He would surprise questioners by mentioning Frank Lloyd Wright, an American traditionalist, and Le Corbusier, a Swiss-born architect famous for his massive box-like blocks of flats.

ECONOMIST: Morris Lapidus

Born into poverty in Walton-le-Dale, near Preston, he was acutely aware of the damaging affects of alcohol on the working classes, setting up the temperance movement which he promoted for the rest of his life.

BBC: A History of the World in Lancashire

Most tellingly, Le Journal Hebdomadaire, a mould-breaking independent magazine born in the more open final years of the previous king's reign, is being sold after years of financially draining legal battles and, its owners say, an advertising boycott unofficially ordered by the palace.

ECONOMIST: Morocco and its king

Nearby is the booming city of Chandigarh, where, coincidentally, Bhatia was born (and which is itself an architectural creation of Le Corbusier).

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The traditional Cockney accent is fading and is no longer so common even within earshot of the bells of St Mary-le-Bow church in east London, where by legend it was born.

ECONOMIST: England's regional accents