Princess Nobels

February 24, 2023

...The Polish Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk has just written a novel about Görbersdorf, to be published this month....

June 4, 2022

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Watches & Jewellery

Auction houses aim to capitalise on Fabergé ‘buzz’

...The exhibition includes a Russian amethyst pendant bought in 1913 by Princess Victoria, daughter of King Edward VII, and a diamond bow brooch purchased by Baron Alphonse Mayer von Rothschild in 1912....

November 5, 2021

World

FirstFT: Markets rally after breakthrough in debt ceiling talks

...(FT, WSJ) Nobel Prize in literature Sweden is expected to announce the winner today, followed by prizes for peace tomorrow and economics on Monday....

October 7, 2021

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

Winning bid: how auction theory took the Nobel Prize

...The charity auction for an evening with Princess Marie would be described by an economist as a private value auction....

October 12, 2020

News in-depthChinese society

China stand-up comics find authorities no longer get the joke

...The rationale was never made public but fans were quick to point to an audience member’s apparently oblique reference to Liu Xiaobo, the Nobel Peace-prize winning dissident who died of liver cancer while...

April 5, 2021

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Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

News in-depthCoronavirus treatment

How Australia brought the coronavirus pandemic under control

...In March, authorities allowed passengers to disembark from the Ruby Princess cruise ship without testing, sparking a nationwide rise in infections....

November 13, 2020

FT SeriesFantasy dinner parties

Brooke Masters’ fantasy dinner: Carrie Fisher serenades Nikola Tesla

...I adored her as a child in her best-known role of Princess Leia in the Star Wars saga — no damsel in distress, she dressed down her would-be torturers and never hesitated to grab a laser gun herself....

September 11, 2020

Business travel

Frankfurt Book Fair: four highlights not to miss

...Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature, will be speaking at the opening press conference about the position of writers in Poland today....

October 15, 2019

FT Magazine

Statistics, lies and the virus: Tim Harford’s five lessons from a pandemic

...Quirks of circumstance — such as the Diamond Princess cruise ship, in which almost everyone was tested — provided more insight....

September 10, 2020

FirstFT

FirstFT: Today’s top stories

...In other developments: Japan has confirmed another 99 cases of coronavirus on board the stricken Diamond Princess cruise ship, currently under quarantine in Yokohama, taking the total number of cases on...

February 17, 2020

Nobel prizes

Nobel Prize in Literature to be shelved in 2018

...Media reports in Sweden also accuse Mr Arnault of sexual misconduct against Crown Princess Victoria. Mr Arnault denies all the allegations....

May 4, 2018

Book awards

Nobel literature award shelved over sexual harassment allegations

...Recent reports also accused Mr Arnault of sexual misconduct towards the Crown Princess Victoria. Mr Arnault denies all the allegations....

May 4, 2018

Lunch with the FT

Vivienne Ming: ‘The professional class is about to be blindsided by AI’

...“I was supposed to win a Nobel Prize,” says Ming, deadpan, as we peruse the menu from our cushy window seats....

July 27, 2018

Amy Kazmin

The Taj Mahal is caught in a tug of war over Indian identity

...It was described by the Nobel Prize-winning writer Rabindranath Tagore as “a teardrop on the cheek of time”, and was where Diana, Princess of Wales posed alone in 1992 on a visit to India with Prince Charles...

December 4, 2017

FT Live

The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition

FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government

FT Magazine

How Shaun Tan transformed children’s literature

...They’re two-dimensional and flat: it’s a witch, it’s a boy, it’s a prince, it’s a princess. But I like the challenge of illustrating a text that kind of says, ‘Do not illustrate me’....

August 19, 2016

Life & Arts

Caribbean rock star: where to buy in St Lucia

...In 1992, all this belonged to Colin Tennant, Lord Glenconner — the man who made Mustique, befriended Princess Margaret and kept a pet elephant called Bupa....

December 17, 2015

Special Report

Zurab Tsereteli: Artistic licence

...Two statues of Vladimir Putin in judo kit look sulkily at one another across the courtyard; Princess Diana sits behind an enormous pile of books; Marina Tsvetaeva, the poet, sits on a bench; and there is...

June 25, 2015

The World blogTony Barber

The French culture minister who doesn’t read books

...Earlier this month Patrick Modiano, a French novelist, won the 2014 Nobel Prize for literature....

October 29, 2014

ReviewLife & Arts

Cassandra, Linbury Studio Theatre, London – review

...The 65-minute octet explores the subject of psychosis via the myth of the Trojan princess cursed with the gift of unbelievable prophecy....

November 2, 2014

NotebookJohn McDermott

Learn from Google, not from ‘Foxconn’

...Unfortunately for the princess, he turned out to be gay. His marriage to Prince Charming was imminent, continued another pupil. The End....

February 25, 2014

Off Message

Learn from Google, not from ‘Foxconn’

...Unfortunately for the princess, he turned out to be gay. His marriage to Prince Charming was imminent, continued another pupil. The End....

February 25, 2014

FT MagazineSimon Kuper

Simon Kuper on how to raise a winning child

...James Heckman, the Nobel-winning Chicago economist, says these skills will help the child learn, and tend to translate into everything from larger incomes to avoiding jail....

July 5, 2013

Technology sector

Berners-Lee wins engineering prize

...Princess Anne, who represented the royal family at Monday’s awards ceremony, said: “The input of engineers probably goes back to the invention of the wheel, and we are always trying to reinvent that.”...

March 18, 2013

Life & Arts

The Diary: Gideon Rachman

...“I’m the crown princess,” she replied. I felt myself blushing as red as Ricard’s robes. If only I had glanced down at her delegate badge, which, I now saw, said quite clearly – “Crown Princess Mary”....

January 25, 2013

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