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...His love of the TG console has led him to invest in four different iterations, Marks I through IV, all acquired from his former employer....
...IV) himself....
...Time travel, however, enables a gifted few to visit it in the past — among them Obi Amadi, who has become the lover of Prince George, the future George IV, in Regency London....
...While attending a major funeral was costly (more than £1,000 in today’s currency for a restricted view of the crimson-covered coffins containing George IV’s 21-year-old daughter Princess Charlotte and her...
...Abbasi’s Faab IV / a femme fatale was smartly pictorial, and Thomas’ Dance Mobile had the vivacity of both Stravinsky and cartoon music....
...(Glimpsed from afar, a “micro” portrait of George IV at the Brighton Pavilion, shimmering with precious stones, has the depth of a painting.)...
...Sotheby’s will offer a Diego Velázquez full-length portrait of Isabel de Borbón, queen of Spain and the first wife of Philip IV, for a princely $35mn in New York on February 1 2024....
...high-street disrupters in the wake of the financial crisis, have been pushing to change the way they calculate the riskiness of loans as financial reforms due to come into effect in 2025, known as Basel IV...
...Barber points to the plastic Tipton chair that Barber Osgerby designed for the Swiss company Vitra. “It probably took three years to develop, we probably made 100 prototypes,” he explains....
...As have antique cameos: a set by the Roman carver Giuseppe Girometti, who completed portraits of Tsar Alexander I and King George IV, are the focal point of a new pair of Hemmerle earrings, which are matched...
...There was no coronation after-party in Westminster Hall, which may have been just as well, since at George IV’s do, the excessive numbers of chandeliers dropped hot wax on the heads of diners....
...Beginning in 1714 with the ascension of George I and concluding in 1830 with the death of George IV, it is the age of Thomas Chippendale and George Hepplewhite, of deep mahogany and streaked rosewood veneer...
...Wind swirls around her, she loosens her hair and gossamer shawl, her cheeks colour as she turns to feed Zeus’s eagles — a reference to her relationship with the future king, George IV....
...The perfect festival for those who like to balance wellness and raving, SGP also offers spa treatments, yoga and meditation sessions and even IV drips administered by trained nurses to those who partied...
...George IV’s ornate coronation in 1821, complete with mock medieval costumes, cost three times as much as Queen Victoria’s in 1838. Who gained privileged access to these events also fluctuated....
...(He maintained Queen Elizabeth II’s Phantom IV.) “We had a Shadow in that’d done 200,000 miles – it was like new,” he says. Annual service costs are a modest £600-£1,200....
...I haven’t got George I, but I think I’ve got every monarch after that.”...
...In May, for example, the US giant signed a £13.6mn deal with the Ministry of Defence to provide “in-service support for the Paveway IV system”. What’s a Paveway IV, we hear you ask?...
...Its story goes as follows: John Jacob Astor IV, heir to a real estate fortune, had to pay top rates to commission Parrish for the mural, which originally hung in Astor’s Knickerbocker hotel on 42nd Street...
...the piece is reset with the Cullinan III, IV and V diamonds from Queen Elizabeth II’s jewellery collection....
...IV oak settee I would snap up if I could possibly squeeze it into my kitchen or entryway (est £200-£300)....
...Morton’s contacts nudged her towards the Royal Family, including George IV who, in 1830, bought a miniature for 25 guineas, the highest sum Biffin would ever earn....
...The square is named after Henry IV, who was called the “Green Gallant” due to his numerous mistresses....
...Act IV: Endgame Reunited in Bracken House, we ate pizza and began to crunch our numbers. It quickly became clear that we would have to be pretty savvy about processing....
...Queen Elizabeth II’s official tartan, the Royal Stewart, was first sported by King George IV in 1822, after he was persuaded by Sir Walter Scott that he was in fact a Stuart prince....
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