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...Britain’s cetaphobia, boosted by Thomas Hobbes, persisted into the modern age....
...Some of the Victorian paintings throughout the house are believed to be by Thomas Sidney Cooper....
...Ministers are launching a review of investment research led by Hogan Lovells’ partner Rachel Kent, including on the effect of rules that separated payment for investment research from services tied to trading...
...Inside, the state rooms (which are open to visitors) are a riot of Kent’s decorative opulence....
...Here too, or hereabout, was where the poet John Dryden was almost murdered by rogues hired by the Earl of Rochester in 1679....
...Others included Catherine of Braganza, Charles’s queen, and Thomas Clifford, a senior government minister. Charles himself was to embrace Catholicism on his deathbed....
...A dealer bought it from Reynolds’ estate for 100 guineas (about £16,000 today) and passed it on to Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle....
...Letter in response to this article: Reichsbürger lawbreaking always has consequences / From Stephen Davis, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK...
...This article is part of a guide to London from FT Globetrotter Skyline Afternoon Tea at Ting in the Shangri-La, The Shard Level 35, Shangri-La The Shard, 31 St Thomas Street, London SE1 9QU There’s nothing...
...From £165, coldatnight.co.uk (Almost) On Chesil Beach West Dorset: good enough for PJ Harvey and Mark Hix (and Jane Austen, and Thomas Hardy), good enough for us....
...The estate still belongs to Lascelles’ distant relatives, David and Diane Lascelles, Earl and Countess of Harewood, and was once home to Queen Elizabeth II’s aunt, Princess Mary, who married into the Lascelles...
...Mifid II and Solvency II have been discussed by I think pretty much every chancellor since we left the EU....
...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....
...When he completed his “Frog Service” dinner set for Empress Catherine II of Russia, he sold tickets for exclusive viewings....
...Once a burial ground for the lepers of St James’s Hospital, the land now known as Green Park was civilised by Charles II in the 17th century when he created a deer park and built ice houses to cool his summer...
...In the 1820s, the third Earl of Egremont had these reduced. “I will cut off their legs,” he remarked. “I do not want their petticoats.”...
...Thomas Sampson, a London School of Economics scholar, detects a widerglobal meaning in Brexit....
...The 12th Earl of Kent, who developed the gardens at Wrest in the early 18th century, was undoubtedly informed by his travels to the Netherlands and his favoured position in William’s court....
...Sussex House Farm, Cowden, Kent, UK, £5.5m Where Just outside the village of Cowden in Kent, south-east England....
...The 1st Earl of Snowdon, born Antony Armstrong-Jones, married Princess Margaret — the Queen’s only sibling — in 1960....
...David Gamble Sevenoaks, Kent, UK...
...Why Woolmers Park was bought by Elizabeth II’s grandparents, the Earl and Countess of Strathmore, in 1927. The property once included a polo field where the Prince of Wales used to practice....
...Reeve pursues its legacy through Thomas Barrett’s Lee Priory, in Kent, and William Beckford’s Gothic skyscrapers in Bath and at Fonthill, Wiltshire....
...It is a perk of the work as archivist at Coutts, the private bank, which includes Queen Elizabeth II among its wealthy clientele....
...Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, was kingmaker to Henry VII at Bosworth in 1485 when Richard III was consigned to Leicester’s soil....
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