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...In the latest attack, on Monday, the Houthis fired two missiles at the MSC Sky II, a container ship operated by Geneva-based Mediterranean Shipping Company, the world’s biggest container shipping line....
...His official 1953 Coronation portrait of Elizabeth II was in fact taken at home, according to the royal biographer Robert Hardman, with a fake Abbey backdrop....
...the Great Pyramid of Giza (itself visible from the museum’s panoramic windows); the Merneptah Pillar; and, in the soaring atrium, the 3,200-year-old, 83-tonne, 11-metre-high monumental figure of Ramesses II...
...As Jennifer Williams reports, only about 31 per cent of the pot has been spent to date....
...to Bob “Chip” Roberts IV and Bill “Scooter” Williams V....
...At first glance, the monarchy in the transition from Queen Elizabeth II to her son is delivering the stability and continuity it is designed to represent....
...Stuart-era royal chef Robert May is on his feet. “Allow me to demonstrate what a real banquet means.”...
...Email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com. Bear market rally redux Markets are feeling better all of a sudden....
...But Fflur Roberts, head of luxury goods at market research provider Euromonitor International, says big royal events do boost sales....
...Robert Lacey, a royal historian and biographer, said the unstinting nature of the revelations had diminished him far more than the institution of the monarchy....
...Westminster Abbey has been the site of royal coronations since William the Conqueror in 1066....
...William Dalrymple Borobudur, Java My travel discovery of the year was unquestionably Borobudur in Java, the largest and most spectacular Buddhist temple in the world....
...St George’s Chapel, where the late Queen will be interred on Monday, has been the venue for every funeral and burial of a UK monarch since George II was buried in Westminster Abbey in 1760....
...Sophy Roberts is a regular FT travel contributor and author of ‘The Lost Pianos of Siberia’ (Black Swan)....
...James II fled and William and Mary ushered in a constitutional monarchy, what Healey calls “the last revolution” of 1688-89....
...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 weight of history – particularly when pertaining to the first prime minister of Great Britain who served under both George I and II – can be heavy going, and setting up your family life in a historic...
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...Robert Harris’s new historical thriller, Act of Oblivion, tells the story of the manhunt for two of these king-killers, Colonel Edward Whalley and Colonel William Goffe....
...The following year, in November 1978, Schwartz was due to be in Rome to photograph the new pope, John Paul II....
...His musical interests range from Wagner to Leonard Cohen to jazz. A polo player and huntsman, he is not known to enjoy watching mainstream sport....
...Residents sometimes offered Bard art in lieu of rent, as the unknown Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe did when they checked in in 1969....
...Shankill Road, the centre of the largely Protestant, unionist community that cherishes its British identity, blinked back tears as they laid flowers at a giant mural to honour the late Queen Elizabeth II...
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