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...The staff treated the financier like royalty but, again, his behaviour seemed off....
...This sumptuous pair could pass as saints or royalty, but it’s hard to imagine them as lovers. Yet Jakob Fugger and Sybilla Artzt were man and wife....
...Smart reads ‘Men in Black’ Raids by Beijing on foreign consultancies operating in China reveal the mounting risks of performing due diligence in the country, the FT reports....
...There is a mythos surrounding the 73-year-old editrix that inspires deference akin to that given to royalty....
...Industry royalty spooked by upstart Netflix, a Hollywood studio for whom cinema was just another platform....
...From the bright new entrance by Orange Street, you plunge into contemporary life — cultural royalty alongside refuse collectors....
...His rocket trip to stardom was fuelled by the commission for a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II for the cover of Tatler’s platinum jubilee issue....
...“Our royalty is to be reverenced and if you poke about it you cannot reverence it,” he wrote. “Its mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic.”...
...In life Elizabeth II inspired admiration in the world’s most powerful people with almost mysterious ease. In death, under a sunny London sky, she managed the feat one last time....
...Omofemi’s fusion of politics and fantasy is the bargain underpinning all art of royalty....
...Dmitry Medvedev, whom Putin allowed to serve as president in 2008-12 and who sought a framework of partnership with the west, has turned himself into a policy hawk....
...Grindr has shaken up its top management as it prepares to go public through a black-cheque merger slated for later this year....
...As Stephen Bates, author of Royalty Inc, puts it: “The monarchy is one thing the Americans don’t have.”...
...Artistic director Maria Grazia Chiuri was inspired by Catherine de’ Medici, an Italian who, via marriage to Henry II in 1533, entered French royalty....
...Only royalty could afford it. “It was difficult and expensive to create . . . [imperial purple] is not common in nature,” says Thomas....
...(Perhaps a dining room to the west of Buckingham Palace, munching on regal couture, is the closest she can get to royalty these days.)...
...One suit of armour, given by the late 19th-century Meiji emperor to Prince Alfred, is rich in carved gilt copper, black lacquered iron, blue silk brocade....
...Life on the oil sands A red-tailed hawk circles above the white oil storage tanks on the south-east bank of the Battle River....
...The site was occupied in the 16th century by a palace built for Catherine de Medici, then the widow of Henry II....
...“It was as if the exclusivity of royalty and blue blood could be erased with a photo-op,” one black British commentator, who asked not to be named, said in hindsight of the hopes the wedding once inspired...
...Here they bred leopards and hawks and kept menageries of giraffes, elephants, camels, lions, lynxes, apes, bears, peacocks and ostriches....
...From James Taylor and Joni Mitchell to Black Sabbath and the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix and Fleetwood Mac to Madonna and Prince — Warner and its various subsidiaries incorporated several eras in music history...
...Two listings in June were the year’s largest — Royalty Pharma’s $2.2bn IPO and Warner Music’s $1.9bn listing....
...From London’s National Gallery, whose own Raphael exhibition is postponed from October until 2022, “Pope Julius II”, sagging yet hawk-like with hooded eyes and talon fingernails, also returns home to Rome...
...Greta’s moral universe is black and white, and she is not very interested in introspection. It is the detail of her responses that is telling. Her intense concentration and then absentness....
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