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Sep 09, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Jonathan Jones)
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Edward Lear: Moment to Moment review – paradise with a runcible spoon
Ikon Gallery, BirminghamThe master of nonsense verse made his living as an artist – and these magical sketches from his travels are dreamlike delightsThe Owl and the Pussycat went to sea – and saw two sails from a boat spread out like vampire wings against a pinky sky and a purple ocean. Nonsense is never far away in the landscape art of Edward Lear. From this tiny watercolour of a scene on the River Nile to an Italian lake with a wraithlike woman in the foreground. In a scribble, he calls her “
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Sep 09, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Jiraphong Reeves)
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Cocktail of the week: Number Eight’s Corsica spritz | The good mixer
Italian Aperol and vermouth meets very British tonic and elderflowerAperol spritz gets a makeover in this long, refreshing drink for a warm, late summer’s evening.Jiraphong Reeves, bar manager, Number Eight, Sevenoaks, Kent Continue reading...
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Sep 09, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Sarah Bradford)
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'You don't mess with Gran': the private life of Elizabeth II
The Queen’s serene, controlled persona hid a sharp temper, quick wit and strong belief in family and religion“You don’t mess with Gran,” Prince Harry told a television interviewer in 2012, the year of his grandmother’s diamond jubilee. In that one sentence he conjured up the backbone that had carried Queen Elizabeth II through one of the longest reigns in British history, presiding over a family dynasty which had its difficult moments but by the end of her time on the throne had established itse
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Sep 09, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (John Brewin)
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The Fiver | Football and the Queen
Like this? Forward it to your friend(s) and they can sign upQueen Elizabeth II was not a huge football fan. That July 1966 afternoon, when Bobby Moore wiped himself down before shaking her gloved hand as she passed him the Jules Rimet trophy, was actually the last international football match she attended before the Euro 96 final. After 1966, it was left to the likes of the Duchess of Kent to hand out the trophies at Wembley until, latterly, Prince William, an unlikely but committed Aston Villa
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Sep 09, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Luke Dodd)
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The story behind the portrait of the Queen the palace used to announce her death
Guardian archive director Luke Dodd recalls the Observer photographer Jane Bown 80th birthday shoot with Queen Elizabeth II and what sparked that warm smileJane Bown’s first visit to the palace was to receive an MBE in 1985 and she found the experience so unsuited to her character – she was notoriously shy and self-effacing – that when she received a CBE a decade later she elected to have it conferred by her local Lord Lieutenant rather than return to Buckingham Palace. Pomp and formality were n
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Sep 09, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Jessica Elgot and Rowena Mason)
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Liz Truss clearly had a plan for her first week, but fate tore it up
There was a reshuffle, a No 10 overhaul and an energy package before she suddenly found herself leading a nation in mourningOn Monday night, Liz Truss was holding forth at a victory party on the rooftop of Deliveroo’s headquarters in Cannon Street, before leaving early to prepare for her audience with the Queen the next day. Thérèse Coffey, her soon-to-be deputy prime minister, hit the dance floor along with aides.Little did they know that their sense of jubilation was to be shortlived. With jus
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Sep 09, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Aubrey Allegretti Political correspondent)
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Liz Truss calls Queen ‘one of greatest leaders the world has known’
PM hails late monarch as ‘rock on which modern Britain was built’ as MPs begin two days of tributesBritain mourns death of Queen Elizabeth – latest updatesLiz Truss recalled how the Queen shared her “deep experience of government” when the pair met at Balmoral earlier this week, as she hailed the late monarch as “the rock on which modern Britain was built”.The prime minister offered her condolences to King Charles III in a phone call on Thursday night and pledged to him her “loyal service” in “o
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Sep 09, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Caroline Davies)
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What happens now? The 10 days of events after death of Queen Elizabeth II
Plans include ceremonial processions, period of lying in state and King’s formal proclamationBritain mourns death of Queen Elizabeth - latest updatesCharles III and the Queen Consort arrive in London from Balmoral. The King holds his first audience with the prime minister, Liz Truss. He is also expected to meet the Earl Marshal, the position held by the Duke of Norfolk, who is in charge of the accession and of the state funeral. The carefully choreographed plans include Operation Unicorn, the co
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Sep 09, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Stephen Bates)
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Who’ll keep the royal soap opera high in the ratings? Not Andrew or Edward, for sure | Stephen Bates
The Queen was the star, the lesser cast is problematic. King Charles, Camilla and the Cambridges have their work cut outSuddenly, one of the great plot lines of our island story peters out. What will replace it? For the best part of 20 years the media, not just in Britain but across the world, have been preparing discreetly for the death of the Queen, yet she still contrived to take us royal watchers by surprise.There she was, on Tuesday, smiling and extending a hand to Liz Truss, her 15th prime
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Sep 09, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Haroon Siddique)
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Property investor accused of shutting down criticism over £10,000 courses
Samuel Leeds’s lawyers sent accusing letter to sister of soldier who killed himself but they deny he is stifling criticismA property investor who runs courses costing upwards of £10,000 to help people become “financially free” has been accused of using his wealth and the UK’s claimant-friendly libel laws to shut down criticism of his methods.Samuel Leeds’s solicitors’ Ellisons have issued legal proceedings or threats of lawsuits against at least 15 individuals or property websites that the Guard