Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Saturday, 20 September 2025

The Windsor Uniform


The videos and the magazine produced by The Antiqury are always a source of information and pleasure, and I most certainly recommend them.
 
His latest, and suitably topical, video is about the Windsor Uniform which The King, The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Gloucester and Sir Timothy Laurence, as well as some senior courtiers, wore to the state dinner for President and Mrs Trump in Windsor Castle on Wednesday evening.


If readers peruse the comments section on The Antiquary for this post they will find one that I added to the article, in respect of the origins of such distinctive Court Dress in European courts in the time of King George III, and also about a portrait in Oxford of Queen Victoria’s eldest grandson wearing the Windsor Uniform. That particular portrait can be seen in my posts Disturbing images and Kaiser Wilhelm II and his Garter Insignia


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