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...The legacy of the slaughter runs like a bloody thread through Charles Cumming’s Kennedy 35 (HarperCollins £18.99/Mysterious Press $27.95), out in October....
...Website; Directions Peck Via Spadari 9, 20123 Milan Peck, named after grocer Franz Peck who founded it in 1883, is a go-to for wealthy Milanese when it comes to pre-made dishes, banqueting, charcuterie...
...Odey was known for another predilection: hiring “earls and girls”....
...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....
...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 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,...
...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....
...At the bottom of a street lined with oleanders, the huge stone house where Baldwin hosted Nina Simone, Ray Charles and Maya Angelou had been redeveloped into a luxury apartment complex....
...Here too, or hereabout, was where the poet John Dryden was almost murdered by rogues hired by the Earl of Rochester in 1679....
...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....
...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....
...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...
...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...
...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....
...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....
...Charles Duncan, an analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald, says institutional investors are interested, but so far only “very casually”....
...It was the seventh Earl of Elgin who procured them. Lucy FisherBeautifully read. Robert ShrimsleyVery good. (Laughter) Stephen BushSorry....
...The route also passes close to Braemar Castle, which was constructed in 1628 by John Erskine, Earl of Mar, as a hunting lodge....
...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....
...A dealer bought it from Reynolds’ estate for 100 guineas (about £16,000 today) and passed it on to Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle....
...It started with Charles Rennie Mackintosh, then I went a bit further back to William Morris and the arts and crafts and aesthetic movements....
...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....
...Another peculiarity is around the role of Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, the 22nd Earl of Shrewsbury....
...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...
...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...
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