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“I prefer to live in colour”
David Hockney turns 87!
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As Jacob Rees-Mogg Demonstrates, the British Parliament Is a Place Not Only for Debate but for the Afternoon Nap
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I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine: There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight; And there the snake
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One of Winston Churchill's last public appearances was at the open window of his own home on his ninetieth birthday
One of Winston Churchill's last public appearances was at the open window of his own home on his ninetieth birthday. That was the gift he chose to make to the public: a lion, by then gravely unwell and enfeebled, showing himself one last time. Barely a couple of
Aristocracy · Archive · London · Monarchies
The Dowager Queen Alexandra and her sister, the Russian Empress Maria Feodorovna, also a dowager, on their way to the coronation of George V, 22 June 1911
The daughters of King Christian IX of Denmark, the eldest, Alexandra of Denmark, and the middle one, Maria Feodorovna, were born three years apart. Both married at the same age, both to heirs of the greatest empires, and both lived to the age of 80. Alexandra of Denmark's
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Two Royal Artillery musicians with drum and bugle by a gun carriage, London, 1856
Photograph of Crimean War participants, London, 1856. Surviving trumpeters of the Royal Artillery hold a captured flagstaff with an eagle
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The Royal Arms Vanish from the British Prime Minister's Lectern
The royal arms have vanished from the lectern of the British Prime Minister. What might this mean?
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The First Official Portrait of King Charles III Says a Great Deal
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Today marks a year since the coronation of the new King of England, Charles III
London · Observations · Humour
Let us assume that the horses of the Apocalypse have already galloped through London, or at least two of the four?
Although it is reported in some quarters that there were in fact four frightened horses which bolted from a cavalry rehearsal in the Belgravia area and covered the distance to Shadwell in the east of London, injuring themselves and some of those they met along the way
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A Mockery of Modern Hairstyles, Daily Mirror, 13 July 1931
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