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Showing posts with label King Edward VII. Show all posts
Showing posts with label King Edward VII. Show all posts
Thursday, August 30, 2012

The Evening Courts again

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When at length, after the end of the Great War, evening Courts resumed at Buckingham Palace a number of reforms were wisely institut...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

The Evening Courts

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Following King Edward and Queen Alexandra’s famously glittering evening courts at Buckingham Palace it was customary for The Times new...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

Imperious tone

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The other day a thoughtful senior colleague gave me this photograph. I fancy it was presented to him in turn by a person who spotted the sig...
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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Vale Earl and Countess of Hopetoun

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It was a consequence of accession of King Edward VII in 1901 that for the first time in several generations a king and queen consort, crowne...
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Angus Trumble will begin work as Director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia on February 10, 2014. He has been Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, since May 2003. Angus is the author of a number of books, including A Brief History of the Smile and The Finger: A Handbook, which has lately been published in New York by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, in London by Yale University Press, and by Melbourne University Publishing. He is an occasional contributor to the Burlington Magazine, Apollo, and a more regular one to The Times Literary Supplement, the Australian Book Review, and Esopus Magazine.
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