Hints and tips:
...Visitors to the V&A can still peep through its window into miniature glass-painted scenes from nature, illuminated by candles, which the young Gainsborough artfully placed behind a light-diffusing silk screen...
...Neither did I troop along to the 1974 game-changing exhibition at the V&A, “The Destruction of the English Country House”, at which the images went on show of more than a thousand country houses, castles...
...“Poor”, when the Keats siblings’ tangled legacy (from a wealthy grandmother) inspired Dickens’s Bleak House account of the interminable Jarndyce v Jarndyce case?...
...George V’s horse Anmer caused whose death on June 4 1913? Which cocktail is made with vodka and orange juice (above)?...
...It’s a place for mixed grills, ox heart, buttered carrots and breakfasts that cross into Man v Food territory....
...The scenario naturally calls to mind a host of wartime films and Haig also quietly references Shakespeare: the pivotal tempest; the Henry V-like passage about sending young men to war....
...historical paint consultant and heraldry expert, says it was all clever PR: “Henry ordered heraldic carvings and motifs to be added wherever possible to remind people not only that his favourite wife was Jane Seymour...
...Notebook can exclusively, if unreliably, reveal that MUFC players are plotting to buy Seymour Pierce....
...During the Seymour affair, Katherine had instilled in Elizabeth the importance of guarding her reputation....
...Wendell V. Graham, Washington DC, USA TF: In total about 24 UK stocks can be bought in the US....
...I have done it deliberately – in order to endure, in order not to feel – but it has killed V …must I kill her or kill myself?”...
...The Drawings of Rembrandt By Seymour Slive Thames & Hudson, £35 A connoisseur’s volume but also an eloquent introduction to Rembrandt’s genius as draughtsman....
...A shareholder derivative action in the Delaware Court of Chancery: Seymour v. Samuels, et al....
...Philip Seymour Hoffman gives hope of rescue, as the man on the CIA’s Afghan desk....
...knights and fair maidens woven in silver and gold are gracing the homes of the likes of Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen and the polo-playing publisher/art collector Peter Brant and his wife Stephanie Seymour...
...Fulton Paterson, of Seymour Pierce, added: ?It's been a plum for quite some time it's a very tasty bite. But the management should be kept in place, having made the brand number one in the UK.?...
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