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...When she said “these events have touched us all, many of us personally, and are a painful legacy”, everyone knew she was remembering Prince Philip’s uncle Dickie Mountbatten, murdered by a Provisional IRA...
...Eventually, he was stabbed to death in a conspiracy backed by Charles V, and his body was hung from the window of his Piacenza palace....
...But the protracted nature of the leave-taking, which began in the US last year, signposts a showman’s reluctance to quit the scene....
...Hawkish members of the US state department and the British Foreign Office feared that he was going soft on communism because of his repeated call for a “summit” with Soviet leaders....
...The original design was chosen by Sir Reginald Blomfield, an eminent and conservative architect and academic, by then past his Edwardian prime....
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