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...Anne Gunning (1929-90) is sometimes referred to as one of the first “supermodels”; the Briton was a staple of Life magazine and Vogue, photographed by Norman Parkinson or Milton H Greene....
...Lucy Wood, a former senior curator of furniture at the V&A, has recently overseen a project to restore two chairs designed by the 18th-century architect William Kent....
...Marais is more vibrant and inclusive than that of the city’s more expensive residential areas, such as the so-called golden triangle — the 8th arrondissement area bounded by the avenues Montaigne, George V...
...Instead, starlings simply “have reaction times that make Olympic athletes look slow”, explains Professor Anne Goodenough of Gloucestershire University....
...Last week, a verdict was passed down in the case of Walkers Snack Foods Ltd v Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, with first-tier tribunal judges Anne Fairpo and Sonia Gable ruling against...
...“I’ve got a Queen Anne. I haven’t got George I, but I think I’ve got every monarch after that.”...
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...In reduced version, Donatello is at Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie (to January 8), then arrives at London’s V&A in February; both museums contribute key loans....
...Known as Bertie in the family, he was the second son of King George V and expected his elder brother, known as David to the family, to become king....
...In 1973, with the Roe v....
...Thanks also to you, Anne-Sylvaine....
...By that time they had two children: Charles was born in 1948, Anne in 1950. While Queen she bore two more, with Andrew arriving in 1960 and Edward in 1964....
...Unlike her exact contemporary Anne Boleyn, the Sultan’s bedmate known imprecisely as “the Russian” kept her head in every sense....
...“Significant achievements don’t happen in weeks so we’re realistic,” Anne Neuberger, deputy US national security adviser for cyber, said on a recent visit to Europe....
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...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...The alliance this summer affirmed cyber incidents could trigger its mutual defence clause under Article V....
...Not exactly fit for the V&A, but it worked just fine in a foyer around the corner from the Gare du Nord....
...The average price of a home sold by E&V last year was up 29 per cent on the year before. New buyers and existing owners are using their homes for longer....
...Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has an efficacy rate of 97.6 per cent, its developers said, based on data from almost 4m people....
...This year, the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg confirmed that “for the first time since 2001, there are more autocracies than democracies in the world”....
...Tehran is struggling to convince Iranians to take Russia’s Sputnik V jab. The west should heed Moscow and Beijing’s use of vaccines to court poorer nations, writes Anne-Sylvaine Chassany....
...Princess Anne (Erin Doherty) becomes jealous of the breathless press coverage Diana’s clothes stir up — though, to me and to Roberts, Anne is the real style star this season, with her smart equestrian clothes...
...Anne-Sylvaine Chassany is the FT’s world editor Le Consentement, by Vanessa Springora, Grasset, €18, 216pp...
...Indian Textiles: Nature and Making (V&A) Google Arts & Culture were ahead of the game when it came to digitising art works and entire exhibitions, and this deep dive into the V&A’s lustrous textiles collections...
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