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...Which building was designed by Jørn Utzon, opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1973 and designated a Unesco world heritage site in 2007? What was the last studio album by Led Zeppelin?...
...Clive Irving, veteran journalist and author of The Last Queen, a biography that forecast trouble for the House of Windsor following Elizabeth II’s reign, said the family had made a classic mistake....
...James Whelan, president of the Real Estate Board of New York, the industry trade group, called her a trailblazer....
...What kind of sandwiches did the Royal Parks ask the public not to leave as tributes following Queen Elizabeth II’s death? The four Small Isles of the Inner Hebrides are Canna, Eigg, Rum — and what?...
...Bond film Dr No, where he was the first actor to portray the fictional British secret agent; and Queen Elizabeth II, which led to the awards of two Royal Warrants — the first in 2013, followed by another...
...William of Orange, the Protestant leader of the Dutch Revolt, was assassinated in 1584 after Philip II of Spain put a bounty on his head....
...Elizabeth II last year at Balmoral....
...And the other is unquestionably Queen Elizabeth II. The most impressive, nicest woman I’ve ever known. She came to this house [in Buckinghamshire] many times for lunch....
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...About an hour and a half into the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, just as the august baritone of Richard Dimbleby proclaimed “the moment of the Queen’s crowning is come”, a BBC camera cut to a small boy...
...Compared to the vast crowds and banks of flowers outside London’s Buckingham Palace, the tributes to Queen Elizabeth II in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh were noticeably more subdued....
...The Queen played herself while the actor Daniel Craig reprised his role as James Bond, before she appeared along with Prince Philip at the stadium....
...The reign of Queen Elizabeth II spans Britain's journey from empire to Brexit, from the wireless to the smartphone. She was seen by many as a figurehead able to hold together her people....
...A commemoration is planned on Friday night at a mural of Queen Elizabeth II, erected for her platinum jubilee this year, attended by a band....
...By its nature, the service could not do justice to the Queen’s warmth or the sense of humour, which had once led her to film sketches with James Bond and Paddington Bear....
...Clutching his three-month-old son, Kivlin, who described himself as a probable voter for independence in any future referendum, said Queen Elizabeth II “transcends political parties, religions or countries...
...The Commonwealth has evolved and expanded since its creation from the ashes of the British empire and has been held together in part by Queen Elizabeth II, who saw sustaining the organisation as a central...
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...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...This week, to mark her platinum jubilee, Queen Elizabeth II gave a tell-all TV interview....
...And also “Renaissance” by Queen Beyoncé. Dua Lipa and Beyoncé are intelligent, vital and give me hope for the next generation....
...As first Charles II and then his brother James II embraced Catholicism, the old wounds of religion and politics created yet another revolutionary moment....
...Queen Elizabeth II’s official tartan, the Royal Stewart, was first sported by King George IV in 1822, after he was persuaded by Sir Walter Scott that he was in fact a Stuart prince....
...There could be no greater tribute to Queen Elizabeth II than the exquisite singing of the service music by the choirs at both the funeral and interment, of anthems from the splendid Anglican choral repertoire...
...Part of a new wave of models being cast in gender-fluid contexts, they have since walked for JW Anderson, where they closed the SS23 show wearing a black T-shirt paying tribute to Queen Elizabeth II....
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