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...There were the executioners’ “trade signs” of dubious provenance competing for attention with a fine silk shirt that Charles I possibly wore to the scaffold....
...In the early 1920s, Marie-Laure de Noailles and her husband Charles set about creating a residence among the ruins of an ancient castle in Hyères, south-east France....
...In the 1860s, the widowed Queen Victoria’s prolonged period of mourning for Prince Albert led to the most serious stirring of republican sentiment since the execution of Charles I....
...Albert died in 1861. In 1897, the queen still forbade her maids of honour from wearing mauve (too close to a cheerful pink)....
...The writer is director of the Victoria and Albert Museum and a former MP The Palace of Westminster was always conceived as a work of art....
...Charles Perrault’s 1697 tale was first balletised 1813, and there have been countless readings ever since by choreographers keen to capitalise on the feelgood tale of a grubby drudge given a prince-winning...
...Palais de la Découverte, to Albert Thomas....
...A further item — Roxanna Panufnik’s Coronation Sanctus — harked back to the coronation of King Charles III in May....
...In the 19th century, the Harvard professor Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard lauded the rejuvenating effects of injecting oneself with crushed animal testes; while the effects were entirely make-believe, his...
...‘Bust’ | Jails in England and Wales are “bust” of space and may run out of places to house offenders this week, the leader of Britain’s prison governors has warned, the Telegraph’s Charles Hymas reports....
...The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters by Benjamin Moser, Allen Lane £30, 400 pages Jerry Brotton is the author of ‘The Sale of the Late King’s Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection’...
...After that interregnum, the only period in modern British history when republicanism became a genuine threat were the years of Victoria’s seclusion following Prince Albert’s death....
...BAE Systems’ Charles Woodburn, and BP’s Bernard Looney were paid more than £10mn each, as was Albert Manifold, boss of CRH, which is moving its listing to the US....
...“By the 1880s there were huge numbers of commemoratives manufactured,” says Paul Greenhalgh, historian and former deputy keeper of ceramics at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London....
...Fewer still could number King Charles III among their client list....
...Made in Baroda, Gujarat, in the early 1980s as pogroms against Muslims engulfed his home state, the artist’s anguished wake-up call has hung largely unseen in a backroom of the Victoria and Albert Museum...
...He performed at the Royal Albert Hall, captivating smaller audiences at clubs like the Bag O’Nails....
...Jay Gatsby, Albert Einstein, Frodo Baggins, John Pierpont Morgan, Michael Jordan, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffett, Michael Milken, Bernard Madoff, Charles Ponzi — the list of people...
...The late Queen often recorded Christmas speeches at Windsor Castle or Buckingham Palace, but also broadcast from other locations ranging from Sandringham to the Royal Albert Hall....
...Described by Blanchard as “opera in jazz”, this powerful adaptation of Charles M Blow’s painful coming-of-age memoir returns with bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as Charles....
...Albert Ayler: Revelations: The Complete ORTF 1970 Fondation Maeght Recordings Elemental Music The outrageous sonic effects that Albert Ayler conjured from tenor sax have never been matched....
...Oligarchs can also shape opinion by funding media, think-tanks and universities (Charles Koch’s preferred method) and through platforms such as Facebook....
...I love outsider art, and photographer and writer Albert Grøndahl captured the work beautifully....
...“She gave young women a new visual language, and the space to be themselves,” says Jenny Lister, co-curator of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s 2019-2020 Mary Quant exhibition....
...“The IRA is only a globally positive thing if what it does is drive down the cost of green tech,” said Charles Kenny, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development....
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