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...The crumpled Japanese wool-linen or Harris Tweed coats (from £1,440) with their distinctive small-shouldered, long-skirted silhouette have garnered a cult following....
...The flavourings were indistinguishable and the whole rigmarole of individual baskets, stuck paper underlays, spoons etc meant that, even with a wrapper the thickness of a decent Harris Tweed, they bled-out...
...Vaquera are fantasists in the vein of American greats such as Cecil B DeMille rather than Tommy Hilfiger....
...(FT) 14 of the best mountain escapes How To Spend It has recommendations for the best high-top hideaways, including from Claud Cecil Gurney, founder of wallpaper company de Gournay....
...As an actor, you would think he was born to play puppet masters — the scheming brother Mycroft Holmes in Sherlock, Peter Mandelson in Coalition and Robert Cecil in Gunpowder — until you remember what a prize...
...(The Guardian) Buying Stonehenge Just over 100 years ago, British barrister Cecil Chubb went to an auction with orders from his wife to purchase a set of curtains....
...The new St Andrews property, which opened last week, has 22 of them, equipped with Nespresso machines, Miller Harris toiletries and free WiFi....
...I’ve just started a wonderful biography of Henry Cecil, the racehorse trainer [Henry Cecil: Trainer of Genius], which is one of the best biographies – whether sport or not – that I’ve read....
...Like Thatcher, his career-defining work was done in the 1980s, and on Newsnight he recycled old jokes and riffed on the names of some of those who served under Thatcher – “the Keiths, Normans and Cecils”...
...It was only in 1888, when Cecil Rhodes’ and Barney Barnato’s cartel, De Beers Consolidated Mines (which soon owned 95 per cent of the world’s diamond mines), sent its stones to be cut here, that Hatton Garden...
...In 1970 the Windsors made a TV film with Kenneth Harris in which Wallis assured her interviewer, “We’re really very happy.”...
...Bob Harris, broadcaster. Lady Hollick, for the arts. Rob Holt, former chief executive, Ryder Cup 2010. Alex Hope, MD, Double Negative, the visual effects company....
...The former journalist confirmed he was wearing a new suit last week, but “it cost £299 from Cecil Gee”. So who, if anyone, did buy the five-figure togs?...
...The North West Enquirer – a start-up attempt to carve out an upmarket niche for an independent weekly newspaper – appears to have printed its last issue, writes Clay Harris ....
...Not-so-old master An exhibition of art by old boys of Harrow School including Sir Cecil Beaton and Sir Winston Churchill opened yesterday at Christie’s auction house in King Street, St James’s....
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