Hints and tips:
...It’s too self-consciously excessive, precious, girlishly indulgent, and frankly, camp – much like Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film Marie Antoinette, which was a touchstone for Liang’s collection....
...Nicolas Cage’s Elvis obsession is so acute he even married Lisa Marie Presley for a head-spinning three months....
...They demolish their prawn cocktails (served in a Marie Rose sauce, on a bed of shredded iceberg lettuce, with buttered Hovis)....
...Call it Marie Antoinette with plumbing. We were ready for a bit of luxury....
...And world-class ultra-runners Anna-Marie Watson and Jonathan Albon will deliver coaching and review participants’ monthly training plans throughout the build-up....
...Another musician, Simone Marie Butler, bassist with the well-established rock band Primal Scream, says less well-known groups now “have to be really well informed before saying yes to festivals and booking...
...So I think what we’re doing is more important than ever,” said Simon Butler, director of Migrate Art....
...Grobler stresses how lucky they are to have Alexander’s memoir, an account of his life as butler to five successive bishops....
...Why the future of electric cars lies in China Tesla grabs the limelight, but the real story is elsewhere, writes Nick Butler....
...The next day guests will return by helicopter to the Hôtel de Crillon, to stay in the Marie-Antoinette suite where the French queen spent her early years....
...He is striding through the Kent town of Ramsgate towards the Royal Victoria Pavilion, a former assembly rooms built in 1903, with an ornate interior based on Marie Antoinette’s Trianon theatre in Versailles...
...Everybody claimed her political donations were quite proper, but spying butlers and tell-tale secretaries suggested otherwise....
...“Breathtaking public spaces, incredible rooms and an exceptional spa, plus world-class dining, ski butlers and a cheese sommelier to guide you through their 5m-high cheese cellar.”...
...So far the university has resisted, but Nick Butler, a former senior executive in BP and now a visiting professor at King’s College London, believes the tide runs against them....
...Instead, it seems that Marie Antoinette would be the most appropriate head of investor relations for the companies....
...The more so when he turned out to be William Butler Yeats. They wound up in her car, parked by the Athenaeum’s steps, talking until dawn....
...But his father, a butler, insisted he train as an engineer....
...Donate your spare change Caroline Fiennes, FT Money’s How to Give It columnist This was the year that my household discovered Marie Kondo, the queen of tidying up....
...French judicial authorities are considering opening an investigation into allegations that National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen concealed funds in a Swiss bank account....
...According to Anne-Marie Deschodt [author of a 2001 book on Fortuny], Fortuny took out more than 50 patents in Paris. Morris too was both craftsman and inventor....
...But the private life of the Bettencourts moved into the media glare in 2010 after the French publications Le Point and Mediapart revealed tape recordings made by Ms Bettencourt’s butler....
...But the very private life of the Bettencourts blew wide open in 2010 after the French publications Le Point and Mediapart revealed tape recordings made by Ms Bettencourt’s butler....
...The scandal was triggered after the leaking of secret tapes in 2010 made by Ms Bettencourt’s butler in her plush Paris mansion....
...Ann Marie Sabath, who runs the interactive workshops, talks through techniques for entering conversations, introducing others and “unloading a bore”....
...And how old was Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in the 1939 epic Gone With the Wind? Take a guess (answer at the end of the piece.)...
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