I had not seen much or remembered much about Butterflies since my childhood and thought this was a Fritillary of some sort and even identified at as either a Queen of Spain (even the name sounded unlikely) or Silver Washed Fritillary which I did remember from my childhood.
Then I noticed on one photo that the upper rear wings had dark area and none of the Fritillaries had that and I looked at the Copper Butterflies and boom!
Shame it is not a Large Copper, eh?! LOL.
The Large Copper Butterfly is quite a handsome beast but the British sub-species, if it was a sub-species, is extinct and has been for some years, 1851. In fact a re-introduction took place as long as as 1927 and you can read more about this here...
http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/species.php?species=dispar
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