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...He even mentored and funded the young George Lucas before Lucas went ballistic with American Graffiti and Star Wars....
...Ronald Reagan, who challenged Kissinger’s boss, Gerald Ford, for the Republican nomination, accused Kissinger of appeasing the Soviets....
...Take, for example, a currently available Irish George II chimney piece, in black Kilkenny fossil marble....
...Edward II, unpopular due to his fondness for courtier Piers Gaveston, had seen nobles try to intimidate him by turning up fully armed....
...Paul Theroux’s forthcoming book, ‘Burma Sahib’, is a novel based on the early working life of George Orwell, when he was a policeman in 1920s Burma....
...His death represents a challenging political moment for China’s Communist party, write Joe Leahy in Beijing and Edward White in Seoul. 2....
...Three cartoonish Klansmen, squeezed into a Ford Model T, trundle across a blood-red urban wasteland in “City Limits” (1969)....
...Charles II’s immense orchestration of magnificence in 1661 was the ceremonial and festive rejection of regicide Puritanism and perhaps of Cromwell’s presumption in seating himself in St Edward’s Chair for...
...On the flip side, “Shadows are ideal for electric conversions,” says applied futurist Tom Cheesewright, who advises the likes of Ford and Nasa....
...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....
...But I’m most excited about Nakhla, the standalone boutique of the eponymous jewellery brand, situated at the feet of the iconic statue of Rameses II....
...In 1936, King George V died and David became King Edward VIII. But his decision to marry the twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson soon forced his abdication....
...From the left, his daughter Queen Elizabeth II, his mother Queen Mary, and his widow Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother June 2 1953: Elizabeth II wears St Edward’s Crown and carries the sceptre and rod during...
...I was asked to write a tribute to Queen Elizabeth II on her passing....
...More concerned with womanising and flaunting his newfound kingly status, Charles II had little appetite for the business of exacting revenge....
...History showed that Britons had remained supportive of the monarchy despite previous royal dramas, he said, citing the seamless coronation of George VI in May 1937 despite the abdication of his brother Edward...
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...Act II: Worthanger Abbey George: After five or six “what a ridiculous question” responses in a row, it was becoming obvious: queuers in and around Westminster, so close to the end, wouldn’t trade their...
...The experience of the abdication of her uncle, Edward VIII, to marry the divorcee Wallis Simpson — elevating her father, George VI, reluctantly to the throne — reinforced the young Elizabeth’s resolve to...
...With the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II last week, the Prince of Wales became King Charles III....
...While following his father George V’s coffin in procession, Edward VIII recalled seeing “a flash of light dancing along the pavement”....
...Elizabeth II was one of the world’s wealthiest individuals, with property holdings ranging from central London prime real estate to farmland across the country, but her ability to profit from, let alone...
...The Queen’s children — the King, Princess Anne and Princes Andrew and Edward — will on Friday at 7.30pm hold their own vigil....
...In an attempt to win over William, Harry turned to Google, calling up images of their bearded ancestors Edward VII and George V in uniform. Why do beards get some people so hot under the collar?...
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