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...Also in the lot is a version of Magritte’s masterpiece L’Empire des Lumières, which the Belgian artist gifted to his muse Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet....
...For comparison, the annual service charge on a £5.5m, two-bedroom flat at the Mansion, a new luxury development in Marylebone — with concierge services that include the use of a chauffeur-driven Bentley...
...Last November a pearl and diamond pendant owned by Marie Antoinette set a new auction record for natural pearls of SFr36.4m ($36.2m) at Sotheby’s in Geneva....
...Without the new funds, warned Mr Parnas — then a Bentley-driving stock broker — the original investment would be lost. Eight years later, the film was never made and the money is gone....
...My sister Marie-Hélène de Taillac is a jeweller, so I have a huge collection. My current favourites are a pair of milky quartz squirrels balancing on big gold hoops and eating pearl “nuts”....
...In particular, I loved those cartoonish names on which were inscribed whole characters and destinies: Steerforth and Sowerberry; the Pardiggles and Tite Barnacles; Uncle Pumblechook and Herbert Pocket; Bentley...
...A crackdown on ostentation hit the likes of Bentley and Rolls-Royce, whose sales fell dramatically in China last year....
...Marie-Aimee Brajeux at Queen Mary’s Criminal Justice Centre, University of London, agrees....
...Anna-Marie Solowij is a contributing editor at Vogue...
...It was at Courcelles in 1810 that he was due to meet, for the first time, his intended Austrian bride, Princess Marie-Louise. Two miles out of Courcelles a wheel fell off his carriage....
...Belgian designers work for leading carmakers such as Bentley, Lamborghini and Skoda....
...A guy in an open-necked shirt drives up in his Bentley and offers to take care of them for you in return for a year’s supply of steak and 50 percent of their milk....
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