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...There are several player kings in Robert Icke’s fresh, fleet, state-of-the-nation staging of Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays — all of them between a rock and a hard place....
...It also reminds us that Henry IV usurped the throne. “It occurred to me that Henry IV’s only been on the throne for four or five years,” says Icke. “And this situation was never the plan....
...For instance, look at what happened when the Anglophile investment banker Michael Klein announced in February 2021 that his Churchill Capital IV Corp, one of the many Spacs launched by him, was going to...
...While attending a major funeral was costly (more than £1,000 in today’s currency for a restricted view of the crimson-covered coffins containing George IV’s 21-year-old daughter Princess Charlotte and her...
...His witness William Pitt (then prime minister) became too emotional to sign the register....
...There, among the Arctic ice floes, Captain William Day is seeking Jesse Stevens, his former second-in-command who has gone missing along with his ship and crew....
...Mariquita is one of the world’s most celebrated vintage yachts, an elegant 19-metre beauty built by William Fife III of Scotland and launched in 1911....
...to Bob “Chip” Roberts IV and Bill “Scooter” Williams V....
...Surprisingly, William IV felt so strongly in 1831 that the coronation was a ridiculous and expensive anomaly that he let it be known it ought to be done away with....
...Here’s what the authors (Andrea Ajello, Michele Cavallo, Giovanni Favara, William Peterman, John Schindler IV, and Nitish Sinha) have to say: While existing FCIs typically measure whether financial conditions...
...He talks about buying “a Regency/William IV Mahogany Four-Poster bed (As Found)”, as the auction house’s catalogue described it....
...They begin with his early direct style: “Catherine Moore” (1752), fiancée of architect William Chambers, meets us with a frank, intelligent gaze....
...The focus on Ellen allows Munro to imagine a back-story to an infamously racist paean to a black woman composed by Scots poet William Dunbar in the early 16th century, and to explore immigrant experiences...
...“She moves along a wall of pictures, some unattributed and others by William Hogarth or Thomas Gainsborough, gesturing at the changes in skirt shape....
...Queen Consort has not commissioned a new crown for the coronation but will use Queen Mary’s Crown, made by Garrard for the consort of King George V in 1911, after the piece is reset with the Cullinan III, IV...
...The highest is a late-17th century portrait plate of William III in English Delft (£1,400-£1,800); among the lowest is an 1831 jug featuring a portrait of William IV (£30-£50)....
...Later, William IV gave Biffin a pension of £12 a year....
...“In France one lives in the imagination of the past; in England everything is new and on an improved plan,” the essayist William Hazlitt wrote....
...Aged 73, Charles is also the oldest person to assume the throne, surpassing William IV, who became king aged 64 in 1830. His life has tracked the evolution of the monarchy itself....
...Dr William Dixon London SE18, UK Dr David Wilson Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, UK...
...Jordan had a long relationship with the king’s brother, the Duke of Clarence, later William IV, bearing him 10 little FitzClarences before being discarded....
...The King’s lawyers stressed that this was not an admission of guilt and that the allegations against him were perpetuated by royal propagandist William Shakespeare, the Omid Scobie of his day....
...It is very rare to settle a case for more than the damages that we originally pleaded,” said William Reid IV, an attorney for the plaintiffs whose estimate of Renren’s liability was about $240m....
...It is home to three portraits of Mary Robinson, a mistress of the Prince of Wales, later George IV....
...January sees publication of Ramachandra Guha’s Rebels Against the Raj (William Collins, January), the story of the foreign fighters who joined the struggle against the Raj....
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