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...Jessica de Lotz “was glued to the TV” when House of the Dragon first aired....
...In the distance, a frieze shows St Margaret erupting from the belly of a dragon, to become patron saint of childbirth....
...That might make it sound like a YA version of Game of Thrones-spin-off House of the Dragon, but without the dragons or, thankfully, the dour self-seriousness....
...He adopted the role when he and his wife Catherine took over the running of the Neuadd Arms 21 years ago. (She’s the treasurer.)...
...This is one of the many entertaining anecdotes in Gekoski’s Guarded by Dragons, reflecting on his 50-plus years as “a bookseller”....
...The fabled DeLorean is a delight, disgorging flame and steam like a dragon, appearing to speed around the stage (partly thanks to Finn Ross’s excellent video work) and even — great Scott!...
...Letter in response to this article: Blazing a trail for females at historic trading group / From Catherine Boylan, London W14, UK...
...In “St George” the blushing, meditative warrior stands, slain dragon at his feet, framed at the pinnacle of a road coiling from a distant hillside town, its walls, domes and spires in glistening miniature...
...The $247m PowerShares Golden Dragon China fund tracks a basket of Chinese companies that also have a US listing and is heavily weighted towards the information and technology sectors....
...At least, their flattery may have worked until the era of Henry VIII who in 1536 committed Catherine of Aragón to eternity in the quire....
...“The notion that motor-cars are more ‘alive’ than, say, centaurs or dragons is curious,” he wrote in his 1939 lecture “On Fairy-Stories”....
...Across the Narrow Sea, “mother of dragons” Daenerys Targaryen is too bogged down with ruling the city of Meereen to launch an assault on King’s Landing, where the Catherine de’ Medici-like Cersei Lannister...
...Titian’s resplendent portrait of Suleyman’s daughter Cameria bizarrely recasts the Muslim girl in floor-length white veil as the martyred St Catherine....
...Frank Auerbach: Speaking and Painting, by Catherine Lampert, Thames & Hudson, RRP£19.95/RRP$40 Lampert has sat as a model to the reclusive artist for four decades....
...You may not have got dragons or sorcery but you could count on divorce, adultery and abdication....
...Faber, RRP£20/Knopf, RRP$26.95 Even for a genre-hopper such as Ishiguro, his first novel in 10 years was a surprise: a fantasy set in a mist-shrouded England not long after Roman times, complete with a dragon...
...In the first of a three-part series, the FT examines the Chinese Debt Dragon....
...Most of the criticism centred on the treatment of his wife, Catherine....
...Others, such as Fleming Family & Partners, run Dragon’s Den-style courses, in which attendees, in teams, come up with entrepreneurial ideas to present at the end of the week to the “Dragons” – industry experts...
...Catherine Middleton arrived at her wedding last April – watched by hundreds of millions of people worldwide – in a Rolls-Royce....
...The event is an imaginative mix of the Dragons’ Den television series format (in which entrepreneurs bid for a cash injection from rich investors) and mass speed dating – except those bidding for attention...
...CHILDREN’S How To Seize a Dragon’s Jewel , by Cressida Cowell, Hodder, RRP£5.99 The 10th outing for Viking dragon tamer Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third deepens the atmosphere of doom that has gathered...
...The W and K design had to be redrawn after it was made clear that the Prince’s girlfriend, universally known as Kate, was properly to be called Catherine, creating the initials WC, which need to be arranged...
...Catherine the Great turns out to have been an avid Alexander enthusiast too. A fascinating set of wood panels were engraved on her orders with scenes of Alexander’s life....
...Certain works, such as Veronese’s “The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine”, are of exceptional quality; all merit sustained attention....
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