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...“And I remember Spain,” wrote the Irish poet Louis MacNeice, the “tripper” in the rain in 1938 recalling “sherry, shellfish, omelettes . . . fretted stone the Moor/Had chiselled for effects of sun and shadow...
...“Camilla has always been sexual and emotional comfort food for the Prince of Wales,” she writes. Harry is “a Flashman prince who rarely cracked a book”....
...Wonder Woman, who has come as her alter ego Diana Prince, keeps glancing at the attic....
...It took me a few seconds to realise that the random man (Matthew Cottle) is meant to be Prince Edward....
...Perhaps they were badly conflicted; on the one hand, uncomfortable associations with a discredited Duke, on the other, sherry at Sandringham....
...Big-game hunters will vie for the 1984 sherry cask from Karuizawa (£7,400/ bottle), a closed distillery that regularly achieves record-breaking prices on the secondary market....
...Coiffeur Le Prince, Rue du Prince 10, 1204 Geneva (+4122-311 4250). Laure Garsault, +4179-615 8799....
...A couple of armchairs were arranged at right angles as if for a tutorial; nearby stood a dark-wood drinks table, with sherry, port and a single malt....
...Then came a sherry fish and a second, and more. My count was still zero — but dinner was secure....
...We move from tea to Kümmel, in sherry glasses, the tipple of Tolstoy’s Prince Nesvitsky. On the wall, there are uniforms of the family Hussar regiment....
...Attempts by Chinese companies at Disney-style transformations — from unloved industrial frogs to handsome media princes in the eyes of investors — have been dealt a blow by new regulations aimed at curbing...
...The road has always existed, but in 2015 the North Highland Initiative, set up by Prince Charles to boost the economy here at the northern edges, branded and marketed it....
...Today, some distillers such as Venezuela’s Santa Teresa, use a fractional blending and ageing system called solera, originally used for sherry....
...The tea costs C$4 more than the breakfast because it includes a glass of sparkling wine or sherry, plus an “exclusive” tea box made specially for the event....
...I add a bit of chilli sherry and, at the last minute, when heated through, add sesame oil and cook for 2-3 minutes longer....
...In Ian Hislop’s Changing of the Bard (BBC4, Saturday) the satirist cruelly brought up the ode Motion wrote to celebrate the marriage of Prince Edward to Sophie Rhys-Jones....
...It was a programme as amiable as its presenter, but you wondered what the Prince of Lampedusa, an unworldly bibliophile, would have made of it (not that it matters)....
...In Hamlet we wonder whether the Prince is disturbed; in Present Laughter, we wonder whether Noel Coward’s alter ego Garry Essendine is acting....
...In May 1975, Juan Carlos – then prince of Spain – presented Don Alvaro with the Golden Horse trophy in Jerez, in recognition of his dedication to and work with horses....
...The hunt would meet there too, he says, for a warming glass of sherry before setting off. It is a melancholy business, hearing these sad tales....
...In the film of Irvine Welsh’s novel, a young Ewan McGregor sprints through the festival-goers on Princes Street, two coppers in pursuit....
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