Saturday, November 11, 2006

Jane Austen and the Queen!!

Today was remembrance day in England, everyone wearing poppies on their coats. I went on a guided Jane Austen walk from around Buckingham Palace to Covent Garden. Walking back to the tube, I noticed a crowd around Buckingham Palace. Waited a minute or so and the Queen and Prince Philip came out in their car driving to an event for Remembrance Day. Anyways, it was neat to see them on a fluke. Sadly they didn't come out well in my pictures, I was fairly close though.

Car leaving Buckingham Palace
Queen leaving the gate
House where Jane Austen stayed in London, once the home of her brother, now a shop
St. James Church, Austen attended services here and it was designed by Christopher Wren
The publishing house of John Murray, Jane's publisher, also the publisher of Lord Byron
St. Paul's in Covent Garden, designed by Inigo Jones, known as the "actors' church"
Tour guide standing in front of the court dressmakers, you can see Charles' crest at the bottom
Alleyway from the 1700s.
Burlington Arcade
Threatre Royal Haymarket, now showing Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
The back of the Royal Academy of Arts
Leicester Square
Princess Margaret's son's store, "Linley." Nice stuff, really expensive