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...Cecil Rhodes was a racist and imperialist who established an entire British colony based on brutal exploitation....
...Its protagonists, Baker writes, weren’t Hitler or Churchill, but countrywomen, like the woman from the grocer’s shop in Townsend Warner’s village who became unnervingly good at throwing grenades....
...“It broke all the rules for a magazine cover: don’t show food, don’t use green and always have eye contact. It ended up being the bestselling issue of the year.”...
...Cecil Beaton, the great society photographer, used all sorts of tricks to flatter his subjects after replacing what he called “hazardous candid camera shots”....
...And who doesn’t want to be a bright young thing?...
...She remarked, ‘Won’t last a Marshwood winter!’ – and she became my nemesis as I so wanted to prove her wrong!” laughs Tristram....
...Eyman is a veteran film critic whose previous biographical subjects include Mary Pickford, John Ford and Cecil B DeMille....
...“They don’t care about knowing or talking to me; it’s about my product, and the fact they won’t see it on anyone else....
...“I really don’t know the story behind it,” says Costin. “It was gifted to me by Graham King, the former owner of the Museum of Witchcraft, and he was given it by the founder, Cecil Williamson....
...Vermeer edited by Pieter Roelofs and Gregor Weber (Thames & Hudson) For those who went, and those who didn’t....
...“She wasn’t just a sweet little old lady, she was more complex and quite a formidable presence,” says Dos Santos. “Cecil Beaton described her as ‘a marshmallow made on a welding machine’ . . ....
...This doesn’t quite get around the issue of many antique beds not being big enough for contemporary requirements in the first place, although a carpenter could make alterations....
...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....
...“We will set a budget for a horse at the sales, and we won’t exceed it.”...
...“In this field I haven’t made a transformative impact, but I haven’t given up,” she says of her quest, one that has bestowed seven grants, with three more recipients on the horizon....
...During a tour of Phoenix 2, a 90-metre vessel which the Cecil Wright brokerage is offering for €125mn at the Monaco show, I meet its interior designer....
...In her bedroom, with its Colefax and Fowler rose curtains, the walls around her four-poster bed are hung with more mementoes, including a portrait of her mother, the actress Rachel Kempson, by Cecil Beaton...
...Warhol, whose irreverence reinvigorated the whole genre of royal portraiture, wasn’t commissioned, but the Royal Collection caught up, in 2012 acquiring a quartet of “Reigning Queens”....
...And while the ultimate victor of the diamond rush was non-Jewish, with Cecil Rhodes gaining a near-monopoly of the industry with De Beers, many other leading figures, such as Barney Barnato, Sammy Marks...
...Founded in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1951 by warlock and screenwriter Cecil Williamson, it moved to the Cornish coast in 1960....
...He won’t be around forever....
...This is not the England of Cecil Beaton and tea parties on the lawn, it’s Heathcliff and Gabriel Oak, oiled and wrestling in a gale....
...She has warned against the “cancellation” of benefactors, whether the colonialist Cecil Rhodes or the opioid-seller Mortimer Sackler. Oxford has not renamed its Sackler library....
...“We don’t take a top-down approach — we listen to what they are interested in making,” says Stevens....
...Frieze co-founder Matthew Slotover, developer Gabriel Chipperfield and artist Tom Gidley, the 14-room hotel boasts a basement bar and 35-cover ground-floor restaurant run by former River Café chef Daisy Cecil...
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