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... the results, believes JAMIE DOUGLAS-HOME T HE defection ofthe Derby winner, Authorized, may have robbed Saturday's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes of its glitter, but the Ascot Group 1 is still a fascinating race. Dylan Thomas has finished runner-up ...
... Highlights include two purple-silk \·elver coronation robes with il·orv lace dresses beneath, which were worn by 11-year-old Princess Elizabeth and sel·en-vear-old Princess Margaret when their father was crollned George VI. There is a white muslin dress worn ...
... marvellous horse. Aureole was bred by George VI and chased E&’“fififl&:’:@ ;%q*’?}fi??fl The Queen also had a soft spot for home Sir Gordon Richards’s mount, Pinza, in ) ' the enigmatic Aurcole (see box), who the Derby in Coronation Year. Although he TR . B w ended ...
... Isle of Bute wool, the perfect background for such sumptuous objects as the Sévres porcelain vase, one of a pair given to George VI The columns of the Doric order, the the mid 18th century. The open roof of most solemn of the ancient Greek orders, ~ Simpson’s ...
... hailed as a true champion. The disappointing run of the Derby fourth, Norse Dancer, in the mile-and-a-quarter T HE King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes at Ascot on Saturday, July 26, looks like being the race of the season and wiLl show if ...
... ATURDAY'S Food Island Champion Stakes at Leopardstown will be S ATURDAY'S land at the sternest test the ltish Derby and King George VI winner, Alamshar, has ever faced. If the Aga Khan's talented colt beat this top-class field, he will prove that he is the ...
... recalled how her husband, ambassador Joseph Kennedy, reacted with the compliment: 'You're a real knock-out!' The coronation of George VI saw jewellers producing the most up-to-date designs in semi-precious stones in the most modern cuts, mounted in abstract ...
... rooms will sparkle with Important Jewellery, including the dazzling diamond-and-emerald Harcourt Tiara, worn to the coronations ofboth George VI and the present Queen, expected to realize between £300,000 and £400,000. Hard on the heels of that sale is the ...
... What do you think? MH 34 COUNTRY LIFE · AUGUST 3, 2006 solely during removal of red impos- MH TOWN e Polo: England win the Coronation Cup for the first time in three years, see page 84. View of the week NEWS IN BRIEF e Apprentice: The Prince ofWales is looking ...
... €for eh er 1762 and designed by Sir William Coronation since. Chambers. It cost £7,562 4s 3d. 7. George IV had the roof raised so . 2. It was first used for the State he could sit upright in it wearing coronation the Opening of Parliament on his new crown ...
... the results, believes JAMIE DOUGLAS-HOME T HE defection ofthe Derby winner, Authorized, may have robbed Saturday's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes of its glitter, but the Ascot Group 1 is still a fascinating race. Dylan Thomas has finished runner-up ...
... the celebrated British classical composer Sir William Walton, whose imperial music was played at both the Coronation of the Queen and George VI, makes us stop. We halt at a magnificent tree with broad fanlike leaves which stands in line with a tinkling ...