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...“It’s an Edward III gold quarter noble, dating from the 14th century,” French exclaims. “It’s the find of a lifetime.” Jones is beside himself....
...The only Englishmen in Whatmore’s cast of characters, Edward Gibbon and Thomas Paine, both spent the most creative portions of their lives overseas....
...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...
...Another was the smuggling of two Huguenot weavers from France — reputedly in wine barrels — by the Earl of Pembroke in 1721 to teach their techniques to the locals of Wilton, in Wiltshire....
...Mindful of his own monarch, Shakespeare couldn’t extol the Yorkists; Ashley D Gayle is a loutish braggart as King Edward (Henry VI’s on a break), while the juvenile Henry Earl of Richmond (Elizabeth I’s...
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...As Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote, “For things to stay the same, everything must change” (see Earl Grey’s triumphant showdown with the British aristocracy and his abolition of the slave trade in the...
...skintight matching flares and a French lace cravat, which the designer describes as “Victorian-esque meets Studio 54”, is compared to a painting by Joshua Reynolds from 1773-74 depicting Charles Coote, 1st Earl...
...This particular vehicle has drawn much praise from the high-profile autophiles who have test-driven it: the Le Mans 24-hour winner Earl Howe called it “one of the most wonderful treats that I have had for...
...In fact, as Edward Alden of the Council on Foreign Relations points out, US trade representative Katherine Tai often sounds more like the labor secretary than the top trade adviser....
...The harmonious domestic scene depicted in the oil sketch painted in 1800 gives little indication of the tensions that developed between its creator, the American artist John Singleton Copley, and Sir Edward...
...While you take in Brooks’s Palladian façade by Henry Holland, think of how the sandwich was reputedly invented here by the eponymous earl not wanting to interrupt a particularly intense gambling session...
...Wilton has been the country home of the Earls of Pembroke for more than 400 years and was rebuilt in the Palladian style in 1647 by Inigo Jones and John Webb....
...This marked the start of attempts to modernise a monarchy which had come to seem aloof and expensive since the 1935 abdication of Edward VIII....
...“I think there’s a group of writers who were feted in their day and who have been similarly marginalised: Peter Barnes, Edward Bond, Howard Barker and John Arden....
...It contains an exchange of private messages between King Charles II and his chief minister, Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon....
...the “Salvage Week” campaign 1946: Lynn with her baby Virginia 1950: Lynn with ex-servicemen during a garden party held by Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace April 1952: Tony Hancock, Lynn and Jimmy Edwards...
...] Colston,’” says Charlie Courtenay, the earl of Devon, whose ancestral home is Powderham Castle near Exeter....
...that the biggest challenge the Trust faces in the months ahead comes from another source entirely: those days in June when Black Lives Matter protests led to the toppling of a statue of the slave trader Edward...
...SocGen’s Albert Edwards is perplexed: I'm perplexed....
...Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, is known to history as the “kingmaker” and Edward’s most powerful political minister; here we also meet George Neville, the cultured and canny Archbishop of York, and his...
...No one really knows,” says Edward Burton, a property lawyer at Maurice Turnor Gardner. Property of a good standard is not automatically worth less today than it was in February, he says....
...That weekend would eventually lead to the abdication of Edward VIII and change the course of British history....
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