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...Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth by Tom Burgis William Collins £18.99, 320 pages Mary Fitzgerald is a program director at the Open Society Foundations Join our online book group on Facebook at...
...Describing her “huge shock” upon discovering the news, she said that she and her husband William, Prince of Wales, had “been doing everything we can to process and manage this privately for the sake of our...
...In the photo parts of Princess Charlotte’s sweater sleeve appeared to be missing, alongside other discrepancies. “Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing....
...Lucy Wood, a former senior curator of furniture at the V&A, has recently overseen a project to restore two chairs designed by the 18th-century architect William Kent....
...Charlotte Olympia 2.0 is an evolved prospect....
...It’s co-chaired by Baroness Charlotte Vere, Treasury Lords Minister, and Aviva chief executive Dame Amanda Blanc....
...Kenyan President William Ruto gives a speech at the EU parliament....
...While attending a major funeral was costly (more than £1,000 in today’s currency for a restricted view of the crimson-covered coffins containing George IV’s 21-year-old daughter Princess Charlotte and her...
...Byrd: The Golden Renaissance Stile Antico This year marked the 400th anniversary of the death of William Byrd, a leading composer of the English Renaissance....
...Simmons likes to joke that he learnt about the complexity of repeat patterns from designs by “the three Williams — Morris, Burges and de Morgan”....
...De Castellane has livened up the stone foundations in the other outsized salons with a commingling of William Morris wallpapers and oriental rugs, brightly coloured ikat-print textiles, bold tartan walls...
...In the US, National Carnation Day is celebrated next week in memory of president William McKinley, who always wore a red one for luck; on the day he was assassinated in 1901, he was believed to have taken...
...This was in some ways a reinvention of the celebrity advertising that’s been a mainstay since the 1700s, when Wedgwood dedicated one of its tea sets to Queen Charlotte....
...It was a statement piece without the weight, price, or provenance of jewellery, and its leaf motif grounded the rest of Princess Catherine’s ensemble, the traditional robes and mantels she and Prince William...
...Charles Hallé, founder of the city’s Hallé symphony orchestra, gave music lessons to Gaskell’s daughters in the drawing room; her shy friend, Charlotte Brontë, hid behind the curtains to avoid another guest...
...The company has acquired rival William Morris Agency and sports agency IMG. Additional reporting by Sara Germano...
...Denmark Scandi summer light is also the inspiration for Verden, which draws on co-founder Charlotte Semler’s childhood holidays spent in Denmark....
...Separately on Tuesday, LBC radio reporter Charlotte Lynch was arrested and detained for covering the protests by environmental activists, which have disrupted traffic across several counties during the past...
...Millions of Florida residents are under evacuation orders, although Florida governor Ron DeSantis said on Wednesday morning that it was too late to leave Collier, Lee, Sarasota and Charlotte counties, where...
...Aprons too made their way from the working classes and on to the fronts of Queen Charlotte’s beautifully embroidered gowns....
...No one remembered to supply chairs for George III and Queen Charlotte (or for that matter to bring the coronation sword), so there was a lot of wandering around. The snafus have not all been comical....
...Smiths Group has named Steve Williams, the chair of aluminium producer Alcoa, to succeed George Buckley as chair after he retires in November....
...William Morris called it the “noblest of the weaving arts”....
...BBC chief content officer Charlotte Moore on Thursday rejected Maitlis’s claim that the broadcaster too often found a “superficial balance” in news coverage that pulled punches, normalised populist ideas...
...Compass Mining said it had accepted the resignation of chief executive Whit Gibbs and finance chief Jodie Fisher, effective immediately, and that it was searching for replacements....
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