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...Richard III? Macbeth? The sly, double-crossing Edmund from King Lear? No, it’s Falstaff, the roguish old knight who hangs out with Prince Hal in east London’s less reputable taverns in Henry IV....
...But one of the absurd aspects of “Kate-Gate” is that celebrity photo retouching is routine. Portrait painters have been helping the royals for centuries....
...Henry James’s adored and sickly sister Alice gets credit for heralding her death in 1892 with a thoughtful family telegram: “Tenderest love to all. Farewell. Am going soon.”...
...Prince William, next in line to the throne, swore allegiance to his father, sealed by a kiss on his cheek....
...“William might be king, but the chances of George being king are rapidly shrinking.”...
...A quarter of a century later, in 1689, William III, representing himself and Queen Mary as anti-absolutists, brought members of the House of Commons into the Abbey by way of demonstrating that his would...
...Text by Jon Henry....
...An estimated 20mn people in the UK recently had a chance to see the Williams double act when he appeared as both performer and composer at the coronation of King Charles III....
...It wouldn’t have happened in Henry VIII’s day. However, the Carolean accession of 2023 must reckon with the diminished tools of command at modern royalty’s disposal....
...Spare by Prince Harry, Bantam £28, 416 pages Henry Mance is the FT’s chief features writer Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...“Sales were enormous,” says managing director Henry Deakin. “We built part of the factory [in Birmingham] on the back of it.”...
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...Other companies that plan to establish or expand their presence in Hong Kong include exchanges KuCoin, Gate.io and Huobi, which announced plans in February to move its headquarters from Singapore....
...Shortly before 12.30pm on Friday, a policeman announced to the crowd at Buckingham Palace that the gates were full, that all floral tributes should be laid elsewhere....
...Seven decades after he became heir to the throne aged three, King Charles III assumed the title following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday....
...Henry VIII loved Royal Tennis but had his servants do the hard work of hitting his first shot, hence it is called a “service”....
...Beside the hieroglyphed Egyptian gate, azaleas emerge. The biodiverse woodland arboretum will soon be awash with magnolia, rhododendron, cherry blossom, scilla....
...At the moment of her death, her son became King Charles III. The new King said his mother’s death was a moment of “the greatest sadness for me and all members of my family”....
...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...
...Straying outside the gates of Buckingham Palace for the first time since his accession last Friday, King Charles shook hands and conversed with members of the public....
...As Henry Mance writes in his superb profile of the new king: His decades as next in line meant he had to define the waiting role....
...The coffin was followed by King Charles III, Prince William, other members of the royal family and the King’s Household....
...A couple of years ago, I received a phone call from Henry Louis Gates Jr, director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard (and a friend), telling me that he had just...
..., Edward Williams Architects, London W10, UK...
...Its garden is a relaxed mix of semi-formal beds with herbs, wild-flower areas, woven hazel and Welsh oak gates and garden furniture....
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