The Society has a full and varied programme of activities which take place throughout the year. Details of events are publicised on this page, which is updated regularly.
NOTICES
The Restoration Day Dinner of the Society will take place on Thursday the 27th of May 2010, and will be held at the Royal Air Force Club, 128 Piccadilly, London W1J 7PY. We look forward to celebrating the 350th anniversary of the happy event of the Restoration.
The March newsletter will contain further details together with a booking form. This event is restricted to members of the Society and their guests.
- Public Lecture – Wednesday 20th October 2010
Professor Howard Erskine-Hill, a Vice-President of the Royal Stuart Society and biographer of Alexander Pope, will deliver a lecture on the subject “Alexander Pope's political connections.”
This will take place at 7pm, on Wednesday the 20th of October 2010, and will be held in the Parish Hall of Farm Street Church, which is entered from 114 Mount Street, London W1K 3AH. (Nearest tube stations are Bond Street and Green Park). Refreshments will be available from 6.30 pm.
Non-members are very welcome to attend this lecture and admission is free of charge. There is no need to book in advance, please simply turn up on the evening.
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King
Charles II c. 1665 by J M Wright (National Portrait
Gallery) |
A
scarce pub sign showing the head of King James
II & VII. This is in Southwold, Suffolk |
'Members of the Council of the Royal Stuart Society at the commemoration of the bicentenary of the death of King Henry IX & I (last of the Stuart Kings in direct male line) and pictured in the State Apartments at the Royal Hospital Chelsea in July 2007 beneath a portrait of King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria and their children. From left to right Peter Horrocks, Vice Chairman of the Council, Mrs Richard Hickie, Thomas Fitzpatrick (with the Society's banner), Lord Aylmer, Chairman of the Council, Rafal Heydel-Mankoo, Lumsden of Cushnie and Dr Eveline Cruickshanks'
'The Society's Anglican Chaplain,
the Revd Graeme Napier,
at the statue of King Charles I in Trafalgar Square on
30 January 2007 to remember the martyrdom of the King on
this date in 1649
Mr John Spoore RVM playing
a lament at the King Charles statue on 30 January 2007
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