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...The west London club is deciding whether to redevelop its Stamford Bridge home ground or to build a new stadium at Earl’s Court....
...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....
...In 2019, alongside Dutch pension fund APG, Delancey bought the Earl’s Court exhibition and surrounding land in west London for £425mn....
...Antony and Cleopatra, which premiered in San Francisco in 2022, has just been announced for next season at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, and the first recording of the one before, Girls of the Golden West...
...The latter, Decolonised Structures (2022-23), recreates seven public statues from around London of imperial-age figures ranging from Sir Robert Clive, the first British administrator of Bengal, and Earl...
...With funding from his financial backer, the 5th Earl of Carnarvon, Carter built the house in 1910 and lived there until just before his death in 1939....
...At the very end of the 18th century, Thomas Bruce, the 7th Earl of Elgin, had been appointed “ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty to the Sublime Porte of Selim...
...Most urgently, agitatedly depicted is Stella West (“Head of E.O.W”), who modelled for Auerbach three nights a week in her Earl’s Court basement....
...Here too, or hereabout, was where the poet John Dryden was almost murdered by rogues hired by the Earl of Rochester in 1679....
...The fried courgette bites stuffed with a smooth vegetable pâté and cabrales sauce (made with a blue cheese from the north-west region of of Asturias) will make you want to return for more....
...Elizabeth I appointed the Earl and Countess custodians of the captive Mary, Queen of Scots in 1569....
...The west London club is deciding whether to redevelop its Stamford Bridge home ground or build a new stadium at Earl’s Court....
...A few continue under family ownership, but there’s an interesting case on the west coast of Ireland....
...The 112-year-old shop has been a sandwich staple on the west side of the City for generations....
...By 1966 the carnival proper had come into being, on the back of a parade from Earl’s Court to Ladbroke Grove arranged two years earlier by community organiser Rhaune Laslett....
...But legend can be more powerful than fact, and the film endures as an artefact of Soviet attitudes to the west....
...Established by Crispin Odey in 1991, the hedge fund was known for hiring “earls and girls”, while some fund managers brought shotguns to the office before heading off on weekend shooting trips....
...The change at Pratt’s has ignited a fresh round of debate at other gentlemen’s clubs in London’s West End over whether women should be allowed to join....
...She orders a cup of Earl Grey tea with a dash of lemon. Not everyone is a fan of this bergamot-flavoured beverage but she adores it....
...Opening the West Holts stage on Friday were the Star Feminine Band from Benin. “We are the same,” the all-female troupe chorused, dressed in identikit African patterns....
...During the same era, leftwing youths in the west adopted the Mao suit in the fight against their own countries’ political and economic establishments....
...Born into the Kent gentry (his father was a judge, eventually a Lord), Tomlin was sent to Harrow, where he dazzled with his promise....
...The walk extends from Devon on the south-west coast of England to Berwick-upon-Tweed in the north-east: roughly 500 miles....
...Renaissance lairds, Scotland’s landed gentry, often considered fortification of their residences mainly a matter of pride or aesthetics....
...I thought she meant fully flowering roses and chided her but I forgot they were “crisped up” and she silenced me with a photo of her recent deadheads looking decidedly like post-cup Earl Grey bags....
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