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...“His legitimacy was a bit dodgy because he had deposed Richard II,” she said. “This was him saying: look I have been anointed, I am now your legitimate king, and this is a sign of God’s approval.”...
...“In terms of the royal fish prerogative,” White says, “this goes back to Edward II in 1322, and a statute that dictates, ‘the King shall have . . . throughout the realm, whales and great sturgeons taken...
...These range from oils of Charles II’s mistress to Grand Tour collectables to troves of 18th-century porcelain....
...Charles II’s immense orchestration of magnificence in 1661 was the ceremonial and festive rejection of regicide Puritanism and perhaps of Cromwell’s presumption in seating himself in St Edward’s Chair for...
...While Queen she bore two more, with Andrew arriving in 1960 and Edward in 1964....
...II (who gave it to his rumoured lover, Piers Gaveston); the Black Prince (father of Richard II); and Lord Williams of Thame, who built the current house on the medieval site....
...And while Queen she had two more children, Princes Andrew and Edward....
...This week, to mark her platinum jubilee, Queen Elizabeth II gave a tell-all TV interview....
...Prince Charles Edward Stuart, aka the Young Pretender, aka Bonnie Prince Charlie, landed in July 1745 at Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides, hoping to win back the crown his grandfather James II of England and...
...13 (Matthew Brettingham, 1735-7); No 11 (Robert Adam); No 5 (Matthew Brettingham, 1748-9, stone-faced in 1854-6); and No 4, The “In and Out” (Naval and Military) Club (Edward Shepherd, 1726-8)....
...The charismatic Prince Charles Edward Stuart, also just 25, was the grandson and heir of James II. Charles had rallied mainly Catholic Highland clans in the summer of 1745 after landing from France....
...The auction record for Wiley, for instance, was broken in June, when “Le Roi à la Chasse II” sold for $350,000 with fees at Sotheby’s New York....
...Edward VII loathed how it had ruined his view across the gardens at Buckingham Palace....
...But when the right rental property became available in York in May, civil engineer James Simmons knew he had to go for it....
...This is what happened in 1979 when James Callaghan, then Labour prime minister, lost a vote of no confidence....
...writes Edward Luce in the FT’s Swamp Notes newsletter. Sign up here for our twice weekly briefing on money and power in Trump’s America....
...The question at hand will be whether US-based Edward Bramson should be given a seat on the company’s board....
...But as James Pickford reports, Kensington is still where the UK’s wealthiest people live. Selling? Judith Evans explains how to value a super-prime home....
...On Monday it is due to announce it has hired James Laing, head of corporate governance at Standard Life Aberdeen. Mr Laing will be co-head of shareholder engagement alongside Alice Squires....
...‘Reigning Queens: Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, 1985’ — The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc / Licensed by DACS, London Edward Luce is the FT’s US national editor Follow @FTProperty...
...II of England, an event celebrated every July 12 by Protestant marching bands in Northern Ireland....
...One thing to start: Activist Edward Bramson’s campaign to secure a board seat at Barclays was defeated. In fact, he was thumped. More here....
...James Hogg, author of the classic novel of twisted religion The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, asked John Murray II to find him a wife; Byron asked him to collect from the London...
...Queen Mary visits her son the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) after he has charmingly had her portrait framed in the panelling of his house at St James’s Palace....
...Robert the Bruce’s computerised humiliation of Edward II’s troops in 1314 is now a rite of passage for most young Scots....
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