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...Travis & Emery, 17 Cecil Court, London WC2; travis-and-emery.com...
...Cecil Beaton, the great society photographer, used all sorts of tricks to flatter his subjects after replacing what he called “hazardous candid camera shots”....
...In 2018, grime icon Wiley, was awarded an MBE by Prince William. Last year, former US president Barack Obama listed tracks from Stormzy, Dave and Central Cee on his annual playlist....
...Bloodlines, designed by Tristram, depicts peasants tilling a field alongside caricatures of ladies and gents who converse in speech bubbles with words plucked from William Barnes, the 19th-century poet....
...It was in 2017, while Phoebe was painting the Cholmondeley children in William Kent’s Palladian interior, the great Stone Hall, that the idea for the exhibition began to unfurl....
...Glance at almost any photograph of the late Queen Mother and there he is: William Tallon, more faithful than a shadow....
...Jeffrey’s tartan stretches along the back of a House of Hackney sofa covered in a William Morris textile, in front of a wall full of antique Punch and Judy puppets, which give the room its name....
...He talks about buying “a Regency/William IV Mahogany Four-Poster bed (As Found)”, as the auction house’s catalogue described it....
...At five, the first movie he sees is Cecil B DeMille’s lurid The Greatest Show on Earth; it leaves part of him forever petrified....
...William Cecil, Elizabeth’s chief adviser, saw Mary as a threat to his Protestant aims for England, and put a stop to further plans....
...Following a brief first marriage, she wedded William McCormick Blair Jr, the former US ambassador to Denmark, in 1961....
...Wonnacott is lyrical, comic, playing the ornately gilded surrounding against contemporary dress and informality — lanky William, Harry clambering over a sofa....
...For pianist Angelica Sanchez, an angular rhythmic strand stretching from Duke Ellington to Cecil Taylor figures prominently; both pianist/composers are name-checked here along with Mary Lou Williams, whose...
...Cecil Beaton photographed the royal family from 1939 to 1979, the year before his death....
...The song’s sickening violence would have been familiar to the Edwardian folk-song researchers who worked under the likes of the composer-collector Cecil Sharp, Percy Grainger and Gustav Holst....
...The chef during my visit was Anna Williams. While she set up the food, there was no shouting or tension in the kitchen....
...diarist, several books on French artist couple Les Lalanne – “I’m the world expert on them, bizarrely enough” – as well as a formative acting job, as the chubby-cheeked child star of the 1970s TV series Just William...
...When we last speak, Pharrell Williams has just been appointed creative director of menswear at Louis Vuitton....
...is poet and actress Greta Bellamacina, painted by Isabella Watling, one of Britain’s leading portrait artists – who has exhibited at the BP Portrait Award and is a teacher at the prestigious Charles H Cecil...
...At the beginning of the 1980s, Piggott took up the offer to ride as stable jockey to Henry Cecil. This meant a return to Warren Place, where Cecil had taken over from Murless, his father-in-law....
...First came Picnic, a 1955 adaptation of the William Inge play about a small town atwitter over a ruggedly handsome visitor, which starred William Holden, Kim Novak and Rosalind Russell....
...George Taubman Goldie, the secretive brains behind the RNC, was a “corporate terrorist”, in the mould of Cecil Rhodes....
...It was Gieves that made the RAF uniform worn by the future George VI on his wedding day, ditto the famous “boat cape” in which the Queen was photographed by Cecil Beaton in 1968....
...They have revealed deep institutional flaws at Christ Church, which was founded by Cardinal Wolsey in 1525 and whose alumni have included John Locke, William Gladstone and the creator of Alice in Wonderland...
...The Duke of Edinburgh performed an underrated service as “the only iconoclastic voice” who could tell the Queen the truth, she argues, adding that she thinks Prince William has suffered from not having his...
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