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...Standard Chartered has sounded out UK political heavyweights Sir Charles Roxburgh and Sir Sajid Javid as potential candidates for its next chair when José Viñals steps down....
...A memoir from Charles Spencer, brother of Diana, the late Princess of Wales, offers a different context for the discussion....
...The reviewer of Charles Spencer’s A Very Private School (Books, Life & Arts, March 16) asks whether the author could “really remember how bad breakfast was in 1972”....
...Marks and Spencer has won a legal challenge in the High Court against Michael Gove’s decision to stop the retailer from knocking down its Art Deco flagship store on London’s Oxford Street....
...Crime and energy will be at the heart of the announcement, the first delivered by King Charles as monarch and the first for Rishi Sunak since he became prime minister....
...Although her academic work had begun with Milton and Spencer, she published two highly regarded books about her mentor Iris Murdoch....
...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....
...Through RIT, he took a 96-year lease on Spencer House in St James’s and led a £16mn renovation, painstakingly returning it to its 18th-century glory....
...If you’re in need of a morning dress muse, look to a young King Charles or the late Rolling Stone, Charlie Watts. A famously well-dressed man, Watts always got the details just right....
...Hair, Charles Stanley using Hair by Sam McKnight. Make-up, Dan Delgado using 111skin. Digital and retouching, Dan Simm at Triple Five Seven. Special thanks to Wallis Road Studios...
...On July 29 1981, the day of the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, scores of families travelled to central London to join the celebrations....
...Over the weekend, two sharp financial writers, the FT’s John Plender and the WSJ’s Spencer Jakab, published pieces arguing bonds’ risks are due for a rethink....
...Volumes are low, and people are nervous because markets have had a great run,” said Patrick Spencer, vice-chair of equities at Baird....
...“Charles Heidsieck NV is good in jeroboam – ideally the fruit-forward 2014 base. The oft-overlooked Piper Heidsieck in jeroboam is also amazing....
...As the film points out, the phrase echoes the then-Prince Charles, speaking ahead of his own assisted marriage to Diana Spencer. Let us pause for back-story....
...It shapes the opening gallery, Exiles and Dynasties, tracing how émigré artists, led by Van Dyck — his satiny extravaganza “A Lady of the Spencer Family”, attended by a spaniel darting off to chase a lizard...
...A Very Private School: A Memoir by Charles Spencer (William Collins/ Simon & Schuster)Unflinching personal account of a boarding school childhood exposes the shocking flaws, cruelties and life-long legacies...
...Dated November 3, 1623, it notes that a John Webb was paid for a year’s work as “instructor to the Prince”, the future King Charles I. All this history brings some insights....
...He met the then 16-year-old Diana Spencer in 1977 and the two married at St Paul’s Cathedral four years later....
...Research by headhunter Spencer Stuart found that 22 chief executives of companies in the S&P 500 had returned to their previously held posts in the past 12 years....
...I was deputy editor at the Daily Telegraph at the time, when the then editor Charles Moore and I burst into a meeting of Fleet Street editors brandishing a letter from Earl Spencer, Diana’s brother, in which...
...We’re reminded of this chart that Spencer Jakab published in The Wall Street Journal last year, decomposing S&P 500 returns by source....
...Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s former Glasgow Herald building, carefully restored as the Lighthouse, Scotland’s Centre for Architecture and Design, closed at the start of the pandemic and is yet to reopen....
...“These catch limits show that the mismanagement of UK and EU seas is set to continue,” said Charles Clover, executive director of the Blue Marine Foundation, an ocean conservation charity....
...More than 100 world leaders will be attending, including Rishi Sunak after he found time in his diary, but not King Charles. Again, you can get more insights from the FT....
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