Hints and tips:
...Rowan bought upscale restaurants in the Hamptons. Harris collected sports teams....
...Rufus Wainwright is touring the UK until October 20, rufuswainwright.com/tour...
...Once the home of Arnold Weinstock, a leading British postwar industrialist, it was designed by James Wyatt, architect to King George III....
...Foppish Charles II, frightened James II and the more politically restricted courts of William III and Anne could not attract such foreign talents, and there was as yet no native school....
...Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, court sculptor to Napoleon III, followed his patron into English exile and made classicised marble busts of the new industrial bourgeoisie such as “Henry James Turner” in unbuttoned...
...In 1688, the British had a Dutch king — William III — who, with his wife Mary, had come to replace the reviled James II during the Glorious Revolution....
...Sir Philip Hampton, GSK I have also been on a listed company board, outside the UK, with two employee representatives....
...Sir Philip Hampton, chairman, Royal Bank of Scotland Lots of great points and reasonable consensus around elections and general political risk but Nigel’s challenge on attitudes to investment is really...
...I’d say the essentials must be a roof, daylight, a fire or oven to cook (maybe like the basement of William III’s sweetmeat retreat at Hampton Court) and a sink to clean, plus knockout lighting to celebrate...
...England under King George III, and under his sons George IV and William IV, was regarded as a place of questionable morals and frivolity....
...In the 1980s, when award-winning designer James Alexander-Sinclair was beginning his working life, he was asked what he did....
...It was built in the late 1530s for King James V and his French wife Mary of Guise but it is doubtful that they ever lived there together as James died in 1542, leaving Mary to hold court at Stirling alone...
...Just 300 copies were printed; the British Library holds a particularly fine example, a legacy from the library of King George III....
...James A Baker III, former US secretary of state Where are you spending the summer? My wife Susan and I usually spend August at our remodelled old homesteader’s cabin on Silver Creek in Wyoming....
...“Loudon [Wainwright III, McGarrigle’s husband] and I used to feud over tennis; now it’s over who can produce the most musical offspring.”...
...Gekko had a beach house in the Hamptons and collected modern art, which foresaw, or perhaps led to, the rash of art collecting among today’s hedge fund crowd....
...King William, nephew of the English King James II, was raised in Holland in a household of native English-speaking women....
...Rufus and Martha, his children with Canadian folk singer Kate McGarrigle, each draw rave reviews for their more lushly emotional material....
...The monarch with whom Hampton Court is perhaps most associated, however, is William III – William of Orange – who remodelled the palace in the 1690s....
...The meeting comes a mere 401 years after the last Hampton Court conference, at which King James I agreed the authorised English version of the Bible, still used today....
...New world, old money is what you get with James Packer....
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