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...A dealer bought it from Reynolds’ estate for 100 guineas (about £16,000 today) and passed it on to Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle....
...The only comparable table was commissioned for Philip II of Spain in 1587, and is now in the Prado....
...Who Knight Frank, knightfrank.us, tel: +1 212 350 854 Photographs: Jim Bartsch; Evan Joseph Images...
...KNIGHT COMMANDER, KBE Earl Cadogan, philanthropist. COMMANDER, CBE Lesley-Anne Alexander, chief executive, Royal National Institute of Blind People....
...For the few days it takes to read it, you are in the rather mad dream that Henry VIII’s London is more real than Elizabeth II’s....
...Joseph Addison was the dynamo of the Whig propaganda machine and it was in the pages of The Spectator that the concept of an estate that was both beautiful and productive was advanced – “a Man might make...
...Joseph Mobutu, president from 1965 of what he renamed the Republic of Zaire, repeated the act....
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