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...Sunday’s weather was an improvement on coronation day, providing relief to organisers of street parties and allowing time for soggy bunting to dry out....
...Sainsbury’s has sold 143.3 miles of bunting, which would be enough to stretch from Buckingham Palace to Sheffield....
...People here have plenty of red, white and blue bunting — but it is from last month’s emotional homecoming by President Joe Biden of the US, Ireland’s top foreign investor....
...Paradoxically then, when all the vivats and the Andrew Lloyd Webber, the unction and the orb, the arcane rituals and the street bunting have all faded and been swept away, the mark of whether this king will...
...Embroidered in metallic thread, there were daisy chains and forget-me-nots intertwined with what the release from the palace called “celebratory bunting”....
...It is, finally, coronation time for the new king, 74-year old Charles III....
...However, even as unionists lowered Union flags to half mast and prepared to replace bunting with black ribbons this week, Sinn Féin was urging people to attend a consultation on the future of Ireland on...
...There we were greeted by an inexplicable lack of bunting and ticker tape, just a crooked road sign saying “End” and “Stop”....
...David Quinn has been carpeting floors in Lewes for 41 of Queen Elizabeth’s 70 years on the throne and was first among the Sussex town’s independent shopkeepers to festoon his high street shop window with bunting...
...The damage was done not just by the disastrous mismatch of Charles and Diana....
...At least since Charles de Gaulle with his famous hauteur, France has expected its presidents to incarnate a certain majesty, and those who do not, such as François Hollande — he vowed he would be a “normal...
...Published on December 19 1843, Charles Dickens’s novella instantly struck a chord, selling out by Christmas Eve and sparking three stage adaptations by early February....
...Unfurl the flags, dig out the bunting, the Commonwealth is in town....
...With my hut freshly decorated, I was stopped in the street by a neighbour in twinset and pearls, with clipped tones and a King Charles Cavalier. “Have you seen? On the Walings?...
...He says he is not sure how he will celebrate “independence day” but suspects there will be a party with bunting to which I will be invited....
...Charles Darwin, on his 1832 visit to this part of northern Chile, marvelled that the sun ever shone over “so useless” a land....
...In 2000, Charles Stuckey, former curator at Washington’s National Gallery, noted that MoMA’s and Tate’s rehangs reflected “the pressures of political correctness....
...Strung like bunting on board were commemorative “175” flags. From my cabin amidships on deck 10, I watched seagulls swoop down the Solent. Already the real world seemed remote and unessential to me....
...Both Mr Tosato and Tim Bunting, a general partner of Balderton, are joining the Nutmeg board....
...But Henri Guaino, a Sarkozy confidant and speech writer, noted Charles de Gaulle himself preferred referendums to parliamentary politics....
...During his speech, he listed the UK brands he was wearing: suit by Richard James; shirt from Charles Tyrwhitt; underpants from Marks and Spencer....
...His parents have added to it: the front door is flanked by two imposing columns below a capital, from which hang green boxing-glove balloons and bunting in Nevin’s honour....
...The bunting is up, the pork pies have been ordered and the wellies are ready to be wanged....
...This group, however, was not dealing with last-minute crises about the bunting for the street party, or who was supplying the tea urn....
...flat, damp Woodwalton Fen is a historically important and resonant place because it was the first official nature reserve in Britain; because an enlightened and far-sighted conservationist, the banker Charles...
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