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...“Every time I went into these incredible houses for portrait sittings I kept seeing other corners of the rooms I wanted to paint,” says Phoebe, who trained at the Charles H Cecil Studios in Florence, London...
...Stacey Parsons Parsons was born at the time some of the first women entered the LSE....
...The philanthropist Charles Booth, who documented late 19th-century London, described Dartmouth Park Road as “the dividing line of middle-class respectability”, with houses to the south then occupied by the...
...Art experts were quick to notice Canaletto’s 1744 view of Venice as the backdrop to the accession of the UK’s new monarch, King Charles III, in London’s St James’s Palace last weekend....
...Owens began his business without formal fashion design training — he studied fine arts at the Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, in Los Angeles....
...The highly profitable racehorse breeding industry in Ireland was built on a tax exemption for stallion fees devised by the former Irish premier Charles Haughey in 1968....
...Parsons, like his wife before him, is arrested and imprisoned....
...And at the southern end of the street, tasty sustainably-reared sausages fried before you at The Parson’s Nose (also at Marylebone) provide the perfect remontant after the red-eye from Washington....
...Charles de Vilmorin It was during France’s first national lockdown that Charles de Vilmorin decided to launch his namesake label via Instagram....
...Her first client was Charles Asprey, whom she met at an opening, and who bought a work by abstract painter Ian Davenport....
...The 51-footer in the boatyard is one such example, built at the request of businessman Charles Watson. “I grew up sailing an old wooden boat designed in 1960,” explains Watson....
...Charles Vallance, chairman of the ad group VCCP, said blue-chip companies were “really concerned” about the risks of marketing campaigns backfiring but that they risked being drowned out if they played it...
...Charles II raced horses on Putney Heath, John Locke recounted bowling and hawking, and many a baron and lord were known to duel here....
...Charles Moore, the journalist and biographer, takes a similarly optimistic view in the current Spectator about how the British would cope....
...Davison’s sets are ingenious and evocative, and David Charles Abell conducts the 48-member pit band idiomatically. ★★★★★ The Cunning Little Vixen is the second of this summer’s Glimmerglass operas; the...
...Nick Parsons Le Beausset, France Letter in response to this letter: Political longevity can damage a leader’s legacy / From Charles Robertson...
...Sir, Nick Parsons’ letter (November 22) is spot on....
...The (supposed) lifestyle of the old country parson remains catnip to the affluent English, as the enormous prices commanded by former village parsonages testify....
...Many historical figures have adjusted their thinking on particular issues in response to events: Charles de Gaulle changed his mind about Algeria, just as Robert Peel did about tariffs and FW de Klerk did...
...Charles de Gaulle, as leader of Free France, also lived in the area, as did Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists....
...Wealthy clients moving to far-flung time zones are less likely to retain UK connections, as Parsons acknowledges....
...Parsons Green, in particular, has seen an influx of French residents, in part due to the schools on offer: Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle is in nearby South Kensington, while its feeder school — Ecole...
...Reviews toughened up, such as Charles Shaar Murray’s one-word dismissal of a 1974 album called Poet, Fool or Bum by the US singer Lee Hazelwood: “Bum.”...
...SMD’s Wallsend base, beside the river Tyne, is where Turbinia, the first steam turbine-powered vessel and once the world’s fastest ship, was built in 1894 for Tyneside engineer Sir Charles Parsons....
...In these areas, 56 per cent of homes were worth £1m or more, estate agent Marsh & Parsons said....
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