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...Most sought after, he says, is the series of Wedgwood mugs designed by Eric Ravilious and Richard Guyatt to commemorate the 1937 coronation of George VI and the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II....
...Previously, she fulfilled a similar role at John Galliano, where she was instrumental in shaping the designer’s early shows....
...In contrast, George V and George VI died in winter: some of the 305,000 who saw the latter lying in state had to put up with light snow....
...When her father George VI died in February 1952, the code had been “Hyde Park Corner”....
...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....
...“If it was good enough for John of Gaunt [Duke of Lancaster from 1362],” she remarked, “it’s good enough for me.”...
...Liz Truss’s government will host the largest gathering of foreign leaders and dignitaries in London for decades, as they arrive in the capital for the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on Monday....
...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)....
...Beaton’s two assistants, John Drysdale and Ray Harwood, “hardly had time to look at her” as the Queen arrived for what became her most famous, and most regal, portrait....
...The funeral of the late Queen Elizabeth II and the accession of King Charles III have been planned in detail over several decades....
...There are six Popemobiles in the company collection, three of them based here: the conventional-looking models made for Popes John XXIII and Paul VI, and the 2002 ML 430, with the raised roof, for Pope John...
...As the departure of former City minister John Glen from the Treasury illustrates all too well, it is junior ministers who do much of the important work of governing....
...This was not true for Queen Elizabeth II. If her father George VI had ever fathered a legitimate son, she would have been immediately bumped....
...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....
...The student tested his 2,500-word vocabulary by translating the first chapter of St John’s Gospel before submitting it to the developers....
...II. In New York, the Adbusters meme quickly circulated among activists, many asking what Occupy Wall Street was....
...Over at Goldman Sachs the quest for pattern finding has all gone a bit John Nash: Meanwhile, on the increasingly abstract subject of things to buy, Andrew Garthwaite and team at Credit Suisse are pushing...
...(ii) such a property wealth tax would lead to inefficiency in investment behaviour....
...In Europe, China’s emphasis on manufacturing may help Germany, vis-à-vis France, the UK and Spain, but the recessions on average could match the US....
...Murray III to arrange for a gorilla to be stuffed; the explorer Freya Stark asked John Murray VI to send a hip-bath to Hadhramaut by diplomatic bag....
...The BBC and The Guardian said the British monarch, through the Duchy of Lancaster, a private estate, had committed £7.5m to Dover Street VI Cayman Fund LP in 2005....
...ii) The market has greater confidence that lower oil prices represent a positive supply-side story, rather than a negative demand side shock....
...administration’s first 100 days has proffered important new information, including: i) the White House brief flirtation with the idea of a border adjusted tax (BAT) or ‘reciprocal tax’ looks to have ended. ii...
...The first Roman Catholic US president, John F Kennedy, met Pope Paul VI shortly after his election in the summer of 1963....
...Jared Harris’s George VI is the best thing he has done, a masterpiece of rueful tenderness....
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