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...The FT’s Helen Thomas dissected the move neatly this week. Unlike eighties rock goddess Bonnie Tyler, I can’t say I’m holding out for a (new) hero....
...He was soon presented to King George III at Kew Palace, after being fitted for a velvet coat, white waistcoat and satin breeches....
...The men are nominally in charge but they are incompetent at best — Peter III is a libertine idiot who veers between amiability and violence, while Lord Bridgerton blunders in trying to find Daphne a suitable...
...Thomas Grant QC, a barrister for Mr Ruperti, said in the court hearing this month that Sovcomflot companies “bought out” Mr Longhurst in order to obtain his private bank records, and said the transaction...
...Thomas Stanley features prominently in Shakespeare’s Richard III, in which he crowns Henry VII on the battlefield at Bosworth....
...The CRR was the European implementation of Basel III rules, generated by the Basel committee after the crisis....
...In Jacob Rees-Mogg he would have heard again the insular arrogance and contempt for reality of the aged Lord Lyndhurst, who made speeches in the Lords on the defencelessness of the realm and the perennial...
...Three decades ago, a book by John Woodford called The Truth About Cottages starts its narrative in 1839 when the House of Lords connected the dwellings of the rural labouring classes with disease and early...
...The diary of Elizabethan impresario Philip Henslowe records that on March 3 1592, Lord Strange’s Men performed the play of King Harey VI....
...The sale in April at Christie’s of a late 16th-century portrait of Richard III once owned by Lord Byron for £16,250 was a good example....
...Coutts destroyed George III’s accounts after his death, because they were friends, although the profligate George IV’s records survive....
...To discipline this process, Lord King suggests that the central bank should set the terms on which it would make loans in advance, acting as a “pawnbroker for all seasons”....
...Among the aristocracy, the Lord Chamberlain enjoyed royal furniture as a perquisite of office, and so it was for the 4th Duke of Devonshire who received chairs from George III’s coronation in 1760....
...When I moved to London a decade ago, I would take a break for lunch and think of Thomas Jefferson....
...“Good luck with that,” one might say to Thomas Penn, the author entrusted with the ill-fated prince — except that I am inclined to see him as the lucky one....
..., had been constable of Carlisle castle for Henry III....
...“How long, oh Lord, how long must we wait to do this?” wailed Sally Muggeridge of Canterbury....
...As Lord Acton might have said, power tends to corrupt, PowerPoint corrupts absolutely. Tonight I want to talk about bankers and banking....
...The era’s other outstanding artist, Thomas Gainsborough, “capricious in his manners, and rather fickle and unsteady in his social connections”, never really committed to the Academy....
...By the end of the summer, a papal bull from Pope Innocent III granted him his wish. By the winter, England was embroiled in civil war....
...Thomas Stanley, first Earl of Derby, was the king’s stepfather....
...From George III to Take That – via a string of spectacular corporate failures – successful figures from all walks of life in the old country have underestimated what it takes to shine in the new....
...The Candy Brothers had been planning to develop the former 12.8-acre Chelsea Barracks site near Sloane Square in west London into a £3bn luxury residential complex designed by Lord Rogers....
...The Red Queen also challenges a long-held historical view – that Richard III murdered the little Princes in the Tower of London in 1483....
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