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...At Sotheby’s, a prize lot will be a “small but jewel-like” portrait of Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II of Bijapur, painted c1600, where the king sits astride a ginormous gold-clad elephant in a whirl of pink...
...These preoccupations are not apparent in the choreography — McGregor likes to maintain a safe distance from his chosen music — but the extreme weather systems of Lucy Carter’s lighting keep pace with the...
...House prices (II). If you’re a young person who wants to buy a house, this is a terrible time....
...“With the central banks stepping back and insurance companies looking elsewhere . . . that marginal buyer of [US] Treasuries and gilts is going away,” says Waverton’s Carter....
...Graydon Carter is the founder and co-editor of Air Mail....
...18th-century pieces, including a white silk brocade mantua embroidered with flowers from the early 1750s and a silver boned silk dress with large puff sleeves believed to have been worn at the court of Charles 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....
...Tributes also poured in from former presidents Obama, Bush and Carter — as well as town mayors, state elected officials, British expats and ordinary Americans....
...With the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II last week, the Prince of Wales became King Charles III....
...“Curated II Womxn” has 20 artists chosen from the app by Jo Baring and Beth Greenacre (May 6-June 11)....
...Richard Carter, head of fixed interest research at Quilter Cheviot, says: “The market will have been craving a safe pair of hands to guide the UK through this difficult period . . . .How long he gets to...
...the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum is slated to open – a site of almost 500,000sq m, 3km away from the Pyramids, housing a gallery of 100,000 artefacts as well as a colossal statue of pharaoh Ramses II...
...the dollar-based global financial order in the wake of Russia invading Ukraine that have transformed him into one of Wall Street’s most read (and most controversial) analysts. https://twitter.com/nic__carter...
...His report anticipated an era of near-slavery on the coffee plantations of Peru that paralleled King Leopold II of Belgium’s despoliation of the ivory-rich Congo Free State....
...President Carter subsequently went as far as to offer tax subsidies to Americans willing to share rides. We should follow Carter’s lead....
...He participated in the G7 summit in Cornwall, held a bilateral meeting with Johnson, and visited Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle....
...“It’s by no means dead but it’s perhaps a little quieter than we’d expect at this time of year,” says Carter....
...These were major undertakings: a colossal bust of Ramesses II, nicknamed Young Memnon, was manoeuvred down the Nile and across the seas to London only through the genius of the great Giovanni Belzoni....
...I don’t know how my parents voted in 1980; I was nine and sad Jimmy Carter lost because I liked his big teeth....
...The opening episode is an engaging race through the Restoration that put Charles II back on the British throne....
...“Remote locations are suddenly in demand,” says Ed Stoyle of agent Carter Jonas....
...It stands next to the Queen Elizabeth II Country Park, which used to be a spoil heap....
...“You don’t see tent panels on the market that often,” says Benedict Carter, Sotheby’s head of Middle East auctions....
...On Redcliffe Gardens, estate agent Carter Jonas is marketing a two-bedroom flat for £950,000, a reduction of more than 20 per cent since it was listed in February....
...But Thyssen, now 61, grew up among the riches of Europe’s second-largest private art collection (after Queen Elizabeth II’s)....
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