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...Now, the Elizabeth sword, named after the late queen, has become the first new item to be added to the Honours of Scotland — the country’s Crown Jewels — in five centuries....
...“Joan of Arc led men into battle but she never used her sword; she didn’t actually have to use violence,” she says....
...As the first female Lord President of the Council, she carried the sword of state in a custom teal dress by Safiyaa and matching headpiece by Jane Taylor....
...Some of Donoghue’s feminine exchanges bring to mind the novels of Elizabeth Taylor: She scrubs at a few pimples with a mixture of sand and soap....
...Opulently clad in a crimson tunic, the subject of Jan Jansz Mostaert’s “Portrait of an African Man” looks pensively, even imperiously, into the distance, his cream-gloved hands clasping a sword and purse...
...The core of the ritual — oath (originally the “tria precepta”, the three promises); anointing, investiture with ring, sword, sceptre, rod and crown; enthronement — does actually descend from the coronation...
...The invitation had offered a choice of morning dress, lounge suit, day dress or “full ceremonial day dress (NO SWORDS)”. All options were on display....
...This sheet of “approved” contact prints, compiled from sittings in 1942, shows King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother) with the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret against typically Beatonesque...
...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....
...Famous characters make cameo appearances: as a young nobleman, Orlando hobnobs with Elizabeth I and spots Shakespeare sitting at the servants’ dinner table....
...The Decline of Empires in South Asia: How Britain and Russia lost their grip over India, Persia and Afghanistanby Heather A Campbell, Pen and Sword Books £20/$34.95 South Asia was where British and tsarist...
...The hawkish look never changes, but as the self-portraits develop — the full-length nude, skin sagging, posture unsteady, brandishing a brush like a sword, of “Painter Working, Reflection” (1993); frail...
...It’s hanging over them, a sword of Damocles, because they don’t know what’s in this book....
...In 1620, two young English soldiers helped Elizabeth Stuart — Charles I’s sister, the legendary “Winter Queen” of Bohemia — to flee the Catholic armies who ousted her husband from his throne in Prague....
...After the sale, a group of senators, including Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, called on the SEC to improve disclosure rules....
...Miraculously, though, the 13-year-old Elizabeth knew he was The One....
...Anchovy and garlic are Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?...
...“Jewellery was seen as simple portable wealth, or as a beautifier — it was not seen in the same way as a helmet or a sword.”...
...It stands next to the Queen Elizabeth II Country Park, which used to be a spoil heap....
...“You have three people that are leading [Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders],” he said. “I sort of think that those three people are going to take it to the end.”...
...He arrives with nothing but a huge trunk, out of which he pulls props and memorabilia — Gandalf’s sword, Widow Twankey’s headscarf, the complete works of Shakespeare — and his show (directed by Sean Mathias...
...This dual role is monarchical in nature and can be a two-edged sword for any incumbent....
...“Gold farmers” in the developing world gather and resell virtual goods – magic swords, World of Warcraft gold pieces – for real money as a full-time job....
...This year it was the turn of Ron Chernow, Francis Ford Coppola, Jessye Norman, Claudia Rankine and Elizabeth Strout....
...Sir David Attenborough and Elizabeth II were born within three weeks of each other in 1926. And to many in Britain, Attenborough enjoys almost royal status....
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