Hints and tips:
...of the crop harvested by the black-clad nuns who serve at the 150-year-old complex on the Mount of Olives will function as something altogether more exalted: the holy oil that will anoint King Charles III...
...There is a piping Concerto for Flute by Giuseppe Sammartini, a viola da gamba sonata by Pietro Castrucci, and a selection of still familiar Scottish tunes arranged by James Oswald....
...A further item — Roxanna Panufnik’s Coronation Sanctus — harked back to the coronation of King Charles III in May....
...As a keen history buff, the King will be aware that James I’s assumption of divine authority above statute law, his distaste for public ceremonies, fed a reaction that would end with his son Charles’s execution...
...In 1694, the Bank of England was founded to help William III finance war with France....
...King Charles III faces a delicate task ahead of his mother’s funeral stewarding leaders of the 56-member Commonwealth who have questions about the future of the organisation on their mind....
...Witness his new film, The Lost King, retelling the 2012 true story of amateur historian Philippa Langley (Sally Hawkins), who helps find the remains of Richard III under a car park in Leicester....
...City corporate raiders Lord James Hanson, Sir Gordon White and Sir Gerry Robinson are long gone. Entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson is these days mostly active in the US....
...It follows the departure of James Anderson, the driving force behind Baillie Gifford’s investment strategy, who made a well-timed exit last year and was replaced by his co-manager Tom Slater, and Lawrence...
...It was the middle of the lunchtime rush in the Four Seasons, and the brass rods of Richard Lippold’s sculpture hung above, like abstractions of weightless swords. III....
...Cornwall); Edward II (who gave it to his rumoured lover, Piers Gaveston); the Black Prince (father of Richard II); and Lord Williams of Thame, who built the current house on the medieval site....
...Another highlight is a long-case “grandfather” clock from the 1680s by Richard Greenhill....
...“My dear Leighton,” replied James McNeill Whistler, “why do you ever begin yours?”...
...After Irvine alerted the local authority, the dig was handed over to Ulas, the commercial archaeology unit of the University of Leicester, which previously handled the disinterment of King Richard III’s...
...He cast James McAvoy as Macbeth, Martin Freeman as Richard III and Kit Harington as Faustus....
...Edward Sexton, Richard James, Huntsman, Hermès, Husbands Paris and Ralph Lauren are just a few....
...Under the new Basel III banking framework, which came into force for all bullion centres other than London in June, not all gold assets will be considered equal....
...When James Anderson first invested in Amazon in 2004, the fund manager from Baillie Gifford in Edinburgh wasn’t offered a meeting with the ecommerce group’s founder, Jeff Bezos....
...Anderson will retire from Edinburgh-based Baillie Gifford in April, when he will hand over Scottish Mortgage to Tom Slater, who has been its joint manager since 2015....
...Ostling then followed with the pensive solo elegy of James Lee III’s Chôro sem tristeza....
...He had writer’s block… he wanted my take on Richard III, The Scottish Play, As You Like It. That is where Shakespeare stuff happened.”...
...During the Californian gold rush, there are stories of miners thronging improvised theatres to see Richard III and King Lear, and touring companies at every corner of the frontier....
...If that sounds familiar, well, it’s intended to do so: the American playwright Mike Lew’s provocative school comedy Teenage Dick is a deliberate twist on Shakespeare’s Richard III....
...Daniel Slater’s production looks good, placing a mini Tower of Babel as its centrepiece, and tells the story of the fall of Babylon in a trendy but timeless style....
...There was also Richard’s old foil, the double bassist Danny Thompson, confusingly no relation at all....
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