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King Charles III
Ancient tradition in a plastic bottle: the oil chosen to anoint King Charles
...“His legitimacy was a bit dodgy because he had deposed Richard II,” she said. “This was him saying: look I have been anointed, I am now your legitimate king, and this is a sign of God’s approval.”...
May 5, 2023
King Charles III
King Charles diagnosed with cancer
...King Charles acceded to the throne in September 2022 at the age of 73 after the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II. He had been heir apparent for a record 70 years....
February 5, 2024
FT Live
Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?
Exclusively for FT subscribers
Wednesday, 8 MayDigital Conference
ReviewBiography and memoir
A Very Private School — Charles Spencer’s privileged but painful education
...“I’ve spent four years trying to break you but I never succeeded,” Porch told one leaver....
March 12, 2024
FT Schools
Charles Goodhart: ‘We’re in for a fiscal crisis down the road and we don’t know how to solve it’
...solve it’ Who is Charles Goodhart?...
December 18, 2023
News in-depthThe Royal Family
Princess Catherine’s photo fiasco highlights royal transparency dilemma
...by her then 73-year-old son and heir Charles III....
March 12, 2024
HTSIThe HTSI wedding special 2024
Recapturing the Castle Raby
...These range from oils of Charles II’s mistress to Grand Tour collectables to troves of 18th-century porcelain....
April 21, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Camilla Cavendish
What ‘Kate-Gate’ tells us about the Faustian royal pact
...Charles I was beheaded in 1649; the House of Hanover was dogged by sex scandals; George III lost his mind and he also lost America, which wasn’t terribly popular....
March 15, 2024
FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
House Museums #61: Château de Rosa Bonheur
...She never married — “I assure you I have never had the time to consider the subject”, she said — and lived with a painter friend, Nathalie Micas. “I wed art....
March 30, 2024
ReviewAlbums
Beyoncé rides into town with the revisionist Western epic Cowboy Carter
...Illustrated by a superb swagger portrait reminiscent of Charles I on horseback, Cowboy Carter is the second part of a projected trilogy telling the story of different music genres....
March 29, 2024
Tristram Hunt
The Palace of Westminster is falling down — and no one will act
...After all those hours of door-knocking and being hounded on social media, I understand why MPs are loath to give it up for a sterile hall in the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre....
March 17, 2024
InterviewVisual Arts
Vivien Duffield: ‘At Tate we never got the garden right’
...It was 1980, and this was the stinging 75 per cent death duties then payable on the charitable foundation of her philanthropist father, Sir Charles Clore; she had lost a complicated wrangle with the tax...
April 13, 2024
UK Budget 2024
Hunt struggles to find Budget goodies as he faces fiscal ‘headlock’
...Sir Charles Walker, a Tory grandee, said many MPs would settle for sound economic governance. “I want a government that is fiscally responsible, first and foremost,” he said....
February 27, 2024
Inside Politics
Why election polls can be completely wrong
...Superficially this is an adventure yarn set in the aftermath of Oliver Cromwell’s death and the restoration of the monarchy under King Charles II....
January 3, 2024
ReviewBiography and memoir
Pure Wit — Margaret Cavendish as protofeminist
...Charles I had made William a marquess two years before the couple married. In 1665, Charles II belatedly made his one-time tutor and valued adviser the first Duke of Newcastle....
October 4, 2023
Travel
William Dalrymple on the trail of Puglia’s ancient kings and castles
...In 1295, nearly 50 years after its protector had passed away, under the rule of Charles II, Dominican inquisitors and preachers were unleashed on Lucera, determined to either convert, enslave or kill the...
February 10, 2024
FT Live
Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
King Charles III
Charles III crowned King on day of ancient ceremony
...In a reminder of Britain’s turbulent religious past, the monarch opened the service with the oath: “I, Charles, do solemnly and sincerely in the presence of God profess, testify and declare that I am a faithful...
May 6, 2023
The Art Market
Nervous start to New York auction season but Picasso sells for $121mn
...“When I bought my first flat in London [in 2015], I wanted to decorate it with African art and couldn’t really find any....
November 9, 2023
House & Home
Coronation ceramics: are they iconic — or ironic?
...I haven’t got George I, but I think I’ve got every monarch after that.”...
April 28, 2023
Labour Party UK
Labour says no longer ‘sneering at business’ and unveils 10 City advisers
...I want to be clear: it’s gone.”...
December 7, 2023
The Weekend Essay
Simon Schama: can Charles III’s coronation speak to modern Britain?
...Charles II “touched for the king’s evil” 23,000 scrofula sufferers between 1660 and 1664 in a marathon exercise of his purported powers of healing....
May 6, 2023
News in-depthKing Charles III
The crowning of King Charles: a new start for the British monarchy?
...“I think it has gone much better than expected. People are much fonder of King Charles III than they were of Prince Charles . . ....
May 4, 2023
ObituaryA.S. Byatt
AS Byatt, novelist, 1936-2023
...In The Virgin in the Garden, a novel set during Britain’s 1953 coronation celebrations for Elizabeth II, the writer AS Byatt introduced readers to two intellectual sisters....
November 18, 2023
UK economy
UK retailers and pubs hope for boost from coronation of King Charles
...Mackenzie added: “By no means do I think it’s going to be a very quick return to normal. I think it’s going to be a little bit of time before things get easier for the customer.”...
May 5, 2023
HTSI
Is Wiltons’ new coronation menu fit for a king?
...But when I heard Wiltons in St James’s was laying on a coronation menu in honour of King Charles – a seven-course meal available for dinner throughout May – I thought this time I could do better....
April 17, 2023
Travel
Key notes: a big hotel launch in the Bavarian capital
...It’s 16 years since Rocco Forte opened The Charles on the edge of the Old Botanical Garden, and 23 since Mandarin Oriental took over the Rafael, a little too close to the Hofbraühaus beer hall....
November 9, 2023

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