A quick Google finds a fair bit, Section 4 and Section 99 of the Trade Marks Act covers the use of the royal monikers and apparently it gets a mention in the Paris Conventions as wellI very much doubt it. I think that this is the royal household and their craven contacts at the Cabinet Office pulling a fast one and pretending that protocol is law. It’s illegal, because of the “by appointment” nonsense, to pretend that one’s establishment has royal patronage, but I’d very much like to see the legislation that protects dead Windsors, and any evidence that the countless Queen Victoria pubs named since her death had to seek approval.
A quick Google finds a fair bit, Section 4 and Section 99 of the Trade Marks Act covers the use of the royal monikers and apparently it gets a mention in the Paris Conventions as well
Be a useful test to see if she is actually dead, then?Lots of protection for the monarch and for the royal arms, but nothing that applies to the dead. And anyway, a pub name isn’t a trademark.
I object to any memorial being put in a park
Taking public land and giving it over to the royals
Stick any memorial in one of the palaces where only monarchists plonkers can see it
Do you have to pay to enter the park? I don’t believe so?It’s not quite public land - St James Park is crown land, administered by the Royal Parks charity. Restoring it to public ownership will take guillotines.
No, it just needs an act of Parliament. Is there such a thing as "public land"?It’s not quite public land - St James Park is crown land, administered by the Royal Parks charity. Restoring it to public ownership will take guillotines.
Do you have to pay to enter the park? I don’t believe so?
Restoring? When was sjp public land last?It’s not quite public land - St James Park is crown land, administered by the Royal Parks charity. Restoring it to public ownership will take guillotines.
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I am trying to understand the Crown Estate. It seems that is not actually owned by the Monarch. It is a state body, but a kind of parallel state body.The entirety of Regent Street ... half of St James ...
All the shopping centres should put up trademarked statues of their former landlady.
Who said she did nothing for the people? Let the shopping centres be her true memorial(s).
From Wikipedia.
“The Crown Estate has an urban portfolio that “includes the entirety of Regent Street and around half of St James's in London's West End as well as retail property across the UK in locations including Oxford, Exeter, Nottingham, Newcastle, Harlow, and Swansea.”
Look at all these shopping centres that the Crown Estate owns. Blimey.
Shopping centres
- Crowngate Shopping Centre, Worcester.
- Westgate Oxford and Princesshay in Exeter in a 50:50 joint venture with Landsec.
- A 5% share in the Lend Lease Retail Partnership which has an equity interest in the Bluewater Shopping Centre in Kent and Touchwood, Solihull.
Retail parks Cheltenham's Gallagher Retail Park and Warwick's Leamington Shopping Park are owned 50/50 through "The Gibraltar Limited Partnership" with The Hercules Unit Trust, a Jersey-based property unit trust. The estate recently purchased the new Rushden Lakes site in Northamptonshire from its developers.
- Crown Point Shopping Park in Leeds
- MK1 Shopping Park in Milton Keynes
- Silverlink Shopping Park in North Tyneside
- Aintree Shopping Park in Merseyside
- Altrincham Retail Park in Trafford
- Bath Road Shopping Park in Slough
- Ocean Retail Park in Portsmouth
- Queensgate Centre in Harlow
- South Aylesford Retail Park in Maidstone
- Apsley Mills Retail Park in Hemel Hempstead
- Victoria Retail Park in Nottingham
- Morfa Shopping Park in Swansea[81]
- Coliseum Retail Park in Cheshire Oaks, Ellesmere Port has been bought for £81m
Yes, this all needs more investigation.It'd be interesting to see how much of that the Crown Estate owns outright as opposed to holding the lease for the
land the retail sites sit upon. Oxford City Council owns the land the Westgate is built on, indeed they
bought more land to enable the redevelopment to go ahead. Anyway it's a big improvement on the old
Westgate. I don't miss the smell of stale urine wafting out of the old car park in the summer.
I am trying to understand the Crown Estate. It seems that is not actually owned by the Monarch. It is a state body, but a kind of parallel state body.
It's a legal fudge to use public assets to pay for the royals while making it look like they're paying for themselves.
She's met her waterlooYes. Victoria has gone to a better place.
Statue of Queen and Prince Philip unveiled at Antrim Castle
A new bronze statue of the late Queen Elizabeth II was unveiled in Antrim Castle Gardens on Friday.m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
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TBF the queen and prince Philip rarely looked like they were going to move anyway. It's also by a local artist who seems to mainly do chess sets and miniatures. Fuck 'em anyway, they don't deserve better nrt does anyone who cares.Why is that so shit? It looks amateurish in every way. The ancient Greeks had bronze casting down to such a fine art that one would swear some of their statues are about to move (I’m thinking, as I often do, of the Poseidon in Athens museum). Did ‘we’ contract this to a bunch of year 9 kids?
It's so shit because the sculptor had not the skill of phidias. Or maybe because they couldn't be arsed to expend much effort on the royal parasitesWhy is that so shit? It looks amateurish in every way. The ancient Greeks had bronze casting down to such a fine art that one would swear some of their statues are about to move (I’m thinking, as I often do, of the Poseidon in Athens museum). Did ‘we’ contract this to a bunch of year 9 kids?