The Ugly Duckling mb-code 2502668 The Queen and The Duke

The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh with Prince Charles

View of the crowded entrance to Hyde Park on a Sunday

View of the new Fishmongers' Hall (right)

circa 1935

The Ugly Duckling mb-code 2502668 The Queen and The DukeThe Ugly Duckling, 1873. Britannia and Neptune watch one of the new iron clad ships 'Devastation' leave port. Such ships were armed with giant guns. The First Lord of the Admiralty, George Goschen, had overspent on the 12 ships by some 235,000 over his initial budget of 2 million. Mr Punch was not concerned for, as he said, the ships were so strong that the rest of the world, together, could not produce a force to fight Britain. From Punch, or the