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The Best So Far on the Disappearance of Kate Middleton
NB! · In the Press · London · Monarchies · Observations
Cosmopolitan was explaining, two weeks ago, how we shall learn of the death of King Charles III
London · Monarchies · Observations · Society
I don't understand why everyone on Telegram suddenly started posting about the death of King Charles III
I don't understand why everyone on Telegram suddenly started posting about the death of King Charles III. Clearly, people want views, but there has been no official announcement of the monarch's death. Rumours that Charles was dead began circulating in earnest as early as 17 March.
NB! · Aristocracy · London · Monarchies
Lord Great Chamberlain to Her Majesty from 1990 to 2022, the Marquess of Cholmondeley, husband of Rose Hanbury, who came under universal scrutiny amid the disappearance of the Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, as her supposed rival and close friend of Pr
NB! · Art · London · Observations · Humour
The habit of the city dweller: spotting signs of atmospheric pollution even in a seventeenth-century rural landscape with a view of the English palace of Whitehall
The habit of the city dweller: spotting signs of atmospheric pollution even in a seventeenth-century rural landscape with a view of the English palace of Whitehall. Dutch master Hendrik Danckerts
Aristocracy · Faith · London · Monarchies
Princess Alexandra of Kent attends a service at St George's Chapel in memory of King Constantine II of Greece, second cousin of King Charles III, who died a year ago
The Hon. Lady Ogilvy was in a wheelchair. With the years she looks ever more frail, yet she keeps her aristocratic bearing and grace, and is as beautiful as ever. At the ceremony Princess Alexandra was accompanied by her daughter Marina Ogilvy. Just look how alike they are. By reason
Architecture · Faith · London · Observations
A 1904 project envisaged a new neo-Gothic abbey in the immediate vicinity of Westminster Abbey, which had been judged too crowded with antiquities
A 1904 project envisaged a new neo-Gothic abbey in the immediate vicinity of Westminster Abbey, which had been judged too crowded with antiquities. The complex was to include the tallest building in Great Britain, far higher than the towers of Westminster, Big Ben and Saint Paul's Cathedral.
Architecture · Books · London · Museums
The British Library building with a dome 45 metres in diameter, built in the 1850s
The British Library building with a dome 45 metres in diameter, built in the 1850s. Or, to be precise, the circular Reading Room of the British Museum, with iron bookshelves running round its perimeter. The total length of the Reading Room's shelving is 25 kilometres. A considerable area
London · Pop Culture
Listening to the Dance of the Knights from Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra under Valery Gergiev, 2008
Let me remind you that Valery Gergiev was Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra from 2007 to 2015, after which he took charge of the Munich orchestra. This recording was named Disc of the Year at the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2011.
NB! · London · Monarchies · Observations
Prince Harry to Fly to Britain to See His Father After News of King Charles's Cancer Diagnosis
Prince Harry is to fly to Britain to see his father after the news that King Charles has been diagnosed with cancer. One wonders whether Harry will arrive home with his altogether charming wife, or alone after all.
NB! · Archive · London · Mores · Nature
Public Festivities on the Ice of the River Thames in London in 1683, with Entertainments, Refreshments and Booths
Public festivities on the ice of the River Thames in London in 1683, with entertainments, refreshments and booths. Evidently the townsfolk understood that such a fair comes only once, and everyone who could attended the spectacle