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FT Magazine
How Crispin Odey evaded sexual assault allegations for decades
...Odey was known for another predilection: hiring “earls and girls”....
June 8, 2023
ReviewVisual Arts
Renaissance marriage portraits at the Holburne — the rise of the power couple
...Gazing sternly into the middle distance, the 52-year-old Louis does not look an inviting prospect for the lively 18-year-old princess, who was already enamoured of Charles Brandon, the Duke of Suffolk....
August 12, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
World
The FT’s year in review
...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....
December 22, 2023
King Charles III
King Charles to have scaled-back coronation on May 6
...The King’s coronation would combine solemn religious aspects with pageantry, an official in the royal household said, adding: “The government, the royal household, the earl marshal [the Duke of Norfolk,...
October 11, 2022
Style
The women who make the watch industry tick
...Li is on the eight-year waiting list for a Charles Frodsham piece, and she recently received her Voutilainen watch, handmade in a three-year process....
July 24, 2023
FT Globetrotter
The best pubs (and a wine bar) in London’s West End
...Here too, or hereabout, was where the poet John Dryden was almost murdered by rogues hired by the Earl of Rochester in 1679....
September 26, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
US politics & policy
At least 9 members of US Congress sold bank stocks amid turmoil last month
...He also reported sales made on March 6 and March 14 of shares in Charles Schwab worth a similar amount. Schwab’s stock is down nearly 30 per cent since March 7....
April 22, 2023
ReviewHistory books
Birchers — cabals, conspiracies and the group that paved the way for Trump
...One founding member was Fred Koch, owner of a large oil company, whose sons Charles and David were leading benefactors to the Tea Party movement half a century later....
May 2, 2023
Sarah Sands
Prince Harry, ‘Spare’ and a new reckoning between the press and the royals
...I was deputy editor at the Daily Telegraph at the time, when the then editor Charles Moore and I burst into a meeting of Fleet Street editors brandishing a letter from Earl Spencer, Diana’s brother, in which...
January 13, 2023
FT Magazine
How to celebrate Christmas at the ends of the earth
...In a lonely snow-whipped yurt high in the Pamir Mountains, Charles Adolphus Murray, the seventh Earl of Dunmore, did not let an outside temperature of -40C, or a lack of suet, dampen his desire for Christmas...
December 24, 2022
ReviewHistory books
Hoax: The Popish Plot That Never Was — old fake news
...Furthermore, suspicions grew in the 1670s that Charles planned to rule without parliament and with a standing army built up by the Earl of Danby, his chief minister....
July 13, 2022
FT SeriesThe home in 50 objects from around the world
The home in 50 objects from around the world #37: James Radclyffe’s bedsheet
...The sheet comes from the prison bed of James Radclyffe, the third Earl of Derwentwater and grandson to Charles II, who spent four months in the Tower of London....
July 16, 2022
Transcript
Transcript: Rishi Sunak’s big fat Greek row
...It was the seventh Earl of Elgin who procured them. Lucy FisherBeautifully read. Robert ShrimsleyVery good. (Laughter) Stephen BushSorry....
December 1, 2023
FT SeriesAdventures to get the pulse racing
The UK’s best winter walks
...The route also passes close to Braemar Castle, which was constructed in 1628 by John Erskine, Earl of Mar, as a hunting lodge....
December 26, 2022
Gardens
The natural reflections of Charles Darwin’s father
...It came from acorns brought back by the Earl of Powis, whose son was probably one of Robert Darwin’s patients and later, certainly, his debtor. Gardening and doctoring often go helpfully together....
February 18, 2022
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
FT Magazine
This Joshua Reynolds painting is a national treasure. Why is Britain struggling to keep it?
...A dealer bought it from Reynolds’ estate for 100 guineas (about £16,000 today) and passed it on to Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle....
February 23, 2023
HTSI
Gary Kemp: ‘I went to an antiques shop with my first Spandau Ballet pay cheque’
...It started with Charles Rennie Mackintosh, then I went a bit further back to William Morris and the arts and crafts and aesthetic movements....
September 3, 2021
Travel
The 7.03 to fly fishing heaven
...Broadlands is the home of the Earls Mountbatten, the house where both the Queen and Charles honeymooned, and Fishing Breaks has negotiated exclusive access to its water....
June 6, 2022
IPOs
The miracle medicines of a playboy trader and his crypto banker friend
...Another peculiarity is around the role of Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, the 22nd Earl of Shrewsbury....
April 28, 2022
FT Magazine
Arcane, hereditary, all-male — and at the heart of British democracy
...The six-foot-five Earl — Charles Peregrine Courtenay — calls the business he runs at Powderham — a castle open to the public, with a farm, shop and café attached — “a family-owned SME that’s 700 years old...
November 11, 2021
Travel
Beaverbrook Town House and the story of Sloane Street
...Holland had acquired a lease for 100 acres from Charles Cadogan, who had inherited an estate bought in 1712 by his grandfather, the society physician and antiquary Hans Sloane (Sloane’s daughter married...
November 15, 2021
HTSIThe men’s style issue: spring 2022
Gender fluidity in fashion is older than you think
...Coote, 1st Earl of Bellamont, in a white-feathered headdress and floor-length red cape (that over time has faded to pink)....
March 11, 2022
ReviewFilm
Sundance Film Festival — star turns for Emma Thompson, John Boyega and Sigourney Weaver
...But one of the best films of the festival was the gentlest, a wonderful low-fi British comedy called Brian and Charles....
January 26, 2022
ReviewMusic
All-American show impresses at New York Philharmonic and an enchanting Robert Ashley revival
...Davis says he was influenced by jazz bassist Charles Mingus, the music including several improvised passages for the soloist....
October 28, 2021
HTSI
How To Spend It in... the Highlands
...There is a glorious meeting of formal European garden and wild Moray Firth coastline at Dunrobin Castle, the family seat of the Earls of Sutherland and the northernmost of Scotland’s great houses....
September 2, 2021

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