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...John Kerry, the US climate envoy, filmed the wooden and gold state coach on his smartphone. By early afternoon, Charles III was smiling down at crowds from a Buckingham Palace balcony....
...Here it is worth noting that the role of Speaker of the House of Commons has limited power yet attracted a divisive egotist, John Bercow....
...There he entertained everyone from King Charles III and Queen Camilla to the Clintons, Warren Buffett, Madonna, James Dyson and Arnold Schwarzenegger....
...The 10-year-old Richard II’s coronation was stage-managed by his uncle John of Gaunt (improbably represented by Shakespeare as the salt of Albion’s earth)....
...“It’s an Edward III gold quarter noble, dating from the 14th century,” French exclaims. “It’s the find of a lifetime.” Jones is beside himself....
...Spare by Prince Harry, Bantam £28, 416 pages Henry Mance is the FT’s chief features writer Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...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....
...The event benefits the Henry Street Settlement, a New York social-services non-profit....
...King Charles III, then Prince of Wales, grins in a carefree way not seen much in the five decades since....
...By mid-afternoon, the mourning had turned to well-wishing, with the arrival of King Charles III’s motorcade. At first, there were just a few shouts of “God Save the King”....
...“I have never seen Tory MPs look so utterly depressed,” claimed Labour MP Chris Bryant, halfway through the statement....
...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....
...He was soon presented to King George III at Kew Palace, after being fitted for a velvet coat, white waistcoat and satin breeches....
...In the BBC interview he cited the Shakespeare plays Henry IV and V and the changes in the young King Henry V as he becomes monarch....
...Meanwhile, set in Buckingham Palace’s White Drawing Room, John Wonnacott’s fluent, loosely painted 12-footer “The Royal Family: A Centenary Portrait” (2000), also looks back, to John Lavery’s 1913 royal...
...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....
...The University of Bristol is reviewing the names of its buildings amid criticism of those linked to its first vice-chancellor, Henry Overton Wills III, whose family made its money from tobacco farmed by...
...Brookfield Asset Management last month launched a $7.5bn fund focused on climate change, while General Atlantic also established a venture focusing on the sector led by John Browne, former BP chief executive...
...In John Kani’s Kunene and the King (2019), he played an ageing, cantankerous South African actor preparing for the role of King Lear....
...Once home to Sir Henry “Chips” Channon, a US-born Conservative MP whose diaries published during the 1960s were a source of scandal about British high society, in 2003 the Belgravia property, marketed for...
...The friction match was first invented by John Walker, a chemist and druggist from Stockton-on-Tees, in 1826....
...Read John Thornhill’s opinion piece here and Henry Sanderson’s excellent Big Read here about the Clean Energy 2.0 investment boom. The Internet of (Five) Things 1....
...John Baldessari, Karen Kilimnik, Merlin Carpenter and Henry Flynt contribute words on canvas, and more provocative performances are captured with Gustav Metzger’s “Auto-destructive art” and Adrian Piper’...
...The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, by John Bolton, Simon & Schuster, RRP£25/$32.50, 592 pages Badly written and lacking in humility, shame or self-awareness, Bolton’s is nonetheless the best...
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