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...After I’d had enough of McAllister’s diktats, I dived into To Marry an English Lord (1989) by Gail MacColl and Carol McD Wallace, which partly inspired Fellowes’ previous series, Downton Abbey....
...In the 1950s, he used charcoal for economy, and because “I felt I’d been exposed, that in public I’d put on a costume of thick paint and earthy colours, I was imitating myself”....
...I’d spend years studying in the old Round Reading Room, and I still work in the Members’ Room, perched over the beautiful Great Court....
...Which company was formed by John D Rockefeller in 1870? In pre-decimal currency, which coin was worth the equivalent of 12½p?...
...“There’s a piece of roof we’d like to do,” he says. “It’s a whole big premises; it needs looking after.”...
...But it wasn’t until the mid-18th century in England that John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, helped put a name to the invention....
...A portrait of Leonello d’Este, Marquis of Ferrara, by Giovanni da Oriolo in 1447, delivers the north Italian ruler as the epitome of abstract power by showing him in profile in the manner of Roman emperors...
...The legend is that Michael de la Pole, the 3rd Earl of Suffolk who was killed at the battle of Agincourt in 1415, lies buried in a silver coffin somewhere in the priory’s grounds....
...I ask if she is a Blairite: “If you’d read the book you’d know that I say that women shouldn’t have to define themselves by men, so I won’t define myself by two former leaders of the Labour party.”...
...I’d imagine a number of those wealthy Americans who buy into the DLC resort will themselves have Scottish heritage and would like to rekindle the flame....
...“The first thing you’d see were these wafts and wafts of mimosa by the front door,” she recalls....
...He’d been made chief executive of Switzerland’s third largest private bank, Julius Baer, at just 34....
...The earl simply popped into his head while, yes, walking alone. “I thought, ‘Ah, now he’s good.’ So I kept him talking.”...
...I shared my (initially somewhat furtive) Bowiephilia with one other boy at school and in May 1973 we saw him in concert at London’s cavernous Earl’s Court (tickets 50p each)....
...Earl Sweatshirt turned in one of my favourite performances of the first two days, a masterly exercise in freewheeling stoner rap, but it was hidden away on a small stage....
...Another was his campaign to impeach Earl Warren, chief justice of the Supreme Court, for his philo-Soviet rulings from the bench (including the 1954 desegregation of US schools in Brown vs Board of Education...
...In cryptography terms, they’d hit the jackpot....
...Back in 2021, at the peak of the home buying frenzy, Vicky Kendall, 40, recalls travelling from Earl’s Court to view a home eight days after she’d given birth to her second child, by caesarean section....
...But it was Earl Silas Tupper (an American name if ever there was one) who created the product line that still bears his name....
...Aston has her own version of the Earl of Dunmore’s make-do plum pudding....
...It was the seventh Earl of Elgin who procured them. Lucy FisherBeautifully read. Robert ShrimsleyVery good. (Laughter) Stephen BushSorry....
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...If you’d prefer a lively, quintessential yakitori-bar atmosphere, try Torishin (362 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10002). Tues–Sat, 6pm–10pm 3....
...Here too, or hereabout, was where the poet John Dryden was almost murdered by rogues hired by the Earl of Rochester in 1679....
...And there might be other measures that they’d be willing to stick with, like some of the trial measures....
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