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...Odey, 65, has been put forward for membership, which is only accessible by nomination, by Alexander Phillips, a financier. Phillips did not respond to requests for comment....
...Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicated in 2013 in favour of her son Willem-Alexander, while King Juan Carlos of Spain stepped down the following year amid scandal....
...In the film The Imitation Game, the actor Matthew Goode played Alexander....
...Then there’s Stephen Alexander, HC’s chair: Queen Bee is a brand that has strong, standalone prospects but today’s deal will allow it to grow further and faster....
...One whose reputation has suffered is Salo Flohr, the world No2 behind Alexander Alekhine in the early 1930s....
...Further up the street, at 808 High Road, a beautiful Queen Anne building with a coach house has been restored and converted with Lottery funding to create an arts space, café, and garden....
...White Fox by Owen Matthews (Bantam/Doubleday) The last in Matthews’ outstanding trilogy featuring KGB Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Vasin sees him exiled to Siberia, to run a remote and brutal outpost of...
...It was a final bow to remember, with a glittering front row (Cate Blanchett, Elle Fanning) and a heartfelt, sometimes violent collection “inspired by female anatomy, Queen Elizabeth I, the blood red rose...
...In the portraits, the Princess, wearing a trio of Alexander McQueen gowns, appears both softer and more romantic a figure than she does in her typical public appearances....
...This collection, entirely executed in “drama queen black” (his words), they were attenuated silhouettes against cobalt blue and red flares of pigment, high-waisted, flared in the leg, with a fluttering T-shirt...
...Mary felt that if only she could speak to her cousin face to face, queen to queen, everything would be set right....
...The poet and garden maker Alexander Pope didn’t share the Phillyrea enthusiasm....
...Inspired by the concept of death and the underpinnings of Queen Victoria’s mourning dress, corsetry and undergarments-as-outerwear formed her autumn/winter24 collection....
...“This is an important case because it sets a precedent for how the ECJ will approach other infractions,” said Alexander Rose, a subsidy and competition law specialist at law firm DWF....
...These stellar paintings — Raphael’s foundational power portrait “Pope Julius II” (1511); Rubens’ tumultuous “Rape of the Sabine Women” (c1635-40); Claude’s “Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba...
...They are the Sunni descendants of indentured labourers brought in from Indonesia and Malaysia by a horror called Alexander Hare....
...When he did not change his mind, officials contacted Buckingham Palace to ask whether the Queen could intervene — although she refused....
...Made of bullion, crystal and silver thread, the three-dimensional design was a collaboration between Jess Collett and Alexander McQueen....
...Yeats called her the betrayer of “all living hearts”; Shakespeare, a “strumpet”; Alexander Ross, “a deform’d soul”; Rupert Brooke, “a scold . . . shrill . . . gummy-eyed and impotent”....
...Among those who took notice was Alexander Liberman, Condé Nast’s brilliant but wily editorial director, who called Wintour “a couple of times before he came up with a role that was the right fit”....
...Alexander McQueen had planned to show the day before Frieze’s official opening for months, well before the Queen’s passing....
...‘Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians’ is at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace until October 8...
...Decades ago Hugh Alexander, the FT columnist and Bletchley and GCHQ codebreaker, used to say that backward diagonal queen moves were the easiest to overlook. Evidently Alexander was right . . ....
...As Alexander Montague-Sparey, then Christie’s head of photographs, noted at the time, the evening changed the art landscape: “We are seeing fashion photographers recognised and celebrated as artists,” he...
...Part of Queen Elizabeth II’s great success was that she succeeded in making the monarchy appear to be above politics, when, of course, the questions surrounding whether we should have a constitutional monarchy...
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