Hints and tips:
...In January, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen of The Row presented unattainably priced shallow V-neck sweaters worn with tailoring....
...The then prime minister Spencer Perceval responded by sending troops to northern mill towns. The Luddites, meanwhile, stockpiled arms and melted down machine metal for bullets....
...In the early 1960s, Rothschild met Serena Mary Dunn at the house of Nancy Astor, the first woman to take a seat in Britain’s parliament....
...Lord Michael Spencer, founder of interdealer broker ICAP and a Tory party donor, said: “The UK should maintain corporation tax at no higher than 20 per cent to put us in the most competitive bracket globally...
...“Lady Diana Beauclerk” portrays his friend, the original Lady Di (born Spencer), at a Grecian fancy dress ball in 1763....
...Mary Barra, CEO and chair of General Motors, led other sections of the carmaker following her time as vice-president of global HR....
...In January 2008, when Nicholas was 21, he messaged an 18-year-old college student named Mary Grebinski on MySpace....
...But Rogano, the historic Art Deco oyster bar — which, according to legend, is equipped with carpets and fittings smuggled out of the Clydebank shipyard that launched the Queen Mary — hasn’t reopened since...
...It’s taken about 20 minutes, but I’ve finally managed to persuade Mary Spencer Watson to buy me a glass of Cheddar....
...Spencer – an ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales....
...The leather Mary Jane shoes and Gucci-esque loafers look more designer than the £55-£89 price tag, and, importantly, are actually comfortable....
...Lady Diana Spencer, like Alexandra almost a century before, induced a choker frenzy in the 1980s....
...Lady Diana Spencer, who married Prince Charles in 1981 to become Princess of Wales, would quickly become an international celebrity who outshone her husband and mother-in-law....
...Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born in London on April the 21st 1926. The eldest child of the former Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and Prince Albert....
...Even financially solid retailers such as Marks and Spencer and John Lewis are closing stores....
...Spencer Bailey appears in a statue as a child being cradled in the arms of the man who rescued him from the plane crash in which his mother was killed in Sioux City in 1989....
...For McGowan, “The change is very tangible.”...
...Mary Spencer Watson was unusually strong, even for a sculptor. “I knew her very well,” says Mike Bonfield, a local taxi driver and mayor of Swanage, of his celebrated former neighbour....
...She draws from literature (Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum, Precious Bane by Mary Webb), music (the campy patriotism of Vera Lynn) and, of course, other artists....
...The candidates are whittled down to 12 “pre-eminent, game-changing figures”, in Spencer’s words....
...Dunshay Manor in Dorset is the devastatingly beautiful, 23-acre former home of Mary Spencer Watson, the leading postwar sculptor. It dates back to the 13th century....
...But only in Mary Poppins does anyone defy gravity....
...Rose McGowan, the shaven-headed actress and outspoken leader of the #MeToo movement, opened the show, and the cast was fully inclusive....
...The small brick building was created by Mary and Louis Behrend in memory of Mary’s brother, Lieutenant Henry Willoughby Sandham, a casualty of the first world war....
...Mary Portas, a woman famed for channelling the consumer zeitgeist, had some answers at an FT property conference this month....
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