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...Vanderbilts, assorted princes and lords, a governor of Hong Kong, consuls, the Earl of Cork, restaurateur Lorenzo Delmonico and, unnamed but identifiable, his patron Mrs Astor — McAllister name-drops his...
...“Signed first-edition paperbacks by Philip K Dick — aka the Prince of Pulp — can retail at between £1,500 and £2,000,” says Simon Finch of Voewood Rare Books, citing Dr Futurity and The World Jones Made,...
...Stars include lively teenage diarist Eugenia Wynne and 20-year-old Lady Sarah Spencer, daughter of the Whig 2nd Earl Spencer and later governess to Queen Victoria’s children....
...Among their targets, a lawsuit filed in the UK High Court alleges, was short seller Matt Earl....
...It is where Duleep Singh, the last maharaja of the Sikh empire, spent much of his exile, hosting shooting parties for Queen Victoria, her cousin Prince George, Duke of Cambridge and members of the British...
...royalty and their entourages, homegrown earls and duchesses....
...I was deputy editor at the Daily Telegraph at the time, when the then editor Charles Moore and I burst into a meeting of Fleet Street editors brandishing a letter from Earl Spencer, Diana’s brother, in which...
...A gift from her husband James Wemyss (the 12th Earl of Wemyss and 9th Earl of March, and the reason Feilding is a countess), it dates from “thousands of years ago” and is a symbol of their shared fascination...
...Models of a K-class submarine, the minesweeper HMS Ludlow, the battleship HMS Iron Duke and a sleek torpedo boat illustrate the lethal advances in weaponry for which the war was a catalyst....
...In previous eras, Michael Jackson, Prince, The Beatles, Carole King and others could sell millions of albums at their debut....
...Kim K takes Miami on a private equity journey Perhaps the most stunning fact gleaned from a 38-minute presentation Kim Kardashian and her business partner Jay Sammons made to US pension funds and big asset...
...From previous reports, we know that the Queen is a chocoholic who favours a bowl of Special K for breakfast, grilled fish and chicken for lunch and simple cooked meats and vegetables for dinner....
...Naqvi met Britain’s Prince Charles and was active in one of his charities, the British Asian Trust....
...And, for another the Prince of Wales doesn’t care for Swarovski interiors. Visibility is unhelpful, so you might also want to rethink the house near Kensington Gardens....
...Increasing barriers to achieving financial security have led a younger generation of investors to say, “F@$K it”....
...The tea is also a class act: brews from the Rare Tea Company – supplier to Noma and Claridge’s – include an Earl Grey scented with Calabrian bergamot, a hand-fired green tea from China and an iced jasmine...
...But it’s also akin to appropriation art, where figures like the American Richard Prince re-photograph Marlboro cigarette advertising or rework pulpy-fiction book covers into multimillion-pound artworks,...
...Ma has returned to the global stage devoid of his signature freewheeling bravado, while one of his flashiest allies, Britain’s Prince Andrew, confronts a scandal over his association with the late sex offender...
...of Prince Charles, her husband, with Camilla, now his wife....
...They’d feel like a prince.” “I think there is genuine change,” says Wilcox of the current shifts in fashion....
...The actress and socialite Lillie Langtry, who lived behind the Cadogan Hotel, is rumoured to have met her lover there for trysts (he was the Prince of Wales)....
...Adding extra poignancy to a story that becomes unexpectedly moving is the casting of the late Michael K Williams as hostage negotiator Eli, who tries to talk sense to Brown-Easley while knowing first-hand...
...I think Prince Harry, sadly, it was all to do with Princess Diana’s death.” Prince Charles is “a great friend”, who’ll make a “good king”....
...Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, died a few months shy of his 100th birthday; Earl Simmons, the rapper popularly known as DMX, died a few months past his 50th....
...The scandal has left the UK’s largest public service broadcaster scrambling to retain the confidence of the public — who have watched the heir to the throne Prince William accuse it of betraying his parents...
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