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...A Very Private School: A Memoir by Charles Spencer (William Collins/ Simon & Schuster)Unflinching personal account of a boarding school childhood exposes the shocking flaws, cruelties and life-long legacies...
...In 1295, nearly 50 years after its protector had passed away, under the rule of Charles II, Dominican inquisitors and preachers were unleashed on Lucera, determined to either convert, enslave or kill the...
...The spectacular playroom also features a barrel-vaulted ceiling with a skylight and, above the fireplace, painter Charles Corwin’s mural of the story of “The Fisherman and the Genie” from The Arabian Nights...
...A friendship sprang up with the Prince of Wales, now King Charles....
...A famous question asked in 1961 by General Charles de Gaulle, the late French statesman, continues to resonate....
...Charles Perrault’s gentle 1697 retelling of the ancient story — no child abuse, no sawn-off toes — inspired numerous ballets to a variety of music, and in 1948 Frederick Ashton made his three-act masterpiece...
...On Monday, Charles Howard KC acting for Frederick Barclay again asked for the case to be adjourned and told the judge that there were “ongoing negotiations” which could “settle many matters”....
...Within, Wilde rails against the creations of the fashion house of Charles Frederick Worth — the Dior of its day, which invented the notion of the designer label and fashion seasons — and against fashionable...
...In 1882, he agreed that the new arboretum should be laid out by none other than Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscaping maestro of New York’s Central Park....
...It was acquired in 1903 by Dr Charles Frederick Newcombe — we know his name — a Newcastle-born physician, botanist and ethnographic collector....
...The Royal Ballet-trained choreographer dispenses with much of the usual paraphernalia, and Craig Lucas’s scenario differs substantially from the 1948 Frederick Ashton version on which Wheeldon was weaned...
...“France cannot be France without greatness,” wrote Charles de Gaulle in the opening of his memoirs. His nation, he insisted, must always be in “the first rank”....
...The crank in question, Frederick William Edridge-Green, later became an authority on colour blindness. In private, Newton was notoriously prickly....
...She also refers to George Frederick Kunz, Tiffany’s first chief gemologist, as “the founding father of American luxury”....
...Its housing, predominantly a mixture of three- to six-storey blocks of flats aping “the New Humanist” precedents of Scandinavia, were designed by Frederick Gibberd, chief architect of Harlow New Town in...
...She said to her ex-husband’s barrister Charles Howard QC: “There was a fight on a boat when we were on holiday . . . David and Frederick were punching each other.”...
...Frederick Barclay’s barrister, Charles Howard QC, told the court his client was unable to access cash after a restructuring of the business empire left it in the control of the nephews and his daughter,...
...Charles Howard QC, representing Barclay, said the judge should not impose any sentence because his client had paid the money and apologised for being in contempt....
...“I think everyone wants to get into the market ahead of a pause in rate rises,” said Randy Frederick, managing director of trading and derivatives at Charles Schwab....
...When he launched an effort to overhaul the system in 2010, then defence secretary Robert Gates cited Frederick the Great saying: “He who defends everything, defends nothing.”...
...“If you had anything you were contemplating getting out of, December was the time to do it,” said Randy Frederick, managing director of trading and derivatives at Charles Schwab....
...Frederick Barclay faces a possible prison sentence after failing to pay a £50m divorce settlement to his former wife Hiroko after a High Court battle....
...It will effectively kill three-quarters of prewar Russian oil exports to Europe immediately, and 90 per cent by the end of the year, according to EU council president Charles Michel....
...Well, it isn’t but it is: synonymous with Paris fashion, it was actually an Englishman, Charles Frederick Worth, who established haute couture in Paris in the mid-19th century, at the same time as Thomas...
...A dealer bought it from Reynolds’ estate for 100 guineas (about £16,000 today) and passed it on to Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle....
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