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...She also notes a set of colourful men’s silk waistcoats from the 18th century pulled from the V&A collection....
...Charted waters looks into the rollout of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine....
...(NYT,$) – LA’s luxury rent slump. – #FreeBritney. (VF, $) – Roadies’ woes....
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...culturally rich pueblos magicos or “magic towns”, it occupies a 2-hectare site within a biosphere reserve, surrounded by farmland, cactus desert, an oasis of 5,000 palms and the foothills of the Sierra de la...
...But many viewers at home quickly zeroed in on what was around her neck: a delicate chain with four letter charms: V-O-T-E....
...FT family quiz Round One Jenny Agutter (The Railway Children) George V (Edward VIII and George VI) Christopher Robin Milne (son of AA Milne) Loving and giving Five (at home) The Diary of Anne Frank/The...
...Details Claire Wrathall was a guest of Villa La Coste which offers suites for two from €650 per night....
...Rocco Forte Hotels has established ties with galleries local to its city properties....
...La Dolce Vita 30. (i) Eminem (ii) the Rolling Stones had a vocabulary of 2794 words, compared to the Who’s 1794. 31....
...… The House of Worth: Portrait of an Archive, by Amy de la Haye and Valerie D Mendes, (V&A Publications £35/$55) Parisian Charles Frederick Worth was the founding father of haute couture and this survey...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...doorstep Amanbagh, India The lovely Amanbagh resort is deep in rural Rajasthan, where the way of life has scarcely changed in centuries and camel carts are still the principal mode of transport, writes Claire...
...As is Rocco Forte’s Hotel Savoy, on the Piazza Repubblica (www.hotelsavoy.it)....
...Roman splendour The first-rate Hotel de Russie (www.hotelderussie.it, from €442) is part of the Rocco Forte Collection....
...Meanwhile texture combines with image and pattern to create an intricate layered effect in Claire Coles’s bespoke wallpaper panels....
...This year’s highlight promises to be performances of Rigoletto (August 6 and 8) with the starry Hungarian soprano Andrea Rost, whose career has taken her from the Operaház to the Paris Opéra, La Scala, Covent...
...The kind of thing you see in Marie Claire magazine’s Spree v Steal feature....
...the 17-room Hôtel de Toiras is the creation of Olivia Mathé, a willowy Sorbonne-educated thirtysomething Parisian who used to spend holidays here and whose CV includes a stint at the Four Seasons George V...
...These are based on a good friend's great, great aunt Alice's extravagant recipe, said to have found favour with George V....
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