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...De Beauvau spent part of her childhood at the Château d’Haroué, the 18th-century estate that belonged to her father, Prince Marc de Beauvau-Caron, who was a great connoisseur of the arts....
...edition of Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T Munger....
...“It all just needed to be brought back to a fully functional state – I didn’t want to create something ‘Disney’.”...
...“He [Prince Charles] used to moan about the fact that he can’t grow peaches at Highgrove. But the [now] Queen Consort can grow them. They have a sort of peach-growing competition.”...
...But no amount of smart planning can account for some challenges. While following his father George V’s coffin in procession, Edward VIII recalled seeing “a flash of light dancing along the pavement”....
...I don’t want roads renamed or statues brought down because they offend a small number of people....
...The Courtenays arrived with Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1154 and one forebear, Richard Courtenay, was buried with Henry V in Westminster Abbey, after dying of dysentery in Henry’s tent at the Siege of Harfleur...
...says Florian Hofer, managing director of E & V, for whom German-speaking buyers accounted for 63 per cent of transactions in Mallorca last year, the British 12 per cent and Scandinavians 6 per cent (only...
...“The really great painters are the ones that change how other people paint, like Picasso,” said Charles Ellis, the former chair of Yale’s endowment....
...For a bank holiday weekend at Balmoral, the Queen’s grey baronial estate in the northernmost stretches of Scotland, Thatcher and husband Denis (Stephen Boxer) undergo a series of social embarrassments, most...
...credit card didn’t work....
...When King George V stayed here in 1912, 40,000 people packed the gardens to watch him arrive. He was a guest of its former owner, the 7th Earl Fitzwilliam....
...(SCMP, FT) Royal summit The Queen has summoned Prince Charles and his sons Prince William and Prince Harry for an emergency summit on Monday at the Sandringham estate, after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex...
...asks retired Judge Charles Harris QC, who lives in nearby Steeple Barton. “The public won’t be able to visit the place. Essentially it’s for the benefit of N Johnston.”...
...Letter in response to this article: Time to base currencies on a unit of energy / From V J Paine, Derwen, Denbighshire, UK...
...The Crown Estate, which owns half of St James’s, has invested £500m in revamping the area with retail projects such as St James’s Market, which opened in autumn 2016....
...Last year these included a pair of 14th-century marble lions from the tomb of Charles V of France (sold for £9.3m) and a Jiaqing period dinner service (c1805, $1.1m)....
...V for one, England’s Henry VIII for another — but also to God....
...“That didn’t seem quite so problematic back then.” (Charles Renfro joined later, becoming a partner in 2004.)...
...(FT) Fidelity predicts a wave of asset manager M&A The recent batch of big mergers in the industry is just the beginning, according to Charles Morrison, head of Fidelity’s $2.1tn asset management division...
...Yours for $7.5m from Dave Perry Miller Real Estate....
...The Brexit shock was delayed, but is coming, and net exports and cheaper real estate won’t compensate for policy uncertainty and declining investment....
...Activity in some narrowly-defined sectors such as commercial real estate has weakened sharply up to and following the referendum....
...One way to picture the economic impact of a Brexit may be the shape of a letter ‘V’ or a ‘tick’....
...There is no greater act of pusillanimous surrender for art, I say, though not quite in those words, than to be promoted by estate agents....
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