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...Kahlo may also have had an affair with the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky when he and his wife stayed with Kahlo in the 1930s....
...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....
...Sported by Wilde’s predominantly gay male circle, the flower rapidly became a coded emblem of homosexuality....
...May 26; further information and tickets here RHS Chelsea Flower Show “Chelsea”, as it is simply known, is a fixture in the London social diary....
...“The last car I bought, just to put things in perspective, was a Mercedes V-Class, to put all the kids and the dog in it.” Our main course gone, Collardi asks if we can see the dessert menu....
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...Magnolia grandiflora scrambling up the front of houses beats its thick, glossy leaves as if counting the days until its vast, scented flowers appear....
...Beatrice Hodgkin will chair a session on psychedelics at the FTWeekend Festival at the Kennedy Center, Washington DC, on 20 May....
...King Charles III will be crowned with St Edward’s Crown at Westminster Abbey, London on May 6....
...Here too, or hereabout, was where the poet John Dryden was almost murdered by rogues hired by the Earl of Rochester in 1679....
...They begin with a sequel to the English King Henry V’s victory over the French at Agincourt....
...Ten years ago I still relied on my big bushes of scented white viburnums to reassure me in the third week of May when I returned from Chelsea Flower Show....
...“I’ve got white hair and my coat was basically neon pink, brighter than flowers,” Sarah said. “You couldn’t miss me....
...It may be hard to separate the person from the pictures – but she’s not around and the pictures are, and they matter.”...
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...The industry is short of 80,000 drivers, a record number, according to the American Trucking Associations....
...This time, it may be generations before another shift back is made....
...Dripping with flowers and handcuffs, its intricate design embodies Ai’s bittersweet vision but also owes much to the entrepreneurial flair of Murano impresario Adriano Berengo, who also produced “La Commedia...
...It’s all rather romantic and I remind my husband that McQueens did the flowers at our long ago non-royal wedding....
...On May 9 1921, George V held a state dinner for Crown Prince Hirohito at Buckingham Palace — the first time a Japanese heir-apparent had “ever left his native shores”, according to the king’s toast....
...However her heirs may fare, to have remained for so long the titular and spiritual leader of her people, never mind one so popularly admired, is the noblest of achievements....
...I’d also been to the V&A and seen one of his famous japonisme sideboards: the earliest versions may date from the late 1850s but it is a spectacularly modernist piece of geometric design....
...Not everyone likes tea served with a song and dance – in which case they may feel at home at Be-oom, a serene new tea bar in Clerkenwell’s Exmouth Market....
...Manifestos are nugatory or downright bizarre — in 2015 the Earl of Limerick’s ended with the words “from your seats so well entrenched, please vote that mine may be embenched”....
...The photograph went on to be bought by institutions around the world, including the V&A in London....
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