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...A statement-making, ruby and diamond, bib-style Tweed Royal jewel comes topped with a yellow gold chain and is made up of a necklace, brooch and ring, and can be worn in seven different ways....
...But that was in an age when the popular press profited from graphically pumping up enthusiasm for royal events (not at all to be taken for granted)....
...[Royal Canadian Mounted Police] and the Regina police service.”...
...“Culturally, [blue] came to be associated with joy, peace, loyalty and comfort,” says historian Regina Lee Blaszczyk, author of The Color Revolution....
...After a year in which attendance at live music events has often looked worryingly thin, a sudden pick-up during December has seen packed audiences across the board, from the long run of Tosca at the Royal...
...Albergo Della Regina Isabella is the top-notch place to stay. I also go to Japan twice a year and go to a ryokan spa. You don’t do more than three days in a ryokan; you will get bored....
...Over time, I grew more interested in Elizabeth Regina as an individual: an enigmatic and fascinating figure, a woman who held on to her dignity in the face of soap-opera scandals swirling around the royals...
...In her book of hours, a small illuminated manuscript containing psalms and prayers, which she knew was surveilled by others, she signed off her verses as a reigning monarch, R for Regina....
...that none of the royal family had ever been awarded a gold....
...Series one of The Crown ended with the transformation of Lillibet into the glorious and resolute Elizabeth Regina as Cecil Beaton framed her for one of the official portraits that would make her an icon...
...That was writer Francis Carco’s impression of Matisse’s Hôtel Regina apartment in Nice in 1941....
...It was here that I saw the extraordinary piano-playing Regina Spektor on a rare night out with my husband a decade or so ago, when our children were small and babysitters expensive....
...I began watching The Crown idly, drawn to the serial by Claire Foy’s sensitive portrayal of Elizabeth Regina, John Lithgow’s remarkable ability to slip into Churchill’s skin....
...“Hong Kong is more politically divided than ever and the dividing issue is the attitude to our motherland,” says Regina Ip, a pro-Beijing lawmaker and member of the government’s executive council....
...Regina Yang, of Knight Frank Shanghai, says foreigners gravitate towards Shanghai’s two traditional high-end residential areas: Pudong’s Lujiazui — close to the forest of skyscrapers in the city’s financial...
...Then there was the destination itself: the Tower of London’s Chapel Royal, housing the tombs of three headless queens....
...Lombard’s royal correspondent Regina Plaudit has been honoured with an audience with the Queen*....
...And did Poulenc’s climactic “Salve Regina” cast its customary spell? Not quite....
...Qatar’s royal family bought the five-star Regina Baglioni on Rome’s via Veneto via its Mayhoola for Investments fund in November last year, after acquiring Italian designer Valentino for a reported $850m...
...His long-forgotten Cristina, regina di Svezia is the hit of this year’s Wexford Festival....
...The great “Mondo ladro” monologue serves as an irksome visual duet for fat knight and hungry horse (an equine distraction otherwise reduced since the Royal Opera House premiere)....
...Königskinder (Royal Children), premiered at the Met in 1910, shares some of Hänsel und Gretel’s post-Wagnerian traits, in a darker, more elegiac framework....
...… Later that week, I’m across town in a whitewashed Clerkenwell basement for a royal visit....
...At the Royal Opera House, which cast the Polish male soprano Jacek Laszczkowski in Steffani’s Niobe, Regina di Tebe in 2010, director of casting Peter Katona believes “there are now more and more significant...
...The new Royal Ballet programme of Ballo della regina and La Sylphide is tremendous. Johan Kobborg’s staging of La Sylphide is the best I know, the most sensitive to Bournonville’s drama and manner....
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