Hints and tips:
...Patterson points to a pewter beaker from the 1690s engraved with wrigglework portraits of William III and Mary II that sold at Christie’s for £14,400....
...William Morris and the avid Indian miniature collector Howard Hodgkin hymned the Persian epic the Hamzanama....
...The highest is a late-17th century portrait plate of William III in English Delft (£1,400-£1,800); among the lowest is an 1831 jug featuring a portrait of William IV (£30-£50)....
...Given how enduring the list is, my money is on the future William V finding the attrition rate among the UK top 10 still remaining low by the time he succeeds his father Charles III....
...the piece is reset with the Cullinan III, IV and V diamonds from Queen Elizabeth II’s jewellery collection....
...to Bob “Chip” Roberts IV and Bill “Scooter” Williams V....
...The King referred to his eldest son, Prince William, in his speech, saying that “the prince and princess of Wales” had recently made a successful public visit to Wales....
...King Charles III, then Prince of Wales, grins in a carefree way not seen much in the five decades since....
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...‘Richard III’, Stratford-upon-Avon, June 23-October 8, rsc.org.uk...
...Once successful for his industrial and railway work, only a few small buildings survive, including his green shelters for cab drivers — there is one rather battered version outside the V&A....
...The King continues to dispute claims that he ordered the killing of the rightful monarch Edward V and his younger brother Richard, then imprisoned in the Tower of London....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...They range from his earliest, “I Lost My Little Girl”, written when he was 14, to last year’s album McCartney III, released when he was 78....
...“If I were King of Lisbon, I would soon rule over the whole world,” said Charles V of Portugal’s 16th-century capital....
...Once Charles V was elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, the Habsburg challenge became far more considerable....
...Foppish Charles II, frightened James II and the more politically restricted courts of William III and Anne could not attract such foreign talents, and there was as yet no native school....
...The operator that still has the most upside is William Hill, in our view (Buy, 230p TP)....
...distribution centres, iv) warehouse efficiencies; and v) non-strategic cost savings....
...(iii) Capital allocation support as WPP could reinstate the remaining £620 mn buyback (8% of current market cap) and the 60p dividend (implying 9.7% dividend yield) earlier than we expect, underpinned by...
...There’s also the pending Williams Review of the UK rail industry....
...(iii) Such a property wealth tax would cause a large industry of tax avoidance....
...The physical, slapstick-heavy parts of Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Dogberry in Much Ado were written specifically for William Kemp, the greatest comedian of the day....
...William, Second Earl of Craven, made tree studies close to home on his estate, Ashdown Park, using a custom-built horse-drawn van that acted as both a camera and a darkroom....
...This was especially hard on the actress Dorothea Jordan, who had borne the Duke of Clarence, later King William IV, no fewer than 10 illegitimate FitzClarences....
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