To spend an afternoon among queens and kings is a rare thing but having emerged from the new exhibition on royal power at the National Maritime Museum, that's pretty much how I felt. 'Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits' is a journey through five hundred years of regal images that brings centuries of history alive…
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âElegancy is refusalâ: Diana Vreeland in New York in 1974. Photograph: New York Times Co./Getty Images
âElegancy is refusalâ: Diana Vreeland in New York in 1974. Photograph: New York Times Co./Getty Images
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The problem with a lot of fashion writing is that it is just a shopping list fleshed out with adjectives. Its engine, noisy and restless, is acquisition. It couldnât give a damn that the single most precious item in your wardrobe is not the modish dress on which you lavished far too much cash only the other week, but the square-cut shirt with a jungly pattern and buttons the size of dinner plates that your granny stitched for your mother in the 1950s.
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George IV scandalised society in the years before he became the sovereign, and was known as a Prince of Wales who led an extravagant and excessive lifestyle. Although he served as regent during the last decade of King George III, as his father was struggling with mental illness, his eventful personal life was a source of public speculation for years. George s marriage to Caroline of Brunswick was famously strained before he even ascended the throne in 1820 he was reportedly pushed into it by his father just to clear his astonishing debts.