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Titian, Allegory of Prudence

The painting is customarily read as a depiction of the three ages of man and the three tenses: past, present and future, a token of the prudence that comes with the years. But who, in that case, are the dog, the lion and the wolf meant to be in the

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How Twenty Years Have Slipped By Since the Wedding of Charles and Camilla

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A Satellite Image of London

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The Abdication of Nicholas II as Reported in the British Press: AMAZING NEWS

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A stop at the US Embassy in London

A stop at the US Embassy in London. Er, so much for the English sense of humour

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Ever wondered where our crime films get all this taste for a grey, oppressive palette?

Ever wondered where our crime films get all this taste for a grey, oppressive palette? No, Dostoevsky, with his gloomily coloured texts, is not the chief culprit here. It is chiefly the influence of the textbook templates of the English detective story, tied precisely to the Victorian era, which has

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Thank you for your service, sirrrr

Churchill and the cat

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Charles III at the Coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953

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Woman with a Letter in London, photographed by Cecil Beaton for Vogue, 1940

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Thomas Eliot and Virginia Woolf were friends for over twenty years, but when Eliot embraced Christianity, or rather, after a period of open hostility to the Church, gradually became a zealous believer, Woolf said: he is dead to all of us

Thomas Eliot and Virginia Woolf were friends for over twenty years, but when Eliot embraced Christianity, or rather, after a period of open hostility to the Church, gradually became a zealous believer, Woolf said: he is dead to all of us. She called his faith in God and the immortality

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“For three years now London has held no Russian sale, the famous auction that had existed in one form or another since the late 1980s

“For three years now London has held no Russian sale, the famous auction that had existed in one form or another since the late 1980s. It was a golden age: the descendants of Russian émigrés and celebrities such as Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya, or Prince and Princess Michael of

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Queen Elizabeth II, her younger sister Princess Margaret, her cousin Princess Alexandra of Kent and her cousin-in-law Katharine, Duchess of Kent hold their children, born in the same year within a very short span of one another, in the course of…

The year 1964 gave the British royal family four children. On 29 February Princess Alexandra gave birth to James, on 10 March Elizabeth II gave birth to Prince Edward, on 28 April the Duchess of Kent gave birth to Helen, and on 1 May Princess Margaret gave birth to Sarah.