Tag: royalty

  • Heroes and villains

    Heroes and villains

    Two auctions featuring Princess Diana, Monica Lewinsky, President Kennedy, Wallis Simpson and Adolf Hitler

     

    This Thursday, the Chelsea Arts Club in London is holding an event to conclude their silent auction of images and paintings by members of heroes and villains. In Los Angeles, on the same day, Nate D. Sanders, a specialist in rare collectibles, is selling some equally if not far more controversial items.

     
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  • Long may she reign

    Long may she reign

    Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Coronation

     

    Sixty years ago today, Princess Elizabeth became Her Majesty The Queen. Today we at The Steeple Times join with the nation in celebrating this historic moment.

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  • Moss vs. Middleton

    Moss vs. Middleton

    The Duchess of Cambridge usurps Kate Moss in a beauty poll

     

    It’s just been announced that Kate Middleton has beaten Kate Moss in a poll of the UK’s most influential beauty icons.

     
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  • Ian Towning

    Ian Towning

    This creepy, permatanned ‘queen’ of the antiques trade claims to have blue blood on his mother’s side. Aside from appearing on the ‘mahogany skinned David Dickinson’s Real Deal television programme, Ian Towning once attempted to launch a pen for left-handed writers. He is often spotted promenading the Kings Road – from where he operates a somewhat downbeat market stall-esque dealership – in ‘full regalia’ and at a certain sun tanning parlour next to McDonalds.

  • Jean-Christophe, His Imperial Highness the Prince Napoléon

    Jean-Christophe, His Imperial Highness the Prince Napoléon

    Jean-Christophe NapoleonAn heir of the legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte, this investment banker is based in New York and works for Morgan Stanley. He succeeded his grandfather Louis, Prince Napoléon as Head of the Imperial House of France in 1997 due to a dynastic dispute due to his father “embracing republican principles” and remarrying “without his father’s permission”. In an interview, he stated: “I am a man of my time, as is everyone, but also with certain duties that I’ve decided to take up and certainly no extra rights. I am witness to my family’s past and of its role in history, but I am resolute to face the future. The Bonapartes have always been modern men and even avant-gardistes”.

  • Like father, like son

    Like father, like son

    Proof that Prince Harry is Prince Charles’ son

     

    It’s done the rounds for years. It’s a rumour that has failed to have been quashed and newspaper reporters have even tried to snatch pieces of his hair to test his DNA in their quest to prove it. This week, however, a photograph of Prince Harry convincingly proves that he’s the son of Prince Charles.

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  • Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba (1926 – 2014)

    Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba (1926 – 2014)

    Duchess of AlbaThis Spaniard held more titles than the Queen and married her third husband, a toyboy civil servant, in 2011. (more…)

  • Correcting ‘Kate’

    Correcting ‘Kate’

    Why do the press continue to refer to the Duchess of Cambridge as ‘Kate Middleton’?

     

    Two years ago yesterday, Catherine Elizabeth Middleton married Prince William. Euphoria reigned throughout the land and 26 million are said to have watched the ceremony in Britain alone.

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  • Peter Scott (born Peter Craig Gulston, 1931 – 2013)

    Peter Scott (born Peter Craig Gulston, 1931 – 2013)

    Peter ScottA modern day Robin Hood who claimed to have been “sent by God to take back some of the wealth that the outrageously rich had taken from the rest of us”. This Belfast born cat burglar was a meticulous planner whose roll call of marks numbered Sophia Loren, Zsa Zsa Gabor, John Aspinall and Maria Callas. He quoted Confucius, Oscar Wilde and Proust and targeted “rich prats” as it gave him a “sexual thrill”. The 1965 film He Who Rides a Tiger starring Tom Bell and Judi Dench was based on Scott and concluded that: “If I rob Ivana Trump, it is just a meeting of two different kinds of degeneracy on a dark rooftop”. Raffles would have been proud.

  • “Where are they now?” – James Hewitt

    “Where are they now?” – James Hewitt

    What has become of the “love rat” James Hewitt?

     

    In the first of a new series, we seek to find out what has become of well-known individuals who have faded into obscurity or moved on into others arenas.

     

    Our first subject, James Hewitt, will forever be remembered for two things: One will be his affair with Princess Diana. The second will be his “caddish” attempts to sell stories and information relating to this.

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