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...Patterson points to a pewter beaker from the 1690s engraved with wrigglework portraits of William III and Mary II that sold at Christie’s for £14,400....
...The rest of the cast — warm soprano Mary Bevan, contrasting mezzos Paula Murrihy and Daniela Mack, and sturdy baritones Neal Davies and William Dazeley — all sing well, and Harry Bicket conducts a performance...
...When Denzil Lush was a child, his grandmother was about to throw away a mass-produced coronation beaker with a portrait of King George V and Queen Mary. “This was the early 1960s,” he says....
...YSP Centre until 11 June Evelyn Hofer: Eyes on the City at High Museum of Art, Atlanta Alongside William Eggleston and William Klein, German-born American photographer Evelyn Hofer was one of the first...
...In a break from recent tradition, Camilla, Queen Consort has not commissioned a new crown for the coronation but will use Queen Mary’s Crown, made by Garrard for the consort of King George V in 1911, after...
...But then William Morris (1834-96) was a bundle of paradoxes....
...William Hurt had a dark-star twinkle and the looks of a preppy fallen on moments of self-doubt: blond, lean and broodingly handsome....
...Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born in London on April the 21st 1926. The eldest child of the former Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and Prince Albert....
...Her father, known as Bertie in the family, was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. His elder brother, David, was expected to become king....
...“If you look at, say, a Leonardo drawing of the head of the Virgin Mary, it looks effervescent. There’s something unreal about it – and one of the secrets is this paper.”...
...The FT’s US trade correspondent Aime Williams has more on what a delay in lifting the tariffs on UK metals means for the country....
...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....
...Mary ascend to the English throne....
...Andrews Avner OfferUniversity of Oxford Andrew SayerLancaster University Jo MichellUWE Bristol Nina EichackerUniversity of Rhode Island Roberto VenezianiQueen Mary University of London Jens van ‘t...
...Should we expect the V&A’s exhibition to explore this difficult territory?...
...The writer is an adjunct lecturer in the economics department at William & Mary As economists debate the letter-form trajectory of the recovery ahead, it is not too soon to identify the letter shape of...
...Kingston Polymath 1,011: Dr S Bailey, Swindon Crossword 16,099: Suzanne P Wilson, Windermere; D Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V...
...Once Charles V was elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, the Habsburg challenge became far more considerable....
...In 1797, William Wordsworth met Samuel Taylor Coleridge at a house called Racedown Lodge, which sits at one end of the valley....
...From £18; 34 Clifton Rd, London W9 (simonwarwicksalons.co.uk) My favourite room in my house is my bedroom, where I go to be quiet – it’s a very calm deep green. I love hanging out in bed....
...Albertopolis, as it is known, was built as a sort of cultural theme park in the Victorian era, encompassing the V&A, the Natural History Museum, Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal...
...Between 1882 and 1900, P&O (formerly Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation) commissioned the Arts & Crafts tiler William De Morgan to work on 12 ships....
...This was especially hard on the actress Dorothea Jordan, who had borne the Duke of Clarence, later King William IV, no fewer than 10 illegitimate FitzClarences....
...Carving concrete with GPS tracking is “cutting-edge technology”, says David Green, chief executive of the V&A Waterfront, whose shareholders funded the Silo’s £35m renovation....
...The Neues Museum is Berlin’s version of the V&A....
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