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...Tom Magnier, son of John Magnier, the owner of Coolmore, one of Juddmonte’s biggest competitors, said simply that the prince “left a remarkable stamp on the industry”....
...Previously, she fulfilled a similar role at John Galliano, where she was instrumental in shaping the designer’s early shows....
...John Paul II, a proponent of Escrivá, had just ascended the papal throne. He would soon make Opus Dei a “personal prelature”, the only one of its kind in the Church....
...Who Knight Frank House, Oxford, £2.85mn Where On St John Street in central Oxford, a 10-minute walk from the train station....
...Expect a grand mix of owner show-arounds, good wine and convivial conversation, staying in a 17th-century manor outside Bridport....
...William of Orange, the Protestant leader of the Dutch Revolt, was assassinated in 1584 after Philip II of Spain put a bounty on his head....
...When Elizabeth Howard (raised in the architecturally magnificent Castle Howard) moved to the existing Charles II manor house on marriage, she was deeply underwhelmed....
...Routes for Russian oil to reach export markets were a concern for Tsar Nicholas II, just as they are for President Vladimir Putin....
...The octagonal dovecote at Frampton Court in Gloucestershire still houses doves and was built for feeding the table, but also acts as a folly in the Grade II*-listed park and garden....
...What This Grade II-listed 18th-century manor house is set in 34.5 acres and has 12 bedrooms, seven bathrooms and eight reception rooms....
...It challenges two important, more persuasive recent exhibitions, Hogarth: Place and Progress at Sir John Soane’s Museum in 2019, and Hogarth, London Voices, London Lives at Pitzhanger Manor last year....
...For £1m, estate agent John German is selling a five-bedroom home in Burnaston that dates back to the 17th century, though it is a 15-minute drive from the railway station....
...What Set in 32 acres this manor house has a vineyard, woodland, a lake and a garden house with an outdoor pool....
...Now, Dunshay Manor, her Grade II-listed Dorset house that dates back to the 13th century and where Spencer Watson produced a stream of postwar public commissions, has been meticulously restored as a holiday...
...Roger Daltrey of The Who also owns a Jacobean mansion, Grade II-listed Holmshurst Manor in East Sussex, which he bought in the early 1970s....
...Why The villa was designed by John Pawson, the British architect known for his minimalist aesthetic....
...Who Home Hunts, tel +33 970 44 66 43 Manor House, Montuiri, Mallorca, Spain, €7m Where Outside Montuiri in central Mallorca. Palma de Mallorca airport is 30 minutes by car....
...In this case, however, the idea is to spend the cash to do up Tew Park, Johnston’s long-derelict Grade II-listed manor house....
...An exception is Slape Manor, a Grade II-listed eight-bedroom house with a lodge and three cottages — including River Cottage, the former gamekeeper’s lodge made famous by chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall...
...A six-bedroom, Grade-II listed manor house with 50 acres that Savills is selling in the village of Martin, south-west of the city, is one such example....
...Chairman John Stewart stepped down in June and was replaced in October by John Kingman, a former Treasury official....
...In nearby Higham, a Grade II-listed, timber-framed manor house is on sale through Savills for £1.15m. Part of the draw, agents say, is that this rural idyll is within reach of the City....
...Was £750,000 Now £700,000 Who Strutt & Parker, struttandparker.com, tel: +44 1227 473742 Bramshott Manor, Church Lane, Liphook, Hampshire What A five-bedroom manor house, parts of which date back to...
...A favour from a friend who worked in US television yielded contacts for Norman Mailer’s attorney; the publisher behind John Updike; and — the coup de grâce — the personal telephone number of feted US playwright...
...II. Desperately heretical “Go have a look!” my editor had enthused. “An American explores, on the eve of Brexit! De Tocqueville in reverse! It’ll be great!”...
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