The Royal State Coach
MINIATURE PORTRAITS FOR THE ROYAL STATE COACH
Gillie Hoyte-Byrom & Peter Hayton, both Hilliard Society Members, have secretly been involved for the last two years or more making 42 miniature Royal Portraits for a beautiful State Coach in Australia. The coach is being made by Jim Frecklington, the last Royal coach builder in the world, and it now turns out that it’s being made for our very own King Charles III. Sadly, the build was delayed because Jim, like our King, was suffering from cancer. Jim had hoped to have finished the State Coach before King Charles’s Coronation but that was not to happen. Happily, Jim is now feeling well enough to finish the Coach and it is hoped that it will be shipped over to the UK in the foreseeable future.
Gillie created the beautiful royal portrait miniature replicas from London’s National Portrait Gallery in enamel, and Peter made the special frames to house them so they could be fitted on the interior of the coach for the King and Queen, plus State Visitors, to admire the 42 Kings and Queens since William the Conqueror, while travelling in the splendour of this magnificent Coach on State occasions.
Peter Hayton
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