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...In a Cinderella-blue colour, with a deep V neckline, the look called back to the Prada gown Nyong’o wore when she took home the Best Actress award a decade ago....
...Such is the demand for Knatchbull’s made-to-measure suits, whose fans include Lauren Hutton, Elizabeth Hurley and Gillian Anderson, that she’s not only expanded her team from three employees to 20 and moved...
...It’s become one of those things, like Queen Elizabeth II and Greggs sausage rolls, that no one dares to speak ill of. But personally, I’m starting to shout at the TV....
...Proposals such as those championed by Senator Elizabeth Warren for a tax on the value of assets, and the Biden administration’s so-called billionaire’s tax on unrealised capital gains, “will be blessed or...
...True to form, the journey hasn’t been without colour: it involves a dead bulldog, Christmas with Elizabeth Hurley and smoking the burned secretions of a rare Mexican-desert-dwelling toad....
...Artists featured include Angelica Kauffman, Elizabeth Butler and Laura Knight....
...On the other side of town in Barlaston, Kate Turner, chief curator at the V&A Wedgwood Collection, has retrieved a leather-bound ceramic pattern book from the company’s archives....
...the piece is reset with the Cullinan III, IV and V diamonds from Queen Elizabeth II’s jewellery collection....
...a generation, drew to a close last December, it’s not just people who will have been grateful to Elizabeth Maruma Mrema....
...The Elizabeth Line is as impressive a piece of 21st-century transport infrastructure as any in the world, but Camden Town’s Northern Line station patently is not....
...Tim Reeve, V&A deputy director, said that, while the museum had benefited from record-high domestic visitor numbers, a drop-off in international visitors had held back demand....
...Germany’s top woman grandmaster, Elizabeth Paehtz, had two contrasting episodes at the start of Munich....
...Her father, known as Bertie in the family, was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. His elder brother, David, was expected to become king....
...In contrast, George V and George VI died in winter: some of the 305,000 who saw the latter lying in state had to put up with light snow....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...Known as Bertie in the family, he was the second son of King George V and expected his elder brother, known as David to the family, to become king....
...This is the latest chapter in a decades-old decolonisation effort that saw George V removed from his pedestal in the 1960s, when the opposition Congress party was in power....
...By the time they reached the actual show, held in the colonnade of the British Museum on the eve of Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral, those veils assumed an elegiac air....
...He was speaking from St George’s Chapel, Windsor, where his mother, Elizabeth II, was buried in the autumn and where his father, the late Duke of Edinburgh — who died in 2021 — was also laid to rest....
...The monument replaced a statue of King George V, the Queen’s grandfather....
...Looking at social media right now, one is struck by just how ingrained Elizabeth II was as a general presence in our lives....
...In the BBC interview he cited the Shakespeare plays Henry IV and V and the changes in the young King Henry V as he becomes monarch....
...While following his father George V’s coffin in procession, Edward VIII recalled seeing “a flash of light dancing along the pavement”....
...In Windsor, the town west of London where the late Queen Elizabeth lived for most of the year, the streets have been filling ahead of the committal service due to start at 4pm....
...Liz Truss’s government will host the largest gathering of foreign leaders and dignitaries in London for decades, as they arrive in the capital for the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on Monday....
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