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...Diana (Elizabeth Debicki) exists as a spectral figure in the palace even in the weeks before her death....
...Clive Irving, veteran journalist and author of The Last Queen, a biography that forecast trouble for the House of Windsor following Elizabeth II’s reign, said the family had made a classic mistake....
...She is a distant cousin of the late British queen, Elizabeth II, who was the longest-serving monarch in Europe until her death last year....
...Britten, England’s most feted composer after the success of Peter Grimes, has nine months to complete the opera in time for a gala to celebrate the coronation of Elizabeth II....
...II of England....
...The party argued Sunak’s 2023 Windsor framework deal on post-Brexit trading rules did not go far enough....
...“The thing that gets passed down to us through history,” says the historian John Guy, “is that Mary and Elizabeth were mortal enemies from the beginning because Mary wanted to claim Elizabeth’s throne....
...autocrats still in office — Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and China’s Xi Jinping — and two disgraced corporate leaders, Martin Winterkorn, chief executive of Volkswagen during the Dieselgate scandal, and Elizabeth...
...Having spurned suitors including Philip II of Spain and Francis, Duke of Alençon, heir to the French throne, for many years, Elizabeth’s favourite was Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester — who was already married...
...Macron ably channelled that sense when he recorded a moving message addressed to Britons after Queen Elizabeth II’s death last year....
...In the run-up to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, a question mark hung over who would get to see it....
...As a little girl growing up in Iowa in the 1920s, she was Frances Elizabeth Kent....
...There was lily of the valley, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth II, along with delphinium, which the king is said to love and is also the flower of July, the month in which Queen Camilla was born....
...From the left, his daughter Queen Elizabeth II, his mother Queen Mary, and his widow Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother June 2 1953: Elizabeth II wears St Edward’s Crown and carries the sceptre and rod during...
...The death on September the 8th of Queen Elizabeth II drew the final line under a period on the throne that began as long ago as 1952....
...Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, eldest child of Prince Albert and the former Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, was born in London on April 21 1926, by caesarean section....
...Wedgwood adapted his design in 1953 for the coronation of Elizabeth II, and added a second design, Guyatt’s lion and unicorn, to its range....
...The evolution of the Crown’s reputation in the 70 years of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign was as gradual as the changing shape of the spread’s container....
...In the many tributes since her death, Queen Elizabeth II has been portrayed as the matriarch of the nation, but for us she really did seem like a kindly, if remote, grandmother....
...Queen Elizabeth II often wore the gems as brooches....
...Queen Elizabeth II has completed the journey to her final resting place at Windsor after a momentous state funeral at Westminster Abbey, as world leaders joined Britons in mourning the country’s longest-serving...
...Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born in London on April the 21st 1926. The eldest child of the former Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and Prince Albert....
...Just two days before her death, Queen Elizabeth II was photographed at Balmoral Castle in what would be her last official engagement....
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