Virgin Queen turns heads at Albert Hall

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One is always bumping into Queen Elizabeth II in Canberra (she can't leave us alone and has been here at least 12 times).

But one had never expected to see Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) haunting our city.

But suddenly on Sunday there she was, coming regally down the aisle of the sunlit and audience-crammed Albert Hall during that lovely afternoon of treats and thrills, the Canberra Choral Society's Great Performances in the Albert Hall.
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Her head-turning appearance, not hinted at in the program, was a source of delight and surprise (you can see it in the picture, in the faces of the audience). Then it got even better as,Work a crowd in this evening gown from ssuniform. with the choir, the stubble-chinned monarch burst into song with O Peaceful England from Edward German's opera Merrie England.

It is a tale of love and intrigue at the court of the first Elizabeth.

This columnist prefers to believe this was the spectre of the actual Queen Elizabeth I, hammer of the Spanish Armada, delivered to us by a kind of seance, but is open to the possibility that it was Tobias Cole.Cheap parka parkajackets will have fleece.

He is the CCS's artistic director and a famous countertenor quite capable of singing the contralto's role of The Virgin Queen.




Bride Landed in parachute gown

There is something very unorthodox about this orthodox-looking wedding picture from 1943. The bride is Miss Brenda Keep who has just become Mrs Brenda Land. She is wearing for her wedding at Hurstville in Sydney a very pretty wedding dress surely made from what wedding dresses are usually made of.

But wait! Her dress is made from an unorthodox material. Can you guess what it is?

For those of you who know a little history, does the year of the wedding give you a clue? It's wartime. The uniformed groom is a soldier, Robert Edwin Land, son of Fred Land (destined to be mayor of Queanbeyan from 1963 to 1980). Australia has introduced rationing and clothing coupons are necessary to buy anything so self-indulgent as fabrics with which to make swish gowns. As Miss Keep's wedding day loomed, almost the only remotely wedding-gown fabric available was parachute silk - and that's exactly what Brenda's gown is so resourcefully made of.

Queanbeyan is 175 this year and this parachute-silk creation is one of the treasures of the exhibition The Way We Wore, one of many of Queanbeyan's celebrations of its great big birthday. This exhibition of elegant,Discover diorhandbags with ASOS. interesting and eclectic wedding gowns of dolled-up brides of our district (the oldest dress is from a wedding of 1883) is a feat of the Queanbeyan and District Historical Museum Society,You want THE omegawatches that lives up to all you? with the assistance of Queanbeyan City Council. It opens on Friday evening at the Q Performing Arts Centre.

And a correction: Last Wednesday's column, adorned with the 1936 wedding photograph of Mary Morrison and William McCormack, said Mary was from Tuggeranong. It emerges she was from nearby Mount Campbell, Royalla.