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...But like his mother, King Charles will not be....
...The Nevilles were a very powerful northern family” – Cecily Neville was the mother of two kings of England, Edward IV and Richard III – “and being so far away from the centres of power, to some degree they...
...Charles II’s immense orchestration of magnificence in 1661 was the ceremonial and festive rejection of regicide Puritanism and perhaps of Cromwell’s presumption in seating himself in St Edward’s Chair for...
...Forced to borrow from the moneylenders of Brussels, for instance, King Edward III of England had to give his crown as security, whereas Charles IV, the Holy Roman Emperor and King of the Germans, was forced...
...“If looked after, Shadows go on forever,” adds Ghost Motors owner Charles Baseley, who was an engineer at Rolls-Royce’s London base in the ’60s and ’70s....
...King Charles III will be crowned with St Edward’s Crown at Westminster Abbey, London on May 6....
...IV Spring (kidneys)....
...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....
...After Edward Jenner discovered the vaccine in 1796, Charles IV of Spain sponsored a philanthropic expedition to Spain’s American colonies to eradicate smallpox....
...Hollis, author of previous books on London, is brilliant at conveying the ambiguous story of Mary’s second, spurious marriage to the scapegrace bounder Edward Fenwick....
...(I had to look them up: they are George IV and generals Charles Napier and Henry Havelock, who both served in India.)...
...Look to Charles Edwards Antiques for ideas: I love its lanterns called Walpole, Pentagonal Whitehall and Pineapple....
...The equestrian statue of Charles I standing at the top of Whitehall was made for the private garden of the Lord High Treasurer....
...Edward VII loathed how it had ruined his view across the gardens at Buckingham Palace....
...Meanwhile, Edward IV was enjoying his new status....
...In 2006, the political scientists Charles Taber and Milton Lodge looked at motivated reasoning about gun control and affirmative action....
...A few short miles from Gehry’s extension is the Pacific Palisades house of Charles and Ray Eames (1949)....
...One suspect bank to go bankrupt was Lincoln Savings and Loan, led by Charles Keating, an Arizonan financier and old friend....
...These were mostly destroyed in the early 1800s by George IV, but someone thought to preserve Verrio’s portrait head of Charles....
...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....
...“Subsidies and the regulation that goes with them restrict efficient farming,” says Edward Deeley....
...He tells us much about this evolving toy box, and the antiquarian trinkets it was stuffed with — Cardinal Wolsey’s hat, portrait miniatures, and hair cut from the corpse of Edward IV. Was Walpole gay?...
...In fact, director Simon Godwin prefaces Shakespeare’s opening with a prologue in which the young Richard is crowned, before the boy actor in question is succeeded by Charles Edwards....
...Where better to start than in Lincoln’s Inn Fields?...
...Reviewing the book for the FT, Charles Clover said it was a “must-read for anyone hoping to navigate China’s new economy”....
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