It’s as if ‘Alice in Wonderland married Willy Wonka and set up residence in Oz’.
That’s how the owners of The Roxbury, a boutique hotel based in the Catskill Mountains of New York State, describe their wacky, themed hotel.
The Roxbury is divided into two properties: The Roxbury Motel, the original 28-room property, and the Roxbury at Stratton Falls, which comprises seven rooms in a historic mansion as well as five standalone properties.
The owners are keen to emphasise what
The Bank of England decided eight to one to raise the interest rate from five percent to 5.25 percent.
This is the 14th time in a row the Bank has decided to increase the base rate in a bid to cool the economy and bring down inflation.
Borrowers are the hardest hit by this increase as interest for repayments on loans and mortgages continues to rise.
Marc von Grundherr, director of Benham and Reeves explained that the rise will
The coup in Niger which has unfolded over the past few days marks the end of a largely-failed French military ‘Barkhane’ operation in the Sahel, broadly due to a lack of resources and underlying sense of neocolonialism, experts told EURACTIV.
The coup saw Niger army general Abdourahamane Tiani topple and hold captive the democratically-elected president Mohamed Bazoum on Wednesday (26 July).
The military take-over has been under heavy fire from the international community, which rejects Tiani’s legitimacy as self-declared leader.
The Queen has finally been laid to rest to be with her beloved Prince Philip after her crown, orb and sceptre were removed from her coffin so she could descend into her grave ‘as a simple Christian soul’.
Her Majesty has returned home to Windsor to be reunited for eternity with her husband, father, mother and sister in the royal crypt at St George’s Chapel as her 70-year reign came to an end this evening.
The Royal Family stood at
Peter Phillips appeared reflect as he stood vigil beside his grandmother’s coffin this evening at Westminster Hall, alongside his royal cousins.
The Princess Royal’s son, 44, wore a black suit and toe as he took his place next to Prince William, Prince Harry and the other royal grandchildren for the sombre occasion.
Queen Elizabeth’s grandchildren arrived in Westminster just before 6pm where they held the first-of-its-kind vigil to pay their respects to the late monarch, who died peacefully at Balmoral
The man arrested after rushing out of the queue of mourners and grabbing the Queen’s coffin at the Palace of Westminster in a security scare that stunned police and well-wishers was behaving ‘strangely’ and had waited 14 hours to get close enough to the late monarch lying-in-state, eyewitnesses have claimed.
Officers tackled the man to the floor last night after he pushed through the queue, knocking aside a seven-year-old girl, in a scramble up to the coffin in the centre
Police have arrested a man who attempted to grab at the Queen’s coffin – in an incident which left mourners stunned.
Officers tackled the man to the floor during the jaw-dropping incident, which took place around 10pm at Westminster Hall on Friday.
It is believed the man pushed through a queue of mourners, among them a seven-year-old girl, rushed up to coffin and tried to lift the royal standard. He is then thought to have put his hands on the
King Charles III and the Queen’s three other children will hold a 15-minute vigil at her coffin on Friday night before her funeral on Monday, which will end with a two-minute national silence in a ‘fitting tribute to an extraordinary reign’, Buckingham Palace said today.
The Queen’s state funeral will ‘unite people across the globe and resonate with people of all faiths’, according to The Earl Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, the man in charge of the historic occasion.
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König Karl III., seine Geschwister und seine Söhne folgten der Lafette, die die Monarchin zur Westminster Hall trug, wo sie aufgebahrt wird.
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The Queen today began her last public duty – to lie in state for the nation until Monday – after she completed her final and saddest journey to Westminster Hall from Buckingham Palace accompanied by the bereft Royal Family.
King Charles, his three siblings and his sons Prince William and Prince Harry, reunited to mourn, marched behind her coffin in the September sunshine to Parliament before they handed Her Majesty over to her subjects.
From 5pm Britons began to file
