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...Currys was founded by Henry Curry in 1884 as a bike manufacturer, before diversifying into selling toys, radios and gramophones when it listed on the stock market in 1927....
...Deborah Bruce’s new play, Dixon and Daughters at the National Theatre, marks the end of a jail sentence in more ways than one....
...This stuffy Clarence House interior, with its stifling decor and labyrinthine rules, is both a haven and a gilded cage to the two characters: their mutual understanding of that sustains their curious, decades-long...
...Ceramic ‘TABLE’ lamp by Henry Holland Studio, £2,400 Made in London with stacked earthenware spheres on a solid oak base. henryhollandstudio.com Venus by Pinto, €8,500 Part of the brand’s Constellations...
...Food writer Diana Henry, despite usually preferring plain, practical things for the kitchen, can’t help “hankering after interesting antique moulds”....
...Henry Dixon, UK fund manager at Man GLG, said the UK stock market was shrinking partly because of share buybacks and mergers....
...A statue of actor Sir Henry Irving has been shunted over to give more space and now looks, appropriately, towards a theatre....
...After Diana’s death, Charles’s team at Clarence House found itself fending off calls for the succession to skip a generation....
...The darker elements of the story are played down, except when Michael Mayes cuts through the sweetness as George’s nemesis, Henry F Potter....
...This year, however, the King (a warm friend of British Jews) has provided accommodation at Clarence House for Chief Rabbi Mirvis so that he can walk to the Abbey on the Sabbath....
...King Henry VIII last night reached an out-of-court settlement with surviving members of the Boleyn family....
...And this may just be the beginning, given the growing influence of arch conservative justice Clarence Thomas, writes Jill Abramson....
...Jordan had a long relationship with the king’s brother, the Duke of Clarence, later William IV, bearing him 10 little FitzClarences before being discarded....
...Most of America is like living on a different planet than the world of the Beltway and New York City.” — Henry D Wolfe, Chicago, Illinois “Russia and China want a multipolar world and we gave it to them...
...Anne didn’t inspire Henry in the bedroom but managed, against all odds, to retain her head....
...Other collaborations around the festival’s districts include 1990s rave- inspired smiley face rugs by fashion designer Henry Holland and Shoreditch carpet dealer Floor Story....
...“People are spending less [on other things],” said Henry Birch, chief executive of Very Group, a retailer with a credit operation....
...Just as FTSE chief executives relied on Rudd for advice, Rudd seemed to rely on Dixon. Dixon would prove central to the coming disputes....
...Additional reporting by Henry Sanderson...
...A few years ago I got a letter inviting me to meet Prince Charles at Clarence House. We got on, so I designed a collection for his royal visit to Ghana....
...At best, he writes like a poet, not a professor, in glinting, enigmatic nuggets of narrative finely voiced by his translator Richard Dixon....
...Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, why have you asked us here today?...
...It was a misjudgment that would eventually push both Clarence and Warwick — blindsided while negotiating a French marriage — into open rebellion....
...Henry Mance is the FT’s chief feature writer What forms of surveillance would you find unacceptable? Share your thoughts below....
...Henry Dixon is a portfolio manager at Man GLG...
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