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...In contrast to King Charles’s decision to undergo the anointment behind a screen, King Henry IV chose to be anointed visibly in 1399 to underscore his status as a divinely approved monarch, after usurping...
...If you like a good tear-jerker — and Victorian readers certainly did — nothing surpasses the heart-rending and carefully heralded death of young Paul in Charles Dickens’ seventh novel, Dombey and Son....
...Subsequent private owners include the banker and book collector Henry Huth, who bought the work in 1853 and in whose family it remained until 1950....
...Five pageants punctuated the day-long procession: one which emphasised her as a peacemaker descending from the union of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York that had ended the Wars of the Roses; another which...
...“Sales were enormous,” says managing director Henry Deakin. “We built part of the factory [in Birmingham] on the back of it.”...
...Aged 73, Charles is also the oldest person to assume the throne, surpassing William IV, who became king aged 64 in 1830. His life has tracked the evolution of the monarchy itself....
...Not bad for a very urban sky 😍 *This story has been updated to correct the quote from Henry IV Part II...
...In the BBC interview he cited the Shakespeare plays Henry IV and V and the changes in the young King Henry V as he becomes monarch....
...(I had to look them up: they are George IV and generals Charles Napier and Henry Havelock, who both served in India.)...
...York House (as it was first called) was designed by Benjamin Dean Wyatt and Philip Wyatt for George IV’s brother, the Duke of York....
...The ambitious absolutists Henry VIII and Charles I had enticed Holbein and Van Dyck from Europe....
...Meanwhile, Edward IV was enjoying his new status....
...He even cited Henry IV, Part II — the Shakespeare play in which Prince Hal gives up roister-doistering when he takes the throne — in support of this conviction....
...Prince Charles cited Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part Two — a text more relevant to him than to anyone else. In the play, feckless heir Hal is crowned Henry V and ditches his friends....
...He painted the new Stuart king as well as his sickly son Charles, Duke of York, in 1611 — a poignant image of the shy younger brother of the heir apparent Henry, Prince of Wales....
...The two mortal adversaries of the Wars of the Roses, Henry VI and Edward IV, were both entombed there, as were Henry VIII and the remains of the beheaded Charles I....
...These were mostly destroyed in the early 1800s by George IV, but someone thought to preserve Verrio’s portrait head of Charles....
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...Helped, no doubt, by his friendship with eminent Whig politician Charles James Fox, Nash came to the attention of George, Prince of Wales....
...Conversely, when the balance of power shifts to Henry Bolingbroke, later Henry IV, and Richard becomes first depressed then deposed, the bitter regretfulness of his introspection is just as plausible in...
...But, as Dominic Dromgoole, whose new production of Henry IV, Parts One and Two, has just come to the Globe, may have discovered, the Scottish Play is a cakewalk compared with the Henrys....
...Only three monarchs in English history have been passionate, enlightened connoisseurs of visual art – Henry VIII, Charles I and George IV....
...It is said that the director Alexander Korda hit on the idea of The Private Life of Henry VIII, his blockbustingly successful 1933 film starring Charles Laughton, while sitting in a London taxi and hearing...
...In medieval times Edward IV would probably have won a debate with Henry VI, given the latter’s mental instability, but it would not have resolved the Wars of the Roses....
...Current residents include Charles Saatchi, the art dealer, who occupies a house in the square with his wife, TV chef and food writer Nigella Lawson....
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