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...Her admirers included Tsar Nicholas II, Queen Victoria, Georges Bizet, John Ruskin and Delacroix himself. Then she fell off the face of the earth. “How could such a person be forgotten?”...
...Charles I was beheaded in 1649; the House of Hanover was dogged by sex scandals; George III lost his mind and he also lost America, which wasn’t terribly popular....
...The New Year honours list, the second to be signed off by King Charles III, is compiled from nominations made by organisations or members of the public that are then scrutinised by subject-based honours...
...In 2008, Alan Bennett donated his archive to the Bodleian; here we see the way in which director Nicholas Hytner collaborated with Bennett first on the play The Madness of George III and later on the film...
...The ancient ceremonials and military marches that attended the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday gave way to parties and events across Britain, as the UK enjoyed a special Bank Holiday weekend....
...No one remembered to supply chairs for George III and Queen Charlotte (or for that matter to bring the coronation sword), so there was a lot of wandering around. The snafus have not all been comical....
...John Hackney slaps a clay disc on a mould, secures it with a beefy palm then spins his table towards the jaws of a pressing machine....
...The other was John Currin, whose titillating “Nice ’n Easy” (1999) had been estimated between $7mn and $10mn. In 2016, this work sold for $12mn....
...This disc looks to the high watermark of the genre, the coronation of George II in 1727....
...“William might be king, but the chances of George being king are rapidly shrinking.”...
...Tory parliamentary candidates in the run-up to the 1997 general election reported that voters were no longer angry with John Major’s administration....
...As reward for his services, the man — by then named Ray Dalio — was given a clerkship at the New York Stock Exchange by Isabel’s husband, Wall Street titan George Leib....
...Like Al Pacino in The Godfather III, just as America thinks it is getting out of the Middle East, events may conspire to pull them back in....
...And if no shortage of media has presented daughters as problems for their fathers to solve — from George C Scott and Liam Neeson trying to claim back their daughters from nefarious forces in Hardcore (1979...
...King Charles III paid tribute to his late mother Queen Elizabeth as “a promise with destiny kept” in a heartfelt address to the nation marking the first royal transition for seven decades....
...It might also facilitate work by Joe Kennedy III, US special envoy to Northern Ireland for economic affairs, to foster more American investment in the region....
...His grandfather was former Senator Robert Kennedy, brother of John F Kennedy, the first US president with Irish Catholic roots....
...Reynolds painted Mai, his Polynesian name, after the Pacific islander voyaged to Britain in 1774 and was presented to King George III on his arrival....
...The funeral of the late Queen Elizabeth II and the accession of King Charles III have been planned in detail over several decades....
...Judith Evans and George Hammond have written a great primer on the finances and organisation of the Duchy of Cornwall, offering interesting insight into our new monarch’s management style....
...Hoyle and Lord John McFall, Lords Speaker, conveyed their condolences to the monarch at a ceremony attended by state trumpeters and scarlet-clad royal bodyguards....
...Vittorio Emanuele III” and so on....
...“We see a need for macro in all of our portfolios,” said John Sedlack III, senior investment manager, alternatives at Abrdn. “Higher interest rates correspond with better returns for macro.”...
...The star of the night was Georges Seurat’s 1888 painting “Les Poseuses, Ensemble (petite version)”, which was sold for $149mn, including the buyer’s premium....
...In his first week, King Charles III has displayed more signs of public impatience, usually involving pens, than his mother did in the average decade. One must make allowances....
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