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...According to Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Guide to Wine, which popular 1970s brand “preyed on the fears . . . of an unsophisticated wine drinking public”? What was Oliver Goldsmith’s only novel?...
...Stoner was active in the Ku Klux Klan, described Adolf Hitler as “too moderate” and served as an attorney for James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King Jr’s assassin....
...The centrepiece is the wonderful rhythmic complex that is Horse Guards, started by William Kent and finished by Wright, Robinson and Vardy in the 1750s....
...Chief awards organiser Natalie Earl is hoping to restage the judging process in the autumn, but as it usually takes place in the ExCeL exhibition centre, since converted into a hospital for coronavirus patients...
...CapCo’s Covent Garden development was a “truly world-class asset that would attract a premium price were it ever sold to a private buyer”, and a 23 per cent discount to net asset value meant the group’s Earl...
...She was influenced by the painterly approach of Gertrude Jekyll and the naturalistic style of William Robinson. But when at the age of 51 her marriage foundered, she faced financial ruin....
...When it's not being used as the set for Downton Abbey, Highclere Castle in southwest England is used by the 8th Earl of Carnarvon and his wife, Lady Carnarvon....
...But CBRE’s Robinson worries these same demands might “create a lot of undevelopable land” by making construction yet more expensive....
...Among the American painters to descend on this pocket of northern France were Cassatt, Sargent, Robinson, John Leslie Breck and Theodore Earl Butler, who would go on to marry Suzanne Hoschedé, whose mother...
...“It’s a sad reflection on the industry that there are still some bad guys out there,” she told me at Cape Wine Europe, a vast generic tasting in Earls Court exhibition halls last week....
...Capital & Counties, the UK property group, is in talks with one of Asia’s wealthiest families in Asia to provide funding for the multibillion pound redevelopment of the Earls Court site in west London, one...
...it makes deep purple wine with the potential to age for decades, when young the wine is unusually floral, smelling of violets or, according to some Portuguese tasters, bergamot, the active ingredient in Earl...
...Corporate travel group Hogg Robinson climbed 7.9 per cent to 44½p on speculation of a takeover approach....
...“There are people who insist that a book is a narrative form that is transhistorical,” says Colin Robinson, co-founder of OR Books....
...Order of the British Empire KNIGHT GRAND CROSS, GBE John Roundell The Earl of Selborne, for services to science. Arthur Weidenfeld, publisher....
...According to the biannual hotel survey conducted by Hogg Robinson Group (HRG), the hotel market in Europe and the US appears to be stabilising, as rates are either flat or only marginally down....
...‘A Place in the Sun Live’, from Friday to March 28, Earls Court, London, tel: +44 (0)20-3207 2920, www.aplaceinthesun.com/exhibition On the carpet There is hot competition over the finite supply of antique...
...From the 1720s, the 3rd Earl of Burlington, aided by designer William Kent, created a neoclassical landscape – avenues of urns, statues and cypress trees – to complement the pioneering neo-Palladian villa...
...More detailed tasting notes can be found on Jancis Robinson’s website....
...Andrew Robinson Stoney was a lowly ensign in the British Army – and an opportunist....
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