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...He also led the broadcaster’s coverage for national events such as Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral and King Charles III’s coronation....
...“In terms of the royal fish prerogative,” White says, “this goes back to Edward II in 1322, and a statute that dictates, ‘the King shall have . . . throughout the realm, whales and great sturgeons taken...
...Edwards is one of the best-known news readers at the BBC, helming its coverage of the UK’s most important state and international events, including Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral and King Charles III’s coronation...
...Following a couple of wildly over-the-top Handel productions — Saul with its astoundingly brilliant visuals, Alcina convoluted and unconvincing — the latest of the festival’s Handel directors, Adele Thomas...
...Charles II’s immense orchestration of magnificence in 1661 was the ceremonial and festive rejection of regicide Puritanism and perhaps of Cromwell’s presumption in seating himself in St Edward’s Chair for...
...The monogram of Queen Elizabeth II, so long gracing the regal red curtains, has been covered over in black....
...Separately, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond president Thomas Barkin will speak on the economic outlook before the Top of Virginia Economic Summit 2022....
...Massive data leak exposes hidden wealth of world leaders King Abdullah II of Jordan secretly bought properties worth more than $100m in London, Washington and Malibu, according to leaked documents obtained...
...Turn right up South Audley Street and follow it to Grosvenor Square, admiring the 19th-century Japonisant-Flemish extravaganza that is Thomas Goode and the almost New England simplicity of the Grosvenor...
...Only under questioning did Fletcher recall a facetious tweet she had sent as debate raged over the statue of slave trader Edward Colston, which was tipped into Bristol Harbour last year....
...Those parts of the home counties are likely to remain the most popular, says Edwards....
...Edward VII loathed how it had ruined his view across the gardens at Buckingham Palace....
...Henry II, can we go back to this party you attended with the men who murdered Thomas Becket? I never went to a party with them....
...Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini’s Edward II for Berlin’s Deutsche Oper tells the story of the 14th-century English monarch who was certainly more fond of his male friend than his wife, and came to a horrible...
...They lent money to the English kings Edward I and II to pay for the Crusades, investing returns in land. “Somehow we went from being bankers to farmers. I don’t know if that was a good idea.”...
...Reeve pursues its legacy through Thomas Barrett’s Lee Priory, in Kent, and William Beckford’s Gothic skyscrapers in Bath and at Fonthill, Wiltshire....
...Its solvency capital ratio, a measure of capital available as a proportion of the minimum required under the Solvency II rules, came in at 135 per cent, which is below the ratios reported by other large,...
...English dealer Anthony Woodburn is selling for £65,000 a modestly sized walnut veneered long-case clock, inlaid with panels of floral marquetry from the period of Charles II (c1685)....
...Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Lafayette all felt that they were playing parts on the stage of historical destiny....
...The alleged hack — dubbed Dapino Gamma and Highland Fling in apparently leaked GCHQ documents — took place between 2010 and 2011, said The Intercept, which secured the documents from NSA whistleblower Edward...
...Furthermore, it stared straight into the face of St James’s Palace, as though the slimy politician were trying to eclipse the king, Thomas Wolsey-style....
...Each book will be about 25,000 words, the same for Elizabeth II, who has already inspired trillions of words, as for Edward V, one of the “Princes in the Tower” (who may or may not have been murdered by...
...A country that has very little memory of any other monarch will unite in Churchillian fashion when Queen Elizabeth II dies. Could it happen for another British politician?...
...Written (probably) by the Abbot, Bernard, on behalf of nobles who supported the excommunicated king, Robert the Bruce, the letter asserted Scotland’s independence from the England of Edward II....
...Robert the Bruce may have been the victor of Bannockburn, destroying the English forces of Edward II; but he was also lord of the manor in Tottenham and his grandfather, the first Robert Bruce of Annandale...
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