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...People are responding positively: he recently met Robbie Williams on a weekend in Gstaad, and the singer instantly ordered some pieces, which he wore for his 50th birthday....
...Acts announced so far include Andrea Bocelli and Robbie Williams — with plenty more to come. 2023’s line-up included Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen and Guns N’ Roses....
...Playhouse, London More national soul-searching is on the agenda for Holly Race Roughan’s intense, stripped-down version of Henry V....
...“Sales were enormous,” says managing director Henry Deakin. “We built part of the factory [in Birmingham] on the back of it.”...
...It has allowed the Bodleian to hire a curator of photography for the very first time, who will be able to marshal a huge and disparate holding that ranges from William Henry Fox Talbot’s personal archive...
...While Prince Charles seemed to be no great moderniser, his two sons by Diana, William and Harry, returned a more popular image to the royal family, epitomised in 2011 by Prince William's Westminster Abbey...
...A natural to play Hamlet on stage, he did, in 1979, and among his 1980s movies, he also appeared in three off-Broadway Shakespeare productions, Henry V, Richard II and A Midsummer Night’s Dream....
...“I don’t consciously model myself on Henry V,” he laughs, adding that the answer lies in the pluralism of the plays and the fact that they demand true ensemble playing (Doran begins the rehearsal process...
...At Patou, designer Guillaume Henry took the sportswear codes established by the brand’s namesake in the 1920s and contradicted them with full, quilted skirts, roll-necks and layers of gold chains....
...The King continues to dispute claims that he ordered the killing of the rightful monarch Edward V and his younger brother Richard, then imprisoned in the Tower of London....
...It was part of a wider scheme of decoration that signalled, through a series of allusive images, the 1st Duke’s allegiance to the political revolution that saw the Protestant William of Orange and his wife...
...Additional reporting by Sam Fleming in Brussels, Christian Shepherd in Beijing and Henry Foy in Moscow...
...Antoine GodinUniversité Sorbonne Paris Nord, France Michael JacobsProfessor of Political Economy, University of Sheffield Ronan PalmerDirector Clean Economy, E3G Dirk EhntsPufendorf-Gesellschaft Berlin e.V....
...Meanwhile backstage, props, costumes and wigs need to be separated, and keeping cast members safe is a military operation worthy of Henry V. Shakespeare was not a man for a two-hander....
...The Courtenays arrived with Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1154 and one forebear, Richard Courtenay, was buried with Henry V in Westminster Abbey, after dying of dysentery in Henry’s tent at the Siege of Harfleur...
...Henry Mance is the FT’s chief features writer Main image is ‘USA. New York City. Manhattan....
...Kingston Polymath 1,011: Dr S Bailey, Swindon Crossword 16,099: Suzanne P Wilson, Windermere; D Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V...
...“If I were King of Lisbon, I would soon rule over the whole world,” said Charles V of Portugal’s 16th-century capital....
...Holidaymakers can even find a shopping experience frozen in time at Disney’s US theme parks, where the first “themed land” is always Main Street USA....
...Our house was built in 1889 by the heir to a steam-locomotive fortune, William Burnham of Philadelphia: all lathed cypress panelling, no expense spared....
...In Hal’s case, the first doubter is the fourth king Henry (Ben Mendelsohn). But not for long, another editorial intervention leaving all of Henry IV as a mere hors d’oeuvre for Henry V....
...The ambitious absolutists Henry VIII and Charles I had enticed Holbein and Van Dyck from Europe....
...A more ingenious birther theory purports that Barack Obama traces his lineage from William the Lion, a 13th-century king of Scotland....
...On the eve of the battle of Agincourt, Shakespeare has King Henry V walking unrecognised among his troops where he hears some harsh words....
...Henry Mance is the FT’s chief feature writer. Yuichiro Kanematsu is a Nikkei staff writer....
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