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...never shown the common touch this way in English public life. And it was to this the public responded. He had the largest crowd at his funeral of any figure in the 19th century--bigger even than Queen Victoria's. People queued and stretched all the way from the Brompton Oratory to Kensal Green...
...Sunday evening in London's fashionable Knightsbridge neighborhood. Though pathetically tiny flocks of Londoners attend many Anglican services, Holy Trinity Brompton has a standing-room-only turnout of 1,500. Oblivious to the hot, airless sanctuary, the youthful throng buzzes with an anticipation more common at a rock concert or rugby match. After the usual Scripture readings, prayers and singing, the chairs are cleared away. Curate Nicky Gumbel prays that the Holy Spirit will come upon the congregation. Soon a woman begins laughing. Others gradually join her with hearty belly laughs. A young worshipper falls to the floor, hands twitching...
...died yesterday morning at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, where she had been receiving treatment for three-and-a-half weeks...
Mullin, who served as executive editor of The Crimson in 1989, had been receiving treatment at the Royal Brompton hospital in London, England for three-and-a-half weeks. She had been in England for several months, attempting to attain citizenship so that she could be placed on a waiting list for a heart-lung transplant...
...called 'possibly the most copied designer working today' in the Observer," Hamnett reflects, managing to sound proud and a touch rueful at the same time. Her clothes are available all around the U.S., but the fullest range can be found at the designer's showcase store on London's Brompton Road. Originally an automobile garage, the shop has enough floor space to comfortably accommodate menswear, women's clothes and a Roman chariot race. "There could be more clothes in it," frets Danish-born Fashion Entrepreneur Peder Bertelsen, who backs Hamnett's retail enterprises on the designer's home turf. "Katharine...