This portrait may be the only one of England's 9-day queen painted during her lifetime
LONDON (AP) — A painting that has gone on public display Friday could be the only portrait of England's shortest-reigning queen, Lady Jane Grey, painted during her lifetime, according to the ...
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The Real Story Behind ‘Wolf Hall’ and the Fall of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s Most Controversial Adviser
Based on Hilary Mantel's novel "The Mirror & the Light," the last installment in the acclaimed television series chronicles ...
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Brentwood petrol station fuel thief avoids prison sentence
A man narrowly avoided prison after he ... Paul O’Farrell, 32, of Tower Bridge Road in Bermondsey, admitted making off without payment at petrol stations 11 times. O’Farrell appeared at ...
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Jonathan Rhys Meyers: The return of the king
Since I was 27 I must have drunk maybe a dozen-and-a-half times – but when I do ... child and he and his mother were locked in the Tower Of London for seven days and didn’t know whether ...
Londonist14d
Explainer: Building The Massive Chinese Embassy Near The Tower Of London
It would lie in a most prestigious location, right next to the World Heritage Site of the Tower of London. Needless to ... Iain Duncan Smith in a recent Times Radio interview.
The Straits Times13d
Man who scaled London’s Big Ben clock tower appears in court
LONDON – A man who climbed part way up the Big Ben clock tower at London’s Palace of Westminster early on March 8 and stayed there all day as part of a pro-Palestinian protest, appeared in ...
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Man Arrested After More Than 16 Hours for Climbing Big Ben's Elizabeth Tower in London
A man was arrested several hours after climbing Big Ben's Elizabeth Tower in an apparent protest in London. The man first scaled the U.K. tower at the Houses of Parliament at the Palace of ...
Daily Mail5d
Why a global cultural icon and beloved London institution could be extinct in just 20 years
They remain one of the most iconic and most-loved sights of London life, with their roots in the horse-drawn hackney carriages of Tudor times. But a new report warns the capital's black cabs could ...
Seattle Times10d
Life in the tower: Who controls Seattle’s drawbridges?
but can move two dozen times in summer, Hickman said. A sunbreak warmed the tower as the phone rang from one of Hickman’s favorite customers, a barge to Kenmore Ready Mix Plant and Aggregate ...
Los Angeles Times14d
‘Surge’ of violence prompts crackdown in California prison system, officials say
Faced with seven homicides in the first nine weeks of the year, California prison authorities announced ... declined an interview request from The Times. Authorities are conducting a “comprehens ...
Richmond and Twickenham Times17d
Ceramic poppies set for Tower of London return
Almost 30,000 ceramic poppies are set to return to the Tower of London for a special display to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The commemorative installation will be ...
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A man with a Palestinian flag who climbed London's Big Ben tower is arrested
A man has been arrested after climbing the Big Ben tower at the Palace of Westminster in central London while barefoot ... brigade ladder platform several times before eventually talking him ...