Hints and tips:
...Another writer beloved by collectors is Octavia Butler, the first black woman to receive both the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and the first sci-fi author to be granted a MacArthur fellowship....
...In 2020, The Ritz passed from the Barclay Brothers to Qatari businessman Abdulhadi Mana Al-Hajri; the Sultan of Brunei bought the Dorchester in 1985; The Savoy is owned by Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed...
...Take his walnut Campaign Bed, which was inspired by a military campaign bed by the specialist maker Thomas Butler. I love its elegant curved brass cornice in particular....
...And by the way, was it, is it Austin Butler, who was Elvis, is the successor to Baron Harkonnen, his successor, who was one of the most evil guys in the entire series....
...teacups at the butler....
...For example, getting Prince William on a Brompton bike in Shanghai for a photo. I’d been told this book described spats with Ritchie, who Butler-Adams replaced as chief executive....
...John McGreevy, author of the book Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis, called Benedict’s abdication a “healthy step” away from the Church’s traditional “renaissance prince...
...Geoffrey is no longer a campy and posh butler but a gravel-voiced Cockney who comes over as a diminutive Idris Elba....
...Similarly well-timed is Oliver Bullough’s Butler to the World, in which he draws a sharp line from the end of Britain’s empire to the complex web of legal, property and financial services that enable, butler-like...
...He did so despite the best efforts of the prince’s legal team to shred her reputation, dismiss her accusations as “baseless” and suggest she was seeking a “payday at his expense”....
...It is of course from William Butler Yeats’s Second Coming: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity”....
...I’d not realised until recently (despite the obvious clue) that the line’s name was chosen to mark the Queen’s silver jubilee in 1977, although it was officially opened, by the Prince of Wales, two years...
...It’s stridently traditional for a start: a world in which a sports car might be frowned upon, where the butler’s pantry is still presided over by a butler, jewellery thefts go unreported to avoid scandal...
...As far as casting goes, Austin Butler certainly looks the part, while Tom Hanks seems a sound choice to play the role of Colonel Tom Parker, Presley’s hugely influential manager....
...Law firm Mishcon de Reya has appointed five directors to serve on its plc board ahead of its London listing including former McKinsey senior partner Pat Butler, who serves on the board of UK lender Aldermore...
...For example he knew Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — and if you doubted this, the Crown Prince’s photograph was hanging on the wall....
..., leaving only tantalising fragments such as Butler’s Wharf or bits of Wapping’s riverside....
...Genette Butler at Working Title Films for Billy Elliot. Eduardo Desouza at Creative Goods for Hamilton. Fashion assistants, Aylin Bayhan and Sara Semic...
...The landing point is named by Nasa after the American science fiction writer Octavia E Butler. Does hope have a sense of humour? Yes. Lex Greensill and the dramatic collapse of his finance company....
...The household is rounded out by bodyguard Domovi Butler (Nonso Anozie). As with the books, Fowl is Potter upside down....
...To replace Mr Falih as energy minister, the crown prince has appointed his brother Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, who has long experience in the energy ministry but has never had direct control over Aramco...
...He is a member of both the Federation of International Polo and the Guards Polo Club of Windsor and has played with both Prince William and Prince Harry....
...Nigel Farage’s recent attack on Prince Charles for his views on climate issues also fits the pattern....
...No, said Prince Abdulaziz, because Iraq, Nigeria and other quota-busters will continue to “compensate” for earlier under-compliance, with extra cuts....
...His flamboyance was a means of restoring the prestige of the prince bishops after the Restoration....
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