{"id":17596,"date":"2022-01-05T02:35:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T02:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=17596"},"modified":"2022-01-05T02:35:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T02:35:30","slug":"a-royal-sitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=17596","title":{"rendered":"a Royal sitting&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-0 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Questions raised over secrecy around Queen\u2019s private portrait sitting with artist<\/strong> <strong>from the colonies&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<p><strong>Royal watchers say Buckingham Palace \u2018could have handled it differently\u2019 after the news was leaked to a newspaper<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"767\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Court-Painter-Her-Magesty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Court-Painter-Her-Magesty.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Court-Painter-Her-Magesty-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Court-Painter-Her-Magesty-768x589.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Queen is undertaking \u201clight duties\u201d after an artistic visit for \u201cpreliminary sketches followed by full colour rendering\u201d as Buckingham Palace faced questions over its handling of news of her evening portrait sitting with Court Painter ,the Great Dominion\u2019s preeminent portrait painter of pulchritude and pomp.. The 95-year-old monarch is said be resting at Windsor Castle after undergoing the rigorous sitting , having been advised by doctors to rest for a few days and cancelled a two-day binge of watching Coronation Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boris Johnson commented on the Queen\u2019s condition during a visit to a local disco in west London on Friday: \u201cI think everybody sends Her Majesty our very, very best wishes after an exhausting painting session with the notoriously temperamental Court Painter. \u201cBut I\u2019m given to understand that actually Her Majesty is characteristically back at her desk at Windsor as we speak. But we send her every possible good wish.We love you mum!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That Buckingham Palace confirmed the latest visit and portrait sitting only once the Sun newspaper ran it as a front page exclusive triggering a debate over how the nation learned of it and raising questions over palace transparency when it comes to dealing with visits by colonial celebrity portraitists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Prince-Andrew-Queen-Mum.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Prince-Andrew-Queen-Mum.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Prince-Andrew-Queen-Mum-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Prince-Andrew-Queen-Mum-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Prince Andrew was seen viewing the portrait and sweating profusely!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Prince-Andrew-Queen-Mum-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Prince-Andrew-Queen-Mum-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Prince-Andrew-Queen-Mum-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Prince-Andrew-Queen-Mum-1-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Court Painter could not be reached for comment as he was wandering aimlessly about the colonies seeking new commissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Court-Painter-T-Rex-formal.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Court-Painter-T-Rex-formal.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Court-Painter-T-Rex-formal-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Court-Painter-T-Rex-formal-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions raised over secrecy around Queen\u2019s private portrait sitting with artist from the colonies&nbsp; Royal watchers say Buckingham Palace \u2018could have handled it differently\u2019 after the news was leaked to a newspaper The Queen is undertaking \u201clight duties\u201d after an artistic visit for \u201cpreliminary sketches followed by full colour rendering\u201d as Buckingham Palace faced questions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=17596\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;a Royal sitting&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17596"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30461,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17596\/revisions\/30461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}