British culture

Charles III was crowned King of the United Kingdom

British King Charles III was officially crowned after the Archbishop of Canterbury placed the crown of St. Edward on his head.

At the King's coronation, cannon salutes were fired from military bases across the country and from His Majesty's ships at sea.

As he prepared to place the crown on Charles' head, Justin Welby said:

Tate’s neighbors win privacy appeal

Owners of luxury flats in London on Wednesday won a legal battle to force the adjacent Tate Modern gallery to stop visitors peeping into their homes from a public viewing platform.

The Supreme Court announced that by a majority of three to two judges had agreed their appeal due to "intense visual intrusion," after they lost at earlier hearings.

UK offers £400 mln to aid culture’s COVID recovery

Britain is to offer hundreds of millions of pounds in grants to aid the recovery of cultural venues and heritage sites hit by the pandemic, the government announced on April 2.

Some 2,700 organizations including the Glastonbury music festival will benefit from the grants which amount to £400 million ($550 million and 470 million euros), the ministry of culture said in a statement.

'Wish you were here': Postcards help Germans connect in pandemic

Brightly colored rectangles of cardboard fill almost every wall of Gesa Funke's apartment in southern Berlin, with piles more stashed in corners and drawers - some from places as far-flung as French Polynesia.

The 29-year-old student has been sending and collecting postcards for years.

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