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...But like his mother, King Charles will not be....
...These range from oils of Charles II’s mistress to Grand Tour collectables to troves of 18th-century porcelain....
...If you like a good tear-jerker — and Victorian readers certainly did — nothing surpasses the heart-rending and carefully heralded death of young Paul in Charles Dickens’ seventh novel, Dombey and Son....
...Surprisingly, William IV felt so strongly in 1831 that the coronation was a ridiculous and expensive anomaly that he let it be known it ought to be done away with....
...Sotheby’s will offer a Diego Velázquez full-length portrait of Isabel de Borbón, queen of Spain and the first wife of Philip IV, for a princely $35mn in New York on February 1 2024....
...The highest is a late-17th century portrait plate of William III in English Delft (£1,400-£1,800); among the lowest is an 1831 jug featuring a portrait of William IV (£30-£50)....
...The writer is a professor of history at Princeton University The coronation of King Charles III this Saturday will involve many things....
...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...
...As Charles Baudelaire put it in his poem L’Invitation au voyage: “There, all is order and beauty/Luxury, tranquillity and delight.”...
...Queen Consort has not commissioned a new crown for the coronation but will use Queen Mary’s Crown, made by Garrard for the consort of King George V in 1911, after the piece is reset with the Cullinan III, IV...
...“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....
...It is, finally, coronation time for the new king, 74-year old Charles III....
...Letter in response to this article: Charles III can offer PM some pharaonic wisdom / From Trevor Lyttleton, London NW11, UK...
...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....
...The deal with Gores Holdings IV valued the mortgage lender at $16bn and made Ishbia a billionaire on paper....
...IV Spring (kidneys)....
...The news came as a surprise to many outside of the business, though an email to staff from Charles Stewart, Sotheby’s chief executive, says that the decision was “planned for some time”....
...Charles Hind is chief curator and curator of drawings at the Royal Institute of British Architects....
...We learn about the stenches that were pervasive in the Buckingham Palace kitchens during George IV’s reign, when raw sewage oozed through the floors....
...Then, they plunged their “hands into the blood of this queen’s grandson” by decapitating Charles I....
...Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, set the tone and his descendants Charles I, Philip II and Philip IV followed in solemnity and in fashion as kings of Spain....
...Yet, in contrast to earlier novels such as Restoration and Music and Silence, where the protagonists’ lives were set against the meticulously described courts of Charles II and Christian IV of Denmark, she...
...After Edward Jenner discovered the vaccine in 1796, Charles IV of Spain sponsored a philanthropic expedition to Spain’s American colonies to eradicate smallpox....
...Charles II maintained the Italianate flavour....
...In his King’s Speech of 1828, George IV went so far as to call Navarino “the untoward event”. Still, the die was cast....
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