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Jonathan Yeo explains: "Primarily a symbol of the beauty and precariousness of nature, it highlights the environmental causes the King has championed most of his life and certainly long before they became a mainstream conversation, but it also serves a compositional purpose, providing a visual contrast to the military steeliness of the uniform and sword. In the context of art history, a butterfly often the symbol of metamorphosis and rebirth, and thus also parallels the King’s transition from Prince to monarch during the period the portrait was created"

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
its still trash

Tac - whats the response from GB on this?

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
that confirms my suspicions

thanks Tac

I still have the photo of myself and HRH Prince Phillip on the wall - a reminder of better days gone by

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Jonathan Yeo explains: "Blah blah, blah. Blahhh-bla.....

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Originally posted by tacfoley:

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
that confirms my suspicions

thanks Tac

I still have the photo of myself and HRH Prince Phillip on the wall - a reminder of better days gone by

A good man, gone. He was Colonel-in-Chief of my bit of the Army - one of the few people who could ever wear a green beret as though he knew how to do it.