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...“Genius has no sex,” said Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III, bestowing upon her the first female Légion d’Honneur in 1865....
...Nicholas Malins-Smith Cambridge, UK...
...In 2008, Alan Bennett donated his archive to the Bodleian; here we see the way in which director Nicholas Hytner collaborated with Bennett first on the play The Madness of George III and later on the film...
...The combination of political repression and economic expansion also characterised the reigns of tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when Russia industrialised at...
...Saturday’s coronation of King Charles III got Lex wondering what lay ahead for UK investors- and how different it might be from the 70 intervening years since the investiture of the late Queen Elizabeth...
...Fewer still could number King Charles III among their client list....
...If a single person has popularised gentle density in British political circles it is Nicholas Boys Smith....
...For this he has support from Sir Nicholas Bacon, the former president of the RHS, landowner and philanthropist whose ancestral garden credentials go back to the 17th century....
...Richard III Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon A vast grey cenotaph towers over the empty stage for the entirety of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new Richard III: a constant physical reminder...
...Reynolds painted Mai, his Polynesian name, after the Pacific islander voyaged to Britain in 1774 and was presented to King George III on his arrival....
...He was the first Polynesian to visit England and became an instant celebrity, meeting King George III, attending the state opening of parliament and travelling the country with Joseph Banks....
...Downing Street confirmed on Friday that 26 new peers — 13 of whom will have conservative affiliations — have been approved by King Charles III....
...The family of the late Sir Nicholas Goodison, who was chair of the London Stock Exchange in the run-up to its deregulation in 1986, has put the collection up for sale....
...He was soon presented to King George III at Kew Palace, after being fitted for a velvet coat, white waistcoat and satin breeches....
...Hawkes was also a favourite with the royal family from the days of George III. In 1912 it became responsible for the supply and upkeep of the uniforms worn by the royal bodyguard....
...The most accurate political comparison is probably with Russia in the 19th century, under Tsar Nicholas I or Alexander III....
...closely linked with Sinn Féin for much of Northern Ireland’s troubled history, claimed responsibility for the bomb on a boat that killed the senior second world war commander, his 14-year-old grandson Nicholas...
...Ten eggs were created during Alexander’s reign, and 40 more were produced during that of his son, Nicholas II....
...postmodernism at its wittiest and most playful, one of a trifecta of water-treatment stations commissioned by the London Docklands Development Corporation from leading British architects (the others are by Nicholas...
...Nicholas Fairfax is alleged to have arranged a $300,000 payment to Andrew Longhurst, a former executive at Maroil Trading — a company owned by Venezuelan shipping tycoon Wilmer Ruperti — in exchange for...
...It remains visually luxurious, thanks to Nicholas Georgiadis’ designs, but only Nureyev would have looked at Petipa’s Raymonda and added more steps....
...But the Baroque did find visual genius in 17th-century England — in its architects: John Vanbrugh at Castle Howard and Blenheim, Christopher Wren at St Paul’s, Nicholas Hawksmoor’s rhythmic yet disquieting...
...Alessandro Farnese, better known as Pope Paul III, had a son, Pier Luigi, who was accused in 1537 of raping the 24-year-old bishop of Fano....
...Alongside Charles Saatchi, Tibbles was one of the first supporters of Damien Hirst and among the works on offer are the British artist’s early spot painting “Antipyrylazo III” (1994, est £900,000-£1.2m)...
...daughter Allegra, and to arrange for her burial; Byron in exile received from Murray magnesia, gunpowder, tooth powders and two English bulldogs; Paul Du Chaillu, the African explorer, asked John Murray III...
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