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...Britten, England’s most feted composer after the success of Peter Grimes, has nine months to complete the opera in time for a gala to celebrate the coronation of Elizabeth II....
...Queen Elizabeth II was only 5ft 3in tall, but she was unmissable in a crowd....
...Francis Drake arrived back from his 1577 circumnavigation of the world with so much loot that Elizabeth I was able to pay off the national debt with her share....
...Letter in response to this article: JPMorgan’s status today has echoes from the Depression / From Frederick L Feldkamp, Boyne City, MI, US...
...laughs Elizabeth Saltzman, Garner’s stylist and a self-confessed “pearls girl”. Why hasn’t the pearl lost its lustre? It’s not all down to the cosmic powers of Harry Styles’s right lobe....
...One transcending constant amid all the turmoil and rancour is Queen Elizabeth....
...When the Kiln Theatre in north London began rehearsals for Moira Buffini’s Handbagged, Queen Elizabeth II was on the throne and Boris Johnson was prime minister....
...were scores of successful female couturiers in the 19th century — Madame Palmyre and Madame Victorine, to name just two — who for the most part were “sort of cast into the shadow by the rise of Charles Frederick...
...Quinlan sought help from Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay, leaving McKillen angry and blindsided....
...Poetry and song lyrics have often fuelled great dance, from Frederick Ashton’s 1937 Wedding Bouquet (Gertrude Stein) to Pam Tanowitz’s sublime Four Quartets (2018), but unfortunately Tuckett’s writing is...
...“My name, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, is meant to honour my grandfather, Shadrach Emmanuel Lee....
...Light relief came in the company of Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron, the sharp pensioner sleuths who make up The Thursday Murder Club....
...Frederick Studemann is the FT’s literary editor; Laura Battle is the FT’s deputy books editor. Poetry selections by Maria Crawford Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Historian Frederick Jackson Turner could have predicted the nation’s confused response to Covid-19 more than a century ago....
...His path through corpse-strewn “visions of hell” leads him into the retinue of the “Winter Queen” — Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of James I....
...Queen Elizabeth II remains a living link to this era, as her recent TV addresses have demonstrated....
...— Marusemi City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert, Bloomsbury Publishing, £6.99 This is a joyful easy read....
...Mr Biden may be losing some support from black women to rival candidate Elizabeth Warren....
...It is accused of taking up space in a historic, Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park rather than creating new amenity space for the city....
...Elizabeth Burch, a professor at the University of Georgia School of Law said: “This is the first shot so everyone is looking at it to see how it goes, what it tells us about future lawsuits....
...Investcorp has added professor Frederick Ma Si-Hang, the former chairman of MTR Corporation, to its advisory board....
...Frederick Studemann FT’s literary editor Singling out one book from the sacks that arrive daily at the FT’s offices is an almost impossible task....
...In a 1998 letter exhibited at the trial, an executive from Noramco wrote to Purdue Pharma — then known as Purdue Frederick — to say that “gaining access to raw materials on a worldwide basis . . . simply...
...As such, the dawn of this new year could also be the dawn of a new age or even century — one marked by anger and confusion, writes Frederick Studemann....
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