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With interviews from Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Lucas, Albert Hammond Jr, Bernardette Peters, Andy Murray, David Shrigley, Sudan Archives, J Balvin, Anthea Hamilton – and more
...I arrive at the restaurant 15 minutes ahead of schedule to find my lunch companion, Michel Roux Jr (chef, author, TV star and head of arguably Britain’s most important culinary family) already here....
...By contrast, Albert Hammond Jr prefers the more meditative art of coffee making....
...We wend towards an eatery on Charles Street, the main drag in the historic neighbourhood of Beacon Hill....
...Albert Hammond Jr on coffee The Strokes’ guitarist loves the ritual of the daily grind I love coffee. I’m not sure if I’d call it an obsession – I like “ritual”....
...There were the executioners’ “trade signs” of dubious provenance competing for attention with a fine silk shirt that Charles I possibly wore to the scaffold....
...Charles GrantI think it is a big problem because in the time I’ve been following the EU, all the US presidents have been favourable to integration, except perhaps George Bush Jr, who was rather ambivalent...
...Crime and energy will be at the heart of the announcement, the first delivered by King Charles as monarch and the first for Rishi Sunak since he became prime minister....
...The ebullient Jean-Charles Boisset of Burgundy arrived at Raymond in 2009, Chanel Inc bought St Supéry in 2015 and the next year the Tesserons of Ch Pontet Canet in Bordeaux bought Robin Williams’ winery...
...In the early 1920s, Marie-Laure de Noailles and her husband Charles set about creating a residence among the ruins of an ancient castle in Hyères, south-east France....
...In the 1860s, the widowed Queen Victoria’s prolonged period of mourning for Prince Albert led to the most serious stirring of republican sentiment since the execution of Charles I....
...Albert died in 1861. In 1897, the queen still forbade her maids of honour from wearing mauve (too close to a cheerful pink)....
...The writer is director of the Victoria and Albert Museum and a former MP The Palace of Westminster was always conceived as a work of art....
...Charles Perrault’s 1697 tale was first balletised 1813, and there have been countless readings ever since by choreographers keen to capitalise on the feelgood tale of a grubby drudge given a prince-winning...
...Palais de la Découverte, to Albert Thomas....
...Guitarists Albert Hammond Jr and Nick Valensi remain masters of the style, rattling out the brusque, catchy chords of “Meet Me in the Bathroom” and the spangling fretwork of “Soma” with equal aplomb....
...A further item — Roxanna Panufnik’s Coronation Sanctus — harked back to the coronation of King Charles III in May....
...In the 19th century, the Harvard professor Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard lauded the rejuvenating effects of injecting oneself with crushed animal testes; while the effects were entirely make-believe, his...
...‘Bust’ | Jails in England and Wales are “bust” of space and may run out of places to house offenders this week, the leader of Britain’s prison governors has warned, the Telegraph’s Charles Hymas reports....
...The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters by Benjamin Moser, Allen Lane £30, 400 pages Jerry Brotton is the author of ‘The Sale of the Late King’s Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection’...
...After that interregnum, the only period in modern British history when republicanism became a genuine threat were the years of Victoria’s seclusion following Prince Albert’s death....
...I have always been drawn to the regal women striding forward in “Walking”, the 1958 painting by the modernist artist Charles Henry Alston, a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance....
...BAE Systems’ Charles Woodburn, and BP’s Bernard Looney were paid more than £10mn each, as was Albert Manifold, boss of CRH, which is moving its listing to the US....
...World leaders due to address the gathering of Pacific nations include Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida, Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr and, waving the flag for Global Britain, UK premier Rishi...
...“By the 1880s there were huge numbers of commemoratives manufactured,” says Paul Greenhalgh, historian and former deputy keeper of ceramics at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London....
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