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...King Charles III, then Prince of Wales, grins in a carefree way not seen much in the five decades since....
...Master planning is not a 20th-century innovation — witness Haussmann’s remodelling of Paris under Napoleon III (“Cruel demolisher, what have you done with my past?...
...Andrew Hill recalls William Wordsworth’s wisdom for the benefit of stressed out home workers....
...The first great modern graphic satirist was Romeyn de Hooghe, enlisted by William III at the end of the 17th century in his relentless war to the death with Louis XIV....
...In a famous address in the city in March 1813, Frederick William III of Prussia urged his “Volk” to throw off the hated French occupation....
...Encyclopedia Britannica was a concept conceived in 1768 in the head of a Scot: William Smellie (with much content borrowed from Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson)....
...Joan’s mother Isabelle had appealed in 1455 to the new pope, Calixtus III, who authorised a retrial and appointed judges....
...Two years later, Pope Alexander III canonised him. Henry was obliged to do penance at Becket’s tomb to avoid excommunication....
...and Camilla Luddington as Prince William and Kate Middleton (in William & Kate) 4. i) Carlos Slim; ii) Alice Walton (of Walmart); iii) Hobart, Tasmania 5. i) Hilary Swank; ii) Mariah Carey, a reported...
...Sure, there is Pope Benedict XVI. But with all respect for His Holiness, at 83 he is not what one might call a long-term option. That is why the Windsors were special....
...Recent demands have included a pair of the red shoes worn by the Pope and backstage passes to a Beyoncé concert....
...In 1699 William III commissioned Christopher Wren to build a gallery devoted to the Raphaels at Hampton Court that was open to the public; when Queen Victoria created the V&A, she decided in 1865 to make...
...John Julius Norwich conjures up Venice in 1077, the setting for the reconciliation of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and Pope Alexander III....
...The monarch with whom Hampton Court is perhaps most associated, however, is William III – William of Orange – who remodelled the palace in the 1690s....
...THE MYTH OF HITLER’S POPE: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis by David G....
...Charles's sons William and Harry - sports nuts themselves - might take him as their role model....
...James Shapiro is Professor of English at Columbia University and author of “1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare” (Faber and Faber)...
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