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Can you tell we only took nice pictures once the whole trip 😅

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Summer hasn’t started too badly 😅

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25/26 season over and out 🤍 It’s been a season with a lot of ups and some downs, but I know I will be back next season even better. Firstly, I want to say thank you to God because without him I would be nothing, I want to thank every person who has been by my side, seen me grow and helped me to learn this last year and finally I want to say thank you to the fans and my teammates, for always supporting me, there is so much more to come from me and I’m looking forward to showing it.

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@josh.kingg10 & @bea.bircsak goals 💕

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HRH The Princess Royal visited D'Oyly Carte Island on 7th February to support its restoration which brings together the house, gardens and community whilst simultaneously preserving a historic building with such a rich history of British music success and culture.

The visit was to celebrate bringing the island back to life having been empty for 12 years during which time negligence, squatters and vandals did their worst. In the late 1800’s the most prominent music impresario of that century, Richard D’Oyly Carte, created a global business with his wife and partners WS Gilbert & Sir Athur Sullivan. They created their famous comic operas, the popular music of the time, and initially performed them at the Savoy Theatre. Regular visitors to the island included, Gilbert, Sullivan, JM Barry, Oscar Wilde and Whistler, to name a few. The activities at the island are entirely in keeping with what the island was intended for in 1890 and have resulted in a local community enjoying this jewel in Weybridge’s rich crown of history and culture. A further benefit comes when 30 plus people are directly or indirectly employed from the local community which was precisely what the King experienced at Dumfries House.

The plans for the island include an upgrade to D’Oyly’s to facilitate more private events for the local community and the creation of a Red Squirrel sanctuary on the island.

In the 1800’s it was fashionable to have exotic pets, and the D’Oyly Carte’s had a two-foot crocodile on the island, with its own private pond and beautifully crafted entry and exit points allowing the crocodile to effortlessly step into the deeper part of the pond. One of the D’Oyly Carte’ s good friends, and a client, was JM Barrie who wrote Peter Pan. The crocodile featured in Peter Pan was inspired by D’Oyly’s which used to escape from the island, no doubt tempted by the larger river Thames.

The Princess thoroughly enjoyed her visit and everyone she met.

You can read more of the visit along with more photos at www.doylycarteisland.com @bea.bircsak @d.oyly.s @brooklandsradio

Photographer: Andy Newbold.
www.newboldphotography.com/

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bonfire night🍁

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