A delightful middle grade adventure filled with legends and lore of the Scottish Highlands.

Were the Pyramids of Giza designed to be a mirror of the stars?

Windsor Castle from the Thames River, GWW Photochrom print, Circa 1890-1900. Click on link above for more information on the Photochrom Process [From my own collection] During Queen Victoria's long reign she made use a number of royal residences, primarily Windsor Castle in Berkshire, Buckingham Palace in London, Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, Holyrood House in Edinburgh, and Balmoral Castle in the Scottish Highlands. This series primarily features 'behind the scenes' pre1901 images from Queen Victoria's Private Apartments which will attempt to portray something of Her Majesty's secluded world away from the public gaze. Actual original extant photographs of Queen Victoria when resident at each Royal residence are also featured. The quality of all images varies considerably. My first blog in this series features images taken in the Private Apartments and Semi-State Apartments at Windsor Castle, having been designed by Wyattville for King George IV after his coronation in 1820. "[King] George persuaded Parliament to vote him £300,000 for restoration (£245 million in 2008 terms). ... the architect Jeffry Wyattville was selected, and work commenced in 1824. Wyattville's own preference ran to Gothic architecture, but George, who had led the reintroduction of the French Rococo style to England at Carlton House, preferred a blend of periods and styles, and applied this taste to Windsor." These views mainly follow a route from the Private Dining Room adjoining the State Apartments at the end of the North Terrace, then along the East Wing of the Upper Ward, and round to the George IV Gate in the South Wing. Not all the private apartments are pictured. When King Edward VII ascended the throne in 1901 he immediately set about re-modernising Windsor Castle with "enthusiasm and zest". Many of the rooms in the Upper Ward were de-cluttered and redecorated for the first time in many years. "peering into cabinets; ransacking drawers; clearing rooms formerly used by the Prince Consort and not touched since his death; dispatching case-loads of relics and ornaments to a special room in the Round Tower ... destroying statues and busts of John Brown... throwing out hundreds of 'rubbishy old coloured photographs' ... [and] rearranging pictures". Admittedly many of the rooms were overladen with decoration and Victorian era clutter and benefitted from a general clean up. Queen Mary also left her mark on most of the Royal residences with one of her favourite past-times being "redecorating and re-arranging rooms" - much to the despair of her staff. As a connoisseur of the arts she did in fact take a keen interest in the Royal collection of furniture and art, both restoring and adding to it. The Royal Library The Royal Library is located in what was once Queen Elizabeth the First's Gallery at the North West end of the State Apartments. The carved stone chimneypiece at right was installed in 1583. The Billiard Room, Taken 21 Nov 1893 The Billiard Room is rather inconveniently situated on the Ground Floor of the State Apartments facing the North Terrace and directly under the west end of the Throne Room in the State Apartments above. The billiard table itself is made from wood salvaged from HMS Royal George, which sank at Spithead in 1782 with the loss of 800 lives, being raised in 1841. It was at the time considered by some to be inappropriate and in bad taste to have a billiard table made of wood from the wreck. But despite the wood then being ordered to be used in a new Royal Chapel instead it appears that this directive was in the end inexplicably not carried out. The Gothic Private Dining Room, 1848. A Chromolithograph by Joseph Nash The Gothic design Private Dining Room is located in the Prince of Wales's Tower at the North East end of the State Apartments and is the work of A.C. Pugin and his son Augustus Welby Pugin. The Private Chapel, 1848 A Chromolithograph by Joseph Nash The Private Chapel is located between St George's Hall to the west and The Crimson Drawing Room to the east to which it shares a dividing wall. Queen Victoria preferred short and simple religious services and despite being Head of the Church of England she personally considered herself more aligned with the Presbyterian Church of Scotland than the Episcopalian [Anglican] Church of England. She also supported the 'Protestant intentions' of the Public Worship Bill of 1874 which had the intent of purging the Church of England of High Church practices which made its liturgies resemble those of the Roman Catholic Church. Her decision to worship at Crathie Kirk near Balmoral Castle initially caused a scandal, particularly when it was discovered that she had taken Communion there in November 1873. Victoria strongly asserted that as Queen of Scotland, she was also entitled to worship in a Scottish [Presbyterian] church, and furthermore, Crathie Kirk was the closest church to Balmoral Castle. The Crimson Drawing Room looking south, 1848 The Crimson Drawing Room, being a semi-state room, is located in the East Wing next to the Private Dining Room. The Private Chapel is behind the wall on the right. The walls are hung with crimson coloured damask. The Green Drawing Room looking north, circa 1900 Next lies the Green Drawing Room with interconnecting doors through to the Crimson Drawing Room on the North side and the smaller White Drawing Room on the South side. All are semi-state rooms. The Green Drawing Room had originally been built as a library with low bookcases around the walls, being converted to a formal Drawing Room at some time during the mid 19th century. The walls are hung with green damask with gilding on the decorative plasterwork. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at breakfast or luncheon in The White Drawing Room, looking north. In early years, both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert took breakfast, and sometimes luncheon, in the White Drawing Room. In later years the Oak Room was used for this purpose, especially after the death of Prince Albert in 1861 The Grand Corridor looking south. Note the row of statues on plinths. The Grand Corridor connects the Private and Guest Apartments which lie in the East and South Wings of the Castle. The Grand Corridor had never existed prior to Wyattville's rebuilding of the Castle from the late 1820's. The East Wing of Windsor Castle and showing the formal East Terrace Garden. A Photochrome image, circa 1890's The Private Dining Room lies in the Prince of Wales's Tower at far right, then (moving left), the Crimson Drawing Room (two small and one large window in the middle), The Green Drawing Room (two small and one medium sized window in the middle) in the smaller Chester Tower, the White Drawing Room (one medium sized window), then the Prince Consort's apartment's through to Queen Victoria's apartments which lie from the King's [Victoria] Tower at far left, leading along the South Wing . The decorated Private Apartments, featuring a "distinctive gilt and gorgeousness style", were the work of the Decorators "Morel and Seddon". King George IV moved into these apartments in December 1828, even before other State Rooms within the Castle were finished. The Last Moments of Prince Albert, The Prince Consort, as depicted in the Blue Room, 1861 Prince Albert's rooms were located from the south wall of The White Drawing Room through to the King's (Victoria) Tower at the South East corner of the Castle. The Blue Room itself adjoined the White Drawing Room, the walls being hung with blue damask with matching curtains. On the express orders of Queen Victoria the room was to remain as it was when Prince Albert died here in 1861. Fresh flowers, clothes and hot water continued to be carefully laid out each day and the sheets changed. In the latter years of the 19th century the curtaining had became faded, frayed and rotten and desperately needed to be replaced. It was 'fearfully' replaced with new silk faded down to the original. This fact was carefully kept from Queen Victoria who thankfully never noticed the change due to her increasingly bad eyesight. After the accession to the throne of Kind Edward VII he had this room totally redecorated to serve as his Study (it serves this purpose today). The Blue Room after the death of Prince Albert. The Blue Room, from a watercolour, 1865 The ceiling was painted with angels and stars after Prince Albert's death but otherwise everything remained as it had been in his lifetime. Prince Albert's Bedroom - The Blue Room, circa 1880's -1890's Prince Albert's Sitting Room (later the Queen's Closet), 1861 Queen Victoria and members of her family mourning the Prince Consort. [Left to Right] Victoria [Empress Frederick of Prussia], Princess Alice, Queen Victoria & Prince Alfred. Taken by William Baimbridge, March 1862 The Queen's Closet (previously Prince Albert's Sitting Room) Queen Victoria's Bedroom It is recorded that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert shared a bedroom at Windsor Castle until his last illness where he died in The Blue Room shown above. Queen Victoria's Bedroom, Sitting Room and Boudoir (Dressing Room) were all located within The King's [Victoria] Tower in the South East corner of the castle. Queen Victoria at her desk. Taken at Windsor Castle, 1891 Queen Victoria undertook her state work, reading and writing at a desk set up in her Private Sitting Room. Queen Victoria's Dressing Room, 1850's Queen Victoria's Dressing Room, 1850's This is the same image as shown above but is reversed. As to which image is the correct way round is unknown. The bottom image however is less distinct and may have been photographed from the original then the glass plate negative inadvertently reversed when the printing block was created. Queen Victoria's Private Sitting Room by Joseph Nash, as shown in the mid 19th Century The Queen's Sitting Room, 1868 [Source : The Royal Collection] Queen Victoria's Private Sitting Room, 1890's Queen Victoria's Private Sitting Room. Queen Victoria knits while Princess Beatrice reads to her. Photographed by Mary Steen in 1895. Queen Victoria's Sitting Room lay within the King's Tower at the South East corner of the Castle with the main window facing south with a view of Windsor Great Park and The Long Walk. Directly above her were the Royal nurseries. By the end of the 19th century her Private Sitting Room had become full of ornaments, photographs and mementoes, "the orderly confusion of beautiful bric-a-brac". The Angle of the Grand Corridor, 1846 This view shows the angle in the Grand Corridor and is shown looking north. Access to the Oak Room shown below is at some point around the corner on the left. Queen Victoria, Princess Henry of Batttenberg [Princess Beatrice], Prince Henry of Battenberg, & their three children at luncheon in the Oak Dining Room as two uniformed Indian servants look on. Queen Victoria normally took lunch and dinner in this room if there were no state occasions. Taken 1895. Another view of the Oak Dining Room, published in 1897. Over the mantelpiece hangs a portrait of the Queen, while to the left can be seen one of the two Gobelins tapestries hung in this room depicting "The Death of Meleager" (visible) and "The Hunting of the Calydonian Boar", having been presented to the Queen by King Louis Philippe of France. [Image courtesy of C. Duclos, Paris] The Queen's Private Audience Chamber, 1867 [Source : The Royal Collection] The Queen's Private Audience Chamber, taken 1890s In this room in the South Range, close to her own apartments, Queen Victoria "gave audience to her Prime Ministers and other public figures". On the walls can be seen the portraits of the family of H.M. King George III painted by Thomas Gainsborough. A Christmas display and tree set up in a room in the South Wing Another Christmas display, as painted by James Roberts, 1850 A lithograph of Queen Victoria distributing Egyptian War Medals to Officers and Men of the Expeditionary Force, 21st Nov 1882 A guest room in the South Wing overlooking The Long Walk. The Coffee Room above the George IV Gate A Lithograph of a Garden Party in the grounds of Windsor Castle, 1870 Bibliography : - "Life of Queen Victoria", T Nelson & Sons, London, 1897 (from my personal collection). - Wikipedia - Various written and Internet sources. - Images are only from my own personal collection where specifically indicated. These may be freely copied for non-commercial use providing a link is given back to this page. - All other images have been "collected" over the last couple of years and I have not always recorded the source. Most appear to be in the public domain or are only low resolution 'preview' images however if copyright has been infringed please advise me so that I can remove them or provide a link.

Hidden hieroglyphics could suggest the king is buried within a much larger structure housing the Egyptian queen

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Mary, Queen of Scots, Clouet. Photo: The Royal Collection. At nine o clock in the morning of the 19th of August 1561, two magnificent galleys, one white and one red and both displaying blue flags proudly emblazoned with the

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The Queen's Presence Chamber in the State Apartments at Windsor Castle England (post card)

View Full Coincidence ??? Wormhole theory?? time travel?? Possible Researchers from Australia have showed the possibility of time travel by experiencing the photon when passed by the wormhole and it interacts with its older self ..... that is the same simulation as Nikola experienced by the Oscillator> Also an answer to the question "Why the pyramids was created by Egyptians ??" . Time to Travel Back grin emoticoni think tongue emoticon ‪‎practically proved Scientists from the University of Queensland, Australia, have used single particles of light (photons) to simulate quantum particles travelling through time. They showed that one photon can pass through a wormhole and then interact with its older self. Their findings were published in Nature Communications. The source of this time travel conundrum comes from what are called “closed timelike curves” (CTC). CTCs are used to simulate extremely powerful gravitational fields, like the ones produced by a spinning black hole, and could, theoretically (based on Einstein’s theory of general relativity), warp the fabric of existence so that spacetime bends back on itself – thus creating a CTC, almost like a path that could be used to travel back in time. According to Scientific American, many physicists find CTCs “abhorrent, because any macroscopic object traveling through one would inevitably create paradoxes where cause and effect break down.” Others disagree with this assessment, however; in 1991, physicist David Deutsch showed that these paradoxes (created by CTCs) could be avoided at the quantum scale because of the weird behaviour of these fundamental particles that make up what we call matter. It’s well known that at the quantum scale, these particles do not follow the rules that govern classical mechanics, but behave in strange and unexpected ways that really shouldn’t even be possible. Welcome to the world of Quantum physics, where pioneering Physicist Niels Bohr once said, “if quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.” “We choose to examine a phenomenon which is impossible, absolutely impossible, to explain in any classical way, and which has in it the heart of quantum mechanics. In reality, it contains the only mystery.” – Richard Feynman, a Nobel laureate of the twentieth century (Radin, Dean. Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences In A Quantum Reality. New York, Paraview Pocket Books, 2006.) In the quantum world, paradoxes that we don’t understand are common findings, but this should not deter people from taking this science seriously. Even Einstein didn’t believe a lot of quantum theory, but I’d like to think that if he were alive today, he would definitely be having some fun, given all of the recent breakthroughs. “It’s intriguing that you’ve got general relativity predicting these paradoxes, but then you consider them in quantum mechanical terms and the paradoxes go away.” – University of Queensland physicist Tim Ralph (source) The Experiment Tim Ralph (quoted above) and his PhD student Martin Ringbauer simulated a Deutsch’s model of CTCs, according to Scientific American, “testing and confirming many aspects of the two-decades-old theory.” Although it’s just a mathematical simulation, the researchers (and their team/colleagues) emphasize that their model is mathematically equivalent to a single photon traveling through a CTC. Nothing has actually been sent back through time though; to do that, scientists would have to find a real CTC, which has yet to happen as far as we know. Of course, there always remains the possibility that black budgetscience has. Think in terms of the ‘grandfather paradox,’ a hypothetical scenario where someone uses a CTC to travel back through time to cause harm to their grandfather, thus preventing their later birth. Now imagine a particle going back in time to flip a switch on the particle-generating machine that created it – this is a possibility that these physicists say they have shown through their simulation. You can read the specifics of the experiment here. Why This Is A High Probability In my opinion, there is no doubt time travel is possible. Why do I believe this? Well, it’s because we know one hundred percent that superposition is real on a quantum scale. “The maddening part of that problem is that the ability of particles to exist in two places at once is not a mere theoretical abstraction. It is a very real aspect of how the subatomic world works, and it has been experimentally confirmed many times over.” (source) “One of the supreme mysteries of nature… is the ability, according to the quantum mechanic laws that govern subatomic affairs, of a particle like an electron to exist in a murky state of possibility — to be anywhere, everywhere or nowhere at all — until clicked into substantiality by a laboratory detector or an eyeball.” (New York Times) This means that one particle can exist in multiple states at one time. This is best demonstrated by thequantum double slit experiment. Recent experiments have also confirmed quantum entanglement, showing that space is really just a construct that gives the illusion of separation. One thing that suggests there is a high probably of time travel, in conjunction with the experiment mentioned in this article, is the fact that there are experiments showing that particles can actually be entangled through time. This is illustrated by what is called the ‘delayed choice experiment.’ Like the quantum double slit experiment, the delayed choice/quantum eraser has been demonstrated and repeated time and time again. For example, physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) have successfully conducted John Wheeler’s delayed-choice thought experiment. Their findings were recently published in the journal Nature Physics. (source) In 2007 (Science 315, 966, 2007), scientists in France shot photons into an apparatus and showed that their actions could retroactively change something which had already happened. This particular experiment illustrates how what happens in the present can change what happened in the past. It also shows how time can go backwards, how cause and effect can be reversed, and how the future caused the past. “If we attempt to attribute an objective meaning to the quantum state of a single system, curious paradoxes appear: quantum effects mimic not only instantaneous action-at-a-distance, but also, as seen here, influence of future actions on past events, even after these events have been irrevocably recorded.” – Asher Peres, pioneer in quantum information theory (source)(source)(source) Although we do not have access to a CTC quite yet, there are good reasons to believe that this type of time travel is possible at the quantum mechanical level, and that is why I chose to mention these other experiments, to show that ‘time’ doesn’t even really exist as we think it does. You can access an excellent description of the delayed choice experiment using a cosmic scale explanation here, which makes it easier to understand. Why these same quantum mechanical laws have not been observed on the macroscopic level is yet to be understood, but physicists are working on the problem. For example, in 2012 physicists David Wineland and Serge Haroche received the Nobel Prize in physics for demonstrating how “quantum weirdness” could not only exist at the subatomic micro-world level, but also show itself in the macro-world. At one time, superposition was only thought to exist in the inaccessible quantum world, but not anymore. We know it’s possible, we just haven’t figured out how. We do, however, seem to be getting closer to finding out. (source) (source) Perhaps one day, we will have determined the key to this puzzle and be able to observe large objects like cars, humans, apples, and oranges behave in the ways that matter does on a subatomic level, and perhaps one day we will find a wormhole, or a CTC in space, to conduct actual experiments that go beyond theory. That being said, a lot of what used to be considered theoretical in quantum physics is no longer theoretical, like quantum entanglement.

A portrait of a young Queen Elizabeth was carefully removed from Calgary's city council chamber this week.

Her Majesty took part in a scaled-back, socially-distanced State Opening of Parliament where she announced Prime Minister Boris Johnson's legislative agenda while being supported by Charles.

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The Queen's Audience Chamber, baroque ceiling by Antonio Verrio, tapestries from the Gobelins Factory, Anglo-Japanese cabinets, English furniture, Persian carpet. Scanned postcard www.royal.gov.uk

This colossal hall is a book lover's paradise. Known as the Long Room, this magnificent chamber is nearly 65 meters (213 feet) in length and home to over

Mary, Queen of Scots, Clouet. Photo: The Royal Collection. At nine o clock in the morning of the 19th of August 1561, two magnificent galleys, one white and one red and both displaying blue flags proudly emblazoned with the

Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to deliver the Speech from the Throne in the Senate Chamber. Ottawa, Ontario. October 14, 1957. [Canada Science and Technology Museum CN Archive CN003804] / La reine Elizabeth II au cours de la visite pendant laquelle elle prononcera le discours du Trône à la chambre du Sénat. Ottawa (Ontario). Le 14 octobre 1957. [Musée des sciences et de la technologie du Canada CN003804]

The Queen's Presence Chamber in the State Apartments at Windsor Castle England (post card)