Hello! Magazine reads Coxley News!
Hello! magazine recently provided an intriguing link between the Netherton Garden Walk and a Royal garden party.
The glossy society magazine used coxleynews.com to trace the copyright owners of a photograph for their 2nd April issue. Netherton residents John and Leona Sellars, whose Golden Jubilee photograph of the Queen and her cousin Lord Harewood featured in the magazine, told Coxley News:
“John and I married in June 1977, which was the year the Queen celebrated her Silver Jubilee. Our Silver wedding was in 2002, the year of Her Majesty’s Golden Jubilee. I contacted the office of the Lord Lieutenant of the county for details of the Queen’s visit. I was informed there was to be a garden party at Harewood House and a few tickets were allocated to each council in the area. I contacted Wakefield Council and asked if there was a chance of two tickets as it was our Silver Wedding. Two weeks before, I received a telephone call to ask if we would like two spare tickets.”
“July 11th 2002 was a glorious sunny day and we enjoyed every moment. While watching the festival parade, John took this photograph; two cousins sharing an intimate moment on a grand occasion. I wrote to Lord Harewood, enclosing a print and received a personally signed letter expressing how delighted he and his wife were to receive the intriguing photograph of himself and the Queen. “
The print sent by Leona, now part of the Harewood archive, is currently on display at Harewood as part of Royal Harewood: Celebrating the Life of the Yorkshire Princess, and Marcus Adams: Royal Photographer. Keen to use the photograph in their feature on the exhibition, Hello! needed permission from the Sellars. An internet search soon took Hello! to the Coxley News website where the Sellars featured as a result of opening their garden for Netherton’s Garden Walk last year. A name plus an address enabled Hello! to contact the couple, who are duly credited in the magazine.
The exhibition runs until June 17th.
In a similar story, the family of Wilfred Ibbotson have been contacted via coxleynews.com by an author from the Netherlands who is researching a book about Castricum, the area in the Netherlands where Wilfred’s plane crashed in 1943 and he was sadly killed. The author found the wedding photo of Wilfred and his wife, Doris, on the Coxley News website and the two parties were put in touch.
We look forward to the forthcoming publication!
In a similar story, the family of Wilfred Ibbotson have been contacted via coxleynews.com by an author from the Netherlands who is researching a book about Castricum, the area in the Netherlands where Wilfred’s plane crashed in 1943 and he was sadly killed. The author found the wedding photo of Wilfred and his wife, Doris, on the Coxley News website and the two parties were put in touch.
We look forward to the forthcoming publication!
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