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...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...
...Joan Mitchell, who visited France for the first time in 1948 and lived there for decades, also married close study of nature with a roiling interior landscape, channelling views of her garden into lively...
...Palau’s maritime exclusive economic zone covers an area the size of mainland France, and 80 per cent of it has been designated a marine reserve, one of the largest in the world....
...pousada, or inn, where naturalist guides take guests out into the savannah to see its astonishing bird life, and hopefully the maned wolves that are one of the stars of this week’s episode of Planet Earth III...
...I spent my childhood in the south of France, not far from Cannes, bathed in sun and sea. My parents loved art and auctions, and as I was an only child, they dragged me everywhere with them....
...In 2010, the designer picked up a George III carved mahogany bedpost at a Chatsworth House attic sale at Sotheby’s....
...Afterwards, I walk along the Quai Voltaire to cross over to the Right Bank, across Pont Alexandre III....
...A cautionary tale is Emmanuel Macron, who smashed France’s traditional parties but ended up strengthening populism....
...Rosa Bonheur was one of the most acclaimed artists of 19th-century France. “Genius has no sex,” said Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III, bestowing upon her the first female Légion d’Honneur in 1865....
...Even in staunchly republican France, where revolutionaries beheaded their king in 1793, many remain fascinated by the Windsors....
...France said it would “postpone” the highly-symbolic state visit of King Charles III because of the protest movement against president Emmanuel Macron’s pensions reform....
...A quarter of respondents believed the UK would become more competitive relative to Germany, France, Spain and Italy, outweighing the number who thought the opposite, the survey found....
...Berlinde de Bruyckere’s City of Refuge III, textural sculptures of fallen angels, tragic yet redemptive, perfectly suits its setting, San Giorgio Maggiore’s chapel and monastery — a refuge of peace....
...mandates are reintroduced in health facilities in some regions.Upticks in cases have also been reported in Germany, where the public health authority said a flu wave officially began on December 11, and in France...
...I was recently at an event with former Gordon Brown adviser Lord Stewart Wood and was surprised to hear him warn that if Starmer’s majority was on the smaller side, and particularly if his marginal MPs were...
...This puts the UK behind other countries such as Sweden, Denmark, France, Finland and the Netherlands, which now regulate “whole-of-life” carbon emissions....
...Forced from France in 1851 for opposing Napoleon III, Hugo ventured to Brussels and Jersey before settling in Guernsey in 1855....
...France has postponed the highly symbolic state visit by the UK’s King Charles III that was due to begin on Sunday because of the escalating protest movement against President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise...
...retail sales and industrial production figures EU: European Commission economic forecasts for 2024 and 2025 GDP, inflation, debt, deficit, unemployment, current account balance for each member state France...
...I had come to Lisbon, home to the first start-ups in European exploration before the big players — Spain, France, England — muscled in....
...Much will be made of world leaders (somewhat ironically) flying in to attend, including the Pope and King Charles III....
...It’s impossible for me to look at them and not think of the pageantry surrounding the coronation of Charles III, upholding the institution of monarchy through pomp and circumstance....
...Bongo senior amassed a huge portfolio of property in France. A 2007 French police report said the Bongo clan had 39 properties in France, including some exclusive addresses....
...And, on the morning of King Charles III’s coronation last month, Smith and seven other activists were arrested near Trafalgar Square and the Mall as they prepared a protest....
...To put that into perspective, 23mn Brits tuned in to watch England lose to France in last year’s World Cup quarter-finals....
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