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...The collection signals a thematic shift for the state-owned company, which has supplied the nation’s coins since the reign of King Alfred the Great more than 1,100 years ago....
...King Charles III will appear for the first time on coins as part of a memorial collection that will include a 50p released into general circulation in the UK before Christmas....
...Richard of Cornwall was so enthralled by the story he swapped three of his manors for the otherwise unprepossessing site, but its appeal has endured — drawing visitors including Alfred Tennyson, Charles...
...Look carefully and you can spot shadows from Shakespeare (Hamlet, Macbeth, Richard III); Ubu even exits pursued by a bear (albeit a short-sighted one)....
...An early photogravure of Alfred Stieglitz’s 1907 “The Steerage”, an image much praised by Picasso, also looks set to attract high bids....
...Prince Philip, 90 next month, undertook 308 functions and Prince Charles, who is old enough for his free bus pass, no fewer than 499....
...The Hugos fled the tyrannical regime of Napoleon III in 1851, and having arrived in Jersey, set about holding seances....
...ART Compiled by Jackie Wullschlager Klimt Edited by Alfred Weidinger Prestel £89, 320 pages FT bookshop price: £71.20 Klimt, painter of gilt-layered excess, has found his monument in this lavish, cased...
...WHY ALFRED BURNED THE CAKES: 1,100 Years of Myth and History by David Horspool Profile ₤15.99, 256 pages Another schoolroom story given the full treatment, restoring Alfred’s claim to the title “great”...
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