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...The resulting silhouette was very public-schoolboy-at-chapel, but make it chic — think of Felix Catton from Saltburn, had he survived until winter....
...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...Tim Reeve, V&A deputy director, said that, while the museum had benefited from record-high domestic visitor numbers, a drop-off in international visitors had held back demand....
...She started the tradition of televised messages to the country in 1957, although her grandfather George V made the first royal Christmas broadcast on radio in 1932 — with a script by Rudyard Kipling....
...The focus of events in Windsor will be on St George’s Chapel, a 15th-century chapel in Windsor Castle where the funerals of George VI, the late Queen’s father, George V, her grandfather, and Edward VII,...
...Royal figures in attendance will also include Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako of Japan, King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain, King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium and King Harald V and Queen...
...“You know when they did that [David] Bowie show at the V&A? For a long time I’ve thought, Pam could do that,” says Lucas. “So in a way, this is a small step towards Pam’s big retrospective.”...
...In an attempt to win over William, Harry turned to Google, calling up images of their bearded ancestors Edward VII and George V in uniform. Why do beards get some people so hot under the collar?...
...And this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, Black Chapel, is a very simple form indeed....
...Once the private chapel of Dona Rosa, the lover of 18th-century king João V, Mesa de Frades is now one of Lisbon’s more bohemian fado clubs....
...tarragon), jerusalem artichoke (with macadamia, mustard and lemon) and lettuce (with Chinese cabbage, capers and coriander). opatlv.co.il Baya Simons Analogue, Singapore Set in the grounds of a restored chapel...
...Vintage gloves were appliquéd to elbows and the back of jackets — they flashed a V-sign, either for victory or peace. Simons achieved both....
...The funeral of Queen Victoria St George’s Chapel, Windsor, February 1901 Queen Victoria wrote detailed plans for her own funeral....
...The image of her at his funeral, mourning alone in the chapel because of Covid restrictions, was a reminder of her humanity. She, herself, was becoming more fragile....
...Then look at the V&A or the Royal Albert Hall and Albert Memorial, to either side of the Serpentine Gallery, with their rich terracotta detail, or at the massive holdings of ceramics in the museum, and it...
...Or Le Corbusier’s model of a wall at his groundbreaking chapel at Ronchamp, whose random openings look very much like the background to Henri Cartier-Bresson’s 1933 picture “Madrid”....
...First built as a chapel by French Huguenots in 1743, it was taken over by Wesleyans, then Methodists and became a synagogue in 1891, converted by refugees from the pogroms in Russia and eastern Europe....
...At 7.30am, before the arrival of the face-masked tourist tribes, we gathered in privileged seclusion in the Sistine Chapel....
...Indian Textiles: Nature and Making (V&A) Google Arts & Culture were ahead of the game when it came to digitising art works and entire exhibitions, and this deep dive into the V&A’s lustrous textiles collections...
...Eventually, he was stabbed to death in a conspiracy backed by Charles V, and his body was hung from the window of his Piacenza palace....
...Offered a choice of the V&A’s galleries, he chose to site the piece under the sandstone pilasters and carved marble angels of the 15th-century chapel from the Santa Chiara convent in Florence....
...The V&A carried off the prize in 2016....
...On Crete, prices rose 3.5 per cent between 2017 and 2018, according to E&V data. Other islands are experiencing steeper rises....
...When King George V stayed here in 1912, 40,000 people packed the gardens to watch him arrive. He was a guest of its former owner, the 7th Earl Fitzwilliam....
...It was the work of Prouvé’s contemporary and sometime collaborator Pierre Jeanneret, who designed them, along with the V-leg Committee chair on which I sat and the easy chairs by the picture window, for...
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