{"id":1356,"date":"2022-03-02T07:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T07:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2022-01-15T19:15:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T19:15:24","slug":"the-missing-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/02\/the-missing-head\/","title":{"rendered":"The missing head"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"section-ga58841\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e6 section-ga58841 gutentor-element gutentor-element-image\"><div class=\"gutentor-element-image-box\"><div class=\"gutentor-image-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"normal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Robinson-Cleaver-Building-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">On the former Robinson and Cleaver department store building on Donegall Square opposite the City Hall are a series of carved heads set between the 1st and 2nd floor (see red circles).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"section-g450251\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e6 section-g450251 gutentor-element gutentor-element-image\"><div class=\"gutentor-element-image-box\"><div class=\"gutentor-image-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"normal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220115_105051-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">These images were of leading store patrons, celebrities and public figures popular when the store was constructed in the 1880s and included Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and the Emperor and Empress of Germany.<a href=\"#_ftn1\" id=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">If you look carefully, one head is missing. The missing head is of the Victoria, \u00a0German Empress\u00a0and\u00a0Queen of Prussia\u00a0as the wife of\u00a0German Emperor Frederick III.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"section-g2a6492\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e6 section-g2a6492 gutentor-element gutentor-element-image\"><div class=\"gutentor-element-image-box\"><div class=\"gutentor-image-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"normal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220115_105045-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">She was the eldest child of\u00a0Queen Victoria and was created\u00a0Princess Royal\u00a0in 1841 and she became the mother of\u00a0Wilhelm II, German Emperor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"section-gadf0ca\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e6 section-gadf0ca gutentor-element gutentor-element-image\"><div class=\"gutentor-element-image-box\"><div class=\"gutentor-image-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"normal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/330px-Empress_Viktoria_of_Germany_1840-1901.png\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Her image was hacked off by an angry mob at the outbreak of the Great War by an angry mob in a show of anti-German feeling caused by the British declaration of War on Germany in 1914.<a href=\"#_ftn2\" id=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" id=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Mark Patton, <em>Central Belfast, A Historical Gazetteer <\/em>(Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage, 1993), pp.107-108.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" id=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> Lorenzo Racino &amp; Kathy Curran, <em>Secret Belfast&nbsp; <\/em>(Versailles, France: Jonglez Publishing), pp.14-15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the former Robinson and Cleaver department store building on Donegall Square opposite the City Hall are a series of carved heads set between the 1st and 2nd floor (see red circles). 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