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...Richard III? Macbeth? The sly, double-crossing Edmund from King Lear? No, it’s Falstaff, the roguish old knight who hangs out with Prince Hal in east London’s less reputable taverns in Henry IV....
...three-quarters of a century later, even if modest gestures of modernisation have slimmed down the ceremony, the chrism of unction is no longer perfumed with animal effluents — ambergris, musk and civet — and Andrew...
...More Staffordshire potteries are turning out Charles III-themed china....
...An estimated 20mn people in the UK recently had a chance to see the Williams double act when he appeared as both performer and composer at the coronation of King Charles III....
...Sometimes it can lead to grimly amusing situations, such as the Andrew Bailey-chaired FPC voting to buy long-term gilts to calm last year’s chaos even as the Andrew Bailey-chaired MPC was selling them to...
...“You still have the simmering scandals — Prince Andrew, Harry and Meghan....
...“To be just a presence would be fatal,” he wrote in his diary in 1970, after talking with Richard Nixon at the White House....
...The honours list, the first signed off by King Charles III, also includes awards for Melinda Simmons, Britain’s ambassador to Kyiv, and Deborah Bronnert, her counterpart in Moscow....
...Several members of the York family were deeply unhappy at Shakespeare’s depiction of Richard III, which portrayed their beloved leader as a homicidal hunchback when, in fact, he spent most of his life as...
...King Richard III yesterday reached an out-of-court settlement with Elizabeth Woodville, former Queen consort to his brother Edward IV, over her claims that he had murdered three of her sons and her brother...
...He will succeed Andrew Sykes, who has acted as interim chair since March 2022 and will return to his role as senior independent director....
...Andrew Lloyd Webber once saw it in the window of a Chelsea junk shop but his granny wouldn’t lend him the £50 he’d have needed....
...The shocking scandal of Prince Andrew’s association with a convicted sex offender only seemed to throw her fundamental goodness into sharper relief....
...But what really separates it from the usual celebrity-hosted pods is the quirky production, courtesy of Richard Parks III....
...Andrew Jones is the author of The Buildings of Green Park, a book about his wanderings around Mayfair and St....
...White convinced Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta III, brothers he knew from high school, to buy the struggling outfit for $2mn....
...The administration of former President Benigno Aquino III suspended exploration and drilling activities in the disputed sea in 2014 amid tensions with China....
...During the Californian gold rush, there are stories of miners thronging improvised theatres to see Richard III and King Lear, and touring companies at every corner of the frontier....
...King Richard III, very good of you to invite us to the Tower. Getting in is easy, my dear. Getting out is the tricky part. Indeed....
...Tangen gave more insights into his thinking in an interview with the FT’s Richard Milne....
...(iii) Such a property wealth tax would cause a large industry of tax avoidance....
...I looked like Richard III.” But she and Johnson grew up with much in common: close in age (she’s 54, he’s 55), clever and good at languages. Both applied to Oxford....
...I look like Richard III.” Amid such light relief, she had a chastening message for the country of her birth. The US “offered for me opportunities I would never have had in England,” she said....
...Thomas Stanley features prominently in Shakespeare’s Richard III, in which he crowns Henry VII on the battlefield at Bosworth....
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