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...found their way through the Commonwealth Office into the colonies and positioned themselves as architectural firms.”...
...She started the tradition of televised messages to the country in 1957, although her grandfather George V made the first royal Christmas broadcast on radio in 1932 — with a script by Rudyard Kipling....
...The monument replaced a statue of King George V, the Queen’s grandfather....
...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....
...Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, will give a sermon, and Truss and Baroness Patricia Scotland, Commonwealth secretary-general, will read lessons from Corinthians and St John’s Gospel....
...On her 21st birthday she made a defining speech to the Commonwealth, broadcast from South Africa....
...Her father, known as Bertie in the family, was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. His elder brother, David, was expected to become king....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...In Shakespeare’s Henry V, on the eve of the battle of Agincourt, the king goes among the tents of his army incognito, bestowing on his men “a largess universal, like the sun”: “Bids them good morrow with...
...The firm expedited a case, League of Women Voters v Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to push for a decision in time for the midterm elections....
...The bold move is revealed in a letter, dated May 22, from Muirhead, a former Saatchi & Saatchi executive, to a “Mr Sandelson” at a Chelsea-based entity called New Commonwealth....
...At £200, the Reni was the most expensive contemporary work sold at the Commonwealth Sale; it went to Spain, although George I eventually bought it back....
...Another highlight from the Louvre is Titian’s “Supper at Emmaus” (c. 1530), while the Prado will send “Charles V with a Dog” (1533) by the same artist....
...A move back to the V&A was also on the cards when the property developer Sir Stuart Lipton, then deputy chairman of Chelsfield, suggested the abandoned Commonwealth Institute as part of a deal in which the...
...And in the same week came the announcement of the opening date for the new Design Museum in Kensington, west London, an £83m conversion of the concrete shell of the former Commonwealth Institute....
...Karnad finally found his great-uncle Bobby’s grave at the Imphal cemetery: “Lieutenant Godrej Khodadad Mugaseth, King George V’s Own Bengal Sappers and Miners: He lived as he died, everybody’s friend....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College A fall in migration would have very negative effects on the public finances and growth....
...London is creating a new Design Museum in the mid-century modernist shell of the former Commonwealth Institute in Kensington....
...While here in London we’ll help the British Museum, the Science Museum, and the V&A move their collections out of storage and on display....
...Others include Rome v Milan, Dallas v Houston, Toronto v Montreal and Beijing v Shanghai. The UK has plenty of notable ones, including Glasgow v Edinburgh and Newcastle v Sunderland....
...I still doubt that this extends to the Baltic states, which in theory “benefit” from protection under Nato’s Article V defence clause....
...V. The advent of monetarism Meanwhile, inflation came back into the headlines. Most economists expected a temporary bulge after the 1967 devaluation. But its refusal to reverse came as a shock....
...Further up the river, Braehead shopping centre stretches along the banks towards King George V Dock, which is still operational....
...The line up is: Portugal v Sweden, France v Ukraine, Greece v Romania and Iceland v Croatia PlayStation 4 launches Sony launches its PlayStation 4 in the US....
...One way to picture the economic impact of a Brexit may be the shape of a letter ‘V’ or a ‘tick’....
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