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...But it is also explicitly religious: once decanted, the oil will be used to mark the sign of the cross on King Charles’s head, chest and hands....
...It also reminds us that Henry IV usurped the throne. “It occurred to me that Henry IV’s only been on the throne for four or five years,” says Icke. “And this situation was never the plan....
...The Nevilles were a very powerful northern family” – Cecily Neville was the mother of two kings of England, Edward IV and Richard III – “and being so far away from the centres of power, to some degree they...
...Mark Moody-Stuart Hassocks, East Sussex, UK...
...His love of the TG console has led him to invest in four different iterations, Marks I through IV, all acquired from his former employer....
...Yinka Shonibare’s “Wind Sculpture in Bronze IV,” resembling a contorted scrap of windblown batik in sea-green and tangerine, embodies an intriguing paradox with its weightless metal in arrested dynamism....
...Does it matter that not every dish hits the mark? At these prices, you’d think so. At Maxim’s, you’re tempted not to care. At least not too much. The place is fun. The mood is infectious....
...IV. In June 2021, Wigdor filed a civil complaint on Ganieva’s behalf....
...(Glimpsed from afar, a “micro” portrait of George IV at the Brighton Pavilion, shimmering with precious stones, has the depth of a painting.)...
...For its part, Ulysse Nardin produced a pair of limited edition Diver watches to mark the event, a three-hand model and a chronograph — both made with recycled materials....
...Sotheby’s will offer a Diego Velázquez full-length portrait of Isabel de Borbón, queen of Spain and the first wife of Philip IV, for a princely $35mn in New York on February 1 2024....
...Wind swirls around her, she loosens her hair and gossamer shawl, her cheeks colour as she turns to feed Zeus’s eagles — a reference to her relationship with the future king, George IV....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F•ck by Mark Manson....
...Some good news Immersing patients in virtual worlds is helping with the pain of drawing blood or an IV insertion....
...Pope Eugenius IV suggested a simple solution: donate 10,000 florins to the Observant Dominican friars at San Marco....
...The earrings have been made to mark the company’s 130th anniversary, as have a minimalist bronze and white-gold ring topped with a rainbow moonstone, and a pair of deep-blue Ceylon sapphire earrings tied...
...Stifling sunshine helped keep visitors inside the fair, where a 1955 painting by Mark Rothko with a $60mn price tag is at the booth of New York’s weighty Acquavella Galleries....
...Heaven help “painting in the digital age” if its future is as bloodless and pointless as Laura Owens’ “Photoshop marks” layered on grids (“Untitled”, 2012) and Christina Quarles’s “transforming random marks...
...When he was only 21, he contributed a generous five marks to a bung from local merchants to “the great lords of the realm”....
...A one-off ring made by Boodles to mark the coronation will feature two heart-shaped diamonds from the same mine....
...Paradoxically then, when all the vivats and the Andrew Lloyd Webber, the unction and the orb, the arcane rituals and the street bunting have all faded and been swept away, the mark of whether this king will...
...The company has manufactured pottery to mark 16 previous royal events since it was founded in 1985....
...Mark Weidemaier and Mitu Gulati teach classes on international debt at the Universities of North Carolina and Virginia and co-host the podcast Clauses and Controversies....
...iv) Is BP focusing on the wrong shareholders? Some investors loved the February strategy shift....
...The list of former visitors reads like a European who’s who, from Peter the Great to Sigmund Freud, by way of Chopin, Wagner, Mozart and Beethoven, and writers from Goethe to Mark Twain....
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