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...Betsy Balcombe, writes Robb, “was the sort of intelligent, independent child who makes rude faces behind the backs of boring visitors”....
...Think trompe-l’oeil panelling and architectural details....
...Escorted by a military band, it was carried through the grounds of L’Echangeur, a tower built in 1974 as a monument to Lumumba....
...His younger brother, Leon, went on to serve as a senior Conservative minister and EU commissioner. As a child, Samuel was, in his own description, “precocious, without being a prodigy”....
...It was concern over the latter that prompted the government to create a federal commissioner charged with combating anti-Semitism earlier this year....
...“I mean it’s just an ‘A’ and an ‘L’,” she says. “And he already has an ‘A’ in his own name. So it was basically easy. But of course we don’t talk about that part.”...
...Matt, Betsy and Brad were painted by Horacio Torres; her youngest, Peter, was painted at the age of 16 by her late nephew, Bruno Fonseca. “Portraits are magical, I think....
...Prato’s ecclesiastical commissioners wanted their wealthy city to be in the vanguard of the Renaissance....
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