UK in Summer - by Royal Appointment at Buckingham Palace

Coronation Festival - July 12th 2013

English Rose in an inner City Garden

Another sunny day in July and it was off to the Palace for us. The Coronation Festival was a very upmarket Ideal Home Exhibition put on by the Royal Warrant Holders in the Buckingham Palace Gardens. At 30 quid a ticket it needed to be pretty good and in fact it was! TW practised here curtsey just in case HMQE was out dead-heading her Roses but unfortunately she had been there the day before. My favourite was the Bentley display, mines a Mulsanne! TW liked the frocks made from the HMQE's favourites. One was made from Twinings Tea bags and umbrella material and another had £50k's worth of stamps covering the model's embarrassment. The catwalk stage was a brilliant design under a canopy of trees. The National Youth Ballet put on a slice of Alice in Wonderland for us which was pretty clever but the Rabbit was frightening.