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Chequers Ring, three-quarter profile The Chequers Ring is one of the few surviving pieces of jewellery worn by Queen Elizabeth I of England. The mother-of-pearl ring, set with gold and rubies, includes a locket with two portraits, one depicting Elizabeth and the other traditionally identified as Elizabeth's mother Anne Boleyn, but possibly her step-mother Catherine Parr.
Chequers (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ k ər z / CHEK-ərz) is the country house of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. A 16th-century manor house in origin, it is near the village of Ellesborough , halfway between Princes Risborough and Wendover in Buckinghamshire , at the foot of the Chiltern Hills , 40 miles (64 km ) north-west of central London .
Anything unsold in England would be custom free. [78] John Dymocke, who had been a soldier and a royal usher, had a licence to import jewels. He discussed patterns drawn on parchment with Kat Ashley and Elizabeth. Elizabeth was interested in a jewel with a large ruby and pearl pendant, and Dymocke claimed she jokingly said the King of Sweden ...
As Chequers places host to a crucial Brexit cabinet meeting, a look back at how British prime ministers repeatedly fell in love with their country home.
In 1016 Cnut the Great, a Dane, was the first to call himself "King of England". In the Norman period "King of the English" remained standard, with occasional use of "King of England" or Rex Anglie. From John's reign onwards all other titles were eschewed in favour of "King" or "Queen of England".
The Chequers public house. Weston-on-the-Green has two public houses: The Chequers [11] controlled by Fuller's Brewery and The Ben Jonson [12] gastropub controlled by Punch Taverns. [13] Weston-on-the-Green also has a village shop and post office called Weston Pantry. [14] The parish has a village hall [15] and a Women's Institute. [16]
Graveley is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England. History ... The Chequers served the village from the 1760s until it burnt down in c1900 ...
Horspath has a village shop and two pubs, the Chequers and the Queen's Head. [17] The Chequers includes a Nepalese restaurant, the Gurkha Kitchen. [18] [19] Oxford Bus Company route 46 links Horspath with Oxford via Cowley and with Great Milton via Littleworth and Wheatley. Buses run hourly, seven days a week, from early morning until after ...