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...Emblematic is Osmond Watson’s expressive portrait of a Jamaican boy with piercing eyes and languid air, “Johnny Cool” (1967)....
...Charles I was beheaded in 1649; the House of Hanover was dogged by sex scandals; George III lost his mind and he also lost America, which wasn’t terribly popular....
...The Nobel Family: Swedish Geniuses in Tsarist Russia by Bengt Jangfeldt, translated by Harry D Watson Bloomsbury Academic, £25, 424 pages Lesley Chamberlain is the author of Ministry of Darkness How Sergei...
...That might have been the end of it — but for the fact that Spender’s friend, the poet John Fuller, rediscovered the manuscript after Spender’s papers were acquired by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research...
...John Kerry, the US climate envoy, filmed the wooden and gold state coach on his smartphone. By early afternoon, Charles III was smiling down at crowds from a Buckingham Palace balcony....
...I also wanted him to recognise the benefits of his status — communing with Elton John and Courteney Cox, flying to Botswana and the North Pole, being able to organise the Invictus Games — alongside the hardships...
...John Hackney slaps a clay disc on a mould, secures it with a beefy palm then spins his table towards the jaws of a pressing machine....
...Here it is worth noting that the role of Speaker of the House of Commons has limited power yet attracted a divisive egotist, John Bercow....
...The finest and rarest volumes from UK country houses went to genuine book lovers such as John Pierpont Morgan (whose wonderful personal library is now one of New York’s most elegant museums)....
...For every awkwardly noble or outright heroic dad — think of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) or the careworn solo dads played by Harry Dean Stanton and John Mahoney in Pretty in Pink (1986)...
...He expressed his love for second son Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, as they “continue to build their lives overseas”....
...The funeral of the late Queen Elizabeth II and the accession of King Charles III have been planned in detail over several decades....
...In 2013, Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso of Lesotho backed the Sentebale Forget-Me-Not Garden at Chelsea Flower Show....
...The haul crossed the $1bn mark around halfway through the event with the sale of Alberto Giacometti’s bronze nude standing female figure “Femme de Venise III” for $25mn....
...Downing Street confirmed on Friday that 26 new peers — 13 of whom will have conservative affiliations — have been approved by King Charles III....
...The jolie laide looks for which she was eviscerated when she starred in her father Francis Ford Coppola’s ill-fated The Godfather Part III have matured into a noble beauty, and yet she still has a youthful...
...In his first week, King Charles III has displayed more signs of public impatience, usually involving pens, than his mother did in the average decade. One must make allowances....
...His two sons, William, Prince of Wales, and Harry, Duke of Sussex, followed....
...“If it was good enough for John of Gaunt [Duke of Lancaster from 1362],” she remarked, “it’s good enough for me.”...
...To say that the response to Swiss novelist Joël Dicker’s The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair was divisive understates the case....
...My early teenage years were infused with the escapades of Holmes and Hannay, the Bagginses and Harry Potter....
...The initial verdict from John Ray III, the veteran insolvency professional who previously helped wind down Enron and was brought in to run the business, was devastating: “Never in my career have I seen...
...Meanwhile, set in Buckingham Palace’s White Drawing Room, John Wonnacott’s fluent, loosely painted 12-footer “The Royal Family: A Centenary Portrait” (2000), also looks back, to John Lavery’s 1913 royal...
...Another side of me says that Emma Watson and her Harry Potter co-stars are the biggest ingrates on the planet for having excluded their creator — the woman who made them superstars — from the anniversary...
...Robin Watson, chief executive of Wood, told analysts that “the early months of the year were relatively quiet as investment decisions continue to be delayed”....
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