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...(She represented fashion designer Mary-Kate Olsen in her divorce, finalised in January, from French banker Olivier Sarkozy.)...
...Since the start of the pandemic many wealthy people have split from their partners, including celebrities such as US singer Kelly Clarkson, fashion designer Mary-Kate Olsen and Irish boyband star Shane Lynch...
...Hannah Wills Klein had a Jewish ceremony last August, at Hannah’s family home in Stowe, Vermont, with nine guests I didn’t love the process of planning a big wedding, so when we downsized I felt somewhat...
...Stowe, for instance, is steeped in political, sexual and royal messages including the Temple of Modern Virtue, built as a ruin around a decapitated bust resembling Robert Walpole....
...a spinster scribbling with her sisters in the Haworth parsonage or tramping solo on the Yorkshire moors, they excavate the profound literary influence of her rebellious school friend, the nonconformist Mary...
...The star here is Lady Mary Talbot who is described as “looking so well, enjoying her garden . . . working hard in it . . . walking four and six miles without fatigue”....
...Yet her garden was not a public manifestation of power, as some gardens, such as Stowe and Kew, would prove to be later in the century....
...Wilderness cabins are a common theme in North American literature, from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie to Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe....
...Walpole probably employed another genius, the great Bridgeman, who masterminded the park at Stowe. Briefly, Cock Robin has many of his pictures back on his walls....
...At Stowe, the Whig Lord Cobham created a Temple of Modern Virtue that housed a bust of an unnamed statesman – reputedly having more than a passing resemblance of the then prime minister Robert Walpole, whose...
...They included the novelists James Fenimore Cooper (The Last of the Mohicans) and Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom’s Cabin), artists Samuel FB Morse (who later invented the single-wire telegraph) and Mary...
...Their son, born on April 1 1919, was educated at Stowe and at Hertford College, Oxford....
...Mr Hennessy, today a professor of contemporary British history at Queen Mary college, University of London, was among those examining the papers disclosed under the 30-year rule....
...The novelist Mary Russell Mitford described Duchess Street as “a temple of art”, while Benjamin West proclaimed it “the finest specimen of true taste that is to be found in either England or France”....
...Neither William of Orange’s consort, Mary, nor his successor, Queen Anne, had been able to produce an heir, so by 1714 the crown was once again up for grabs....
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