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...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...
...Some of the regalia used during the ceremony link back to the succession of 62 kings and queens of England and then Britain that preceded Charles III over 1,200 years....
...Prince William, next in line to the throne, swore allegiance to his father, sealed by a kiss on his cheek....
...And it’s four yeses to the heirs, especially William, although we liked him more when he had hair and was much better-looking....
...The only Englishmen in Whatmore’s cast of characters, Edward Gibbon and Thomas Paine, both spent the most creative portions of their lives overseas....
...King Charles III will be crowned with St Edward’s Crown at Westminster Abbey, London on May 6....
...They include his father King Charles and his brother Prince William, with whom he says in his book that he had a physical altercation....
...Hear Hillary Clinton live in conversation with the FT’s US national editor Edward Luce on May 20 at our FTWeekend Festival....
...King Charles III, then Prince of Wales, grins in a carefree way not seen much in the five decades since....
...Neither his mother nor he might ever have taken the throne had it not been for Edward VIII’s decision to abdicate and marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson....
...The Duchy of Cornwall was established in 1337 by King Edward III for his son and heir Prince Edward, “to preserve the state and honour of the said duke according to the nobility of his kind”....
...Until his accession he was Prince of Wales, a title he conferred on his son, William, soon after his mother’s death, to the annoyance of some Welsh nationalists....
...Cornwall); Edward II (who gave it to his rumoured lover, Piers Gaveston); the Black Prince (father of Richard II); and Lord Williams of Thame, who built the current house on the medieval site....
...III in 1337....
...King Richard III yesterday reached an out-of-court settlement with Elizabeth Woodville, former Queen consort to his brother Edward IV, over her claims that he had murdered three of her sons and her brother...
...He ended up the richest merchant of his day, founding the Royal Exchange, modelled on the Antwerp Bourse, and becoming financial adviser to Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth....
...Elizabeth I (45 years on the throne), George III (almost 60 years) and Victoria (almost 64 years) all presided over periods of national and imperial expansion....
...Federal prosecutors in Washington on Wednesday said they had arrested and would charge Patrick Edward McCaughey III with assaulting police officer Daniel Hodges, as well as for disorderly conduct and entering...
...End-of-walk highlight: The astonishing Tijou Screen in the Privy Garden at Hampton Court Palace was commissioned c1690 by King William III and Queen Mary II from the recently arrived Huguenot craftsman,...
...Thomas Stanley features prominently in Shakespeare’s Richard III, in which he crowns Henry VII on the battlefield at Bosworth....
...A painting of William III hangs in the entrance to reflect the fact that the Prince of Orange spent several nights at nearby Hillsborough Fort before he gathered his armies on the Boyne in 1690 to defeat...
...In practice, the only successful instance, other than Nixon, of Americans removing a leader was George III....
...King George III also kept a coin collection. He promoted the hobby and encouraged much of the landed gentry to start collections of their own....
...Jamie Hodder-Williams now runs the division — but, in this unsentimental age, you can bet that he would not still be there unless he were very good at the job....
...“But — to my amazement — returned for Act III!!” Ramsay reported with glee....
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