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...I can’t see King Charles III with his head under the bonnet of the Aston Martin DB6 Volante Convertible that he lent William for his wedding, or the electric E-Type Jag that Harry used, but that’s the same...
...Margulies’s first tranche of about 160 works by the likes of Gordon Parks, Dorothea Lange, William Eggleston and Cindy Sherman will be offered by Phillips New York in a standalone auction on April 4 with...
...Wood did not....
...William Morris and the avid Indian miniature collector Howard Hodgkin hymned the Persian epic the Hamzanama....
...On the watchmaking front, William Wood Watches will take five of the 30 pieces in its British Coronation Watch limited edition to sell at the Windup Watch Fair in San Francisco at the end of April....
...Inevitably, this approach means Charles III may become the second King in 250 years to lose America, where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have reinforced their support....
...London’s annual showcase of local and global craft this year follows hot on the heels of the coronation of King Charles III on May 6....
...Letter in response to this article: Feeling let down by FT coverage of Harry’s book / From Anna Wood, London N1, UK...
...And the second psychological reason why Darlington could be interesting is very much Rishi Sunak’s neck of the woods. He’s relocated part of the Treasury there....
...David Wynne’s beautiful, contradictory marble sculpture of a wood nymph heralded the way to a stumpery arch leading through to an area where visitors were warned that straying from the tour would lead to...
.../ From Uwe Siemon-Netto Laguna Woods, CA, US...
...Cornwall); Edward II (who gave it to his rumoured lover, Piers Gaveston); the Black Prince (father of Richard II); and Lord Williams of Thame, who built the current house on the medieval site....
...It is followed by a fantasy room, an Orientalist fever dream of exotic tiles around a burbling fountain, overlooked by a pierced wood mashrabiya — a fragment of Damascus in Holland Park....
...Streaks of lush green surround a pool of deep blue sea, palm-fringed, in Hurvin Anderson’s “Maracas III”....
...A Blake Works III is also on Forsythe’s mind. “Musicologically, it is incredibly sound,” he says of Blake’s compositions....
...End-of-walk highlight: The astonishing Tijou Screen in the Privy Garden at Hampton Court Palace was commissioned c1690 by King William III and Queen Mary II from the recently arrived Huguenot craftsman,...
...Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles, by William Quinn and John D Turner, Cambridge, RRP£18.99, 296 pages A lovely book....
...“The fields from Islington to Marylebone/To Primrose Hill and St John’s Wood/Were builded over with pillars of gold/And there Jerusalem’s pillars stood,” wrote William Blake, the visionary artist who was...
...Foppish Charles II, frightened James II and the more politically restricted courts of William III and Anne could not attract such foreign talents, and there was as yet no native school....
...There was Crown Prince Rudolf, who shot his teenage mistress at the hunting lodge in the Vienna Woods before turning his gun on himself....
...Mine was beaten up and in the spare-wood bin – it’s 35 years old and Pastor knew the gondolier he made it for then. It has an incredible sculptural quality, like a Brancusi or Hepworth....
...As Renato, Riccardo’s loyal minister turned enemy, Roland Wood’s heavyweight baritone fits the bill nicely....
...A painting of William III hangs in the entrance to reflect the fact that the Prince of Orange spent several nights at nearby Hillsborough Fort before he gathered his armies on the Boyne in 1690 to defeat...
...It was designed in the early 1760s by Sir William Chambers, a widely travelled man of taste. He was backed and financed by Augusta, mother of King George III, whom he served as a drawing master....
...The portraits here have such zombie-like accuracy that some — the painted wax death mask of Doge Alvise III, for instance — practically demand to be touched....
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