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...The death of Queen Elizabeth II was a possibility this time last year but I focused instead on her platinum jubilee celebrations, which (thankfully) she and the nation still managed to enjoy....
...In his testaments, emperor Charles V advised his young son — who became Philip II, head of the great Spanish empire in the 16th century — never to identify with only one faction at court or make decisions...
...It kept emperors (Charles V, then Philip II) at suspicious arm’s length but wilted when their stewardship stiffened into close-up domination....
...Our menu today is actually inspired by the heavy delicatessen fare beloved of her maternal grandfather, Robert Bonowitz, who helped raise her....
...Queen Elizabeth II remains a living link to this era, as her recent TV addresses have demonstrated....
...On Monday the UK’s Allen & Overy called time on its longstanding ambition to merge with Los Angeles-based rival O’Melveny & Myers....
...Stowe, for instance, is steeped in political, sexual and royal messages including the Temple of Modern Virtue, built as a ruin around a decapitated bust resembling Robert Walpole....
...Robert De Niro’s bullheaded pugilist fights himself, his brother (Joe Pesci) and the picador lances of his own paranoia....
...Kate Allen Is MSCI’s inclusion of more Chinese stocks a blessing or a curse?...
...All of this puts serious doubts on Vision Fund II....
...Florent spent almost two decades at Allen & Overy. Orrick has hired Hannah Roscoe as a partner in the law firm’s energy and infrastructure practice....
...“It is a place of inspiration as well as a source of information,” says the explorer Benedict Allen....
...Allen Lane, revered as the founder of Penguin, “did not appear ever to have read a whole book”, according to a quote in Jeremy Lewis’ Penguin Special....
...A life-long networker and self-advancer, Sloane was helped initially by the Anglo-Irish chemist and fellow of the Royal Society, Robert Boyle....
...He considers minor writers such as Robert Wilson and George Peele and canonical figures including Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser and, above all, William Shakespeare....
...’s vision colliding with pedestrians’ instincts: the Grade II-listed Barbican complex....
...Additional reporting by Anna Nicolaou in New York Letter in response to this report: Pope’s general conclusions fit with Christian values / From Robert F Illing...
...JAR Paris Vol II , by Pierre Genet and Joel Arthur Rosenthal, JAR Vol II, RRP$800 In 2003, Rosenthal published the limited edition 10lb-plus JAR Paris....
...Humphries II....
...His reconstruction of the dispute with King Henry II that led to Becket’s murder is masterful and makes for a compelling read....
...Their shortcomings led millions of people into dire poverty and created a fertile environment for World War II....
...Gibbs then passed it on to William Robert Prince of the Linnaean Botanic Garden in Flushing, Long Island, who named it Isabella (Vitis isabellae) in 1822 in honour of the colonel’s wife, Mrs Isabella Gibbs...
...The World America Made, by Robert Kagan, Knopf, RRP$21, 160 pages A short book that attracted Obama’s attention....
...Robert Redford, Clint Eastwood, Faye Dunaway were all mooted for previous versions....
...Andrew Roberts is author of ‘The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War’ (Penguin)...
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