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Travel
Cocos Islands: Australia’s little-known tropical idyll
...The Clunies-Rosses’ high point came when Queen Elizabeth II visited in 1954. They kept their hold tight until the eyes of the UN’s decolonisation programme turned on them....
April 6, 2024
Queen Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II: an appreciation by Simon Schama
...This was not destined to be the case for Elizabeth II....
September 9, 2022
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Queen Elizabeth II
Portraits of the Queen tell a revealing story
...On a freezing cold Sunday in June 2012, the Queen, 86, and Prince Philip, 90, faced another endurance test as they stood for four hours on the royal barge as it processed down the Thames in the Diamond Jubilee...
September 16, 2022
Collecting
Collector Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza on artists being advocates for change
...But Thyssen, now 61, grew up among the riches of Europe’s second-largest private art collection (after Queen Elizabeth II’s)....
November 1, 2019
FT SeriesLondon Culture Guide 2019 — winter edition
New landmarks of literary London
...Once you get tired of eavesdropping, walk up the road to an Afghan BYOB restaurant called Ariana II for a kebab....
June 7, 2019
The Big ReadGeorge Parker
Brexit chaos puts Conservatives on the edge of a breakdown
...Given that the Tory Eurosceptic Jacob Rees-Mogg has already described the white paper as representing “the greatest vassalage since King John paid homage to Philip II at Le Goulet in 1200”, it is hard to...
July 13, 2018
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Travel
Travel discoveries and disappointments of 2018
...There’s fun to be had too in spotting references to Anderson’s films: a precursor to the fictitious painting “Boy with Apple” in The Grand Budapest Hotel (actually a 1602 portrait of Emperor Ferdinand II...
December 14, 2018
Life & Arts
Five canalside properties for sale
...What A seven-bedroom, Grade II-listed villa in a third of an acre beside Regent’s Canal....
September 2, 2016
FT Magazine
What Damien Hirst did next
...In the first or second century AD, a massive ship called the Apistos foundered in these waters, strewing its cargo of artworks assembled by the collector Cif Amotan II, also known as Aulus Calidius Amotan...
March 24, 2017
World
Royal river outing
...The Royal Barge Gloriana leads a procession along the River Thames near Tower Bridge and HMS Belfast to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II becoming Britain’s longest reigning monarch on Wednesday in London...
September 9, 2015
Life & Arts
From lidos to plunge pools: urban swim projects around the world
...King Charles II swam in the river Thames at 5am every day. Benjamin Franklin, a founding father of the US, was also a keen swimmer....
September 5, 2014
Life & Arts
Architects’ tiny triumphs: the small buildings with a big impact
...As the “hut” is in a coastal erosion zone it had to be designed as a temporary structure: it can be slid off the beach, placed on a barge and relocated (though not quite so easily as it appears in the book...
May 2, 2014
beyondbricsJeremy Grant
KKR signs first Malaysia deal as SE Asia opens to PE
...It is the first investment from the KKR “Asian Fund II”, a recently-closed $6bn fund focused on Asia....
October 9, 2013
Special Report
Fast cat with looks
...And the 1980s successor, the XJS, was, looks-wise, a bit of a barge. The company has struggled to find a successor to that early aesthetic glory....
September 19, 2013
ReviewUK politics
Damp crowds line Thames for jubilee
...Just after high tide at 2.45pm an armada of Thames barges, tugs, narrowboats, pleasure cruisers, skiffs and rowboats set off from Albert Bridge....
June 3, 2012
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Life & Arts
Rule the waves
...Although Elizabeth II has the family and consort that her predecessor so conspicuously lacked, her association with Gloriana has had some nautical mileage....
March 23, 2012
Life & Arts
The anti-royalists
...Like thousands of people, they will be spending Sunday afternoon by the Thames as the royal barge leads a flotilla of boats downstream to mark 60 years of Elizabeth II’s reign....
June 2, 2012
Life & Arts
The appeal of court
...The Grade II-listed seven-bedroom Georgian manor is on the market with Knight Frank for a comparatively competitive £6m....
May 18, 2012
FT Magazine
Twelve days in west Africa: Accra to Freetown
...From there, the iron ore is loaded on to football-field-sized barges and floated down the river to a vast South Korean-designed transshipment vessel (you guessed it, The Pride of Marampa) stationed off the...
April 13, 2012
Life & Arts
Forged in myth
...In Act II, as the ensemble floated downriver on a barge, albino corn snakes slithered into the car engine’s cylinders, which Isis then sat atop, pants down, in full view of the audience and a brass band....
September 2, 2011
Climate change
Ports think outside the container
...In Rotterdam, for example, the port authority has outlined the proportion of containers that needs to move by relatively clean barge and rail rather than road at the new Maasvlakte II development, which...
February 4, 2010
ReviewLife & Arts
The best is history
...You feel the mist coming off the river as you take barges between More’s house in Chelsea and the Palace of Whitehall....
August 13, 2010
Life & Arts
Cruising down the Nile
...When I was asked to go cruising down the Nile, I thought of Caesar and Cleopatra, floating on their barge a few decades before the birth of Christ, putting the pleasures of love before political duty....
February 21, 2009
Life & Arts
Turmoil and Tranquility, National Maritime Museum
...Displayed in the Queen’s House, where Willem van de Velde and his son both painted naval pictures for Charles II on an annual salary of £100 each, it adds up to a rousing experience....
August 21, 2008
House & Home
The days of coal seem so far away
...Music from the hall eddies into a bay where sleek yachts rather than rusted coal barges are becoming the norm....
April 28, 2006

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