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...Domaine Chandon, Opus One and Dominus are long-standing Napa wineries with French owners or co-owners, respectively Moët-Hennessy, Baron Philippe de Rothschild and Christian Moueix....
...Guests included Naomi Campbell, Dame Joan Collins, Hugh Grant and John Travolta, with entertainment by Robbie Williams....
...Ryan Kelley, portfolio manager of the Hennessy Gas Utility Fund, said: “The actual financial hit for a complete nationwide ban on natural gas stoves is very small, and not really a huge issue....
...Charles’s line already has two putative kings — his son William and his grandson George. Not a queen to reign in sight....
...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....
...A James Siena painting, Ssonsunurrhth, hangs in the library, alongside a sculpture, Bull, by William Byl....
...According to officials with knowledge of the conversation, Prince William at first resisted losing one of his most trusted confidants, due to his own reliance on Case....
...Kesewa Hennessy asks if 2020 is finally the year of the introvert, benefiting those who find offices noisy and conflict-filled....
...said Joan Williams, a University of California law professor. “The employer should bend over backwards to make sure that the woman’s career is not disadvantaged.”...
...Chris Patten is a former chairman of the Conservative party For the Record , by David Cameron, William Collins, RRP£25, 732 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...The house itself was detached and in the style of William Morris. I know that my parents bought it in the early 1950s for £4,000....
...Additional reporting by Kesewa Hennessy...
..., Rebecca Phillips, Lydia Morrell, Gemma Williams Explore the North American Innovative Lawyers 2017 tables FT 25 Most Innovative Law Firms and Legal Service Providers Accessing New Markets and Capital...
...The historical sweep Lord (Peter) Hennessy, the historian, made another speech that is worth reading in full....
...LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton has sold fashion house Donna Karan International for an enterprise value of $650m, in a rare divestment for the French luxury group....
...I soon found the high-powered company in the FT’s canteen highly convivial, including, as it did, a youthful Shirley Williams, an already sonorous William Rees-Mogg, a future chancellor of the exchequer,...
...William Hague is a man with a rich intellectual hinterland and a dry sense of humour....
...Martin Rees, the astronomer royal, was chairman of a five-strong judging panel which also included the classicist Mary Beard and the historian Peter Hennessy....
...She was replaced by William Shawcross, a Tory supporter, and late last year Patricia Hodgson, a former Tory candidate, was confirmed as new head of the communications watchdog Ofcom....
...When William Hague, UK foreign secretary, arrived in January as the most senior British official to visit since then-foreign secretary Anthony Eden in 1955, he drew a fraction of the interest generated by...
...Peter Hennessy, constitutional historian and journalist, and now Lord Hennessy (hey, you swiped my peerage!), marvels at the “weapons-grade gossip”....
...“There’s enough uncertainty in the world at the moment,” says Hennessy. “People are not in the market for any more anxiety.” And so we should wish William and Kate a happy wedding day....
...There’s a whole lot of them: Charlie Higgins, Joyce, Heaney, Angela Carter, William Faulkner, Roddy Doyle – a great mate of mine – and Borges....
...On Wednesday, at a dinner to celebrate the winner of this year’s Moet Hennessy-PAD London Prize, the architect was made a Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France’s highest honour....
...This would be the loss of an enormous check.“ William Hague defended the move....
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