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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.”...
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...Founded by Geoff and Laura Souster in 1978 and relocated in 2004 to a Grade II-listed former coaching inn, the tailors has cut suits for clients including Eric Morecambe, Michael Bublé, Lenny Henry and James...
...In 1487, which pretender to the English throne was the figurehead for a rebellion against Henry VII?...
...In life Elizabeth II inspired admiration in the world’s most powerful people with almost mysterious ease. In death, under a sunny London sky, she managed the feat one last time....
...As first Charles II and then his brother James II embraced Catholicism, the old wounds of religion and politics created yet another revolutionary moment....
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
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...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....
...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....
...Five pageants punctuated the day-long procession: one which emphasised her as a peacemaker descending from the union of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York that had ended the Wars of the Roses; another which...
...“He’d always have a tape measure in his pocket . . . he’d be busy measuring up how long other jewellers’ windows were and taking photos of what they were doing,” says Anthony’s grandson James Amos, a Boodles...
...On The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), Wong Howe pulls off an identity-swap caper starring Ronald Colman in a double role....
...It began a few days before Ian Fleming started writing the first James Bond novel, and a few years before John Lennon met Paul McCartney....
...HMS Endeavour, captained by James Cook, followed the Dolphin two years later....
...A natural to play Hamlet on stage, he did, in 1979, and among his 1980s movies, he also appeared in three off-Broadway Shakespeare productions, Henry V, Richard II and A Midsummer Night’s Dream....
...James....
...When you get to Charles II Street, enjoy the view of John Nash’s flamboyant Theatre Royal (1821). Cut through to Pall Mall, turn left and then right on to Waterloo Place....
...II, when she was kidnapped by a villainous priest and, while drugged, remarried to his brother....
...Ford II....
...During Henry II’s reign, when the castle was built, fishermen caught a hirsute, naked man in their nets....
...Foster saved enough to fly to America (“a £100 one-way air ticket,” he says of what was most certainly a princely sum for a young grad) and through the Henry Fellowship was offered a place at Yale....
...Beat the Devil (1953) was a louche caper flick co-scripted with director John Huston. The Innocents (1961) was a skilful Henry James adaptation....
...I saw him play King Henry II in Jean Anouilh’s Becket in 1961 for the Royal Shakespeare Company. I was 14. He was 31. He was spellbinding....
...European women were thus forbidden to eat artichokes and, when Catherine de’ Medici dared to dine on them in public and fainted after overindulging, the court of Henry II was scandalised....
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