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...Richard III? Macbeth? The sly, double-crossing Edmund from King Lear? No, it’s Falstaff, the roguish old knight who hangs out with Prince Hal in east London’s less reputable taverns in Henry IV....
...Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 21 and 24 Robert Levin After a 20-year hiatus, fortepiano specialist Robert Levin and the Academy of Ancient Music have come together again to complete their promising cycle...
...His official 1953 Coronation portrait of Elizabeth II was in fact taken at home, according to the royal biographer Robert Hardman, with a fake Abbey backdrop....
...Some of the regalia used during the ceremony link back to the succession of 62 kings and queens of England and then Britain that preceded Charles III over 1,200 years....
...And if everyone with a valet could dress well, other male members of the royal family would dress better and more imaginatively (looking at you, Prince William)....
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...London mayor Sadiq Khan on Tuesday called for the Metropolitan Police to mount an urgent review of the circumstances of the arrest and detention of dozens of protesters during the coronation of King Charles III...
...The crowning of Charles III will be as close as the new King comes to receiving public acclamation in the absence of a ballot....
...can make to Sunak’s polling numbers after his party conference speech failed to produce the desired uplift and his King’s Speech last week received a collective shrug from observers — not least the FT’s Robert...
...to Bob “Chip” Roberts IV and Bill “Scooter” Williams V....
...But Fflur Roberts, head of luxury goods at market research provider Euromonitor International, says big royal events do boost sales....
...Robert Lacey, a royal historian and biographer, said the unstinting nature of the revelations had diminished him far more than the institution of the monarchy....
...King Charles III, then Prince of Wales, grins in a carefree way not seen much in the five decades since....
...King Charles III is not Queen Elizabeth II, obviously. It also reopens and reinvigorates discussions about the monarch’s involvement in politics, the topic of a great piece by Robert Shrimsley today....
...Charles convened his first Privy Council, a formal advisory body of mostly senior politicians, making an oath and personal declaration alongside the new Queen Consort, Camilla, and his eldest son, Prince William...
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...King Charles III will meet some of the United Kingdom’s most loyal subjects when he visits Northern Ireland on Tuesday at a time of deep political crisis and profound demographic change in the 101-year-old...
...Mary suggested the idea of a royal alliance to rule Scotland alongside her son James VI in 1581 after a visit from Robert Beale, another adviser to Elizabeth....
...Years ago, I saw Hank Williams’ grandson play a London gig. Hank Williams III, whose father Hank Williams Jr was also a singer, did a two-set show....
...George III pleaded: “I am sorry to say the King of England is not so rich a man.” But Our Billy prevailed. Richard Moon Edinburgh, UK...
...The revolutionaries had not fought against the “monarchical tyranny” of King George III, Mr Barr argued, but instead had the House of Commons in their sights....
...Master planning is not a 20th-century innovation — witness Haussmann’s remodelling of Paris under Napoleon III (“Cruel demolisher, what have you done with my past?...
...John Jacob Astor III’s house became a nexus for New York society and on his death in 1890, the site was passed to his son William Waldorf Astor (who later in England became a peer and bought Cliveden and...
...Yet as Robert Musil showed in his novel The Man Without Qualities, there was always something chimerical about the Habsburgs and the empire they had fashioned....
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