He was also a passionate advocate of the nation's architectural heritage which his own home, a Queen Anne revival mansion in Kensington, bore witness to.
Fellow strugglers Wigan are now second-from-bottom after a 3-2 defeat at home to Sunderland, while Queen's Park Rangers remain rooted to the foot of the table after a 1-1 draw at West Ham United.
Gretna lost their next game 3-0 at home to relegation-threatened neighbours Queen of the South and Main appeared to get the blame.
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Security at royal residences had already been stepped up after an Australian writer paraglided onto the forecourt of the Queen's central London home Buckingham Palace on 28 December.
During its final crossing the Medway Queen was badly damaged and limped home on a single paddle.
His appointment as commissioner was formally made by the Queen on the recommendation of the Home Secretary Theresa May.
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As well as visiting museum exhibitions about life during the war, the Queen and Prince Philip are meeting Home Front veterans.
The king and the queen, who had just come home and entered the great hall, fell asleep, and the whole court with them.
In 1972 it included, besides the queen, Shirley Williams, the shadow home secretary.
The venue, which was opened by the Queen in November 2004, is the home of Welsh National Opera, and hosts regular musicals, ballets and music and comedy events, while there is also a studio theatre.
The current building, which is believed still to have sections from Queen Anne's time, is used as the home of the Dowager Countess Grantham, played by Dame Maggie Smith in ITV's Downton.
She went to Queen's Hospital in Romford on Boxing Day and was sent home the same day.
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Labour MP Keith Vaz, chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, said it showed "how deeply concerned" the Queen is for the "welfare of her subjects".
As I walk down the slope towards the monument, I have the sort of sensation one might have at finding the Queen of England in the seat next to you on the flight home, a mix of familiarity and surprise.
Queen's House is a private, not-for-profit home run by a voluntary management committee, which looks after 32 older people.
The province was also the home of the Bolebedu, a small tribe but with a rather impressive leader, Queen Modjadji V, the only female tribal leader in southern Africa, and perhaps the only one in the world with a reputation as a rainmaker.
Dr Richard Aspinall, a consultant hepatologist at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth, said the amount people drank on their own at home could slowly creep up.
The talk show queen spent much of 2012 splitting her time between Montecito, California, her new home base since she left Chicago, and New Orleans, where she shot a film called "The Butler" opposite Forest Whitaker, due out this year.
The second-home market has mushroomed, and with it, a population of folks whose tastes extend beyond Dairy Queen.
Sir Mark, speaking to reporters outside Baroness Thatcher's former home in Belgravia, spoke of how "enormously proud and grateful we are that Her Majesty the Queen has agreed to attend the service next week in St Paul's".
All this makes it unlikely the bill will make it into the Queen's Speech without a fundamental rewrite, which would be seen as a setback for Home Secretary Theresa May.
They revealed Mr Beatie - a former Hawaiian beauty queen - had conceived by artificial insemination, carried out with a syringe by his wife in their home, with sperm purchased from a bank.
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