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...Von der Leyen and Sunak made the announcement in front of a portrait of King George V, who inaugurated Northern Ireland’s parliament in 1921 with an appeal for unity....
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...Victoria & Albert Museum Cromwell Road The V&A returns as the LDF’s official hub and host of the Global Design Forums — a series of talks, including Merel Bekking on “Brain Manufacturing”, which explores...
...We learn that it was Li, in fact, who expressed his admiration for the series, and even wished to visit its Hampshire location, Highclere Castle. How devilishly clever....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...There are now some 400 Culver’s across the US. www.culvers.com White Castle: Founded in 1921 in Wichita, Kansas, by Walter A Anderson and his cooking partner Billy Ingram, White Castle was the first American...
...For House on Haunted Hill (1959), Castle had a skeleton moved above the audience, brushing its heads. Castle’s enemy was not home-viewing so much as his rivals in the B-movie production empire....
...The prince, who has substantial stakes in the three hotel chains – and also owns the Savoy in London and 25 per cent of the George V in Paris – launched a $3.2bn bid for Fairmont last week with Colony Capital...
...Even so, the list reads a little oddly: Paris (the Georges V, indeed), Provence, Budapest, Dublin, Istanbul, Milan, Prague…and Farnham....
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