Hugh Johnson

@Canellelabelle Burn it, like Sutherland’s portrait of Churchill.

24 hours later, I still cannot comprehend how this portrait of KC ever saw the light of day. This portrait, no matter how much people try to defend it, is an absolute horror; simply because of the vivid shade of red. Yeo might have tried to honour the Red of the guard but Red on a grey looking KC bluntly looks Demonic🔥 Red does not invoke peace but war, blood, hell, fierce, Hot temper, death, passion... Everything that is unstable and creates unrest. Is that who KC is and is that what he wanted us to read here? NO ONE sees that and thinks of the Welsh guards🤡 The Red is so overwhelming and overpowering, it looks like he is lying in a pool of blood with his head and hands barely emerging. Here is what makes the picture even more sinister: the surrounding of it with the Red creates that feeling of unrest, pain, death and misery. in a stark contrast KC's face look serene and smiling in it🤯 It reads that he is at peace among the chaos; more distrubing it reads that HE caused that chaos which is why he is at peace amidst it. A very disturbing image🔥 Anyone who is an artist pays attention to what their work invoke in people KC is the Monarch. He is suppose to invoke Peace and stability. This is anything but🔥 He is the Leader of the Chuch, to cry out loud, He should invoke Peace and God. this looks demonic🔥 There are reasons Blue and purple are the Royal colours and Prince William always wears blue, his favorite colour as he said. Blue represent serenity, peace, stability, inspiration and wisdom; And that is exactly what he project onto the Monarchy in behaviour as well❤️ Earthly tones of Grey or green could have represented the King passion for the environment. As it stands that poor butterfly is drown in the red; again invoking death, instability and unrest. The issue with this portrait is that Yeo and the King wanted something remarkable and singular; that is for what he got. In the process though, he lost the most important thing he should always project: Where does the Monarchy stabd in this painting and as Monarch, does this painting strengthen the Monarchy's image or weakens it?🔥 There is nothing projecting life or happiness in this portrait. It is melancholy and despair. Projecting the stability and strength that the Monarch and leader of the church should project is an epic miss. And those are the Traits that matter🔥 Look at the portrait of Prince Philip by the same artist: Artistically done in earthly colors, the focus is on his face: He looks handsome, strong, calm yet decisive, Capable and timeless. Everything that the Consort of the Queen should represent in the Monarchy❤️ Now contrast that to his son's portrait😏 KC's portrait is the perfect illustration of what happens when your focus is on modernising the Monarchy instead of upholding the Traditions: It results in its instability and its death☕️

England’s best cheese?

@JennyMummey @Bobmack80533544 He was bonkers, poor chap

Yesterday, a man kicked Moobear in the face as she went up to say hello as he sat on a bench. She yelped. Thankfully, she is physically ok. But we are both just a little bit less in love with things today

@OliLondonTV What a schmuck

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe speaks out about his fallout with JK Rowling over her comments on transgenderism. Radcliffe, who has made an estimated, $110 million thanks to Rowling making him the star of her hit movie franchise, has said he doesn’t ‘owe’ anything to the author. “Obviously Harry Potter would not have happened without her, so nothing in my life would have probably happened the way it is without that person. But that doesn't mean that you owe the things you truly believe to someone else for your entire life.” Radcliffe previously fell out with Rowling over her support for women’s rights and opposition to biological men gaining access to women’s spaces. The Harry Potter star previously claimed “Transgender women are women. Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and goes against all advice given by professional health care associations who have far more expertise on this subject matter than either Jo or I.” Source: The Atlantic

@OliLondonTV Rowling is right. Radcliffe is wrong.

@MoutonIsAClaret No frost?

Blue skies at the vineyard. Good morning!

BREAKING: Republican Liz Cheney on Trump’s apparent nomination as Nikki Haley drops out of GOP primary : “The GOP has chosen. They will nominate a man who attempted to overturn an election and seize power. We have eight months to save our republic & ensure Donald Trump is never anywhere near the Oval Office again.”

@Jay_Deee_ @Gerashchenko_en Semi?

In Moscow, people bring flowers in memory of Navalny to the Wall of Grief - a monument to the victims of political repressions. Police are supervising. Similar situations in other Russian cities. Russian Telegram channels reported that in some cities, people were detained or told to go away.

@HRHPWales Wow!

The Princess of Wales outside St George’s Chapel to attend the Order of the Garter last year 🤍

@Canellelabelle Quite

"Queen Camilla has been seen visiting King Charles everyday but Prince William has only been seen once; He must not care!"😏 No what we have here, that I find quite interesting, is the sharp contrast between the Present of the Monarchy and the Future of the Monarchy; and the contrast between the Couples in regards to how they handle the media scrutiny, when it comes to their private lives🔥 There is an openness coming from KC and QC: They announced the medical diagnosis ahead of time, gave daily updates on the King prior and after surgery. Camilla is also seen visibly, visiting her husband, smiling to the Cameras and waving to well wishers. It shows a departure toward modernity from the Prior reign, Queen Elizabeth II❤️ As a sharp contrast, The Prince and Princess of Wales have kept the medical diagnostic private; kept everything under wrap until the surgery was sucessfully done and posted ONE main message explaining the next few days and months and mentioning that they will give updates if there was anything noteworthy🔥 Since then, we saw Prince William ONCE driving away from visiting her; We never saw him arriving, and mind you, when we saw him, he was driving from the back entrance. He never used the front entrance. Yet, Rebecca English who met him inside the hospital, confirmed on palace confidential that he has been visiting regularly but the press has agreed, for the privacy of the other patients and the Princess, to give them privacy🔥 I think this is a very interesting Contrast that show the difference between the Present and future Reigns: Indeed, King charles and Prince William have very different personalities. KC was always more comfortable and open with the press as opposed to his mother, HMTQ who never gave an interview in 70 years of reign, was quite stoic in public and very private about her family life❤️ So, It has been a pleasant "Deja vu" experience to observe William display that same very old school stiff upper lip stoicism despite being younger and from a different generation. In fact, the Public is entitled to know about his public life but when it comes to his private life, William gives zero access to it🔥 The way information has been tighly and well controlled from his office during those 2 weeks, giving absolutely nothing away about Catherine or his whereabouts, unless it is a "need to know" basis, makes me have high hope for the Future of the Monarchy🤩 I was afraid we would have an overly modernised Monarchy, losing some of the grace and dignity; glamour yet demureness that filled the Elizabethan age. But William is actually quite old school in his modern way; Quite traditional in his desire to modernise the Future of the monarchy🔥 And that Dignified steadiness and Calm maturity has been quite reassuring to witness these past 2 weeks. Depending on your natural preference and personality, one might prefer KC and QC more open and modern style or W&C more Private and Traditional style. As an Elizabethan Royalist, I am leaning strongly toward the traditional Stiff upper lip style that the Wales have. I love the mystique and dignified calm they exude and their very private stance😍I see self assurance, steadiness and a couple in full control of their environement; and I admire that. As Jamie Lowther Pinkerton aptly said: "The Monarchy has always changed, it's always evolved; Each generation will do things slightly differently, there will be lots of common themes. That's why it's an Evolution not a Revolution."❤️☕️

@ozclarke Multiples chapeaux, Cher Oz. Et la chemise, c’est tres agriculteur, n’est ce pas?

Proudly receiving my Officier Gong from the Ambassador at the stunning French Residence in Kensington Palace Gardens. And, of course, ace ultra-French patisserie canapés and very tasty Mumm Champagne. The Entente Cordiale is 120 years old this year. Long may it continue

Drinking fountain in Marlon’s Road, Kensington

My sisters’s debut (she’s 91) is zooming up the charts.

@PhilipReedman @Dutch_G Thanks Philip. I’d almost forgotten it.

#WinebookoftheWeek ⁦I feel that the pop-up wine book selection is a bit thin on the shelves. But this one will have you racing to your #Abebooks account. A joy. A classic. ⁦@Dutch_G⁩ ⁦@littlestjames⁩

@Will_Lyons The food too by the look of it.

Happy New Year! Anyone contemplating a #DryJanuary? Not my style, but like most of us I’ll be easing off the alcohol. A little…

The Feast of Stephen

Glorious. Like a 6 putts Tokaji Aszu. Thanks to crass German wine laws never to be seen again.

@spskelton And will the prices come down?

Chapel Down averaged just over 5 tonnes per acre (12.5 t-ha) from 750 acres. Quite an amazing yield across this amount of land. Looks like we are heading for well over 20 million bottles on a national basis.

@adams_mena @Mystifeye Leave the woman alone.

The ONLY person who EVER SAID that Meghan Markle was “better at doing the job than the ones born to it” WAS HARRY! Nobody else ever said anything like that! And I’m certain the only one who gave Harry that idea was MEGHAN MARKLE. She was rude and arrogant EVERYWHERE she went, she complained about not getting paid, while spending hundreds of thousands on her wardrobe… the statement that the Real Royal family was “worried they’d be eclipsed by Harry and Meghan’s popularity” Sounds ridiculously similar as more of Harry’s OBVIOUS DELUSIONAL NONSENSE! When are these two second rate EX-Royals going to realize, THEYVE FAILED? Nobody is interested in working with them, nobody trusts them and nobody cares why they left! Everyone just wishes they’d STOP LYING, stop flooding the media with their propaganda DISINFORMATION, and STOP INTERFERING AND TRYING TO SUBVERT OUR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS! They need to Just go AWAY, everyone is SICK TO DEATH OF THEM BOTH! #HarryAndMeghanAreLyingGrifters #DumbPrinceAndHisStupidWife #UNSUSSEXFUL