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...days of old, the King's whim formed the country's reward: he gave to favored friends a forest, a few hundred serfs and an earldom. The very titles of prized orders (e.g., Knights of the Garter) reflected the cozy household nature of it all. Last week Queen Elizabeth published her Birthday Honors List, rewarding 2,000 British and Commonwealth subjects, but the choice was largely the concern of her elected ministers, who operate on the principle that what is good for the nation is good for the Queen's list. Only in the arts...
Resplendent in silken knee breeches and the broad blue sash of the Garter, he bowed low, first to bestow a token kiss on the young sovereign's hand, and again before shaking hands with her husband, Prince Philip...
...sunny-tempered, laughing girl who never wore a girdle." But as he re-explores the town's anatomy, the memory is proved wrong: a girdle is there, all right-all the stays and bones of Southern convention, the shoulder straps of prejudice, and only rarely the snapped garter of gaiety...
...SAINT GEORGE AND THE DRAGON is among the most perfectly preserved panels by RAPHAEL. It was a gift to Henry VII of England, commissioned by Duke Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who had received the Order of the Garter from Henry. In the picture, St. George is clearly shown wearing the Garter. (The Mellon Collection...
...Sutherland made scores of sketches-with and without the cigar, separate eye details, hand studies, expressions and color notes ("eyelids appear almost corn color; cheekbones, pink"). Churchill had a few ideas of his own about the portrait, strongly hinted that he should be painted as a Knight of the Garter. Sutherland sketched him in Garter robes, but quietly set the sketches aside in favor of black coat and striped trousers-more fitting, he believed, for a parliamentary gift...