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...The best of all these “dynastic” pregnancies wasn’t dynastic at all: Barbara Villiers, favourite mistress of Charles II, naughtily had a glowing and glorious life-size portrait of herself made by Sir Peter...
...Marc Quinn’s mauve, supersized, inflatable Alison Lapper, a disabled pregnant woman rendered as a party balloon, is a tasteless eyesore dominating the façade of San Giorgio Maggiore....
...“Our days of doffing the cap to people as far as I’m concerned are gone,” one contributor, called Barbara, told Liveline, the most popular show....
...In the 1960s, too, the play MacBird, written by Barbara Garson, became a sensation: based on Macbeth, it showed Lyndon Johnson, then president, plotting to kill Ken O’Dunc (Kennedy)....
...I picked them off the beach – my favourites had holes in them, rather like Barbara Hepworth’s. My bedroom stank of the rotting seaweed that stuck to them....
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