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...Even the term itself is has a long lineage: he finds the superabundantes coming in for criticism by Nicolas Oresme, a 14th-century counsellor to Charles V of France, who thought they “exceed and overcome...
...The highest is a late-17th century portrait plate of William III in English Delft (£1,400-£1,800); among the lowest is an 1831 jug featuring a portrait of William IV (£30-£50)....
...William Morris and the avid Indian miniature collector Howard Hodgkin hymned the Persian epic the Hamzanama....
...Given how enduring the list is, my money is on the future William V finding the attrition rate among the UK top 10 still remaining low by the time he succeeds his father Charles III....
...the piece is reset with the Cullinan III, IV and V diamonds from Queen Elizabeth II’s jewellery collection....
...The King referred to his eldest son, Prince William, in his speech, saying that “the prince and princess of Wales” had recently made a successful public visit to Wales....
...There are other venues too: the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, which hosts an installation by Birmingham-born multidisciplinary artist Osman Yousefzada; and AirSpace gallery, where William Cobbing brings...
...Simultaneously, London is also a place with backyard shanty housing and squalor that Charles Dickens would recognise....
...King Charles III, then Prince of Wales, grins in a carefree way not seen much in the five decades since....
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...While Prince Charles seemed to be no great moderniser, his two sons by Diana, William and Harry, returned a more popular image to the royal family, epitomised in 2011 by Prince William's Westminster Abbey...
...Charles and Diana separated....
...The figure is poet and actress Greta Bellamacina, painted by Isabella Watling, one of Britain’s leading portrait artists – who has exhibited at the BP Portrait Award and is a teacher at the prestigious Charles...
...Once successful for his industrial and railway work, only a few small buildings survive, including his green shelters for cab drivers — there is one rather battered version outside the V&A....
...In an obscure glass cabinet we stumbled across the death certificate of William McKinley, who was assassinated in Buffalo in 1901. “Occupation: President of the United States,” it said....
...At Sea Ranch Lodge, now reimagined by Mithun architects and interior designer Charles de Lisle, we curiously poked around the wood-clad lounge, with slanted ceilings and rounded green couches....
...Her heirs — Princes Charles, William and George — stood closest to her in their dark tailored suits, a departure from the military uniforms we are used to seeing them wear on these occasions....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...Kristen Stewart adopts the blonde bob, the Kensington clothes and the breathy voice but stops short of full impersonation and her performance is better for it....
...It’s habit-forming. jkplace.paris Alexandra Marshall Westlight at The William Vale, New York I wanted to hate Westlight, because to me The William Vale represents everything weird and artificial about...
...True enough, the Anglo-Protestant Charles Stewart Parnell led the Home Rule movement of the second half of the 19th century, but the visceral force of nationalism was rooted in its Catholicism....
...It started with Charles Rennie Mackintosh, then I went a bit further back to William Morris and the arts and crafts and aesthetic movements....
...One sculpture on the visitor route at Chatsworth, “Bust of an African Woman” by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier (1851), depicts a formerly enslaved woman in bronze....
...It kept emperors (Charles V, then Philip II) at suspicious arm’s length but wilted when their stewardship stiffened into close-up domination....
...The secret pact was sealed by Salisbury, Irvine and the Labour prime minister behind the back of William Hague, the Tory leader at the time. “Big mistake,” Salisbury recalls....
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