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...Castle Trust Bank, owned by US private equity group JC Flowers, is another major player in the UK healthcare loan sector....
...A letter from her early days in Bolton Castle was in the autograph collection of Robert Schuman, the former French foreign minister who, as founder of the European coal and steel community, is seen as one...
...“Inside, it had something of Walter Sickert’s old music hall paintings.”...
...Reserve publishes the Beige Book Results: ABB Q3, Abbott Laboratories Q3, Alcoa Q3, ASML Q3, Barratt Developments trading update and AGM, BHP Group operational review, Citizens Financial Group Q3, Crown Castle...
...It now hangs dramatically opposite conceptualist photographer Thomas Struth’s “Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Queen Elizabeth II” (2011) in a darkly receding Windsor Castle drawing room — a tour de...
...It’s an idyllic place, with a ruined castle on an island in the centre of the lake....
...Jacinda Ardern, prime minister of New Zealand, Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese, Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro, Italy’s president Sergio Mattarella and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, president of...
...“The house was built out of the stones of a castle that burned down in the 18th century,” says Ruiz-Picasso’s wife, the gallerist Almine Rech....
...Housed in a 19th-century listed mansion that stretches skyward into spires, the Grisebach auction house gives off the disquieting charm of a German fairytale castle....
...According to Try, Walter Gropius and Maxwell Fry drew up plans for sleek Modernist buildings — too radical for the local planning authorities....
...He was passionate about Scottish culture and history, from Sir Walter Scott to the Glasgow aesthetic movement, populating his private collection at home in Edinburgh and at Pitcullo Castle, a restored rural...
...The villages include North Wraxall, Yatton Keynell and Castle Combe. “Over half our buyers are from outside the area and are typically looking for a five-bedroom home for £1.2mn-£2mn,” he says....
...Facing defeat, earlier Scotts had looked to their swords, but Walter found redemption in his pen. He begged his creditors not to bankrupt him....
...In 1867, Walter Bagehot’s The English Constitution defined the value of monarchy as being intelligible to ordinary people, as well as the conductor of august ceremony and the embodiment of an ideal family...
...In 1937, both artists contributed to “Circle”, a survey of constructivist art, which saw Hepworth’s essay illustrated by photographs of Stonehenge by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius....
...“But Habeck is atypical,” wrote Walter Grünzweig, a professor of literature at Dortmund Technical University, in the European Review of Books....
.../ From Jacqueline Castles, London W2, UK...
...Olive Baillie’s fabulous wealth was lavished on Leeds Castle....
...And most people I know have small homes with small rooms, and they don’t live in castles and palaces,” she has said about her work....
...He hopes that its Cabernet Franc grapes will produce 15,000 bottles a year to supply Carlowrie Castle in Edinburgh, the mansion that he owns and runs as a hotel....
...It is a cool November evening, and the chief executive of Walt Disney is settling in to watch the nightly fireworks high above Sleeping Beauty Castle....
...The sprawling estate became the site of his lifelong obsession: the Biltmore, a 250-room, four-storey French Renaissance-style castle, inspired by the châteaux of the Loire Valley, which he designed with...
...“Don’t try to mask the dark side,” Ruskin counselled Turner’s first biographer Walter Thornbury....
...In advance of the digitisation that will make 20,000 items available to the general public, including letters, journals and photographs, David sifts the contents of the Royal archive at Windsor Castle....
...By 1936 Walter Gropius, the founder of the influential design school, was in the capital and had been joined by his fellow Bauhaus masters László Moholy-Nagy and Marcel Breuer....
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