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...What to watch today French president Emmanuel Macron hosts Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman. EU finance ministers meet in Luxembourg....
...Similarly, David Butt Philip, also most recently seen in Janáček, is her youthful and engaging Prince....
...The Gentleman’s Magazine reported that the Prince and Princess of Wales were in attendance together with “great persons of distinction” and beyond the sale of tickets, expensively priced at half a guinea...
...In Ian Fleming’s 1955 novel Moonraker, James Bond is enlisted to punish Sir Hugo Drax, a sinister industrialist who cheats at bridge at the fictional Blades club in London....
...Royal settlement: Prince Andrew has settled a lawsuit brought by Virginia Giuffre, who had alleged the British royal sexually assaulted her when she was 17....
...It began a few days before Ian Fleming started writing the first James Bond novel, and a few years before John Lennon met Paul McCartney....
...“Perhaps the concept of a ‘cyber war’ was overhyped,” said Jeremy Fleming, head of Britain’s signals intelligence agency GCHQ. 5....
...His favourite haunt was Fleming’s, a dimly lit restaurant with white tablecloths and waistcoated waiters, near the State House. Nicholas ordered expensive wine, steaks and seafood....
...Fleming said to Wilding, “I bet you couldn’t get boxes made like that again.”...
...The awed 12-year-old was Ian Fleming; the car, one of the first hand-built Aston Martins. A love affair was kindled....
...Even beyond the confines of the casinos, these days there is little of the sordidly romantic “scent and smoke and sweat” of late-night gambling, as described by Ian Fleming in Casino Royale....
...Or it could simply confirm expectations: Prince Charles’s shelves show he is partial to equestrian topics....
...(map via FT) Trans-Europe Express Into the lion's den Mark Zuckerberg, the crown prince of the internet, will on Monday become the latest US tech chief to visit Brussels as America's internet giants warily...
...Chuck Prince had just been ejected, having revealed up to $11bn of losses on subprime mortgages....
...That individual, George Nader, said at the meeting that the two princes were eager to help his father win the election, according to the Times....
...Sam Fleming parses the move. Why do investors do a fairly good job of buying stocks but “suck” at selling?...
...The crown prince [will be] forever associated with this.”...
...From the interview with the FT's Sam Fleming: “I am worried about the systemic risks associated with these loans . . ....
...(FT) Subtle sabotage As Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman pushes for an IPO of the world’s most valuable company, the Saudi bureaucracy has pushed back, slowing the plan and undermining the...
...A person with ties to Saudi officials said Mr Kushner had in recent months met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed of Abu Dhabi in an effort to formulate a new peace...
...as part of an anti-corruption drive initiated by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman....
...This says that no government official can “accept of any present, emolument, office or title, or any kind whatever, from any king, prince or foreign state” without congressional consent....
...have got to an unproblematic emotion-free character might be Roger Moore’s James Bond — arch, affectless, a kind of English paragon — and even he was a deviation from the darker source material of the Ian Fleming...
...Additional reporting by Sam Jones in London, Sam Fleming and Barney Jopson in Washington and Jamie Smyth in Sydney...
...In the 1950s, Douglas Fairbanks Jnr lived at number 28 and had the Queen and Prince Philip over for dinner....
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