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...Cecil Beaton, the great society photographer, used all sorts of tricks to flatter his subjects after replacing what he called “hazardous candid camera shots”....
...Bloodlines, designed by Tristram, depicts peasants tilling a field alongside caricatures of ladies and gents who converse in speech bubbles with words plucked from William Barnes, the 19th-century poet....
...Edwards is one of the best-known news readers at the BBC, helming its coverage of the UK’s most important state and international events, including Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral and King Charles III’s coronation...
...Additional reporting by Samuel Agini and Oliver Barnes...
...“I like to call her the first influencer,” laughs Emilie Metge Viargues, the Parisian brand’s CEO and president, explaining that in the mid 19th-century, the wife of Napoleon III “was an insane fan of Christofle...
...British retailers, pubs, hotels and restaurants are all hoping for a boost in sales prompted by the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday after three years of subdued consumer demand....
...In 1561, Elizabeth privately backed Mary’s claim to the English succession, against Cecil’s favoured Protestant candidates, says Guy. Cecil believed religion came first and dynasty second....
...Napoleon III’s portraitist was not Manet, the era’s radical figure painter, but the tame Franz Winterhalter, also lured to Britain by Prince Albert....
...It was Gieves that made the RAF uniform worn by the future George VI on his wedding day, ditto the famous “boat cape” in which the Queen was photographed by Cecil Beaton in 1968....
...“Arguably the strangest thing to emerge from an English car park since they found Richard III under a Leicester pay-and-display.”...
...She opens with George III, knocked from his pedestal in Bowling Green, Manhattan, in the summer of 1776, by an excited crowd shortly after Congress approved the Declaration of Independence....
...Next are some wonderful Georgian neighbourhoods: Chiswick Mall opposite and the beautiful facades of The Terrace, in Barnes....
...The Westminster “halo” tiara was fashioned by Lacloche in the oriental “bandeau” style to include the Arcot diamonds, once belonging to Queen Charlotte, consort to George III....
...The villa played host to Henry III on his journey from Poland to become king of France....
...Godfrey Kneller’s streamlined “Hampton Court Beauties” — “Diana de Vere”, “Margaret Cecil” — are identikit as the giant Chinese porcelain vases displayed alongside them....
...Long before Hollywood, William Shakespeare wrote history plays to flatter the Tudor court; Richard III’s reputation has never entirely recovered....
...With some pleasure he tells a story of fellow saxophonist Alan Barnes meeting Kirchin some years ago: the composer played Barnes two recordings — one of a whooper swan, and the other of Parker playing sax...
...Martin Barnes is senior curator of photographs at the V&A ‘Into the Woods: Trees in Photography’ runs in Gallery 38a from November 18 until April 22 2018....
...Barnes and his staff are as curious as we are to see what will turn up....
...He is due to play George III on stage next year. In Sherlock, Holmes’s superpower appears to be borderline Asperger’s. “I don’t think it’s a disorder,” says Gatiss, of the detective, defensively....
...unpersuasive bid for contemporary cool, but it compels in the contrasts between Rodin and his immediate successors: Brancusi’s reduced, abstracted relief “Sleeping Muse” and Matisse’s massively simplified “Back III...
...Less impressively, biotech group Circassia says a treatment for people allergic to cats has failed to pass its own Phase III trials....
...- As everyone who suffered through Episodes I-III knows, the politics of the Star Wars universe make no sense. - Further, further reading....
...Martin Barnes is senior curator of photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum. ‘Beneath the Surface’ opens May 21 at Somerset House, London WC2....
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