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The death of George V in the very first days of 1936 was not natural

The death of George V in the very first days of 1936 was not natural. The king's physician administered to him a lethal mixture of morphine and cocaine. By then the king had lapsed into a coma owing to bronchial complications. It is believed that the royal physician

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An excellent infographic describing the standards, flags and banners displayed at the coronation of Elizabeth II

An excellent infographic describing the standards, flags and banners displayed at the coronation of Elizabeth II. The English Tatler

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Tatler cover devoted to the coronation of Elizabeth II, June 1953

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Vivienne Westwood in an ermine cape and a fur-trimmed crown hat of her own design, in a shoot for Vogue, August 1987

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The First and Last Photographs of Elizabeth II

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First, skin colour is sometimes the only thing that unites black people born in different countries

First, skin colour is sometimes the only thing that unites black people born in different countries. A black man from the Bronx has far more in common with a white man from the Bronx than with a black man from London, and still more so than with a black man

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A Times columnist has criticised the ever-whining Meghan Markle, forever bemoaning persecution over the colour of her skin, and the black activist who caused the royal family to dismiss an 83-year-old maid of honour and made her repent before the whole wo

A Times columnist has criticised the ever-whining Meghan Markle, forever bemoaning persecution over the colour of her skin, and the black activist who caused the royal family to dismiss an 83-year-old maid of honour and made her repent before the whole world of a transgression she never

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The Humiliations of an 83-Year-Old Lady Who Gave Her Whole Life to Serving the Crown Continue

The humiliations of an 83-year-old lady who gave her whole life to serving the Crown continue. Did you think only in Russia are people made to apologise on camera? Baroness Hussey, one of Elizabeth II's closest ladies-in-waiting, has once again been compelled to apologise

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Hunt the slipper, or Find the Slipper: an old English game in which the “customer” must find a slipper, shoe, toy or present that the “cobblers” seated in a circle pass secretly to one another under their feet

Hunt the slipper, or Find the Slipper: an old English game in which the “customer” must find a slipper, shoe, toy or present that the “cobblers” seated in a circle pass secretly to one another under their feet. One may not only pass the slipper along furtively but also pretend

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Prince Albert, Duke of York, on his way to his house at 145 Piccadilly, 10 December 1936, on the eve of his proclamation as King George VI following the abdication of King Edward VIII

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News of Progress in Talks between Greek Officials and the British Museum on the Repatriation of the Parthenon Sculptures Stolen by the English: a Tangible Shift May Be Coming on the Return of the "Elgin Marbles" to Greece

Firstly, strange as it may seem, after decades of Greek demands the sculptures and the frieze of the Parthenon are still in England. UNESCO proposed back in the summer that the matter be settled at intergovernmental level, and not long ago Greece demanded that the return of the stolen sculptures

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