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SANTA FE, N.M. Nancey Chapman made this 22-karat cuff ($14,000) while studying her craft in Guadalajara, Mexico. Available at Queen's Ransom...
ISTANBUL Turkish brand Gilan draws inspiration from the Topkapi Palace. Its eponymous boutique features the Chintamani ring ($1,200), fit for a queen...
From Scottish Kilts to Camden punk, tartan has long been the fabric of choice when tribute is paid to the Queen. Now designers and retailers as diverse as Alexander McQueen and L.L. Bean are indulging in the traditional textile. Kate Spade's wool boot is boxed out in plaid, as is Estée Lauder's jeweled compact, illustrating the evolution of this onetime preppy look. What was once campus chic is now runway cool. Yves Saint Laurent designer Stefano Pilati even featured it for spring. But who better than Burberry, epic old English purveyor of plaid, to square...
Commander Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama, the top military man of the idyllic island nation of Fiji, is haunted by the memory of the day in 2000 when 30 of his own disgruntled soldiers came to kill him in his office at Queen Elizabeth Barracks in the capital of Suva. The military chief escaped the black-clad invaders and their gunfire, but he lost face as his flight was captured by video cameras. The would-be military assassins were allies of the men who had tried to overthrow the government the same year. During the past six years, Bainimarama has neither forgotten...
While his style is similar to American contemporary Edward Gorey, Peake's bizarre sensibilities were less cruel. He enjoyed great critical acclaim as an artist during his career - he was commissioned by the Queen Mother to do illustrations for her grandson Prince Charles' nursery in the 1950s - but he was largely ignored by the literary observers of the time. Kingsley Amis once called Peake "a bad fantasy writer of maverick status...