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...of the crop harvested by the black-clad nuns who serve at the 150-year-old complex on the Mount of Olives will function as something altogether more exalted: the holy oil that will anoint King Charles III...
...The Nevilles were a very powerful northern family” – Cecily Neville was the mother of two kings of England, Edward IV and Richard III – “and being so far away from the centres of power, to some degree they...
...There is a piping Concerto for Flute by Giuseppe Sammartini, a viola da gamba sonata by Pietro Castrucci, and a selection of still familiar Scottish tunes arranged by James Oswald....
...A further item — Roxanna Panufnik’s Coronation Sanctus — harked back to the coronation of King Charles III in May....
...As a keen history buff, the King will be aware that James I’s assumption of divine authority above statute law, his distaste for public ceremonies, fed a reaction that would end with his son Charles’s execution...
...Perhaps the most amusing piece this year was James B. Stewart’s examination of the apparently dodgy goings-on at high-end New York wine seller Sherry-Lehmann....
...Stewart Butterfield, Slack’s chief executive at the time of the acquisition, and Bret Taylor, who as co-chief of Salesforce was the architect of the deal, have since left their roles....
...“People look for themselves on our shelves,” Montañez beams like James Stewart at the end of It’s a Wonderful Life. Capitalism can still work, the movie says. Here’s how....
...On cloud infrastructure: “I guess Larry, can you sort of double-click on OCI . .. ” Stewart Kirk Materne III, of Evercore, on the Oracle September 2021 call....
...In 1694, the Bank of England was founded to help William III finance war with France....
...The 1946 film starring James Stewart is a Christmas favourite and ENO will be having similar hopes for this canny choice of opera....
...King Charles III faces a delicate task ahead of his mother’s funeral stewarding leaders of the 56-member Commonwealth who have questions about the future of the organisation on their mind....
...It contains major art works by Richard Long and the only James Turrell installation in Africa. It also uses no electricity and has no internet connection....
...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....
...City corporate raiders Lord James Hanson, Sir Gordon White and Sir Gerry Robinson are long gone. Entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson is these days mostly active in the US....
...It was the middle of the lunchtime rush in the Four Seasons, and the brass rods of Richard Lippold’s sculpture hung above, like abstractions of weightless swords. III....
...Cornwall); Edward II (who gave it to his rumoured lover, Piers Gaveston); the Black Prince (father of Richard II); and Lord Williams of Thame, who built the current house on the medieval site....
...DisneyWar author James Stewart dubbed the deal: a “strategic miscalculation unrivalled in recent corporate history”....
...The timing of King Charles III’s coronation, in the immediate aftermath of the local polls, delayed a postmortem....
...Richard Curtis had yet to transform the ’hood into the star of its own Hollywood movie....
...Another highlight is a long-case “grandfather” clock from the 1680s by Richard Greenhill....
...“My dear Leighton,” replied James McNeill Whistler, “why do you ever begin yours?”...
...The person I’m selling is Richard Tice because Reform UK . . . Lucy FisherYeah. Remind us . . ....
...After Irvine alerted the local authority, the dig was handed over to Ulas, the commercial archaeology unit of the University of Leicester, which previously handled the disinterment of King Richard III’s...
...“We flew down to the ceremony in New York, and Martha Stewart presented it, but couldn’t pronounce our names. No one had heard of us....
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