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...Riffing on the so-called Iron Lady’s famous response to proposals on European integration, Victoria Atkins, the health secretary, told Sky News: “I suspect the great lady herself would view a man who is...
...Victoria’s death in 1901 provides a neat closing point to the age of ceremonious endings....
...May 24 to 26; further information here Performance ‘Tosca’, Margaret Court Arena An epic staging of Puccini’s political thriller by the UK’s Opera North, with sopranos Nadine Benjamin and Karah Son sharing...
...And on the opening evening (11 August), a free performance of an experimental opera-film called History Of The Present by Maria Fusco and Margaret Salmon is taking place at The Queen’s Hall....
...During the war years she and her sister Margaret were housed in Windsor Castle....
...I’ve only ever read four books: The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C Douglas and Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. And now this....
...The consensus view that a smaller state and lower taxes are good, which rose to prominence in the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher in the UK and Ronald Reagan in the US, is starting to crumble....
...The Wren Coffee at St Nicholas Cole Abbey 114 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4BJ Good for: Ambience and a quiet space to work Not so good for: Thursday lunch meetings....
...“It’s still a bit of a hidden gem compared to regions like Yarra Valley, Margaret River and the Barossa.”...
...Bidding closes 24 June Novels marked-up by their own authorsChristie’s, London Fancy owning an “extensively” annotated first edition of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale?...
...Deciding to take evening classes in ceramics took her in a new direction, and today she crafts wheel-thrown wares, making limited-edition jugs and lamp bases for Margaret Howell’s stores, as well as expanding...
...Yet Princess Elizabeth and her sister Margaret, who arrived in 1930, attracted great attention from the outset....
...He had three children with his second wife, Victoria Schott, to whom he was married from 1973 to 2000, after which he married Lynn Forester, who has two children by a previous marriage....
...If she differed over policy with prime ministers — she was said to dislike Margaret Thatcher’s opposition to sanctions on apartheid-era South Africa — she did not betray confidences....
...Right from the outset Princess Elizabeth and her sister Princess Margaret attracted great attention....
...For off the peg, I recommend Joseph, Theory, Stella McCartney, Victoria Beckham, Cefinn and, on the high street, Arket....
...Margaret’s rag rug Two Cats by the Fire (c1923) was laid in front of the kitchen range in the Nicholsons’ home....
...Children like stories about cannibalism, as Margaret Atwood once noted....
...The AFL Grand Final and the Melbourne Cup horse race even get their own public holidays in the state of Victoria, so joining in these sporting festivals is a special part of the Australian experience....
...The 2026 event will be across the Australian state of Victoria, while the longer-term dream is a pan-Caribbean or pan-African Games....
...She was queen during the Suez crisis, during the Vietnam war, for Margaret Thatcher’s years in office and on and on over the decades....
...He says he resorted to spending one night sleeping rough in London’s Victoria train station after his landlord did not extend his stay at a hotel....
...She often visited with the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, her granddaughters....
...But even Queen Victoria had challenges in all those departments....
...See Equipment’s simple silk version (£255, farfetch.com) or Victoria Beckham’s wrap front style (£540, farfetch.com)....
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