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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”....
...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....
...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....
...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....
...The Swiss authorities are imposing a de facto constraint on size by demanding more draconian rules on bank capital than required by Basel III....
...‘Mondrian Nicholson’ to May 20, www.courtauld.ac.uk John Cecil Stephenson to April 29, www.durham.gov.uk...
...It was a celebration of the birth of Prince Andrew, a Cecil Beaton picture of the Queen holding the baby, Prince Philip with his hand on the young Charles’s shoulder and Anne standing beside her mother in...
...Now all that remains is a ruined fort and a few iron-cast English cannons from the reign of George III. The Marampa mine started production in February....
...Elegance By Gabriel Badea-Paun Thames & Hudson £35, 223 pages FT bookshop price: £28 A glossy, intelligent exploration of 200 years of portraiture on canvas and camera, from Goya and Jacques-Louis David to Cecil...
...A Life of Picasso: Volume III: The Triumphant Years 1917-1932 By John Richardson Jonathan Cape £30, 555 pages FT bookshop price: £24 Gossipy, profound, insightful and non-judgmental, Richardson is terrific...
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