Tag: Monarchy
The tragedy of King Charles III – POLITICO
LONDON — It was during his first address as king — the speech he’d waited his whole life to make — that Charles III acknowledged he will have to give up some of the things that have given him the most satisfaction.
“My life will of course change as I take up my new responsibilities,” he said, a little more than 24 hours after his mother died at Balmoral Castle, bringing to an end the reign of the only monarch
The short unhappy life of Elizabeth Windsor – POLITICO
To provide the United Kingdom with the monarch she felt it needed,
Queen Elizabeth II sacrificed an ordinary life and the other things most of us take for granted.
BY OTTO ENGLISH
ILLUSTRATIONS BY DAKOTA RANDALL FOR POLITICO
Otto English is the pen name used by Andrew Scott, a writer and playwright based in London.
LONDON — Like Oscar Zoroaster, the eponymous Wizard of the fictional land of Oz, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, who has died aged 96, led a
The first 100 days of Liz Truss’ Britain – POLITICO
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LONDON — If the opinion polls are right, this is Liz Truss’ world now — and we’ll all soon be living in it.
With three weeks to go in the U.K. Conservative Party leadership race, every poll of the 180,000-strong Tory membership suggests Truss, the foreign secretary, is streets ahead of her rival Rishi Sunak.
Amid a burgeoning cost of living crisis and with recession now looming, the next prime minister will need
Belgium’s unfinished reckoning with its colonial past – POLITICO
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The tooth’s journey begins in the Belgian Congo in the 1930s. In the Katako-Kombe region, not far from the colony’s geographic center, it pushes through the gum and into the mouth of a young, precocious boy.
For the first part of its history, the tooth does what teeth do. It plays its part in eating and speaking — helping to enunciate Catholic prayers, amateur poetry, declarations of love and anger, the daily patter