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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....
...William Morris and the avid Indian miniature collector Howard Hodgkin hymned the Persian epic the Hamzanama....
...the piece is reset with the Cullinan III, IV and V diamonds from Queen Elizabeth II’s jewellery collection....
...May 16 to October 13; further information and tickets here ‘Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection’, V&A South Kensington The couple’s extraordinary private collection...
...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....
...David Souter, another HW Bush nominee, often sided with the court’s liberal wing as he neared retirement in 2009. In contrast, Thomas has always been the court’s most reliably conservative vote....
...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....
...Inter-racial romance in India was dramatised in both Merchant Ivory’s Heat and Dust (1983) and the 1984 ITV series The Jewel in the Crown, based on Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet novels....
...“If I were King of Lisbon, I would soon rule over the whole world,” said Charles V of Portugal’s 16th-century capital....
...1,016: Amy De Jesus, Hong Kong Crossword 16,129: FJ Chalton, Liverpool; Nik Morrell, London; Ian Dempsey, New Jersey Polymath 1,015: Richard Otley, Wakefield Crossword 16,123: Michael Baylor, France; Scott...
...(iii) Such a property wealth tax would cause a large industry of tax avoidance....
...Public galleries are also being created by David Kohn Architects to create a new showcase for the collections....
...Awaking from nightmares of his murdered opponents, the king starts up in terror before the Battle of Bosworth in William Hogarth’s poised, serpentine “David Garrick as Richard III”....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College I expect inflation to rise towards 3% in 2017 was import prices rise....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Most unlikely....
...this staging starts with that troubled monarch and moves forward through Henry VI and Richard III....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Open question. Depends if he injects a major fiscal stimulus....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My expectation is that growth will slow to below 1 per cent. Big issues are what progress is made in Brexit discussions....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College A fall in migration would have very negative effects on the public finances and growth....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College More pessimistic than 12 months ago I am more pessimistic despite the most recent data being better than many including me expected....
...Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism, by David Kilcullen, Hurst, RRP£9.99 David Kilcullen, an Australian military officer and academic, was deeply involved in the US counterinsurgency...
...Richard III), of whom we know almost nothing....
...‘Disobedient Objects’ runs at the V&A, London, until February 1 2015 Slideshow photographs: Getty; Ian Thomas/V&A; Mike Russell; Cat Mazza; The Scottish Gallery, Private Collection; David Cripps; Martin...
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