Seniors join royal celebration
The Fairydene Retirement Village residents spent many hours cutting pictures from relevant magazines of the Royal Family to add to the exhibition.
FAIRYDENE Retirement Village residents joined in the worldwide celebrations of the coronation of the crowned monarchs, King Charles III and Queen Camilla, of the United Kingdom.
The ceremony was held at Westminster Abbey on Saturday, May 6 with the King becoming the 40th reigning monarch to be crowned there since 1066. Queen Camilla was crowned alongside him before a huge parade back to Buckingham Palace.
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To honour this celebration, the Fairydene’s lounge was beautified with teapots and cups from England, some floating balloons, colourful flower arrangements and pictures of the Royal Family members.
One of the residents, Win Webber-Garnham, said the idea to do an exhibition with the cuttings from old magazines was suggested by Mavis Liebenberg who has been residing in the village for close to 20 years.
“With the village’s history, we thought it would be nice to also do something to commemorate this historical event,” she said.
Originally, the Princess Christian Hospital built in 1899, during the Anglo-Boer War, became a hotel in 1905, and eventually, Fairydene became a retirement village in 1985.
“Many of our residents at Fairydene, and the public at large in KwaZulu-Natal, have family and ancestors of the United Kingdom, and I speak for myself – my Webber family ancestors came from the United Kingdom in 1826 and settled in the Eastern Cape,” she said.
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