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...British Land has appointed William Rucker as chair designate. He was most recently chair of Lazard in the UK....
...While Prince Charles seemed to be no great moderniser, his two sons by Diana, William and Harry, returned a more popular image to the royal family, epitomised in 2011 by Prince William's Westminster Abbey...
...Lady Diana Spencer, who married Prince Charles in 1981 to become Princess of Wales, would quickly become an international celebrity who outshone her husband and mother-in-law....
...The centrepiece is the wonderful rhythmic complex that is Horse Guards, started by William Kent and finished by Wright, Robinson and Vardy in the 1750s....
...The centuries-old London house has dressed Princes Charles, William and Harry over the decades, and is the place to go for a properly cut set of tails and trousers....
...Crossword 16,425: Bill Stewart, Leicester; R Harpur, Herefordshire; Martyn Abbott, Lincolnshire Polymath 1,065: P Johnson, Berwickshire Crossword 16,419: Paul Rock, Walden, England; James Simpson, France; Hugh...
...Our house was built in 1889 by the heir to a steam-locomotive fortune, William Burnham of Philadelphia: all lathed cypress panelling, no expense spared....
...Michael Spencer: Way out Michael Spencer was in fine form on Tuesday as he hosted another of his famous (part-liquid) lunches at the markets business he has run, in various guises, for the past 32 years...
...An elaborate tile panel designed by William De Morgan for the saloon of the Sutlej, a P&O liner serving India and the Far East, will be among the V&A’s exhibits....
...He was also a close friend of the royal family; his widow, Natalia, is a godmother to the Prince William and his only son Hugh, is Prince George’s youngest godfather....
...At Diana’s funeral, Charles Spencer, the princess’s brother, issued a rebuke to the Royal Family, warning that her sons must not be suffocated “by duty and tradition”....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Most unlikely....
...Peter Spencer, professor of economics, University of York I expect CPI inflation to peak just below 3% next autumn....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Open question. Depends if he injects a major fiscal stimulus....
...Neil Williams, group chief economist, Hermes Investment Management Not much change....
...Professor Trevor Williams, visiting professor, University of Derby Growth to slow to 1.5% or less....
...William Hague and his wife Ffion chattered at the Goldman Sachs stand and elsewhere admired the daffodils....
...Peter Spencer, professor of economics, University of York More pessimistic than 12 months ago I’m more pessimistic than 12 months ago....
...George V is described as “The Unexpected King”....
...The original directors of Swiss Rock Ventures included Edward William Parladorio — a solicitor who has advised celebrity clients such as Ulrika Jonsson, Luciano Pavarotti and Hugh Grant — and former racing...
...Gareth Williams SkyScanner British Williams and two friends founded Skyscanner, the flight-comparison website, in 2001, after struggling to find cheap travel deals online....
...Butterfield tells us that the first winner of the prize, Thomas William Allies, is best remembered for this precocious achievement; nothing in his subsequent career matched it....
...One way to picture the economic impact of a Brexit may be the shape of a letter ‘V’ or a ‘tick’....
...Grace, daughter of his namesake third son Hugh (the other offspring being Nicholas and William), was flower girl when, 30 years on, the new Duke of Cambridge married Kate Middleton....
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