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...He was inspired by the way musicians such as Pharrell Williams dressed, alongside the work of designers, such as Raf Simons....
...William Morris and the avid Indian miniature collector Howard Hodgkin hymned the Persian epic the Hamzanama....
...So why the beard beef between Prince William and Prince Harry? Harry described his own beard, which he started growing in 2013, as marking the arrival of “New Harry”....
...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....
...He assures us that the future king has a “very, very warm manner”; Charles’s only request was that he not be called “Prince”. “In America, he’s called ‘Prince’ all the time,” records Schwartz....
...While Prince Charles seemed to be no great moderniser, his two sons by Diana, William and Harry, returned a more popular image to the royal family, epitomised in 2011 by Prince William's Westminster Abbey...
...Prince William’s marriage to Kate Middleton, who became the Duchess of Cambridge, also provided the three who rank highest among her great-grandchildren....
...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....
...For a while, the arrival of Princes William and Harry, along with winning pictures of the growing boys, postponed the disintegration of the royal family idyll....
...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....
...Remember Prince William in his Union Jack-printed style?...
...In the foreground, Mutu’s red soil, wood-entwined figure “Sentinel V” presides like a grotesque goddess — part Earth mother, part vengeful spirit....
...From most others, a degree of style can be salvaged: slithery polyester soccer kit can be worn under a bomber jacket, the chunky V-neck cricketer’s jumper atop jeans....
...In roughly chronological order, William Cobbett, Woodward and Bernstein, Sir Harold Evans and Ryszard Kapuściński....
...Should we expect the V&A’s exhibition to explore this difficult territory?...
...For all the legacies of Christopher Wren and William Mulholland, neither underwent a rationalisation as total as Haussmann’s of Paris, or Pope Sixtus V’s of Rome....
...There was Crown Prince Rudolf, who shot his teenage mistress at the hunting lodge in the Vienna Woods before turning his gun on himself....
...And yet it is lonely at the top, particularly for a young king counselled by Machiavellian Spad William Gascoigne, played by Sean Harris....
...(SCMP, FT) Royal summit The Queen has summoned Prince Charles and his sons Prince William and Prince Harry for an emergency summit on Monday at the Sandringham estate, after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex...
...In 2011, she captured the nation’s attention after flicking a V-sign at a fellow Tory peer in the Lords chamber....
...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....
...One of the firm’s oldest surviving bells, which still hangs and is rung in the tower of St Clement Danes in the Strand, was cast in 1588, when William Shakespeare walked London’s streets....
...Prince William, heir to the British throne, is a helicopter pilot, who has been flying air ambulances....
...Victoria & Albert Museum Cromwell Road The V&A returns as the LDF’s official hub and host of the Global Design Forums — a series of talks, including Merel Bekking on “Brain Manufacturing”, which explores...
...Madonna wore an extraordinary lilac brocade suit for her tribute to Prince at the Billboard Music Awards....
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