“I have always been so happy here and I love the place.” - King George VI
The Sandringham chapter is currently serving members in the Tampa Bay and Vero Beach Communities. Sandringham is made up of members from both the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts of Florida. Join their members when they meet once a month at various locations. Our meetings feature a new British-style Pub Quiz every month; don’t miss this month’s questions below!
Regent: Margaret Dawe
Vice Regent: {OPEN}
Recording Secretary: Hilary Leonard
Treasurer: Hilary Leonard
Vero Beach Region Acting Regent & Treasurer: Lorely Ridge
Sandringham Recipe Contest
We invite viewers to have fun, and help girls go to college.
Starting in February, the Florida website will post a new Sandringham Chapter Festival Day recipe on the 1st of every month. It will include a short history of the festival’s origins. (Click here to see our recipes!)
On behalf of viewers who make the recipe and send us a picture of it, by the 25th of each month, Sandringham Chapter will donate $1 to our new Recipe Scholarship Fund. At the end of the year we will add the money in this fund to our own annual donation to the national DBE Scholarship Fund.
We chose sharing these recipes as another way to celebrate and share our Commonwealth and British heritage. Enjoy them, make them, and send your pictures of what you made, and, if you choose, a picture of yourself, to Hilary Leonard for posting at hblwbl32@gmail.com.
CHAPTER MEMBERS HAVING SUMMER FUN AT VERO BEACH
Sandringham pub quiz questions and answers
DECEMBER 2025
Were mince pies originally called mincemeat pies because they were mostly meat? A. Yes, primarily a mix of beef, mutton or gam preserved using spices, fat and fruit.
What city in the UK is known as Auld Reekie? A. Edinburgh
Which saint caused the leek to be the Welsh national emblem? A. Saint David (Dewi Sant). He advised Welsh soldiers to wear leeks in their helmets to distinguish them from the Saxons they were fighting in a leek field.
JANUARY 2026
Which British artist made “The Angel of the North?”
Which British city was the most bombed during WWII outside London?
Who said “My mind may be American but my heart is British?”