![]() He is also remaining in contact with the UK prime minister for their regular schedule of one-on-one chats and hopes to add other important meetings to his private diary. A small team of stand-insįor the moment, the King is still carrying out his constitutional duties - the necessary government business that comes daily in red boxes and requires thorough scrutiny. ![]() It's a singular job with pre-determined stand-ins, so health aside, it's surely important to consider what will happen next. While it is wholly inappropriate to engage in wild conjecture about the King's private health matters and the palace has urged reporters not to go down that road, this is the sovereign we are talking about. But statistics tell us that cancer diagnoses have less successful outcomes the older we get and at 75, the King is just five years off the age when survival rates are at their lowest. Of course, everyone wants King Charles III to make a full recovery - even the Australian Republican Movement sent well wishes - and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's comment that the cancer has been "caught early" is very welcome news. Whatever happens next, the consequences are significant in both the short and long term. The registration was later queried on the grounds that the words are too widely used for anyone to own exclusive rights, but the request for cancellation was rejected.While Buckingham Palace trying to play down the King's cancer diagnosis - their opaque version of transparency revealed the health issue, but not the type of cancer nor the required treatment - there is a flaw in the royal "keep calm and carry on" credo. In August 2011 a British-based company registered the slogan as a trademark in Europe and the United States, after failing to obtain registration of the slogan as a trademark in the United Kingdom. The typeface is close to Gill Sans but it is suspected the lettering was actually hand drawn. They were to be ready to send out within 24 hours of the declaration of war. The posters were dispatched across the country, to mixed results: Mass Observation reports from the time suggest the tone of even this milder slogan was regarded as patronising.ĭraft versions of the three posters were completed on 6 July 1939, and were agreed by the home secretary of the day, Samuel Hoare, in August. The key words “Your Courage”, suggested by a civil servant named AP Waterfield, were regarded as potentially the most effective as “a rallying war cry that will bring out the best in every one of us and put us in an offensive mood at once”. The others read “Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution Will Bring Us Victory” and “Freedom Is in Peril. The Keep Calm design was the least popular of a series of three Home Publicity posters, each headed with a representation of the Tudor crown as a symbol of the head of state. The first ministry print run produced almost 2,500,000 copies of Keep Calm and Carry On, but until 2012 – when 20 copies turned up on an episode of the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow – it was believed that only two copies had escaped pulping. Since then the poster has become internationally recognised and is widely associated with a belief in British stoicism and the “stiff upper lip”. After interest from customers, a few reproductions were made and sold. Manley and his wife, Mary, framed it and hung it on the wall behind the cash register. It was discovered 16 years ago at the bottom of a box of old books by Stuart Manley, the owner of Barter Books in Alnwick, Northumberland. The surviving Keep Calm print will go on sale at the fair in Olympia with a price tag of £21,250 at the Manning Fine Art stand. A year later, once Britain had weathered the onslaught of the Blitz, all the printed posters were sent back for pulping and recycling as part of the wider paper salvage drive, due to the shortage of raw materials. The poster was designed by the Ministry of Information in the summer of 1939 to represent a message from the King to his subjects, and it was hoped it would reassure the public and prevent widespread panic.
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