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Royal Mail reveals four new stamps for King’s Coronation

Royal Mail is commemorating the coronation with four new stamps, which show the King being crowned and celebrate his multi-faith and biodiversity causes. The set is based on newly-commissioned wood engravings by artist Andrew Davidson, and one imagines St Edward’s Crown being lowered onto Charles’ head by the Archbishop of …

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The Crown Season 5: Exhausting itself in defence of the monarchy

Peter Morgan’s lengthy Netflix drama about the British monarchy, The Crown, has now completed its fifth and penultimate season. It has strengths, but the further it progresses the more glaring its weaknesses—and its less than socially uplifting intentions—become. The show has fictionalised real events, many of them controversial and difficult …

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