![]() ![]() ![]() “We decided not to stop any of our usual afternoon activities,” commented Julia Race. Florence was at its most wonderful, cloaked in an almost made to measure sunset, the royal couple were accompanied by Jill Morris, the British Ambassador to Italy. Prince Charles is the British patron, who with the Duchess of Cornwall by his side took part in the British Institute’s centenary celebrations a few months ago, welcomed by the director Julia Race. ![]() Charles and Camilla with the Ambassador Jill Morris and director of the British Institute Julia Race All these books, in their diversity, make this English-language borrowing service one of the most numerous in Continental Europe. Members can borrow from the library’s 50,000-strong collection, also available to the Institute’s 2,000 students. A beautiful building, permeated by a rarefied air of A Room with a View, open to all, where you peruse a book seated on one of the magnificent vintage settees while the ample windows afford exemplary vistas over the river. Established in 1917 by English and Italian scholars, it was the first British institute outside the United Kingdom. On the left bank of the Arno, along Lungarno Guicciardini, one of the loveliest riverside avenues in Florence, stands TheBritish Institute of Florence. The last visit to Florence by Charles and Camilla of England Starting tomorrow, Saturday 6 May, King Charles III and QueenĪll is set in London for the coronation ceremony of Charles, who on Saturday 6 May, at age 73 became King Charles III with his second wife Camilla at his side, elevated to Queen.īelow we replay Charles and Camilla's last visit to Florence in 2017, on the occasion of the British Institute of Florence's 100th anniversary celebrations. ![]()
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