Hints and tips:
...of the crop harvested by the black-clad nuns who serve at the 150-year-old complex on the Mount of Olives will function as something altogether more exalted: the holy oil that will anoint King Charles III...
...Edward Price is principal at Ergo, a consulting firm, and teaches at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs. Globalisation has failed....
...To be precise, in Westminster Abbey beneath the coronation chair of Edward I, who had brought it to London from Scotland in 1296....
...Edwards is one of the best-known news readers at the BBC, helming its coverage of the UK’s most important state and international events, including Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral and King Charles III’s coronation...
...Edward VII’s crown was set on his head the wrong way round....
...When the two-kilogramme St Edward’s Crown was placed on his head, he closed his eyes sombrely. Queen Camilla braced herself similarly when her own turn came....
...“The Rock Drill” (1913-15); Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies for a Crucifixion” (1962); Auguste Rodin’s “The Kiss” (c1882); destroyed battleships in Pearl Harbor; artworks by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Melvin Edwards...
...edward.luce@ft.com...
...Some of the regalia used during the ceremony link back to the succession of 62 kings and queens of England and then Britain that preceded Charles III over 1,200 years....
...Awarded royal warrants for oysters and seafood by Queen Victoria, Edward VII and Edward VIII, it was sold to Olaf Hambro in 1942 and is still owned by the banking family....
...Also, I pledge to keep watching until Huw Edwards breaks for lunch, or until I can figure out what the BBC has done with Football Focus. So help me God or whatever. Got any more quiche? 3....
...The brown furniture is a mixed bag, but I was taken with a pair of George III satinwood secretaire cabinets with pretty lozenge-shaped glass doors, which at 253cm would show off a tall ceiling to advantage...
...contemporary quotes that Jesse Norman’s The Winding Stair closes: one an extract from the 2019 Supreme Court judgment that declared Boris Johnson’s attempts to prorogue parliament illegal; the other from Charles III...
...“It’s an Edward III gold quarter noble, dating from the 14th century,” French exclaims. “It’s the find of a lifetime.” Jones is beside himself....
...The only Englishmen in Whatmore’s cast of characters, Edward Gibbon and Thomas Paine, both spent the most creative portions of their lives overseas....
...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...
...King Charles III will be crowned with St Edward’s Crown at Westminster Abbey, London on May 6....
...This year will see one of the biggest changes to UK coins for decades take place as King Charles III’s portrait begins to appear on all new UK coins.”...
...Two of our strongest allies, Canada and Australia, are major producers of critical minerals and were recently made eligible for Title III support....
...Hear Hillary Clinton live in conversation with the FT’s US national editor Edward Luce on May 20 at our FTWeekend Festival....
...King Charles III, then Prince of Wales, grins in a carefree way not seen much in the five decades since....
...“The administration is in a very difficult situation . . . it is being perceived as aiding and abetting the humanitarian disaster in Gaza,” says Edward Djerejian, a former US ambassador to Israel under Bill...
...History showed that Britons had remained supportive of the monarchy despite previous royal dramas, he said, citing the seamless coronation of George VI in May 1937 despite the abdication of his brother Edward...
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