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...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....
...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....
...Which is a fancy way of saying that the pop concert in celebration of King Charles III’s coronation was several gems short of the full diadem....
...King Charles III will be crowned with St Edward’s Crown at Westminster Abbey, London on May 6....
...Beside the hieroglyphed Egyptian gate, azaleas emerge. The biodiverse woodland arboretum will soon be awash with magnolia, rhododendron, cherry blossom, scilla....
...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....
...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....
...The coffin was followed by King Charles III, Prince William, other members of the royal family and the King’s Household....
...Its garden is a relaxed mix of semi-formal beds with herbs, wild-flower areas, woven hazel and Welsh oak gates and garden furniture....
...The new monarch’s words came after a day of parliamentary tributes, gun salutes and raw emotion, as thousands of people gathered at the gates of Buckingham Palace to leave floral tributes to Elizabeth II...
...William Cecil, Elizabeth’s chief adviser, saw Mary as a threat to his Protestant aims for England, and put a stop to further plans....
...H Blairman & Sons, 15 Queen Anne’s Gate, London SW1 (blairman.co.uk) The place that means a lot to us is [Gilbert] Mangal 1 – the Turkish restaurant in Dalston where we have dinner every night....
...Grocery delivery app Instacart and Mobileye, the self-driving car unit of chipmaker Intel, are expected to be first out of the gate....
...It was as though I, Tnomab William Hale, had just completed an examination, or, at least, received another education. The bus was full....
...Hawkes was also a favourite with the royal family from the days of George III. In 1912 it became responsible for the supply and upkeep of the uniforms worn by the royal bodyguard....
...As parents take their children to school, a steel gate is being unlocked. Every day at the same time, a warden opens these gates that separate two communities from each other....
...Anyway, here are names and links — we’ll let you make your own mind up: Liquid 2 Venture Fund III L.P . . . . Lake Nona Fund / LN Sports & Health Tech Fund I, LP . . ....
...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....
...Amid the procession of guard gates, there’s not much street life here, and you need a car. Do you have a great Miami tip to share?...
...Losing The Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East, by Philip H Gordon, St Martin’s Press, RRP$29.99, 368 pages From Iran in 1953 to Libya in 2011, via Iraq in 2003 (as well as...
...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?...
...William Hill’s near to an agreement with CBS Sports, reports the Sunday Times, which had reported a fortnight ago that the same deal had fallen apart . . . ....
...The operator that still has the most upside is William Hill, in our view (Buy, 230p TP)....
...At one point, he delivered a lengthy address on hedgehogs, referencing Aristotle, Richard III, Sumerian cylinder seals, Mrs Tiggy-Winkle and Romany homeopathy....
...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....
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