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...The new designs mark the final stage of a transition to a new coinage prompted by the coronation of King Charles this year, which marked the first change in the country’s head of state for 70 years....
...At the moment of the Queen’s passing on Thursday, her eldest son acceded to the throne as King Charles III, head of state of the UK and 14 other Commonwealth countries....
...By mid-afternoon, the mourning had turned to well-wishing, with the arrival of King Charles III’s motorcade. At first, there were just a few shouts of “God Save the King”....
...Sara Germano Tiebreaker: How many heads of state will attend King Charles III’s coronation?...
...Audiences were awed, and the propaganda value of panoramas was soon grasped: Napoleon III commissioned Jean-Charles Langlois’s multi-part turbulent painting of victory and destruction “Sebastopol”, shown...
...(iii) Brexit (see below)."...
...Charles Goodhart, former MPC member It depends which the next government will be....
...Charles Goodhart, former MPC member Yes, between 2.5 per cent and 3 per cent....
...George III was the patron of nine organisations, Victoria 250, George V 500, the present Queen seven or eight hundred and the extended royal family 3,500. And that’s how they spend their time.”...
...Kate Barker, former MPC member: The key worry here is whether the new borrowing is increasing the number of households vulnerable to rising interest rates....
...iii) The weakness of the housing market is well documented....
...Charles Dumas, Lombard Street Research: Unemployment is likely to rise under Plan A, with current QE methodology....
...Straw, the former foreign secretary, said he was “surprised” that the former prime ministers were not invited, particularly given the decision to invite all former prime ministers to the wedding of Prince Charles...
...Banerji goes on to note that Charles’ faces an uphill task to win support: He acknowledged that heir-apparent to the British Crown, Prince Charles, does not “command the same respect” as the Queen and said...
...SMEs is a difficult subject and not easily addressed given; i) SMEs do not raise cash via bonds; ii) the relatively small sums of cash involved to individual firms make it difficult to securitise loans; iii...
...Here are 10 more details about her: – She spent most of her early career working for Business in the Community, a charity backed by Prince Charles – She quit as Tony Blair’s farming minister after four...
...Charles Goodhart, former MPC member: The Govt will stick with Plan A....
...“We are seeking to become a global fund centre,” says Charles Muller, legal expert at the Assocation Luxembourgeoise des Fonds d’Investissement (Alfi).Already pre-eminent in the European cross border market...
...Life Class By Pat Barker Hamish Hamilton £16.99, 249 pages FT bookshop price: £13.59 The Booker-winning author of the “Regeneration” trilogy brings us a titillating love triangle at London’s Slade School...
...Coleman declares oddly that he has consulted none of these tomes apart from the latter (and an early, good but sycophantic joint biography of Olivier and Vivien Leigh by Felix Barker)....
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