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...A memoir from Charles Spencer, brother of Diana, the late Princess of Wales, offers a different context for the discussion....
...Charles Randell, former chair of the Financial Conduct Authority, also advised on the plan and said it provided for “stable and proportionate regulation”....
...Sir Charles Walker, a Tory grandee, said many MPs would settle for sound economic governance. “I want a government that is fiscally responsible, first and foremost,” he said....
...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....
...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?”...
...But Siddiq said the government was moving too slowly on reforms to so-called Solvency II rules covering the insurance sector that are intended to release £100bn for investment in infrastructure and other...
...Additional reporting by George Parker in London and Adrienne Klasa in Paris...
...It was 1980, and this was the stinging 75 per cent death duties then payable on the charitable foundation of her philanthropist father, Sir Charles Clore; she had lost a complicated wrangle with the tax...
...The ceremony, the first since Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953, was attended by about 2,000 guests. King Charles was crowned at 12.02pm to the cry “God save the King”....
...Charles I had made William a marquess two years before the couple married. In 1665, Charles II belatedly made his one-time tutor and valued adviser the first Duke of Newcastle....
...George II was on the throne. The Jacobite rising came to an end at the battle of Culloden....
...“It depends how Charles frames his monarchy,” he says. “The coronation is the easy bit.” Staffordshire’s potteries diminished during Elizabeth II’s reign....
...Among those on view will be the Trinidadian painter Sarah Knights, who was recently chosen to paint a portrait of King Charles III for the cover of Tatler magazine....
...Charles II “touched for the king’s evil” 23,000 scrofula sufferers between 1660 and 1664 in a marathon exercise of his purported powers of healing....
...In the run-up to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, a question mark hung over who would get to see it....
...This disc looks to the high watermark of the genre, the coronation of George II in 1727....
...Some of his stateliest works were written at Brook Street: Messiah (a new display explores its composition) and “Zadok the Priest”, commissioned for George II’s coronation and performed at every coronation...
...The Cullinan II diamond is in the Imperial State Crown, made by Garrard for the coronation of King George VI in 1937, which King Charles III will also wear during the Westminster Abbey service....
...II” (2022), a digital fabric lightbox that impugns consumerism and ecological disaster, death rides a composite elephant made of brand logos....
...The Queen had been a central part of life in the UK for seven decades, since the death of her father George VI in 1952....
...Taken together, the three Wales children — with George in red, Charlotte in white, and Louis in blue — made up the colours of the Union Jack flag....
...The new monarch’s words came after a day of parliamentary tributes, gun salutes and raw emotion, as thousands of people gathered at the gates of Buckingham Palace to leave floral tributes to Elizabeth II...
...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....
...Elizabeth II, the monarch whom even republicans admired, has passed....
...“If looked after, Shadows go on forever,” adds Ghost Motors owner Charles Baseley, who was an engineer at Rolls-Royce’s London base in the ’60s and ’70s....
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