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...Amazon navigation, I reckoned, would be a South American version of The African Queen, with a rickety boat pushing through narrow channels hemmed in by dark walls of vegetation....
...It is a weekend well-worth the 2h drive from town — if you’re lucky enough to score tickets....
...In Windsor, the town west of London where the late Queen Elizabeth lived for most of the year, the streets have been filling ahead of the committal service due to start at 4pm....
...On the other side of town in Barlaston, Kate Turner, chief curator at the V&A Wedgwood Collection, has retrieved a leather-bound ceramic pattern book from the company’s archives....
...Sailors pulled the carriage through the streets of the town and she was interred next to Prince Albert in the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore Similarly, Queen Elizabeth’s death at Balmoral, the royal estate...
...In London, too, February is going to be a gala month, with the cream of the crop being the V&A’s hosting of the magnificent display of the works of Donatello — possibly the first ever in the British capital...
...Bulging like a hernia from the flank of the Lea Navigation waterway, the strategically tailored acres of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park flipped the jaded concept of sportswashing....
...Thus artist Sybil Andrews summed up the possibilities offered by a novel method of printmaking. It was 1929 and Andrews’ subject was London’s Queen’s Hall....
...Most of the book is set in New Prospect, a fictional town on the outskirts of Chicago, across a single day in the run-up to Christmas 1971....
...Nick Coleridge, chair of the V&A museum and former overlord of Condé Nast Britain, publisher of House & Garden and The World of Interiors, thinks that working from home and Zoom have made the Instagram generation...
...“The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats” follows seven travellers from the fantastical town of Epicurania on a quixotic journey, hunting unicorns and exotic prey across lush valleys, waterfalls and proud...
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...The pair fit in well in this part of town....
...On the other side of town, overlooking the more newly regal Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, The Stratford Lofts are defining urban must-haves for Generation Rent....
...Queen Elizabeth II remains a living link to this era, as her recent TV addresses have demonstrated....
...A friend of mine from Llanelli, a working-class town in Wales, tells me his family argue incessantly about the relative merits of Meghan v Kate, the two duchesses destined to be future stars of The Crown...
...There’s a painting of Elizabeth I called (fittingly) “The Rainbow Portrait”, her gown covered in ears and eyes to show the Queen could see and hear everything in her kingdom....
...Cedar Creek, Block 5 Chardonnay 2016 CheckMate, End Game Merlot 2013, Queen Taken Chardonnay 2014, Attack Chardonnay 2015 Culmina Cabernet Sauvignon 2014, Unicus Grüner Veltliner 2017 Giant Head, Canyonview...
...Is our judgment so impaired that we need help from marketeers, who figure that a log basket will sell better if it is named after the seaside town of Southwold?...
...Benedetti became a prodigy: by eight, she was leading the National Children’s Orchestra of Great Britain. At 29, she became the youngest recipient of the Queen’s Medal for Music....
...Guinea revels in being the opposite of fashionable. It’s a place for mixed grills, ox heart, buttered carrots and breakfasts that cross into Man v Food territory....
...centre of town,” writes Winder....
...In Burton’s hymn to British manufacturing towns, like her own Macclesfield in Cheshire, here was a queen of the north....
...Centenary Flyby (left to right) The Prince of Wales, the Duke of York (obscured), the Duchess of Cornwall, Queen Elizabeth II, the Duchess of Sussex, the Duke of Sussex, the Duke of Cambridge and the Duchess...
...Born in 1757 into a family of stonemasons in the town of Possagno in the foothills of the Venetian Prealps, Canova was carving as soon as he could hold a chisel....
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