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...Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II, the longest-serving monarch in Europe, has announced she will abdicate after 52 years on the throne....
...That generation has now passed on and performances of all but the most popular operas by Johann Strauss II, Lehár and Offenbach have become a rarity outside their home countries....
John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London use period instruments and the full score for the first time
...Then, the next season, the Queen attended his show — her first and only time on the front row — and presented the young designer with the inaugural Queen Elizabeth II Award for Design....
...George II was on the throne. The Jacobite rising came to an end at the battle of Culloden....
...His spending plans are already deemed unrealistically tight by economists and the OBR’s head Richard Hughes described them as beyond “fiction”, because the government had not said how they could be achieved...
...have relished its themes of hubris punished and marital infidelity, notably in a much-travelled production by Robert Carsen that set the story among the British royal family with Juno as a Queen Elizabeth II-lookalike...
...This disc looks to the high watermark of the genre, the coronation of George II in 1727....
...Most are unique pieces, from Lukas Wegwerth’s Crystallization 183, confected from ceramic and salt crystals, to Rowan Mersh’s hand-dipped paint on birch Marmaros Metamorphosis II and an organic bronze volumetric...
...The bar for “my best” is clearly high: poet Amanda Gorman, model Naomi Campbell, actors Angela Bassett and Idris Elba, singer Tiwa Savage and King Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, king of the Ashanti in Ghana, were...
...There was a vocally agile mezzo Princess Eboli from Yulia Matochkina and John Relyea overcame gruffness of voice to portray a deeply felt Philip II (though the late Boris Christoff’s implacably bullet-like...
...But there was big actual news for business and not just the permanent extension of ‘full expensing’ of capital investment but also the publication of Lord Richard Harrington’s review of how the UK can do...
...Design classics II Valentine typewriter (Ettore Sottsass for Olivetti) Beogram 4000 turntable (Jacob Jensen for Bang & Olufsen) Beolit 707 portable radio (Jacob Jensen for Bang & Olufsen) Tom Hanks,...
...Good ones quietly set expectations for middle management, as Richard Cousins did at caterer Compass. Stock analysts are hedgehogs not foxes. Most analysts are smarter than me....
...Ryman based his designs on Schloss Neuschwanstein, built by Ludwig II of Bavaria in the mid-19th century – “in the style of the old German knights’ castles,” the “mad” king enthused to Richard Wagner, with...
...In The Virgin in the Garden, a novel set during Britain’s 1953 coronation celebrations for Elizabeth II, the writer AS Byatt introduced readers to two intellectual sisters....
...Soon after Richard Mille founded his eponymous watch brand in 1999 he adopted the slogan “A racing machine on the wrist”....
...This is a dish that delighted Richard II, and I’ve always wanted to try it. The chicken paste, richly scented with rosewater and saffron, is quite delicious....
...It is depressing to reflect on the history of ENO during Elizabeth II’s reign....
...In 2009, its founder Luke Bailes partnered with the American philanthropist and hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones II, who leased some 350,000 acres of Tanzania’s greater Serengeti....
...the subversive” with a taste for courting pillars of the postwar western order: presidents, premiers, the Israeli leaders whose approval this fervent Zionist craved; even popes (he published John Paul II...
...Born in Hainault in what is now Belgium, he came to Bavaria as a child to serve as “court dwarf”, but his aptitude for maths and drawing caught the attention of its ruler, Maximilian II Emanuel, who sent...
...JAMES LEWIS: Technological leadership has been the source of US strength since World War II....
...“China’s rise took a number of decades, from [President Richard] Nixon’s visit in the 1970s, and with increased speed in the 1990s. That has got us where we are 25 years later,” he says....
...All are accompanied with equal flair by pianist Lukas Geniušas....
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