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...Federico Marchetti, chair of King Charles III’s fashion task force, said he gifted the British monarch a toothpaste squeezer from Lorenzi....
...“Monarchy is no longer about the clash of steel,” says the constitutional expert Lord (Peter) Hennessy. “It’s a welfare monarchy....
...When they were built, their ground floors were used for storage and to stable horses. The affluent lived on the piano nobile, while their servants climbed endless stairs to the top floors....
...She points me to a second piece by Chillida, Escuchando a la piedra III (1996), nestling under olive trees behind the restaurant....
...Bison corrals have steel guardrails, of the kind that line highways, because the animals could simply rip a wooden fence apart with their horns....
...Presumably it is Death he awaits in this last chance saloon, not Pestilence: the making of Rough and Rowdy Ways predates the coronavirus pandemic....
...Milwaukee and Main Streets were crowded with shops, offices, and, at one point, a saloon for every 250 residents....
...At 86, says a long-serving Texan aide, “he’s still strong as a horse and kicks like a mule.”...
...You would need a heart of steel not to be touched by the soft, lovely pictures he took of Elizabeth as a small child....
...And, sure enough, in 1958, as a moneyed 23-year-old aristocrat with degrees in law and economics, Emilio III joined the family firm too....
...Horses or oxen pulling sleighs occupied the roads, and cows and geese wandered freely....
...Working cowboys still sometimes ride down Main Street to tie their horses up outside the local saloon, some packing long-barrelled .38s....
...It will tow a couple of horses or a 26ft yacht as if they were not there....
...or bound my horse for her favours” are entirely un-backed-up by conduct or temperament....
...Or as William III, the only Dutchman ever to rule England, ruefully reflected: “I clearly perceive that this people was not made for me, nor was I made for this people.”...
...The global jargon is already in place: Bollywood, the Bombay Boys, the Damien Hirst of Delhi as Subodh Gupta’s one-ton skull, sculpted from stainless steel pots and pans, leers out of the Palazzo Grassi...
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