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...Cecil Beaton, the great society photographer, used all sorts of tricks to flatter his subjects after replacing what he called “hazardous candid camera shots”....
...Here we are in a smooth, icy white box (designed by Sarah Beaton), where both characters are suspended in limbo away from their lives. It enhances the piece’s surreal edge — and the intrigue....
...The two met after King George VI died in 1952 and the Queen Mother, as she suddenly became, aged 51, moved from Buckingham Palace into Clarence House....
...Sotheby’s also showed “Queen Victoria” by another court favourite, George Hayter....
...Cecil Beaton photographed the royal family from 1939 to 1979, the year before his death....
...“My uncle George Dannatt had a well-known collection of British modernist art....
...In his King’s Speech of 1828, George IV went so far as to call Navarino “the untoward event”. Still, the die was cast....
...It was Gieves that made the RAF uniform worn by the future George VI on his wedding day, ditto the famous “boat cape” in which the Queen was photographed by Cecil Beaton in 1968....
...See, for example, Lassco’s 19th-century Queen Anne-style painted pine door hood in the shape of a shell, or its George II sandstone door canopy....
...“The emeralds were put in the Paris tiara that she wears in the Beaton portrait,” Rourke explains. Remade by Cartier Paris? Sacrilege!...
...When Bacon unveiled his portrait of Cecil Beaton, the society photographer almost fainted. He had been turned, wrote Beaton, into “a severe case of elephantiasis”....
...Diana Vreeland, Billie Holiday, Georgia O’Keeffe, Peggy Guggenheim, Cecil Beaton, Carmen Miranda, Diaghilev, singer Miriam Makeba, Lourdes de Oliveira in Black Orpheus and French photographer Dora Maar all...
...The Westminster “halo” tiara was fashioned by Lacloche in the oriental “bandeau” style to include the Arcot diamonds, once belonging to Queen Charlotte, consort to George III....
...Aged 11, Itoje went to St George’s School in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, as a boarder. It was there that he first played rugby — a late starter by elite standards....
...He is the author of Byron’s War (2013), an examination of the English poet’s life through his devotion to Greek independence, and of George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel (2003), a biography of the Greek...
...– Evan de Barra Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation by Roderick Beaton, Allen Lane/University of Chicago Press, £30 A book that reminds us that Greece is not just the Byronic birthplace of European...
...Did Beaton, at such moments, feel the opposite of “I don’t know why I bother?” I hope so. It is a feeling of great strength and health....
...When she sat for Cecil Beaton, Ansel Adams, Bruce Weber, Yousuf Karsh, Mary Nichols and Philippe Halsman, she often faced away from the lens....
...Hare depicts a fantastical scenario in which a confused George Osborne (“Free is a funny word: we’ve been having some trouble with it”) seeks help from the free-market evangelist....
...“Since inception there hasn’t been a loss or a credit default,” partner Ben Beaton says....
...Stone and George Scamell photographed the desolate Newgate Prison in 1902, the year it closed down and two years before its demolition. (Scamell had also taken pictures there in 1900.)...
...Phillip George directs....
...“If Beaton was about filling the picture with lavish details,” says Brown, “Horst was about stripping things back.”...
...Alistair Beaton’s nimbly revised version of George Tabori’s translation emphasises references to other dramatic studies in abuse of power....
...Beaton – monumentally snobbish if not exactly aristocratic – had been there since 1928. But they were the exception....
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