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7 May 2015 | Prince Harry and Premier of New South Wales, Mike Baird, talk on the Sydney Opera House steps in Sydney, Australia. Prince Harry is visiting Sydney following a month-long deployment with the Australian Army. © Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images
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UK will not be drawn into wider Iran war: Starmer - SUCH TV
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Britain would not be drawn into a wider war in Iran but would work with allies, including those in Europe, to reopen the key Strait of Hormuz, although he acknowledged that it would not be easy.
Starmer, who has faced pressure from critics at home and from US President Donald Trump over what support to provide for the strikes on Iran, said reopening a…
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Through the Years → Catherine, Princess of Wales (1,047/∞)
12 March 2026 | Catherine, Princess of Wales onboard an E class inshore lifeboat during her visit to the RNLI Tower Station in London, England. The Prince and Princess of Wales visited the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) to hear about their work saving lives on the River Thames, as the charity celebrates 25 years of RNLI Lifeguards. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
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Through the Years → Catherine, Princess of Wales (1,046/∞)
12 March 2026 | Catherine, Princess of Wales and Prince William, Prince of Wales visit the Bermondsey Beer Mile in London, England. (Photo by Kin Cheung-WPA Pool/Getty Images)
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“The British Colour Council was established in 1930 and was responsible for the standardisation, naming and coding of colour in the British Empire; or, as it was put in 1949: ‘The placing of colour determination for the British Empire in British hands…’ (British Colour Council 1949, xi). The first Dictionary of Colour Standards was issued in 1934 and new editions were produced regularly as more colours were added to the range. In the second edition, published in 1951, twenty additional colours were added and took their place alongside the other swatches, such as ‘Kenya Red’, - a colour that had been introduced in 1935 on the occasion of the marriage of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, and so named because it reminded them of the soil of Kenya (figure 1). Close to ‘Kenya Red’ was ‘Nigger Brown’, a colour that continued to be included in the Dictionary into the 1950s, in spite of the introduction in 1934 of ‘African Brown’, which, it was conceded, was: ‘…a more desirable name for the colour standardised in 1934 as Nigger Black; it is often preferred to a “dead black”.’ (1949, 1. See British Colour Council 1951, 40). This is the world of colour as it is given meaning in the historical conjuncture of post-war Britain. The British Colour Council stated that its colour names were derived in three ways: from sensations in nature, for example, cherry red; from colours associated with period styles, for example, Wedgwood blue; and from names of the original pigments, for example, yellow ochre. So how is ‘Nigger Brown’ named and how is it comprehended? What did it mean to purchase the latest Whipcord coat in ‘Nigger’, as advertised in Woman’s Friend and Glamour in 1951? The disturbing terminology of the Colour Council, with its nonchalant adoption of the geo-politics of empire, is an important reminder of the ways in which the mechanics of hue and the ideologies of race were imbricated in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century. To speak of colour was to invoke a symbolic system in which racial identities were constructed not only through skin colour but also through the languages of chromatics, clothes, culture and the body.”
Lynda Nead - “Red Taffeta Under Tweed”: The Meaning of Colour in Post-War Clothes’ (2017)
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Classic 80s: Ah look! A portrait of a proper Prime Minister!! (Once removed - at your peril!!)
1983. Margaret Thatcher P.M. of the U.K. posing with the six editions of Time Magazine on which she had appeared on the front-cover, as it celebrated it’s 60th anniversary with an exhibition of it’s cover art entitled ‘Britain, an American view’. (FTP)
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March 14, 2025: Day-1 in London
I arrived Saturday morning at Heathrow Airport. I was the last to leave the plane because I slept the ENTIRE FLIGHT. I ate a beef gravy, string beans, and mash potato meal (8/10) and this breakfast sandwich with apple spread that was too sweet while being too pungent (4/10). I met with Tuesdae to take the MANY trains to get to our Airbnb. We took three trains and two buses, which took close to two hours to finally get there.We were on one train and saw a young girl licking the window. We actually ended up talking to her and her dad. She shared that, and I QUOTE, “My Mom is brown,” which I responded with, “Well, we are black.” What an interaction coming into the UK. Her very white father and her younger siblings were just journeying home.We finally arrived at the Airbnb. The whole house is very nice and modest. I got the top floor with these roof windows. I took a nap and waited for our third party, Emma, to arrive. She eventually arrived and got settled in.
We walked to the local quick shop/grocery store to get some breakfast items and quick snacks before dinner. Emma booked this place—I assume it was some type of Indian food place, more small bites/share plates (7.5/10).I was too full, and we headed to this bar called Pergola Brixton, where they had some good jams. The men are pretty touchy, so not a fan about that. I was trying to spot the lesbians—there were a few. Also the bar was so black, and I ended up meeting some cool girls!!
This main guy named “Vinny,” a gay man, was the life of the party (a bit annoying IMO), but I met some cool people that were his friends. I asked, what is the next move, where can we go that’s super fun?Vinny said to go to this gay club called Freedom in Soho. So Emma, Tuesdae, and I got an Uber (like… $50????!!!) to the place.We arrived and had to stand in line for over 20 minutes, but when we finally got in it was A BLAST. The upstairs portion is a lounge, however downstairs is this underground space with disco balls across the ceiling, with two stripper poles in the center of the dance floor.We all danced on the poles, of course, and had a blast. We finally left after 2am, when we ran into Vinny and friends in the street of Soho, London. We traded Instagrams and took pictures on the disposable camera.
Then we ended the night taking a 40-minute train back to our Airbnb.
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Privacy netting being installed at RAF Fairford, fences put up. Rockwell B-1 Lancer B-1B Bone 🦴 Boeing B-52 Stratofortress BUFF Big Ugly Fat Fella
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9 December 2014 | Princess Beatrice of York speaks with Director Damian Cruden and cast members of Old Mother Goose pantomime at York Royal Theatre in York, England. © Nigel Roddis/Getty Images
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8 December 2014 | Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, talks to people as she leaves after visiting Northside Center for Child Development in New York City. The royal couple are on an official three-day visit to New York with Prince William also due to meet President Barack Obama in Washington D.C on Monday. © Carl Court/Getty Images
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Queen Camilla of reat Britain at a meeting with French survivor Gisèle Pelicot at Clarence House in London - 23.02.26
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Airbus KC2 Voyager Landing (A330-243MRTT) Airbus A330-200 Royal Air Force Multi-Role Tanker Transport
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25 November 2014 | Prince William, Duke of Cambridge laughs as he attends the Tusk Conservation Awards 2014 at Claridge’s Hotel in London, England. This is the second year of the Awards which celebrate the unsung heros of Conservation. © Chris Jackson/Getty Images for Tusk Trust
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