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...The brown furniture is a mixed bag, but I was taken with a pair of George III satinwood secretaire cabinets with pretty lozenge-shaped glass doors, which at 253cm would show off a tall ceiling to advantage...
...These anxieties stemmed in large part from a series of big and contentious events: the advent in 1760 of a new, problematic monarch, George III; the costs of British success in the Seven Years war (1756-...
...Her jailer, George Talbot, the sixth Earl of Shrewsbury, was by her side, along with his guards....
...It was at one of the fairs that she encountered George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton, a benign svengali with a very useful address book....
...Mai, his real name, travelled with Captain Cook on HMS Adventure to London in 1774 and became an instant celebrity, meeting King George III, attending the State Opening of Parliament and touring the country...
...He was soon presented to King George III at Kew Palace, after being fitted for a velvet coat, white waistcoat and satin breeches....
...Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, is known to history as the “kingmaker” and Edward’s most powerful political minister; here we also meet George Neville, the cultured and canny Archbishop of York, and his...
...The Westminster “halo” tiara was fashioned by Lacloche in the oriental “bandeau” style to include the Arcot diamonds, once belonging to Queen Charlotte, consort to George III....
...regicide, by the time the work was eventually staged in Rome in 1859, the scenario had been randomly transferred to 17th-century Boston, where Gustav became the entirely fictional English governor, Riccardo, Earl...
...The original scenario for Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera focused on a historical event — the assassination in 1792 of Gustav III of Sweden at the opera house he constructed in Stockholm....
...Nevertheless, the young British King George III made a canny decision when, in 1762, he bought the bulk of Smith’s collection....
...Here are the 17 correct ones in Jan Dalley’s column above, all from the plays: “Undiscovered country” – Hamlet, Act III, Sc 1 “Shuffled off this mortal coil” – Hamlet, Act III, Sc 1 “Happy breed” – Richard...
...Coutts destroyed George III’s accounts after his death, because they were friends, although the profligate George IV’s records survive....
...Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, was kingmaker to Henry VII at Bosworth in 1485 when Richard III was consigned to Leicester’s soil....
...George V is described as “The Unexpected King”....
...Among the aristocracy, the Lord Chamberlain enjoyed royal furniture as a perquisite of office, and so it was for the 4th Duke of Devonshire who received chairs from George III’s coronation in 1760....
...Simon Abney-Hastings, the 15th Earl of Loudoun, is a 39-year-old bachelor living quietly in Wangaratta, southeast Australia, where he works in the textile industry....
...Thomas Stanley, first Earl of Derby, was the king’s stepfather....
...While running the country as George III’s prime minister, John Stuart, third Earl of Bute, found time to amass an Old Master collection acknowledged as the greatest in the UK before the French revolution...
...Portraits, including the sad-looking Richard III with his broken sword, and the swagger portrait of the Earl of Southampton in all his finery (with, in an adjacent vitrine, the earl’s suit of armour)....
...King George III, who presented Ostenaco with a silver vessel inscribed with his name....
...These included a brother of George III, a director of the Bank of England, the Scottish painter-antiquary Allan Ramsay, and a Catholic priest remitting a secret hoard of holy relics for use in the chapel...
...The Earl of Essex had signally failed to defeat the Irish rebellion, and the rumours of a new Spanish Armada, launched by King Philip III, were serious enough for the militia to be mobilised....
...Charles III will face a series of highly political problems, starting with the currently dormant question of whether the divorcee Camilla becomes queen....
...Local folklore has it that King George III’s royal coach fell into the river when the ferry broke down in 1765....
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