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...“His legitimacy was a bit dodgy because he had deposed Richard II,” she said. “This was him saying: look I have been anointed, I am now your legitimate king, and this is a sign of God’s approval.”...
...“In terms of the royal fish prerogative,” White says, “this goes back to Edward II in 1322, and a statute that dictates, ‘the King shall have . . . throughout the realm, whales and great sturgeons taken...
...These range from oils of Charles II’s mistress to Grand Tour collectables to troves of 18th-century porcelain....
...But I’m most excited about Nakhla, the standalone boutique of the eponymous jewellery brand, situated at the feet of the iconic statue of Rameses II....
...Charles II’s immense orchestration of magnificence in 1661 was the ceremonial and festive rejection of regicide Puritanism and perhaps of Cromwell’s presumption in seating himself in St Edward’s Chair for...
...While Queen she bore two more, with Andrew arriving in 1960 and Edward in 1964....
...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....
...Newman’s “Paul Newman” Daytona, which set a world record for a wristwatch sold at auction when it fetched $17.8mn at Phillips in 2017, was consigned by Nell’s ex-boyfriend James Cox....
...And while Queen she had two more children, Princes Andrew and Edward....
...The following year, in November 1978, Schwartz was due to be in Rome to photograph the new pope, John Paul II....
...This week, to mark her platinum jubilee, Queen Elizabeth II gave a tell-all TV interview....
...Prince Charles Edward Stuart, aka the Young Pretender, aka Bonnie Prince Charlie, landed in July 1745 at Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides, hoping to win back the crown his grandfather James II of England and...
...13 (Matthew Brettingham, 1735-7); No 11 (Robert Adam); No 5 (Matthew Brettingham, 1748-9, stone-faced in 1854-6); and No 4, The “In and Out” (Naval and Military) Club (Edward Shepherd, 1726-8)....
...Additional reporting by James Pickford in London...
...In 2015, an avian take on Benjamin Disraeli fetched $233,000, while in 2018, a caricature of barrister Edward George Clarke – who represented Oscar Wilde in 1895 – sold for $175,000, both at Phillips....
...The charismatic Prince Charles Edward Stuart, also just 25, was the grandson and heir of James II. Charles had rallied mainly Catholic Highland clans in the summer of 1745 after landing from France....
...Its cast of characters, among them deputy consul-general James Phillips and Admiral Harry Rawson, are worthy of the Ealing Studios — pith helmet and all....
...The auction record for Wiley, for instance, was broken in June, when “Le Roi à la Chasse II” sold for $350,000 with fees at Sotheby’s New York....
...On a more ambivalent note, economist and habitual gloomster James Rickards tallies up the winners and losers of a post-pandemic world in The New Great Depression (Portfolio, January)....
...Edward VII loathed how it had ruined his view across the gardens at Buckingham Palace....
...But when the right rental property became available in York in May, civil engineer James Simmons knew he had to go for it....
...This is what happened in 1979 when James Callaghan, then Labour prime minister, lost a vote of no confidence....
...In that same vein, New York clients still remind me of a marketing trip in 2009 with my former colleague James Montier (now of GMO)....
...writes Edward Luce in the FT’s Swamp Notes newsletter. Sign up here for our twice weekly briefing on money and power in Trump’s America....
...It was the future Edward VII who pioneered the shorter jacket, in the 1860s, and his grandson, the future Edward VIII, who perfected today’s look a century ago....
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