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After all, the decoration of the premier's residence at 10 Downing Street may well be both festive and, if one may put it so, funereal, should the English lose. So Boris Johnson has chosen a no-lose option
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Well, well... What might it signify, to portray Harry Kane as a Roman before England's match against Italy? Can the image of Kane as a statue be taken as mockery of his immobility? And is the Caesar moment, by any chance, a reference to the occasion when you
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The English are incredibly proud of their team reaching the final of Euro 2020. The Tower of London has even announced that, to mark such a remarkable achievement as the first appearance by an English team in the final of a tournament of this level since 1966, the drawbridge of
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If they call you a paper-pusher (literally, an "office rat"), don't be upset. After all, there was once a rat with a fondness for paperwork who became a co-founder of the National Archives of the United Kingdom. When the public figure, inventor and all-
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The reliquary with the body of Saint John Southworth, one of the 40 martyrs of England and Ireland, is kept in the principal Catholic church of England, Westminster Cathedral. The priest John Southworth was executed in 1654 essentially for no more than being a Catholic and carrying on with his
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What a beauty Elizabeth II is in this coronation portrait. On 2 June 1953, 68 years ago, she was crowned.
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Yesterday, at the opening of the parliamentary session, Queen Elizabeth mentioned in her speech a bill on the protection of free speech in connection with the rise of "cancel culture", owing to which many people have lost the ability to speak out, in particular on university campuses, on
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How did they prepare for the Easter ball in Georgian England? Mark the caption: Dandies and Dandizettes. An excellent feminine form, and one that ought to be put into circulation; do join in
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The year 1964 is remembered by the English for a royal baby boom, when four royal heirs arrived within the space of a few months. That year the Queen herself was delivered of a child, as were her sister Princess Margaret, her cousin Princess Alexandra of Kent and her cousin
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After the death of Prince Philip, three members of the royal family have received new titles. The Queen is henceforth Dowager Duchess of Edinburgh, Prince Charles has inherited his father's titles and becomes Duke of Edinburgh, and Camilla becomes Duchess of Edinburgh. The Queen, of course, will not
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In April 1895 Oscar Wilde failed to win his case against the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his close friend and lover Douglas. The Marquess demanded an end to the affair between Oscar Fingal and his son and accused the writer of sodomy, or, to be precise, sent a
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Princess Alexandra of Kent was the last member of the British royal family at whose birth a special official of the royal administration was present, to certify the fact of the birth of an infant of royal blood and to confirm the legitimacy of the descent of a person in