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...We stayed at a hotel nearby called Le Sereno.” serenohotels.com Nadia Rosenthal, scientist “I’m longing to go to Fogo Island Inn, off the coast of Newfoundland....
...Godfrey Kneller’s streamlined “Hampton Court Beauties” — “Diana de Vere”, “Margaret Cecil” — are identikit as the giant Chinese porcelain vases displayed alongside them....
...King Richard III, very good of you to invite us to the Tower. Getting in is easy, my dear. Getting out is the tricky part. Indeed....
...The LSE is in Mid-City, and Soas, UCL and King’s College London are all close by....
...Its best-known project was a facsimile of the burial chamber of the boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun, designed to protect the original from further deterioration and now installed at the Valley of the Kings....
...V for one, England’s Henry VIII for another — but also to God....
...Why The house was built in 1715 for King João V of Portugal, known as the Portuguese “Sun King”, and the royal coat of arms decorates the façade of the main building....
...That evening we stopped at the White Hart in Hampton Wick....
...The scheme includes the redevelopment of a royal palace and stables first built for King Charles II and a yard for the retraining of retired racehorses....
...The clock was the talk of last year’s Masterpiece, and is now owned by the V&A. How does this diffident, shy character work such magic?...
...Kings, armies, bandits and pilgrims have all passed along it. It’s even said that Charles V came through on his way from Flanders to take up the Spanish throne....
...A standard king room at The Chequit starts at about $195 per night, rising to $395 in periods of highest demand. The pair estimate occupancy is 15 per cent higher than most B&Bs as a result....
...No Godiva this year, but the cake is back, freshly decorated to mark the (slightly more fitting) 600th anniversary of Henry V’s victory at Agincourt....
...Post Ranch Inn, Big Sur, California On the terrace, excellent food from chef John Cox with a view that is nothing but the Pacific....
...These were looted by Joseph Bonaparte — Napoleon’s brother and puppet King of Spain — and recovered by Wellington at the battle of Vitoria in 1813....
...From a balustrade at ground-floor level, visitors can look down to the “sepulchral chamber” into which, on May 15 1824, Soane lowered his most expensive acquisition: the alabaster sarcophagus of King Seti...
...Alden Gregory, assistant curator at Hampton Court Palace, says one of the most interesting pieces, now in the V&A, is “The Triumph of Fame over Death” based on Petrarch’s The Triumphs....
...By the time of his death, the king had around 55 palaces, including Nonsuch, now gone, St James’s and Whitehall....
...“Competitive bids can be as much as 18 per cent above a realistic asking price,” claims Daniel O’Brien of Hamptons International....
...… Mark Harris, chief executive, Axiom Despite an entrepreneurial background (his father founded the Red Roof Inns hotel chain), on graduation from the University of Texas law school Mark Harris began...
...It was built in the late 1530s for King James V and his French wife Mary of Guise but it is doubtful that they ever lived there together as James died in 1542, leaving Mary to hold court at Stirling alone...
...In 1699 William III commissioned Christopher Wren to build a gallery devoted to the Raphaels at Hampton Court that was open to the public; when Queen Victoria created the V&A, she decided in 1865 to make...
...I’m staying at the Hampton Inn, a minimalist motel chain located opposite a Farm King, an agricultural supply store....
...His “St George’s Day” (1647) is a celebration at a village inn, full of lively, delightful and sometimes insalubrious incident....
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