Tuesday Cuppa Tea, Trooping The Colour Teacup

Hello and welcome to another Tuesday Cuppa Tea, where we get to enjoy and share our love of teacups!  First of all, I hope you have had a lovely Father's Day, appreciating our fathers, loved ones and most of all our Heavenly Father!

But on to teatime! This week, starting Thursday has not been about teacups in our home, but about football...or to soccer for Yanks...'cuz it's FIFA World Cup time!

And it's happening in Brazil. Our tea time today was....tea and biscuits in front of the telly watching the England game...mine with the no milk, his with the milk...mine biscuits the Newman's Own vegan ginger cream sandwiches, his the pecan shortbread...Should have had tea in him St. George's Cross England mug, but it was in the dishwasher, so the Union Jack was second best. England lost this round, but has 2 more group games and chances to stay in....

Our local paper asked in their day's poll how important is the World Cup...the answer for "Not at all important" was 67%. They never asked my husband!!!
But, I am reading and working...as well as supplying tea and biscuits! Lol!

I have shared this teacup before, because it ties in to the big festivities of yesterday, June 14th in England, which is the official birthday of Queen Elizabeth, although she actually turned 87 in April. But her official birthday in June is always celebrated by The Trooping Of The Colour, when the Queen's Guards parade to honour and wish her a happy birthday.

This is actually a 1953 coronation teacup but is one of the few that chose as it's design...from the approved designs available for the coronation...the photo of Queen Elizabeth in her Trooping The Colour outfit...

This is a photo of the Queen in 1982, sidesaddle, on Burmese, her favorite horse at that time, for the Trooping Of The Colour. As you can see, that's the outfit depicted on the teacup.

http://www.antiquesandteacups.com/Cup-and-Saucer-Queen-Elizabeth-II-Coronation-Crown-Handle-Radfords_p_2070.html

Another thing special about the teacup is the crown in the handle. Very cool!

Radford's began in the 1897 in the late Victorian era in Stoke-On-Trent and lasted until 1957 when it succumber with many other potters to the Post World War II slump of lack of skilled workers and a change in the designs wanted by a new culture of buyers. For more info on the teacup at Antiques And Teacups click on the photos.

Trooping Of The Colour and the birthday celebrations always involve a procession down The Mall to Horseguards Parade for the massed Guardsmen and household cavalry...

And the Royal family are out in force...

Until the late 1980s, the Queen always rode on horse back...but now she leaves that to other members of the family...

Here it is Prince Charles, Prince William and Princess Anne...

Then it's back to Buckingham Palace, an appearance on the balcony, and the annual salute...weather permitting...by The Red Arrows.

All photos from the Monarchy website

I wonder if they went back in for a nice cuppa????

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