Hints and tips:
...At Fortnum & Mason’s smart new cocktail bar, 3’6, rum highballs are topped with jewel-coloured violas, tiny velvety flowers with a subtle taste of mint; at Lyaness and the Mandarin Oriental’s Aubrey bar...
...The “boy who lived under the stairs” was 11 when he first boarded the train at King’s Cross in 1997, which is when I was eagerly counting down the days to my own (underwhelming) arrival at secondary school...
...David Lewis’s spacious home just outside of central London are hung with portraits by Van Dyck and Ferdinand Bol, prints by Munch, an Impressionist painting by Pissarro, drawings by the Art Nouveau artist Aubrey...
...Or the battle cries of kings and the whispers of armies edging their way inland from the sea, nervous as to who or what might greet them? It’s easy to romanticise the river....
...Simone Rocha went deeper in time, finding inspiration in an old Irish myth about King Lir’s children, who were transformed into swans by a jealous stepmother and lived 900 years....
...In 1967 the Beatles had even ventured into retail themselves, first with the Apple Boutique on Baker Street, and later with the shortlived Apple Tailoring on the King’s Road in Chelsea....
...Sentenced to an early death by a tuberculosis diagnosis aged seven, Aubrey Beardsley lived life at manic speed, racing to create a sensational art that would bring fame, or at least notoriety, in his few...
...University friends included Hilaire Belloc, Raymond Asquith and Aubrey Herbert, who was twice offered the throne of Albania....
...The execution of the king had convulsed relations between England and Scotland. The shockwaves had reverberated across Europe. Relations with Ireland had been brutally redrawn....
...“Right now we are seeing a failed market . . . an inefficient land market filled with perverse incentives,” says Mr Aubrey. This is the third part of a series about UK infrastructure....
...Aubrey cried, “Pride Rock — I told you The Lion King was true.” We watched one cub flush a scrub hare....
...Even John Aubrey, when he came to write a “Brief Life” of Ogilby, was stumped....
...Marlborough Partners, the independent debt advisory firm, has appointed Aubrey Simpson-Orlebar as a senior adviser based in London....
...He would have made a better king than Fry if only for the fact that he spoke Albanian. As it was the Albanians ended up with King Zog. Richard Barnes Zurich, Switzerland...
...In a letter to Archbishop King, he described himself as “a Man floating at Sea”, a Ulysses of the Church who knew not what he might do if he ever found the shore....
...Miller and Aubrey Lyles, vaudeville veterans determined to take charge of their own fate....
...antiquarian and author of Brief Lives, John Aubrey....
...It is ancient grazing land owned by the city since the time of King Alfred....
...John Aubrey: My Own Life, by Ruth Scurr, Chatto & Windus, RRP£25 An experimental “act of scholarly imagination” brings to life the 17th-century antiquarian and author of Brief Lives, John Aubrey....
...With most front-rank male actors of a certain age, one finds oneself anticipating their King Lear....
...Buyelekhaya Zwelibanzi Dalindyebo, a tribal king from Mr Mandela’s rural home area in the Eastern Cape province, was also quoted this week in South Africa’s Times accusing Mr Zuma and the ANC of being “corrupt...
...My paternal grandfather, Aubrey Hastings, trained four Grand National winners and rode and trained Ascetic’s Silver to win the 1906 National....
...Aubrey McClendon made trades in the same commodities in which Chesapeake operated, for at least four years from 2004 to 2008 (Reuters)....
...The BoE should have “shouted from the rooftops” about risks before the financial crisis, Bank governor Mervyn King said in a speech on Wednesday night....
...We believe that they were greatly undervalued one year ago, and investors realised that,” says Alan Aubrey, IP Group’s chief executive....
International Edition