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...While attending a major funeral was costly (more than £1,000 in today’s currency for a restricted view of the crimson-covered coffins containing George IV’s 21-year-old daughter Princess Charlotte and her...
...Deakin & Francis has used this emblem for one of its eight designs for sterling silver commemorative cufflinks....
...When we last speak, Pharrell Williams has just been appointed creative director of menswear at Louis Vuitton....
...January sees publication of Ramachandra Guha’s Rebels Against the Raj (William Collins, January), the story of the foreign fighters who joined the struggle against the Raj....
...Another recently digitised recording preserves the voice of Sir Francis Chichester from his yacht Gipsy Moth IV during his 1966-67 circumnavigation of the globe, speaking by radio to his wife, Lady Sheila...
...Norway for now), iii) no deal or iv) remain....
...The most notable anniversary for those who want to pay respect to past cultural glories is the celebration of William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday....
...His family, however, reigned on, in the short, stout and ruddy figure of his brother, William IV....
...Walsh wrote that the cyclist was taking drugs to win his Tours de France. Armstrong sued and won a large payout. But with Armstrong’s recent exposure, Walsh is vindicated....
...MP and Lucia Hunt David Joseph and Ruth Joseph Justin King and Claire King Lt General Sir Graeme Lamb David Laws MP Sir Terry Leahy and Lady Alison Leahy Oliver Letwin MP Theresa May MP and Philip May Francis...
...In 1822 Scott went further, stage-managing a splashy pageant for George IV (who wore an extra large kilt over his fleshy legs) in an identification of Scotland with the bagpipes and tartan from which it...
...www.morphets.co.uk iv Occasional table French Although the maker is now lost to anonymity, this occasional table is very much in the style of the French designer and metalworker Edgar-William Brandt (...
...William Hazlitt, before devoting himself full-time to writing, painted a portrait of Charles Lamb dressed as Velázquez’s “Philip IV”....
...Francis Egerton, former opera singer. Robert Fiddaman, for services to agriculture. Robert Ford, chairman, Ford Component Manufacturing, and chairman, South Tyneside Enterprise Partnership....
...This view recurred in the 1980s, when British scientists Francis Crick (co-discover of the DNA double helix) and Graeme Mitchison proposed that REM sleep was the brain’s way of discarding unwanted memory...
...In two never-to-be-repeated races in the tricky waters of the Solent, off the northern shore of the Isle of Wight, Lively Lady was pitted against Sir Francis Chichester’s sleek 53 foot ketch Gypsy Moth IV...
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