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... ip between:. Queen Victoria and her Scottish sérvant John Brown, who lifted the monarch's spirits after the death .of Prince Albert. Judi Dench and Billy Connolly fit their roles perfectly, with the latter a revelation. Waiting To Exhale - (BBC 2 10:10pm) ...

Published: Monday 03 January 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 158 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Tortuous pathto the Dome

... popular success when opened to the public. As Nicolson explains, the Dome had even more tangled and chequered origins than Prince Albert's Victorian pomp brainchild or the Festival trade show of half a century ago. He writes that without the Millennium Commission ...

Published: Monday 03 January 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 740 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

RADIO

... episode, Primus (Cochrane) is determined to save the firm from financial ruin and comes up with an eccentric plan involving Prince Albert. (Radio 4, 11:30am) ...

Published: Friday 07 January 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 179 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

The giants of Ireland’s theatre were standing on the shoulders of Dion Boucicault, says Owen Dudley Edwards ..

... Victorian theatre from a pickpockets' and prostitutes’ trap - also a fire-trap - into Queen Victoria's favourite resort (until Prince Albert’s death plunged her into noisy seclusion): Victoria even sketched Boucicault in performance. He went in for et:’msion and ...

Published: Tuesday 07 March 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 575 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

No visit to the area would be complete without spending some time in Perth itself. Picture: John/Lindsay

... standing stones. And at the eastern end of the loch, on the road to Kinloch Rannoch, is the spot where Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were “transported into ecstasies” by the view. Midway between Perth and Pitlochry, at Dunkeld, is the Loch of Lowes visitor ...

Published: Saturday 25 March 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 258 | Page: 69 | Tags: none

)ress

... almost half a million pounds. : Morrison built up his wealth by ingeni yrnering the market on black crepe at the time of Prince Albert’s funeral, and the family fortune has gro nsiderably since that time — itnOw stands atapproximately SAOmilligme | : elevated ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1057 | Page: 65 | Tags: none

Should we be told it’s going to be a boy?

... amateur sleuths have had their knickers in a twist ever since. Personally, | rather like the idea that the Ripper was Prince Albert Edward, Duke of Clarence, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII. A sexual sadist, he was dying of syphilis ...

Published: Thursday 20 April 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1146 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

e R Chelsea Flower Show Blooms with a view

... best gardening practices, new techniques and exciting new plants for gardeners to try at home. Among its supporters were Prince Albert, who was president during Victoria's reign and staged garden festivals across London and at the show's ‘permanent gardens ...

Published: Thursday 25 May 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 533 | Page: 39 | Tags: none

NOW AND THEN 30 MAY

... 30 MAY 1842: An attempt was made on the life of Queen Victoria as she was driving down Constitution Hill, London, with Prince Albert. The would-be assassin was John Francis. 1946: The Minister of Food for the post-war Labour Government, John Strachey, ...

Published: Tuesday 30 May 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 68 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Coulthard leaps into title contention John McMillan In Monte Carlo

... uncomfortable last night so I had some pills. “Having a hangover is going to be/my big%cst worry tomorrow. | was chatting to Prince Albert a couple of weeks ago and told him I hoped Iwo die sittin(f next to him at the grand prix dinner tonight. . “I will be ...

Published: Monday 05 June 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1349 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

Baskeaisc: On; vlsltof-.t Expo 2000 finds comfort in a giant wicker chair, but ticketing glitches kept many away

... on Wednesday. Problems aside, the latest Expo in a line stretching back to the Great Exhibition of 1851, when England's Prince Albert conceived the idea as a platform to display the technological prowess of the British Empire, will undoubtedly be a success ...

Published: Tuesday 06 June 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 449 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

' . % ) Jim Gilchrist on the extraordinary work of a spurned man HE ROYAL Crimean Hero Tablecover -

... Victoria and Prince Albert and a host of lesser characters, ranging from notable actors to Newhaven fishwives and copies from the popular etchings of ‘Walter Geikie? The embroidered (detail is positively astigmatisminducing - Prince Albert’s .medals and ...

Published: Thursday 08 June 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 556 | Page: 16 | Tags: none