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Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
... carbuncle”. He would be the first royal to appear as a witness in court since the future Edward VII gave evidence in a gambling case in 1890. In 2002 the Princess Royal, Charles’s sister, appeared in court to be fined £500 by magistrates after one of her dogs attacked two children. The Candys, through Christian Candy’s CPC Group, are seeking a declaration that Qatari Diar, the Gulf state’s...
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Permanent style (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... come with quotes, anecdotes and supporting evidence. I’d heard most of the stories about Edward VII, for example, but I didn’t know this quote from German Chancellor, Prince von Bulow: “In the country in which unquestionably the gentlemen dressed best, he was the best-dressed gentlemen.” Equally, I knew Edward’s innovations included the dinner jacket,...
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Veronica Frydel - Journalism - Photojournalism (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Lord Northcliffe, Hearst and Pulitzer- characters of era of WWI Time of dot press snobbish Daily Mail and picture based Daily Mirror. In 1907 Hannen Swaffer skilled photojournalist seen as a tabloid genius brought popularity to Lord Northcliffe’s newspaper(Alfred Harmsworth’s) with death bed pictures of Edward VII (world record sales at 2mln, Titanic pictures 1912). Swaffer also...
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The Whisky Exchange - New Products (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
One of the larger distilleries in Diageo's stable, the modern Glendullan distillery was constructed in 1972 next door to the previous distillery, which had been constructed in the late 1890s and whose whisky had found favour at the court of King Edward VII in 1902. The two distillery ran concurrently until 1985, when the original distillery was mothballed and converted into a workshop for distillery...
