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Royal Paintbox
''Royal Paintbox'' is a documentary film directed by Margy Kinmonth that follows Charles, Prince of Wales as he reveals the rare and prolific art work of his forebears, many of whom were accomplished amateur artists, and traces his family's love of painting through the generations. Shot in Balmoral Castle, Highgrove House, Eastcote, Windsor Castle, Frogmore House & Osborne House, ''Royal Paintbox'' features art by members of the British royal family down the centuries including some of Charles, Prince of Wales's own watercolours and artist Sarah Armstrong-Jones. Credits ; Contributors * Lady Antonia Fraser * Jane, Lady Roberts * Charles Saumarez Smith * Marina Warner * Jane Ridley Jane Ridley (born 15 May 1953) is an English historian, biographer, author and broadcaster, and Professor of Modern History at the University of Buckingham. Ridley won the Duff Cooper Prize in 2002 for ''The Architect and his Wife'', a biograph ... * Catherine Goodman * Susannah Fiennes * W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margy Kinmonth
Margy Kinmonth is a British film director and producer. Covering a wide range of genres, her award-winning films include feature documentaries '' Revolution: New Art for a New World'', '' Hermitage Revealed'', '' Royal Paintbox'' with King Charles III, '' War Art with Eddie Redmayne'', '' Looking for Lowry'', ''Mariinsky Theatre'', '' The Nutcracker Story'', '' The Secret World of Haute Couture'',''The Strange World of Barry Who?'' and '' Naked Hollywood.'' Kinmonth has received numerous awards for her work, including the BAFTA for Best Documentary Series, the Royal Television Society Arts Award and the Creative Originality Award at the Women in Film and Television Awards. She is the founding director of independent film company Foxtrot Films Ltd. Kinmonth’s most recent project is the feature documentary ''Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War'' (2022), released by Dartmouth Films. This is the first major feature film to be made about Eric Ravilious, artist who was killed in a plane cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Antonia Fraser
Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, (' Pakenham; born 27 August 1932) is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction. She is the widow of the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Harold Pinter (1930–2008), and prior to his death was also known as Lady Antonia Pinter.Mel Gussow"The Lady Is a Writer" '' The New York Times Magazine'', 9 September 1984, Sec. 6, Health: 60, col. 2. Print. The New York Times Company, 9 September 1984; retrieved 8 April 2009.Antonia Fraser"Writer's Rooms: Antonia Fraser" '' Guardian'', Culture: Books, Guardian Media Group, 13 June 2008; retrieved 8 April 2009. (Includes photograph of Antonia Fraser's study.) "In a Frank Interview, the Famed Writer Talks about Motherhood, Catholicism, Her Parents and Soulmate Harold Pinter", ''The Times'', News Corporation, 5 July 2008, 9 April 2009. she and her siblings converted to Catholicism, following the conversions of their parents.Daniel Snowman,"Lady Antonia Fraser" ''History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten Of Burma
Patricia Edwina Victoria Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Lady Brabourne, (née Mountbatten; 14 February 1924 – 13 June 2017) was a British peeress and a third cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. She was the elder daughter of Admiral of the Fleet the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and of heiress Edwina Ashley (a patrilineal descendant of the Earls of Shaftesbury, first ennobled in 1661). She was the elder sister of Lady Pamela Hicks, a first cousin of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and the last surviving baptismal sponsor to King Charles III. Lady Mountbatten succeeded her father when he was assassinated in 1979, as his peerages had been created with special remainder to his daughters and their heirs male. This inheritance accorded her the title of ''countess'' and a seat in the House of Lords, where she remained until 1999, when the House of Lords Act 1999 removed most hereditary peers from the House. Marriage and children On 26 October 1946 she married John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susannah Fiennes
Susannah Hersey Fiennes (born 27 February 1961) is a British artist who has worked extensively with Charles III and is collected in Europe, Asia and America. Biography Fiennes is the daughter of Lord and Lady Saye and Sele, who are the owners of Broughton Castle. Her twin brother is the heir to their father's barony. She is also the cousin of actor Ralph Fiennes. She was educated at Marlborough College and then at the Slade School of Art where she graduated with First Class Honours in 1983. From 1985 to 1987, she taught art and history of art at Dulwich College, London. Subsequently, she ran a private art class in Westminster, London, from 1987 to 1993. In 1994, she had a painting class at the National Portrait Gallery, London. In 1995, she came to national attention when she was recommended by a friend to King Charles, who was at the time Prince of Wales. She became the tour artist with the King in Oman. In 1997 she was again chosen to tour with the King, on this occasi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Goodman
Catherine Anne Goodman LVO (born 1961) is an English artist, and co-founder with King Charles III of the Royal Drawing School. Biography Goodman was born in London in 1961. She studied at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, London from 1979 to 1984, followed by the Royal Academy Schools, London from 1984 to 1987. She won the Royal Academy Gold Medal in 1987, and the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in 2002. Goodman is represented by Marlborough Fine Art , at which she has exhibited since 2004. She has had numerous solo exhibitions including Portraits from Life at the National Portrait Gallery in 2014 and the last house in the world at Marlborough Fine Art London in 2016; in 2019 she exhibited at Hauser & Wirth Somerset following five months as Artist in Residence, and at Marlborough Gallery New York with her solo exhibition, the light gets in. In 2021 Goodman exhibited her latest work "And everything changed' at Marlborough Fine Art In 2019, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Ridley
Jane Ridley (born 15 May 1953) is an English historian, biographer, author and broadcaster, and Professor of Modern History at the University of Buckingham. Ridley won the Duff Cooper Prize in 2002 for ''The Architect and his Wife'', a biography of her great-grandfather Edwin Lutyens. Early life Born in Northumberland in the northeast of England on 15 May 1953, Ridley is the eldest daughter of the former Conservative Cabinet minister Nicholas Ridley (1929–1993) and a granddaughter of Matthew, 3rd Viscount Ridley, by his marriage to Ursula Lutyens. Her father married Clayre Campbell (1927–2015), a daughter of Alistair, 4th Baron Stratheden and Campbell. They had three daughters, Jane (1953), Susanna (1955), and Jessica (1957), and were divorced in 1974. Her great-grandmother Lady Emily Bulwer-Lytton (1874–1964), who dismayed her parents by marrying the architect Lutyens, was a daughter of the Earl of Lytton, Viceroy of India in the 1870s. His parents were the novelists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Warner
Dame Marina Sarah Warner, (born 9 November 1946) is an English historian, mythographer, art critic, novelist and short story writer. She is known for her many non-fiction books relating to feminism and myth. She has written for many publications, including ''The London Review of Books'', the '' New Statesman'', '' Sunday Times'' and ''Vogue''. She has been a visiting professor, given lectures and taught on the faculties of many universities. She resigned from her position as Professor in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex in 2014, sharply criticising moves towards "for-profit business model" universities in the UK, and is now Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London. In 2017 she was elected president of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL), the first time the role has been held by a woman since the founding of the RSL in 1820. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Saumarez Smith
Sir Charles Robert Saumarez Smith (born 28 May 1954) is a British cultural historian specialising in the history of art, design and architecture. He was the Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts in London from 2007 until he stepped down in 2018. He was replaced by Axel Rϋger, who took up the position in 2019. Before, he was director of the National Portrait Gallery from 1994 to 2002 and director of the National Gallery from 2002 to 2007. He has published various articles and books, including ''The Company of Artists:The Origins of the Royal Academy of Arts in London'' and was a judge at the World Architecture Festival 2014 in Singapore and the Young Masters 2014 awards in London. Saumarez Smith was knighted in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours List. Biography Charles Saumarez Smith was born in an old rectory in the Wiltshire village of Redlynch, near Salisbury. The son of William Hanbury Saumarez Smith, a former Indian civil servant and the great-gran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane, Lady Roberts
Priscilla Jane Stephanie, Lady Roberts, ( Low; 4 September 1949 – 29 June 2021), known as simply Jane Roberts, was the Curator of the Print Room at Windsor Castle from 1975 and the Royal Librarian from 2002 until her retirement in July 2013. Background and education Priscilla Jane Stephanie Low was the eldest daughter of Brigadier Toby Low, 1st Baron Aldington and his wife Araminta MacMichael. She was educated at Cranborne Chase School, Westfield College (now part of Queen Mary, University of London), and the Courtauld Institute of Art. Honours Roberts was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) in 1984. She was subsequently promoted to Lieutenant (LVO) in 1995, Commander (CVO) in 2004, and to Dame Commander (DCVO) of the same Order in 2013. In 1995 She received the Queen Elizabeth II Version of the Royal Household Long and Faithful Service Medal for 20 years service to the British Royal Family. She would receive a bar for 10 subsequent years of service in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Armstrong-Jones
Lady Sarah Frances Elizabeth Chatto (née Armstrong-Jones; born 1 May 1964) is the only daughter of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon. She and her brother, David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon, are the only maternal first cousins of King Charles III. She is the youngest grandchild of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. At her birth, she was seventh in line of succession to the British throne; as of September 2022, she is 27th. Early life and education Sarah Armstrong-Jones was born on 1 May 1964 at Kensington Palace in London. She is the second child and only daughter of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon. She was christened in the private chapel at Buckingham Palace on 13 July 1964. Lady Sarah is a godmother to Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Lady Rose Gilman, and Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor. She also has half-siblings on her father's side: Polly Fry (born 1960),Bloxham, Andy (31 M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Jolliffe
Edmund Jolliffe is a British composer of contemporary classical, choral and commercial music. He has written extensively for television and has also written much music for the concert hall. His music is published by Oxford University Press, Stainer and Bell and Banks Music. In 2007 his organ piece "Quiet Rush" was picked as one of the premieres of the year by ''Classical Music Magazine.'' It was also played at the Annual Festival of New Organ Music in 2009. In recent years choral composition has become his main focus: In 2019 he won the 40th Ithaca College Choral Composition Competition and the Freudig Singers Choral Composition. His piece 'Dreaming Figurines' was voted 3rd from 344 in the Progressive Classical Music Award 2019. Jolliffe graduated from Hertford College, Oxford in 1994. He also studied at the Royal College of Music under Academy Award-winner Dario Marianelli. He has also studied at Dartington International Summer School and completed residencies at Banff Center f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
