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...This was not destined to be the case for Elizabeth II....
...As Northern Ireland descended into sectarian violence in 1970, Britain’s home secretary Reginald Maudling travelled to Belfast for talks with Protestant and Catholic leaders....
...Cardinal Reginald Pole, an English prelate, fulminated that Machiavelli’s works had been written by “the finger of Satan”. Generation after generation kept up the attacks....
...Moreover, Catherine of Braganza would probably not have married Charles II and Britain would not have prospered as we did — see Sir John Elliott’s excellent book The Revolt of the Catalans....
...Charles II “yearned for a Versailles of his own”, and tried to create one in St James’s Park with the difference that this would be open (on a very conditional basis) to the public....
...In Ovington Square, a Grade II-listed freehold five-bedroom house is on the market with the same agents for £9m....
...Macmillan’s motivation was primarily political, as was that of his main opponent, President Charles de Gaulle of France....
...It called for (i) Withdrawal of Israel armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict; (ii) Termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for and acknowledgment of the...
...Charles Dunstone, chairman, Carphone Warehouse. Peter Fahy, chief constable, Greater Manchester Police. Thomas Hughes-Hallett, chief executive, Marie Curie Cancer Care....
...Stuart Davis, Joseph Stella, Reginald Marsh, Guy Pène du Bois and William Glackens had their first one-man shows there....
...Five Minds for the Future By Howard Gardner Harvard Business School Press £14.99, 196 pages FT bookshop price: £11.99 Harvard psychologist Prof Gardner continues his exploration of the different “intelligences...
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