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...Now in the V&A museum, but once housed in a Hertfordshire coaching inn, it measures more than 3m wide – nearly twice the size of the typical Elizabethan bed....
...The platinum and diamond Comète brooch is one of two known surviving pieces from the 1932 Bijoux de Diamants collection, featuring motifs including celestial bodies, bows and feathers, that the London Diamond...
...Cruddas identifies Blair’s first term and the 1945 government as exemplars....
...Sachs’ David Solomon, Morgan Stanley’s James Gorman and Citi’s Jane Fraser are due in town, though JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon will instead be in Paris with the bank’s International Council, a group that Tony Blair...
...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....
...Natan ostrich-feather brooch (worn on head), €195. Sandals and tights, model’s own....
...Vasconcelos, in a big pink jumper festooned with a pink butterfly brooch, nicely complements Lord R, smart in a pale blue shirt and aquamarine V-neck, when they convene in Waddesdon’s Dairy....
...Holland and Sons, Whytock and Reid, Hampton and Sons and Cornelius V Smith are also good names to type into your search browser....
...This passion goes back to shooting’s zenith 100 years ago, when success was measured by the size of a hunt’s bag: a party led by George V holds the record for killing 3,937 pheasants in one day....
...But once you've decided... ...during the Blair era, but now......
...If you have a shorter neck, choose an open-neck or V-neck style, and wear your hair up. Don’t fancy a tulle skirt?...
...I mean, some sort of pivotal role in the conversation of the moment is really, you know, quite a big win, definitely a feather in Sunak’s cap to secure that because this is, you know, being flagged as potentially...
...You know, the comparison that’s almost made is to 1997 when Tony Blair had his landslide victory against John Major....
...“The classic” style works for most necks but choose a V-neck or scoop if your bust is full (£65, sunspel.com). Now you can layer on top with a cardigan from Allude (£355, net-a-porter.com)....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...In the foreground, Mutu’s red soil, wood-entwined figure “Sentinel V” presides like a grotesque goddess — part Earth mother, part vengeful spirit....
...Tony Blair, the Labour prime minister, had paid fulsome tribute to the "people's princess". I feel like everyone else in this country today. Utterly devastated....
...socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is due to be sentenced after being found guilty in a sex abuse trial Wednesday Belgium, the Ommegang festival, including a pageant re-enacting the historical entry of Charles V,...
...Her father, known as Bertie in the family, was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. His elder brother, David, was expected to become king....
...On loan from the V&A, it’s an intricate, flashy conundrum that mixes eras, ideas and techniques with breathtaking audacity....
...He’s only five percentage points behind Keir Starmer in the polls on who make the best prime minister as opposed to 20-something on the Labour v Tory one....
...Other people say ‘it’ll take wild horses to drag him out, like Thatcher or Blair’, but I really don’t think he has their staying power.” Additional reporting by Jim Pickard in London...
...The Courtenays arrived with Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1154 and one forebear, Richard Courtenay, was buried with Henry V in Westminster Abbey, after dying of dysentery in Henry’s tent at the Siege of Harfleur...
...Moth larvae feed on keratin — a protein found in natural fibres, especially wool, cashmere and feathers....
...From Margaret Thatcher to Tony Blair, governments have set the tone of policy for museums and galleries, filling their upper ranks with allies and their coffers with public funds....
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