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...By early afternoon, Charles III was smiling down at crowds from a Buckingham Palace balcony....
...As first Charles II and then his brother James II embraced Catholicism, the old wounds of religion and politics created yet another revolutionary moment....
...A congregation of more than 2,000, including the UK prime minister and members of the public, gathered at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, for a service of remembrance for Queen Elizabeth II....
...Liz Truss’s government will host the largest gathering of foreign leaders and dignitaries in London for decades, as they arrive in the capital for the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on Monday....
...“May Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II rest in peace and rise in glory.”...
...The UK plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda has polarised British opinion, with the archbishops of Canterbury and York, and 23 bishops, describing the policy as “immoral”....
...When you get to Charles II Street, enjoy the view of John Nash’s flamboyant Theatre Royal (1821). Cut through to Pall Mall, turn left and then right on to Waterloo Place....
...Belgium’s monarch has expressed his “deepest regrets” to the Democratic Republic of Congo for the brutal 23-year rule of his ancestor Leopold II, in a sign of how US antiracism protests have stoked a reckoning...
...I accompanied Charles Moore, the then Daily Telegraph editor, to an emergency meeting of newspaper editors, reading out to them a denunciation from Earl Spencer....
...His gold-coated altar plates are on display in the vestry, including an alms dish made by one of Charles II’s goldsmiths....
...Alessandro Farnese, better known as Pope Paul III, had a son, Pier Luigi, who was accused in 1537 of raping the 24-year-old bishop of Fano....
...“If the mentality of those bishops [who don’t want to face up to the problem with paedophilia] win out then it will be a total catastrophe....
...Representative Rob Bishop, a Republican from Utah, described the ideas behind the proposal as “tantamount to genocide”....
...Sincerely, Jason Furman, professor of practice, Harvard Kennedy School Lawrence Summers, Charles W Eliot University Professor and president emeritus at Harvard University UPDATE – DECEMBER 1: Since we...
...Launched in 1969, the Queen Elizabeth II reflected the fashions of swinging London....
...Mr Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama met Benedict XVI in 2009 on his first trip to Italy, and before him George W Bush met John Paul II in 2001 on the first of several visits to Rome....
...Charles Murray, a conservative academic, has noted how a powerful upper class has separated itself from the rest of society....
...Behind Frescobaldi is a portrait of a grim-faced ancestor, a bishop, he explains. “We’ve had bishops, priests. Never a pope. But there’s still time.”...
...It was acquired by Henry VIII in 1532 but it was Charles II who redesigned it and opened it to the public What you can buy for . . ....
...“John Paul II believed the Church was under attack and there was no room for debate, but Pope Francis is returning to the spirit of Vatican II.”...
...St James’s has been one of London’s grandest areas since Charles II gave permission to his aristocratic mates to build around the royal palace of St James’s in the 17th century....
...The chart below comes from one such paper, by W....
...The Pope met Armenia’s Catholic bishops last week, but avoided using the term genocide in describing the 1915 slaughter — rather calling it “martyrdom and persecution”....
...Wren was already working on the redesign of St Paul’s for Charles II when the fire broke out....
...What A Grade II-listed house that dates from the 17th-century, with eight bedrooms and five bathrooms....
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