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...When Princess Margaret fell in love with Group Captain Peter Townsend, a commoner and a divorcee, the Queen — supreme governor of the Church of England — stayed aloof and the princess finally renounced Townsend...
...Many thought the Queen had been too harsh about her sister Princess Margaret's relationship with divorcee and commoner Group Captain Peter Townsend....
...But “a wonderful high-school teacher, Elizabeth Ring” secretly applied on her behalf to Colby College in Maine....
...Had Moran not also come from here, it would still have made the perfect backdrop, an hour in a battered van from the Leicester home of an obvious inspiration, Sue Townsend’s teenage diarist Adrian Mole....
...His professor there, Elizabeth Hill, a fierce anti-communist who had grown up Russian-British in pre-revolutionary St Petersburg, imbued him with a love of her lost homeland....
...Townsend has worked at Morrison & Foerster since 1984 and was co-chair of the firm’s M&A practice....
...she implores her sister, Princess Margaret, who is still furious about the thwarting of her marriage to Captain Townsend....
...Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953 came six years after India had gained its independence from the British Raj....
...Interview by Carola Long Photographs: Jason Bell/Netflix; Alex Bailey/Netflix; Robert Viglasky/Netflix Letter in response to this article Townsend’s wings / From Denise Larking Coste...
...Shortlisted contenders include the US group CH2M Hill; Turner & Townsend; EC Harris; and joint ventures between Aecom and Mace, and Capita Property Infrastructure and Gleeds Cost Management....
...On the other hand he includes Anglo-Irish Elizabeth Bowen, “whose subject seems indubitably British”....
...The place of Craske’s art in a love-triangle between the poet Valentine Ackland, the novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner and the heiress and writer Elizabeth Wade White is also interesting....
...Additional reporting by Elizabeth Rigby and Claer Barrett ——————————————- Letter in response to this report: Hark back to that British brew in the Big Apple / From Stan Trybulski...
...Chris Townsend will receive a package of up to £200,000 a year in salary and bonuses, making him among the top 40 best-paid public servants in the country, according to the Cabinet Office....
...St Vincent’s was run by the Daughters of Charity, and the sisters themselves worked as RNs on the floors. The Catholicity of the place had to have given comfort....
...Ocado is till hoping to raise £400m, according to the FT’s Elizabeth Rigby....
...Niamh Cusack gives a rich, warm performance as this hard-pressed, intelligent woman and is similarly effective at the other end of the spectrum, playing a chalk-faced Queen Elizabeth I in Rebecca Lenkiewicz...
...She Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth, by Helen Castor, Faber RRP£20 With driving narratives and vivid details from contemporary chronicles, Castor tells the stories of four women who...
...“Western banks and insurers are not just looking at Russia’s ability to pay but its willingness to pay,” said Elizabeth Stephens, credit and political risk analysis head at Jardine Lloyd Thompson....
...In London's Queen Elizabeth II conference centre there was standing room only....
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