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...A Very Private School: A Memoir by Charles Spencer William Collins £25, 304 pages Henry Mance is the FT’s chief features writer Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café and subscribe to...
...Additional reporting by William Sandlund in Hong Kong...
...If you like a good tear-jerker — and Victorian readers certainly did — nothing surpasses the heart-rending and carefully heralded death of young Paul in Charles Dickens’ seventh novel, Dombey and Son....
...Prince William, next in line to the throne, swore allegiance to his father, sealed by a kiss on his cheek....
...“It is quite evident that a museum will . . . become useless to the world,” wrote William Henry Playfair, architect of the National Gallery of Scotland, in 1816, “unless its contents be arranged in a judicious...
...“William might be king, but the chances of George being king are rapidly shrinking.”...
...Five pageants punctuated the day-long procession: one which emphasised her as a peacemaker descending from the union of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York that had ended the Wars of the Roses; another which...
...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....
...An estimated 20mn people in the UK recently had a chance to see the Williams double act when he appeared as both performer and composer at the coronation of King Charles III....
...Then, after the rise and fall of an anti-slavery campaigner, we’re whisked into the world of painter William Henry Teale in letters to his friend Erasmus Nash....
...But one wonders how long it will be before someone adapts the text for King Charles....
...The following year, Charles Addams (of Addams Family fame) drew a man in a suit quaking as a giant’s hand reaches out from a subway entrance to beckon him with one crooked finger....
...(Charles “might” have squeezed his son’s shoulder.) Charles married Camilla despite his sons’ opposition. Harry accuses her of leaking private conversations to rehabilitate her image....
...and Giroux) Carlisle’s magisterial biography explores the many facets of George Eliot’s radical life and work, examining her loving and supportive relationship with her already married partner George Henry...
...The event benefits the Henry Street Settlement, a New York social-services non-profit....
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...It wouldn’t have happened in Henry VIII’s day. However, the Carolean accession of 2023 must reckon with the diminished tools of command at modern royalty’s disposal....
...If King Charles and Prince William were to watch the second half of Harry and Meghan’s Netflix documentary series — they have vowed not to — they would probably find little to make them hurl their porcelain...
...negative-yielding long-duration bonds at the worst time and now they are facing major unrealised losses on the balance sheet and the market is questioning whether Europe could see the same issue as the US,” said Charles-Henry...
...Henry VIII loved Royal Tennis but had his servants do the hard work of hitting his first shot, hence it is called a “service”....
...Despite the PR blitz, Charles has been overshadowed at each stage of his life — by his mother, by Diana and, most recently, by his sons, William and Harry....
...“Sales were enormous,” says managing director Henry Deakin. “We built part of the factory [in Birmingham] on the back of it.”...
...The Premier League and the English Football Association, whose president is Prince William, called off the weekend’s football, down to grassroots level....
...It is invigorated by the memory of Anthony Bourdain, described in the journalist Charles Leerhsen’s new tell-all biography as “a crash test dummy extraordinaire”....
...It has allowed the Bodleian to hire a curator of photography for the very first time, who will be able to marshal a huge and disparate holding that ranges from William Henry Fox Talbot’s personal archive...
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