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...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...“I looked to the ideal of ease but also acceleration, the kind native to New York,” says Khaite designer Catherine Holstein, who showed white crew neck T-shirts with black, oversized blazers and jeans....
...The King continues to dispute claims that he ordered the killing of the rightful monarch Edward V and his younger brother Richard, then imprisoned in the Tower of London....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...Eventually, he was stabbed to death in a conspiracy backed by Charles V, and his body was hung from the window of his Piacenza palace....
...Kingston Polymath 1,011: Dr S Bailey, Swindon Crossword 16,099: Suzanne P Wilson, Windermere; D Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V...
...The Normal Training School of Art was reinvented as the National Art Training School in 1863 and located in what is now the V&A museum....
...This was especially hard on the actress Dorothea Jordan, who had borne the Duke of Clarence, later King William IV, no fewer than 10 illegitimate FitzClarences....
...“Her kingdoms are hermetically sealed, in fact, and here lies the strength of their impregnable immortality,” wrote the traveller Reginald Farrer in July 1917....
...On the one hand, the tradition of European landscape painting that he had been schooled in, with its lushness, its incised V-shapes and receding planes....
...Scalia’s mother, Catherine Panaro, was the daughter of Italian immigrants who became a school teacher....
...“We wanted to be really clear that street protest wasn’t everyone’s form of protest,” says Catherine Flood, one of the exhibition’s curators....
...What the modern royals don’t realise is that they are now competing with a far wider range of entertainment, fighting for eyeballs with Grand Theft Auto V and box sets of Breaking Bad....
...V and the as-yet-unnamed little one – that may well last into the 22nd century....
...Beatriz Chadour-Sampson, the jewellery historian who is curator of the V&A’s new William and Judy Bollinger Jewellery Gallery, cites acute interest from the Middle East as critical to the recent revival...
...She quotes William Blake on a wild flower: “Hold infinity in the palm of your hand / And eternity in an hour”. The flower trade delivers eternity to our doorstep....
...At Pavlovsk, the palace built for Catherine the Great in the 1780s, the Soviets had to start again. The Germans had occupied it and, as they left, they set it alight....
...Prince William and Catherine Middleton may fare better, but you wouldn’t bet money....
...There is a looming problem for the putative William V, too. What if his first child is a daughter, who could then be superseded by a son?...
...As Prince William and his fiancée stepped out on their first official engagement at the weekend, the hope at Buckingham Palace was that here was a couple that could embody present-day Britain....
...I have also written history in the present tense (The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England) and day-by-day history (1415: Henry V’s Year of Glory)....
...Catherine Kidston, founder of, Cath Kidston, the consumer products company. Margaret Lee, chief executive, Cresco Trust, the employment group. Catriona Matthew, British Open golf champion....
...Dudley’s rival William Cecil spread rumours that Dudley had Amy murdered so he could wed the queen, and Elizabeth herself was said to be implicated....
...He also provided the funding for the renovation of the V&A’s Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art, which opened in July 2006....
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