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Nine kilometres of cord went into the appliqué beard of Chernomor in Anton Oconeshnikov's production of Ruslan and Lyudmila at the Alexandrinsky Theatre. Premiere on 20 May, hurry to see it
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The back of St Edward's Chair is covered in inscriptions. They are no part of its decoration: they are the marks of vandalism to which the chair was subjected over the centuries. For most of its 700-year history it stood in Westminster Abbey like an ordinary armchair,
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King Charles III of England is a great-great-great-grandson of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia. He stands in the same degree of kinship to a reigning Russian monarch as the present heir to the headship of the House of Romanov, George Mikhailovich, who is a great-great-great-
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It Really Is Beautiful! Do you know what a coronation is for, in precisely the form it takes, quite apart from all its state, religious and political symbolism? So that people may grasp that not everything in this world must be only as it is now, and that, on the
Books · London · Monarchies · Observations · Humour
Queen Camilla marked the coronation in her own way, placing red telephone boxes stocked with new books across London in the name of her book blog, from which anyone may help themselves. But "Pride and Prejudice" is, of course, a curious choice for Camilla, who has surely never
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Archaeology · Faith · Monarchies · Museums
Britain's Oldest Crown Belonged to a Druid, Not a Monarch. The bronze crown in the collection of the British Museum dates from the second century BC. It is made of bronze and was found at Mill Hill in the county of Kent in 1988. One of the richest
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