queensbeasts – My Storytellings

The 96-year-old Queen Elizabeth missed her grand set-piece event for the first time in almost 6 decades. Britain’s heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles and Prince William took the center stage at the opening of parliament and read out the government ‘s legislation agenda on Tuesday (10 May). And it made Prince Charles delivered Queen’s speech for the first time in the State Opening of Parliament.

The State Opening of Parliament is an event which people see the queen travelling to the assembly in a State Coach, escorted by soldiers in uniform traditionally.

The Queen’s health becomes the focus in worldwide again. She missed a number of public engagements since she was hospitalized for a night last year in October.

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This is the final Queen’s Beasts coin in the Queen’s Beast collection since 2016 produced by Royal Mint. The Coin features ten beasts on the reverse which reuniting all ten beasts in one design.

Here is the story of Queen’s Beasts:

The Queen’s Beasts are the ten heraldic statues representing the bloodline of Queen Elizabether II and the British monarchy. On 2 June 1953, the whole world witnessed a specacular of a very important occasion. The Queen arrived at Westminster Abbey for the Queen’s coronation. These ten Queen’s Beast stood in front of the temporary western annexe as formidable royal guardians.

They are:

The Lion of England

The White Greyhound of Richmond

The Yale of Beaufort

The Red Dragon of Wales

The White Horse of Hanover

The White Lion of Mortimer

The Unicorn of Scotland

The Griffin of Edward III

The Black Bull of Clarence

The Falcon of the Plantagenets

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