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...“William might be king, but the chances of George being king are rapidly shrinking.”...
...Biden is expected to return to the UK for a state visit after accepting an invitation in April from King Charles III....
...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....
...But that is very much belied by the royal cipher at its centre reading “C III R” (for Charles III Rex)....
...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....
...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....
...According to Jane Fonda, the best way to understand her relationship with her father Henry is to watch 1981’s On Golden Pond, in which they starred together....
...Charles has named George III, who reigned at the time of American independence yet became a symbol of British renewal, as the monarch he most respects....
...As Henry Mance writes in his superb profile of the new king: His decades as next in line meant he had to define the waiting role....
...Vittorio Emanuele III” and so on....
...In the archive room is the mill’s first pattern book from 1773, filled with tiny scraps of the fabric that a jaunty fellow back in the reign of George III might have worn....
...He was soon presented to King George III at Kew Palace, after being fitted for a velvet coat, white waistcoat and satin breeches....
...Sotheby’s also showed “Queen Victoria” by another court favourite, George Hayter....
...Male and female fans were equally smitten by his pubescent beauty and precocity, while his fame rose as far as royal circles: George III made him a present of a coach and four....
...Hawkes was also a favourite with the royal family from the days of George III. In 1912 it became responsible for the supply and upkeep of the uniforms worn by the royal bodyguard....
...Also, you’ll hear from the FT’s Polina Ivanova and Henry Foy, Gillian Tett and Courtney Weaver. That’s on Twitter Spaces today at noon eastern time and 4pm GMT. We put the link on our show notes....
...The gap between arts and industry is portrayed in the tension between the practical Henry Wilcox and the artistic Schlegel sisters in EM Forster’s 1910 novel Howards End....
...For three decades and more, James A Baker III was the face of American power....
...In London Labour and The London Poor, published in 1851, Henry Mayhew credits the horticultural skills of the weavers of Spitalfields, writing “their love of flowers to this day is a strongly marked characteristic...
...He also acted as a vital adviser to George W Bush, during the disputed 2000 presidential election....
...Master planning is not a 20th-century innovation — witness Haussmann’s remodelling of Paris under Napoleon III (“Cruel demolisher, what have you done with my past?...
...Penn is less interested in the well-worn controversies around the reign of Richard III....
...Royalty is also celebrated, especially in the Red Room that houses the Bone Miniatures — a collection of 40 19th-century enamel paintings by Henry Bone and his son Henry Pierce Bone depicting every British...
...Over the course of two and half hours, political dignitaries ranging from Barack Obama to George W Bush to Henry Kissinger offered moving portraits of McCain, who died last week from brain cancer, an impassioned...
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