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...In 2015, President Obama expressed a similar sentiment to his guest, Prince Charles, as the Washington press swarmed....
...It was renamed after Rex Whistler, the son of a village builder, in 1953. Large sums were spent on renovating it in 2012....
...The first theatre on the site in 1663 was one of the original “Patent” theatres licensed by King Charles II after the Restoration to put on “spoken drama”, as opposed to the broader comedies, melodramas...
...Charles II and Nell Gwynne are thought to have enjoyed trysts here, though in an early incarnation of the pub. James Thomson, the Scottish poet, is said to have written “Rule Britannia” here....
...Ireland’s most renowned Modernist architect, Michael Scott, built himself Geragh in 1938, a magnificent house in Sandycove outside Dublin....
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...All the now-familiar details are there — the tricorn hat, the Charles II curls, the frock coat and buckles — but the overall effect is strikingly sinister....
...Mr Ben Barka went on to become a critically acclaimed director in his own right and in 1986 the late King Hassan II asked him to become director of the CCM....
...Paul Abberley, chief executive of wealth manager Charles Stanley, bemoans a regulatory shift towards “turning financial services into a utility rather than a business”....
...Launched in 1969, the Queen Elizabeth II reflected the fashions of swinging London....
...“I really doubt the fact that there’s some friction with Prince Charles is going to bother him very much,” he said....
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...English dealer Anthony Woodburn is selling for £65,000 a modestly sized walnut veneered long-case clock, inlaid with panels of floral marquetry from the period of Charles II (c1685)....
...In 1663, with the country delivered from the austerity of Oliver Cromwell’s Puritan rule, Charles II issued permission for the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane to put on plays....
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