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...Institutions are adjusting: a pope, Benedict XVI, has resigned. Scandal-hit Juan Carlos of Spain is now ‘king emeritus’....
...Cubist Juan Gris turns dressmaker with fanciful blue and yellow Louis XIV costumes for a “Roi Soleil” fête....
...His “Divine Spouse”, intended to focus the minds and ease the days of cloistered nuns, shows a doe-eyed, rosy-lipped Jesus lolling in a bed of flowers and letting a tiny lamb nibble on his bare feet....
...Long divided into offices and apartments, over the past 14 years it has been undergoing a renovation of ambitious proportion, led by its owner, the interior designer Juan Pablo Molyneux....
...In 2007, the Vatican, under Pope Benedict XVI, forced the withdrawal of another French pick for Villa Bonaparte — where the French embassy to the Holy See is based in Rome — who was also openly gay....
...The Life of Louis XVI, by John Hardman, Yale, RRP£25/$40 A lifetime’s learning and love for 18th-century French history elevate Hardman’s biography into the fullest, most convincing portrait of Louis XVI...
...Pope Benedict XVI (sovereign of the Vatican City State) – 2013 Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands – 2013 King Albert of the Belgians – 2013 King Juan Carlos of Spain – 2014 Contagion is facetious....
...King Juan Carlos of Spain may have ended his reign amid humiliating scandal (I was in Madrid for what turns out to have been his last Christmas address and the rage and disdain of his subjects, on Twitter...
...The appointment of Juan Zarate, the former US government terrorism adviser, to the Vatican’s internal financial watchdog last month was part of a move by Pope Francis to appoint high-profile advisers to...
...Benedict XVI set up the AIF in 2011 as international pressure mounted on the Vatican to clean up its financial activities, with Italian authorities opening investigations into alleged money laundering....
...Under Warhol’s “Mao” sits Barthélemy Prieur’s “Lion Devouring a Doe” (c1583)....
...For those whose answer is “yes”, the answer has finally arrived, because Pope Benedict XVI has commissioned a bespoke perfume for himself....
...“They see their role as promoting Sweden and that includes business,” says Juan Navas, former royal press secretary....
...Top lot is “Las Damas Romanas” by the 19th-century Filipino artist Juan Luna, which is estimated at HK$8,000,000- HK$10,000,000....
...Sabra Perry in the new Bound, choreographed by Nicole Fonte, is at first a quiet presence standing to one side as Juan Rodriguez and Clifford C....
...In an online forum forLe Monde this week, Tariq Ramadan, the Swiss Islamic scholar, urged readers to show a bit of understanding for Pope Benedict XVI, who had been attacked by political Muslims in early...
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