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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....
...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....
...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...
...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....
...“Sales were enormous,” says managing director Henry Deakin. “We built part of the factory [in Birmingham] on the back of it.”...
...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....
...The Premier League and the English Football Association, whose president is Prince William, called off the weekend’s football, down to grassroots level....
...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...
...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....
...‘Richard III’, Stratford-upon-Avon, June 23-October 8, rsc.org.uk...
...Feilding’s grandparents bought the house in 1919, custodians in the footsteps not only of King Alfred, but also Henry III (who gave the then-incarnation of the house to his brother, the scheming Earl of...
...King Henry VIII last night reached an out-of-court settlement with surviving members of the Boleyn family....
...Napoleon III’s portraitist was not Manet, the era’s radical figure painter, but the tame Franz Winterhalter, also lured to Britain by Prince Albert....
...“Bettymania” was a brief but intense theatrical fad of the early 1800s, comprising a mere two years of adulation for the child actor William Henry Betty, who made his Covent Garden debut in 1804 aged 13....
...Henry and Wilson work beautifully together: Henry is both gloriously sassy and poignantly awkward, at one point tripping over her own feet in her haste to make a point; Wilson (who took over from Michael...
...William Kent building that has become a visual metonym for Savile Row tailoring....
...Henry Ford III is the son of Edsel Ford, and Ford English is the daughter of Bill Ford Jr....
...Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry that Unravelled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East, by Kim Ghattas, Headline, RRP£20/Henry Holt, RRP$27, 400 pages An original and...
...But the Public’s production went further — the character of Caesar, played by actor Gregg Henry in blond wig and baggy suit, resembled Trump himself. The affair exploded....
...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?...
...He has shifted towards drama, notably with the 2013 Oscar-nominated Philomena , and has co-written a film about the discovery of Richard III’s bones to be directed by Stephen Frears....
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