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...Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth declared a critical incident on Wednesday after reporting that its accident and emergency department was “full”....
...The two songs by Bonds, both settings of Langston Hughes, were a welcome choice, never sounding second-best alongside the more celebrated Gershwin....
...Robert Hughes called it “the most intense and abrupt image of lesbian sex in the history of art”....
...Motion claims that he had never considered whether he might be interested in the poet laureateship — the poet appointed by the UK monarch to write verse for national occasions — but when Ted Hughes died...
...“[Markets are] ‘reacting to news’, while [we] ‘got it wrong’,” Hughes said....
...The moment Truss sat down, she was passed a note informing her the Queen was on her deathbed. A chill descended over the chamber....
...We jogged downhill, gulping at the Dales’ clean air, to make it in time for lunch in Litton at The Queens Arms — a feast of triple-cooked beef-dripping chips and Yorkshire steak and ale pie....
...At Magdalene College, Cambridge, students can dine by candlelight in the early-16th-century hall, complete with elaborate Queen Anne-era painted armorial and vast stained-glass windows....
...And The best gift I’ve received is a letter from Sylvia Plath to Ted Hughes that Kim Jones gave me....
...“The Queen sitting alone, mourning the loss of her husband, was the defining image of lockdown,” Sir Ed Davey, Liberal Democrat leader, said on Twitter....
...Jacob Rees-Mogg, Brexit opportunities minister, defended Johnson on Monday after it emerged that fines had been issued to Downing Street staff for a party held at Number 10 the night before Queen Elizabeth...
...A white paper policy document is expected before the end of the month and proposals for the sale are expected to be included in a new media bill in next month’s Queen’s Speech....
...Johnson’s team insists it was always focused on European security and that Britain was sending troops to the Russian border in Estonia last year even as it was despatching its new aircraft carrier, HMS Queen...
...Number 10 also apologised to the Queen on Friday for Number 10 parties on the eve of Prince Philip’s funeral in April 2021....
...Described by the critic Robert Hughes as “the thinking person’s Walt Disney”, Oldenburg’s deification of the lowly and lightweight cocked a snook at tradition....
...Laura Hughes is FT political and diplomatic correspondent. Additional reporting by Andy Bounds in Brussels Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...In a separate announcement, the Queen has appointed former prime minister Tony Blair a knight companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, the most senior order of chivalry and one that is in her personal...
...The rot sets in with a woman, his new queen, Margaret of Anjou....
...And silk scarves reign at Totême, where collections see them tied around the neck, hung over shoulders or knotted – à la Queen Elizabeth – and tied over the head....
...armed forces, but also the commitment and professionalism required to keep our people and the UK’s interests safe, by purchasing world-class equipment such as Lightning II stealth fighter jets and the Queen...
...Of course, many women follow them – and female chefs such as Rosie Mackean (aka the “Pasta Queen”) offer a similarly down-to-earth approach....
...Additional reporting by Laura Hughes...
...My colleagues George Parker and Laura Hughes have written an in-depth feature for the weekend magazine on the politician the tabloid press like to call “Queen Liz”....
...Like Jacobean calendar housebuilders, Hughes was keen to appeal to the monarch; he revelled in his nickname, HRH, and managed to wrangle a perch for one of his daughters as a lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria...
...“People work way beyond what they are expected to do in their job descriptions,” Daniel Shannon-Hughes, a branch representative for Unison, which represents security and support staff as well as workers...
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