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...“And I think the V is about a superhero.”...
...guns, which he keeps docked at his Newport Beach, California, home....
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...In reduced version, Donatello is at Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie (to January 8), then arrives at London’s V&A in February; both museums contribute key loans....
...It includes a lavish townhouse in Belgravia, London, purchased for £13.75mn in 2013, as well as a home and livery yard in Stratford-upon-Avon....
...They were educated at home which allowed them plenty of time for riding lessons, instilling a lifelong passion for horses. In 1936, King George V died and David became King Edward VIII....
...The photograph went on to be bought by institutions around the world, including the V&A in London....
...“Thousands of you . . . have had to leave your homes and be separated from your fathers and mothers....
...But was he the greatest father? No, probably not. And did he leave Terry in the lurch a bit? Yes. But surely we’re not about to cancel Godwin....
...Known as No 43, the former Hackney home of Ron Hitchins – the abstract sculptor, ceramicist, barrow-boy, one-time tailor and accomplished flamenco dancer – is a testament to a rich and colourful life that...
...Minik’s father soon died and the boy was put into the care of a staff member of the American Museum of Natural History....
...They hung out with boys after class, in no hurry to go home; many of them came from broken families. At about the same time, “V” was one of them, not in the south of France but in Paris....
...A woman and a small boy take the table next to ours. She casts surreptitious glances at Benedetti as if trying to place her in her mind. The boy swings his legs and complains loudly about the food....
...It’s relevant, too, that her father is a research scientist who lives, as she puts it fondly, in “an abstract world” and loves to write poetry and make music....
...From Clifford V. Johnson’s terrace, perched high in the Los Angeles hills, you can see for miles and miles — and on a clear day, even the downtown skyscrapers come into view....
...Warning: includes a lot of sons with a need to please powerful fathers (London Review of Books)....
...But, eventually, her father, Shamsum Quayyum Wazir, let her do some weightlifting, dressed as a boy and using the nickname “Genghis Khan” — and she won some competitions....
...It was to be the fight between the state-educated council house boy and the earnest, ecological old Etonian who grew up in a mansion....
...of artist Lord Leighton’s former home in Holland Park, now a museum....
...The son remembers opening a thin yellow box in his father’s study as a young boy, thinking it might contain chocolates....
...Lord Douro, the eldest son, did not remember an affectionate father: “He never even patted me on my shoulder when I was a boy, because he hated my mother”....
...After growing up in London and Folkstone, she left school at 16 to do a course in cookery and sewing because her father believed “women should know how to look after a home”....
...She is also a director of The National Archives, and a former trustee of the V&A and chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. She is, like her father, a wonderful broadcaster....
...His mother, a lawyer, and his father were “progressive, liberal people”, he adds, taking a bite of his bread....
...The son was privately educated but flunked his exams and did not go to university, relying on his father to get him into the music business. He gained something else from his father – decisiveness....
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