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...“China’s gaining market share vis-à-vis other Asian exporters and possibly against exports elsewhere in the world,” said HSBC’s Neumann....
...Consider the recent high-profile appointment by LVMH of recording artist and producer Pharrell Williams as creative director of its menswear....
...In April 2021 we signed a letter to you warning that the then rapid growth of the quantity of money — of more than 15 per cent in the previous 12 months — would result in well above-target inflation...
...And if Haiti were to completely collapse, the Black Caucus might have a significant amount of criticism vis-à-vis the Biden administration....
...Glance at almost any photograph of the late Queen Mother and there he is: William Tallon, more faithful than a shadow....
...Before becoming prime minister, William Gladstone, Winston Churchill and Harold Wilson were all presidents of what?...
...In France in 2018, yellow high-vis vests, or gilets jaunes (which all motorists in the country must keep in their car by law) became the symbol of anti-government protests....
...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)....
...Long-rumoured to be in the running to replace the late Virgil Abloh at Louis Vuitton, she has hardly been held up by losing out on the gig to Pharrell Williams....
...In 1937 the Dean of Westminster was about to set the colobium sindonis (the white linen shift beneath his robe) on King George VI inside out....
...They include his father King Charles and his brother Prince William, with whom he says in his book that he had a physical altercation....
...William Cecil, Elizabeth’s chief adviser, saw Mary as a threat to his Protestant aims for England, and put a stop to further plans....
...The Cullinan II diamond is in the Imperial State Crown, made by Garrard for the coronation of King George VI in 1937, which King Charles III will also wear during the Westminster Abbey service....
...The coffin was followed by King Charles III, Prince William, other members of the royal family and the King’s Household....
...Kenya’s new president, William Ruto, attended Queen Elizabeth’s funeral on Monday in his first official visit to any country since taking office last week....
...That moment represents the completion of a circle started when George VI died, the instruments were removed from his coffin and subsequently presented to the late Queen at her coronation in 1953....
...a Maori feather cloak, receives a warm welcome in New Zealand during her silver jubilee tour 1982: The Queen, Prince Charles, Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince Philip and the Queen Mother after Prince William...
...Westminster Abbey has been the site of royal coronations since William the Conqueror in 1066....
...Each covers the tumultuous reign of one of the Stewart monarchs who ruled in Scotland from 1424 until James VI moved to London after the 1603 royal union with England and became James I....
...A 16-month delay followed the death of George VI on February 6 1952, and the coronation of his daughter Elizabeth II on June 3 1953....
...The US president did not attend King George VI’s funeral in 1952. On Monday, there were some smiles, some furrowed brows — including from William, the Prince of Wales, as he walked behind the coffin....
...Quinn’s sentiment speaks to one of the chief attributes that Queen Elizabeth has cultivated since assuming the throne at the age of 25 on the death of her father King George VI in 1952: to have remained...
...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...
...The task of further renewal now falls to Charles as King, his second wife Camilla as Queen Consort, and Charles’s elder son William and his wife Kate....
...The Queen, according to William Feaver’s Freud biography, “kept silent in so far as she could” because, as she explained, “when he talks, he stops painting”....
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