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...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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...Queen Isabel II, Alfonso’s grandmother, was forced into exile in 1868 after a conflict known to Spaniards as la Gloriosa, or the Glorious Revolution....
...“It’s becoming quite cosmopolitan,” says Manuel Felipe Gutiérrez, director of the national infrastructure agency ANI....
...“In [international] public opinion and among intellectuals today, the narrative of the separatists has been widely accepted, and Spain has been presented as if [the 16th century king] Felipe II has come...
...“No generation has seen a hurricane like this since San Felipe II in 1928,” Ricardo Rosselló, Puerto Rico’s governor, had warned as the storm approached....
...As full of foreboding is the marvellous blur of light and colour, sickness and health, of “Infante Felipe Próspero” (1659): attended by a lively lapdog, the epileptic new toddler heir, hope of the nation...
...Similarly, Mexico has seen similar waves of popular discontent about corruption and insecurity before, most recently under former president Felipe Calderon....
...We spend a couple of happy days in the city but Madrid was the creation of Felipe II – a Habsburg – whose Austrian-influenced capital was strictly outside the pedagogical remit of the grand holiday plan....
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...John Paul II delivered mass from a podium off to one side....
...That was the view of Felipe Calderón, Mexico’s president earlier this week....
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...Losses for the year to June fell from £66m to £44m and would have been lower but for a £12.6m payment to former Brazilian World Cup-winning manager Luiz Felipe Scolari and three staff following his sacking...
...Phase II includes reducing the first-team squad from 31, including three new signings, to 25 or 26, he said....
...Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, president of Mexico, and Kevin Rudd, prime minister of Australia, get star billing on Thursday morning....
...He spent hundreds of millions of dollars building a giant basilica in his home town of Yamoussoukro, which was consecrated by Pope John Paul II in 1990....
...According to a survey by Parametria, the polling company, 53 per cent of the population believes Felipe Calderón, the centre-right president-elect, has the necessary conditions to govern effectively....
..., whose leftwing Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) gained considerable ground in last month’s presidential and legislative elections – even though Mr López Obrador is still disputing his narrow loss to Felipe...
...Isabel II, the last woman to ascend the Spanish throne in 1833, was forced to defend her reign during a bloody, 43-year civil war against her uncle Carlos, who believed he was the rightful heir....
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