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...Cue massive donations to the Conservative party, to Oxford university, to a pet project of the then-Prince Charles — plus pricey legal threats against critics....
...“I will hand over the throne to my son, Crown Prince Frederik.” He will become Frederik X while his wife, Crown Princess Mary, will become queen....
...For Schiller’s Mary Stuart (2016), a coin toss each night at the start of the show about Mary and Elizabeth I determined which actor would play which queen, drawing the audience into the jeopardy at the...
...The wealth fund, which is chaired by Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s day-to-day ruler, reinvented itself in 2015 to make investments with higher potential rewards and risks....
...Writing about sepulchres in 1809, Mary Shelley’s father, William Godwin, lamented that tombstones were being shuffled off like stubble, ready for next year’s crop....
...Its leaders, Prince Rupert Loewenstein and Alexis de Redé, fixed upon Leopold Joseph — founded in 1919 by a German-born journalist-banker whose family was out of heirs....
...The Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman thought the war would be over in six weeks....
...Additional reporting by Mary McDougall...
...In the early 1960s, Rothschild met Serena Mary Dunn at the house of Nancy Astor, the first woman to take a seat in Britain’s parliament....
...In a 2016 documentary the show’s director, Hal Prince, who would not work again with Sondheim for decades, remembered thinking: “I’ve never been happier rehearsing actors, never gone home more sure a show...
...To the left, a wooden passageway leads to a light-flooded lounge decorated with a Sarah Lucas mobile, Richard Prince piece and original midcentury furniture by Pierre Jeanneret, Jean Prouvé, Niemeyer and...
...The “prince of painters and painter of princes”, as he was called in his lifetime, is familiar but alien to modern taste — grandiloquent, arcane....
...Empathy is a delightful quality and it’s one that the gifted Scottish travel-writer Peter Ross shares with that prince of church-crawlers, the poet John Betjeman....
...That opportunity was another that presented itself without Motion pursuing it when the poet Mary Jo Salter, who teaches at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, “took me to supper and asked whether I’d...
...Mary Kenny, author of Crown and Shamrock: Love and Hate between Ireland and the British Monarchy, recalls her Catholic aunt and uncle surreptitiously attending a viewing of the coronation newsreel, which...
...“It’s a dirdy game,” says Prince Harry in the second Netflix trailer to promote his tell-all documentary, his “Ts” made carefully more matey lest we remember he was born at the very zenith of the “hierarchy...
...“Elton John was playing with expressions of femininity in the ’70s and then Freddie Mercury and Prince.”...
...ubiquity of television and its differing audiences also form the centre of three of the book’s further set pieces: the 1966 football World Cup final between England and West Germany, the wedding of the Prince...
...I’m Lilah Raptopoulos and I’m a Hail Mary on the last play. Sara Germano I think you are, Lilah. Lilah Raptopoulos Thank you....
...The only woman, Mary Gilbert, gave birth four months later to the city’s first European baby, James Melbourne Gilbert....
...The same goes for Rudolf’s 17-year-old mistress, Baroness Mary Vetsera....
...Hugo Marchand has the makings of an outstanding Crown Prince Rudolf, his mind visibly fraying as his mother shuns him, and his lover Mary Vetsera (Dorothée Gilbert) plays along with his macabre obsessions...
...From the left, his daughter Queen Elizabeth II, his mother Queen Mary, and his widow Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother June 2 1953: Elizabeth II wears St Edward’s Crown and carries the sceptre and rod during...
...A Brazilian by birth, she has lived in the Religious of Mary Immaculate hostal for three years. She admires the late Queen’s ability to “govern” many different countries....
...Leader Mary Lou McDonald said that was “for those whose political allegiance is to the British crown”....
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