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...His official 1953 Coronation portrait of Elizabeth II was in fact taken at home, according to the royal biographer Robert Hardman, with a fake Abbey backdrop....
...Walter Isaacson’s biography of Musk seeks to tell a much bigger story than the one outlined above....
...Top lot of the evening by far, as expected, was Picasso’s “Femme à la montre” (1932), a portrait of his lover Marie-Thérèse Walter, which sold for $121mn ($139.4mn with fees, est $120mn)....
...It was an attempt to make the magazine seem a less sensationalist platform for Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein, two of its most successful authors....
...Walter Bagehot, the doyen of English constitutional writers, stated in 1867 that the monarch was entitled to be consulted, and could encourage and warn....
...Walters Q1 trading update, WD-40 Company Q2 Friday Across the world financial markets will be closed for the Good Friday holiday US, Department of Labor employment report World events Finally, here...
...Walters FY World events Finally, here is a rundown of other events and milestones this week....
...“He was a bull in a china shop,” Robert Dall, Ranieri’s boss at Salomon for a time, told The New York Times in 2013. But what made Ranieri’s name was not his persona....
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...Over the years, the Grade I-listed apartment block has been home to the writer Agatha Christie and the architect and Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius....
...It’s The Godfather Part II. For James read Robert De Niro. For Seyfried read Al Pacino. For Brando’s numinous absence read Streep’s....
...All the now-familiar details are there — the tricorn hat, the Charles II curls, the frock coat and buckles — but the overall effect is strikingly sinister....
...The acquisition in 1728 by August II the Strong of works from Cardinal Albani, esteemed connoisseur but also a gambler in need of cash, drove Pope Clement XII to buy the rest of Albani’s collection....
...Robert Icke’s adaptation grapples with big questions about justice, justification and storytelling....
...The 14th-century church at St Monans was overflowing at his funeral: fittingly, the church was founded by King David II, son of King Robert the Bruce – Bannockburn’s victor – who is sacred to nationalists...
...But Professor Robert Hazell, director of the Constitution Unit at UCL, said while Prince Charles may have gone “a little bit over the line” with his interventions with ministers, he could not criticise him...
...Robert Zoellick served as president of the World Bank and US deputy secretary of state...
...JAR Paris Vol II , by Pierre Genet and Joel Arthur Rosenthal, JAR Vol II, RRP$800 In 2003, Rosenthal published the limited edition 10lb-plus JAR Paris....
...Their shortcomings led millions of people into dire poverty and created a fertile environment for World War II....
...His reconstruction of the dispute with King Henry II that led to Becket’s murder is masterful and makes for a compelling read....
...However, the situation remains fluid, according to David Romeo, a consultant at recruitment group Robert Walters....
...The World America Made, by Robert Kagan, Knopf, RRP$21, 160 pages A short book that attracted Obama’s attention....
...Andrew Hanson, a director in the financial services business at recruiter Robert Walters, says, however, that the industry often remains reluctant to look outside the insurance world for the people it needs...
...They asked the Scottish poet Sir Walter Scott, and caused a revolution in literature....
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