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...EU ombudsman O’Reilly predicts that the EU would face “the same difficulties”....
...But the most amusing gift I ever received was a wedding present when I married Prince Alfonso von Hohenlohe in 1955....
...Princess Ira von Fürstenberg, designerSans Départir by Diane de Beauvau-Craon I loved this memoir....
...One 34-year-old voter, who asked not to be named, tried the “Wahl-O-Mat”, a website to help voters match to a party, which suggested he voted Green. Still, he feels reluctant....
...Our award-winning columnist Sarah O’Connor can be relied upon to bring us a different perspective....
...He’d made his first tape only two years earlier, in the Brazilian Amazon, where he’d gone to look for so-called owl monkeys....
...I’d do a yoga practice at four or five o’clock in the morning. But a little whiskey, yes. It’s cold, and a little snort will help you.” The Nova Scotia shoot was short but gruelling....
...I knew the Sinéad O’Connor version, but I didn’t know he wrote it. The other day I came across this YouTube video of him singing it....
...After a phone call to headquarters, the head of the German general staff himself, General Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, arrived to resolve the situation....
...At home he is known as “Scholz-o-mat” for his robotic, deadpan delivery....
...“I was the whole Famous Five, including the dog, or Maria von Trapp escaping the Nazis,” she says, laughing. “I wasn’t thinking in terms of writing, though....
...Sergei Eisenstein, Josef von Sternberg and Stanley Kubrick are the great masters....
...And more than that, he’d have loved the money. Photographs: Jennifer Von Holstein and the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat...
...I’d love to own one of his painted mannequins....
...This turbulent international scene of ours is starting to resemble one we thought we’d left behind a long time ago. President Donald Trump once professed to be against foreign entanglements....
...Clive Cookson is the FT’s science editor Photographs: Bettina von Zwehl; Getty...
...At 18 I thought I was all grown-up but, looking back, even though I’d clocked a few make-up tricks, and could look interested at a dinner table, I knew very little about anything....
...The ENO is a showcase for local talent and theatrical innovation, with the current hit run of Richard Jones’s production of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg just the latest example in a long string...
...Doherty John O’Doherty, the 2004 winner of the Nico Colchester fellowship, was born in 1978 in Dublin....
...When I read Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s short book, The Lord Chandos Letter, I was knocked for six....
...I’d hold gold, physically, via a good exchange-traded product or less directly via some gold mining equities....
...Diane von Fürstenberg Fashion designer and businesswoman What are your plans for the summer? Sailing with my family and friends on our boat in the Mediterranean....
...Don’t expect good PC behaviour from von Trier....
...Another, “Wimbledon”, notes: “The guff o’ Eton in the commentator’s breath/‘Thet woz eh maavellous beck-hend by Bawg [Borg].’”...
...Whelton was 18 years old when he started it in 2011 in Cork, after he was besieged with requests for coding classes from younger kids who’d seen him hack an iPod Nano....
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