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...His official 1953 Coronation portrait of Elizabeth II was in fact taken at home, according to the royal biographer Robert Hardman, with a fake Abbey backdrop....
...In that sense, his motivating force brings to mind another travel book of recent years: Waypoints by Robert Martineau....
...Evergreens do not have to be green but can offer various colours, says Robert Brett, curator at the RHS garden Hyde Hall in Essex....
...Formal celebrations begin with a procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey....
...A tangle of twisted metal and broken concrete, it had the air of a ruined abbey — trembling shafts of sunlight, aisles of greenery, birdsong in a forest hush....
...However, he criticised 11 developers that had not yet signed: Abbey Developments; Avant; Ballymore; Dandara; Emerson Group’s Jones Homes brand; Galliard Homes; Inland Homes; Lendlease; London Square; Rydon...
...With more strikes in the offing, of course, and a service at Westminster Abbey. David HoyleThe NHS was and still is, a glimpse of the new heaven and the new earth that is promised....
...Robert Armstrong, our Unhedged newsletter columnist, has called it a “slow-burn bank panic”....
...There’s a memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey to William Malcolm Hailey, Lord Hailey of Shahpur: “Mature in youth, youthful in old age. Adorned with grace of wit. Wise, kind, faithful in friendship....
...It’s a coup for the Holburne to have acquired not only Louis’ portrait, on loan from the Royal Collection, but also Woburn Abbey’s portrait of Mary and her second husband by an anonymous English artist....
...Westminster Abbey has been the site of royal coronations since William the Conqueror in 1066....
...The late Queen’s funeral was held partly at Westminster Abbey to allow the attendance of the 2,000-strong congregation that can be accommodated in the cathedral....
...Saturday’s coronation, and the scale of public participation outside Westminster Abbey, will be the first popular marker of King Charles’s reign....
...King Charles III will be crowned with St Edward’s Crown at Westminster Abbey, London on May 6....
...Monday’s state funeral will consist of three separate services — the formal state funeral at Westminster Abbey, a committal service to receive the late Queen’s coffin at St George’s Chapel in Windsor and...
...Robert Mallet-Stevens created a Constructivist aesthetic that blended Modernism and Art Deco to create windows as a striking contrast to his otherwise angular architecture....
...Robert the Bruce’s Great Raid of 1322 pillaged the abbey and the surrounding area; two decades later they were beset by the Black Death....
...The Queen’s state funeral will take place on Monday, September 19 at Westminster Abbey, with around 2,000 dignitaries attending....
...In London this week, standing outside the world premiere of Downton Abbey: A New Era, Julian Fellowes reminisced....
...The precise origins of Holborn, for example, are probably lost to time, though the name was first mentioned in a 10th-century charter granting land here to Westminster Abbey....
...The great Cistercian abbey that visitors glimpse below them was plundered and reduced to a ruin during the 1536-41 dissolution of the monasteries; and that highlights the fact that the trust’s two main purposes...
...Transport for London said five trains an hour would run between Paddington and Abbey Wood on the new line, from Monday to Saturday, subject to final safety checks....
...We dip in and out of the islands’ main attractions: the candy-coloured fishing village of Tobermory on Mull, the iconic Fingal’s Cave on the tiny island of Staffa, and the abbey on Iona, where the seabirds...
...The flowers on the Queen’s coffin for Westminster Abbey were superbly matched, chosen and arranged....
...I’m about to leave to catch a return ferry to Mull when I hear music in a room off the abbey cloister....
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