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...monarchic drift and disharmony, which critics said has prevailed since Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, died in 2022 and was succeeded by her then 73-year-old son and heir Charles III...
...that declared Boris Johnson’s attempts to prorogue parliament illegal; the other from Charles III’s accession oath not to intervene in the affairs of the Scottish church....
...Norman Baker, the former Liberal Democrat MP who in 2021 called on the Met to investigate the claims published in the Sunday Times, described the force’s decision to shut the case as a “disgrace”....
...The ceremony that will on Saturday anoint Charles III as King is one that connects the present with Britain’s, or England’s, earliest history, its roots stretching to before the Norman Conquest....
...Though the trial by blood had settled the matter at the Battle of Hastings, the Norman conqueror William insisted on a coronation on Christmas Day at the still more momentous foundation of the Abbey of St...
...People campaigning for reform of the monarchy, including the former Liberal Democrat minister Norman Baker, have described the 25 per cent share the royal family is entitled to as an effective tax on renewable...
...Before the coronation of King Charles III, the leader of the UK’s republican campaign group, Graham Smith, had rarely featured beyond the fringes of the media....
...In 1760 George III surrendered hereditary revenues from the Crown Estate in return for a fixed annual payment....
...He would have got hammered for it if he hadn’t because there would have been a huge windfall for the royal family,” said Norman Baker, the former Liberal Democrat minister who has written extensively on...
...When silversmith Colin Morrison-Ignatieff stood with six other craftsmen to present the new Elizabeth Sword to King Charles III in July, it brought full-circle a story which began over two centuries before...
...mixture of three- to six-storey blocks of flats aping “the New Humanist” precedents of Scandinavia, were designed by Frederick Gibberd, chief architect of Harlow New Town in Essex, Geoffrey Jellicoe and Norman...
...The gathering was attended by about 200 of the most senior members of the Privy Council, which advises the monarch and dates to Norman times....
...Norman Baker, a former Liberal Democrat minister in David Cameron’s coalition government and author of And What Do You Do?...
...King Charles III on Monday said he would resolve to “faithfully” follow the late Queen Elizabeth II’s example of “selfless duty” to the nation in his first statement to parliament as monarch....
...Napoleon III’s portraitist was not Manet, the era’s radical figure painter, but the tame Franz Winterhalter, also lured to Britain by Prince Albert....
...His wife Alma chose the pretty, metallic ice-blue Sunbeam Alpine Series III that Grace Kelly drove in To Catch a Thief, the masterpiece romantic comedy-thriller....
...Beyond begins a textured stretch: Norman Foster’s beautiful offices, the monumental World’s End Estate and the classical former Lots Road Power Station (both on the north side) and the London Heliport....
...On Teenage Fanclub’s 1997 album Songs from Northern Britain, Norman Blake sang “I Don’t Want Control of You” to his then infant daughter....
...We see his rise from page in the service of Elizabeth de Burgh — wife of Edward III’s son Lionel, Duke of Clarence — to soldier and official for kings, travelling Europe to broker marriages....
...It was Long who was responsible for the plan, which was finally realised in 1998, and also for the design of the King’s Library, a stack of books (one belonging to King George III) encased in glass, which...
...At the Norman invasion of 1066, the abbey’s fate turned south....
...Its vast glass façade and high-tech, exposed steel structure placed it in the British engineering tradition and the approach of his contemporaries, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster....
...Breamore Mizmaze in Hampshire may have been created soon after the Norman Conquest. At Wing, Rutland, a very well maintained turf maze dates from at least the 17th century....
...She and her partner, the Anglo-Flemish sculptor Norman Mommens, introduced many of their bohemian friends to Salento....
...Just before the firm’s fourth-quarter conference call, two more rainmakers announced they were off: contemporary specialist Alex Rotter, and Impressionist and Modern guru David Norman....
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