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...The publication date closely follows the King’s Speech on November 7, in which King Charles III will set out the government’s programme of legislation for the next session of parliament....
...Two singers were outstanding: mezzo-soprano Beth Taylor as the Sorceress, with a cavernous chest register and wicked relish for malice; and countertenor Hugh Cutting, luminous and incisive as the Spirit...
...At 63, Grant is now as ubiquitous a presence at Christmas as Macaulay Culkin or Jimmy Stewart: it’s one of the great cinematic coups....
...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-...
...He attended Christ Church at the University of Oxford, where his history tutor was Hugh Trevor-Roper, and gained a first....
...Downton Abbey actor Hugh Bonneville was the compère, cracking unfunny jokes scripted by the national-occasion wing of the BBC’s light entertainment department....
...The honours list, the first signed off by King Charles III, also includes awards for Melinda Simmons, Britain’s ambassador to Kyiv, and Deborah Bronnert, her counterpart in Moscow....
...Witness his new film, The Lost King, retelling the 2012 true story of amateur historian Philippa Langley (Sally Hawkins), who helps find the remains of Richard III under a car park in Leicester....
...The 19th-century Whig historian Thomas Macaulay, best known for his multi-volume History of England, issued an instruction to his publisher shortly before his death: “Let no damned Tory index my history....
...Queen Elizabeth III keep mine in here. Lilah RaptopoulosWhich she keeps in her iconic purse. Queen Elizabeth IIFor later. Lilah RaptopoulosIt’s super cute....
...Hugh Cornwell’s band hit it big in 1977....
...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....
...Hugh Broughton Architects, which remodelled the space, has opened it up as shop, café and entrance for the painted hall....
...Hugh Ray, head of bankruptcy practice at McKool Smith law firm, said: “Some of the lenders have sort of said, ‘You’ve had enough second chances — this is the end of the line’.”...
...His own father, Hugh Everett III, died when he was 19, and Everett found the body. He later recalled that trying to resuscitate him was the only time he could remember touching his father....
...They were accompanied by a scribe called Hugh Candidus (Hugh the Pale) who more soberly charted the abbey’s royal foundation in the 7th century, a plea against its diminished authority....
...From Saturday, visitors will be able to gain access to scaffolding platforms and watch the team of conservators at work on the 18th century painting, which has triumphal portraits of King William III and...
...“Mark does have relevant experience and I think he is a deeply practical and hands-on guy,” says Hugh Young at Aberdeen Asset Management, a top 10 shareholder in both AIA and HSBC....
...He intersperses these with short essays branching off from his strictly chronological account to offer portraits of individual writers such as Hugh Walpole, George Orwell and Alec Waugh....
...In 1953 his company enjoyed an annus mirabilis as publication of Isaiah Berlin’s The Hedgehog and the Fox, Rose Macaulay’s Pleasure of Ruins, Cyril Connolly’s The Golden Horizon and Hugh Trevor-Roper’s Hitler...
...You pull on your string-backed driving gloves, shove Top Gear Driving Hits Volume III on the in-car stereo and jam the pedal to the metal all the way to Nuneaton, sustained only by Ginsters’ pasties and...
...By contrast, the second option inheres in the letter (June 26) from Hugh Wotherspoon, who argues that “the west’s long-term aim is for Russia and its neighbours to join Nato”. What to do?...
...Hugh White, an Australian academic, says China is cutting “very thin slices of a very long sausage”. Xi Jinping has already told us what the sausage looks like....
...For Macaulay, it was the unfolding of the epic of British liberty....
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