury electric golf carts, which It can reach 43 kilometers per hour. Driving it was a driver with a “severe expression”as described by The Times, contrasting with the smiling face of the monarch.
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“Adjustments were made for the comfort of the queen”, justified a Buckingham Palace spokesman. “It is an extremely practical mechanism that will allow the Queen to participate in as many engagements as she can manage.”, said Joe Little of Majesty magazine.
Dynamic and Stewart’s pink coat, spoke with the botanists and designers present. One of the stops was Grow2Know’s Hands Off Mangrove garden, which aimed to highlight deforestation and racial injustice. The 96-year-old monarch asked artist Danny Clarke how long it took him to create the project. “Two and a half years,” Clarke replied. “Covid-19 helped!” Elizabeth II joked.
With BBC’s Gardeners’ World presenter Monty Don, he discussed people opening their doors to gardening during the pandemic lockdown. In the words of Elizabeth II, something “probably very therapeutic, digging.”
At the exhibition in memory of the broadcaster Peter Seabrook – who, among various professional activities, was a columnist for The Sun for more than 40 years, where he wrote about gardening until his death in January – Elizabeth II received a bouquet of lilac peas with the name of Seabrook by Molli Christman, his apprentice.
When approached by acclaimed clematis grower Raymond Evison, he blurted out: “We wouldn’t have any clematis if it wasn’t for him!”
To those who think the Queen used a buggy for the first time tonight: not so. This is from the Coronation Festival in Buckingham Palace Garden in 2013. ???? little joe pic.twitter.com/Ev1BWTFSNs
— Majesty/Joe Little (@MajestyMagazine) May 23, 2022
Elizabeth II, faithful in fulfilling her royal obligations, was seen for the last time with a buggy in it Coronation Festival 2013 in Buckingham Palace Garden – as seen on cheep from Majesty magazine. Then, in 2011, when she traveled with the Duke of Edinburgh to Canberra (Australia).
Elizabeth II has participated in the Chelsea Flower Show more than 50 times and this year there are 39 gardens and 80 exhibitions, including a tribute with flowers, Sureto the Platinum Jubilee.
the doors to #RHSCelsea are officially open for press day!
This year’s show is particularly special as we celebrate our Royal Patron, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, with wreaths to mark her Platinum Jubilee. pic.twitter.com/tBkBuSKaNd
— The RHS (@La_RHS) May 23, 2022
Another marked moment this Monday: a rose was planted in the garden of the royal residence and named after John Ystumllyn, who is believed to have been one of Britain’s first black gardeners it supposedly worked in the 18th century, and is considered “the first in the country to be named after an individual from an ethnic minority,” the BBC wrote.
IT IS “a sign of friendship” which will serve for guests and visitors to “reflect”, according to a statement from Windsor Castle, how to read in it cheep by reporter Cameron Walker.
The Queen says the planting of the John Ystumllyn rose at Buckingham Palace is a sign of “friendship and community”.
John was one of Britain’s first black gardeners and the rose is believed to be the first to be named after someone from an ethnic minority. pic.twitter.com/nfX6t6MRO7
—Cameron Walker (@CameronDLWalker) May 23, 2022
Regarding contingencies, chef Ainsley Harriott was seen helping her sister after is falling into a fountain – moment portrayed in the image below, shared by a netizen – while both walked through the Chelsea Flower Show.
Drama at the Chelsea Flower Show today as Ainsley Harriott’s sister ended up in one of the water features ????
I can’t swim, I don’t want to swim????
Hadn’t I realized there were such dangerous water hazards at a flower show? pic.twitter.com/nYXloX1mCU—stoney63 (@stoney632) May 23, 2022
Later Ainsley Harriott thanked He helps her, assuring, on Twitter, that the sister “is fine.”
Just a big thank you to everyone who helped my sister when she fell at the Chelsea Flower Show this morning. She is fine and everything is fine ???? XX
— Ainsley Harriott (@AinsleyFoods) May 23, 2022
Source: Observadora
