{"id":281,"date":"2007-02-27T07:25:16","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T07:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/?p=281"},"modified":"2012-06-23T12:00:22","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T05:00:22","slug":"the-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/2007\/02\/the-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image282\" style=\"width: 98px; height: 136px;\" title=\"helen-mirren.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/helen-mirren.jpg\" alt=\"helen-mirren.jpg\" width=\"98\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I watched the Academy Awards and was thrilled when Helen Mirren won for &#8220;The Queen.&#8221; \u00a0I thought she looked great. Loved the gown.<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image283\" style=\"width: 79px; height: 124px;\" title=\"the-queen.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/the-queen.jpg\" alt=\"the-queen.jpg\" width=\"79\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My mom is Canadian and whenever we visited my grandparents in Saskatchewan I saw pictures of the Queen. \u00a0Not the most fashionable of monarchs but I always thought she was beautiful, probably because photos from when she was young remind me of my mom.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image287\" style=\"width: 143px; height: 112px;\" title=\"helen-mirren-2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/helen-mirren-2.jpg\" alt=\"helen-mirren-2.jpg\" width=\"143\" height=\"112\" align=\"left\" \/>Helen Mirren also played Queen Elizabeth I in 2005. \u00a0And if you want to talk about gowns fit for a real queen . . .<\/p>\n<p>Check out Marilee Cody&#8217;s fascinating site with dozen&#8217;s of official portraits of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marileecody.com\/eliz1-images.html\">Queen Elizabeth I<\/a>.\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image288\" style=\"width: 113px; height: 167px;\" title=\"elizabethhardwick.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/elizabethhardwick.jpg\" alt=\"elizabethhardwick.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/> Scroll down the list and see if you can find the gown that inspired the one Helen Mirren is wearing. (I think it is from the Harwick Portrait.)<\/p>\n<p>I love the beautiful patterns, textures and color combinations in these Tudor paintings. There is enough inspiration here to last me a long, long time. God Save the Queen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched the Academy Awards and was thrilled when Helen Mirren won for &#8220;The Queen.&#8221; \u00a0I thought she looked great. Loved the gown. My mom is Canadian and whenever we visited my grandparents in Saskatchewan I saw pictures of the Queen. \u00a0Not the most fashionable of monarchs but I always thought she was beautiful, probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspirations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}