It opens at the country estate of Sorin, Irina's brother.
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The two meet in a cafe near the Woodcocks' country estate.
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In a news conference at the prime minister's country estate, Chequers, Mrs.
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The following summer, he made several budget cuts to Chartwell, his country estate.
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He had exchanged letters with Ball, whose diocese includes Charles&apos country estate.
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Tony Fadell is at the Grove, a spectacularly beautiful country estate outside of London.
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Instead, he resigned as commander in chief and moved back to his country estate.
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The pair first met outside Paris on Rodin's country estate in September of 1902.
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The Queen headed out to the country estate before Christmas via train as well.
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President Vladimir Putin remained holed up in his country estate outside the Russian capital.
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Settled comfortably in a Princeton, N.J., country estate overlooking a lake, Jose insisted on excellence.
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And instead he resigned as commander-in-chief and moved back to his country estate.
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The five of us went on a day trip to Yasnaya Polyana, Tolstoy's country estate.
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They pointed to the garden for guards' families, set up to resemble an English country estate.
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The series occasionally showed characters boarding trains to and from the wealthy Crawleys' sprawling country estate.
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He returned immediately to the Queen's country estate, Sandringham, where the royal family traditionally spend Christmas.
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Nobody knows how he came to own a country estate in England and a chateau in France.
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He believes there is treasure buried under a tree on a country estate that belongs to his family.
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The park is part of the country estate around Woburn Abbey, home to the 15th Duke of Bedford.
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She was born Marta Abakanowicz on a country estate in Falenty, southwest of Warsaw, on June 21982, 21980.
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The event was held at the couple's country estate and featured guests like Christian Louboutin and Giles Deacon.
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The country estate dates back to the 13th century, and used to be the home of the Viscounts Powerscourt.
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The 56-year-old actress is selling her $5.9 million English-inspired country estate in Saddle River, New Jersey.
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Feeling the financial pinch, Churchill made several budget cuts to Chartwell, his country estate, in the summer of 1926.
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May's proposal is called the "Chequers deal" (named for the prime minister's country estate, where the plan came together).
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That is where, in 1872, Mr. Morgan bought and expanded a country estate, whose main house later burned down.
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The route ended in Columbia, near a country estate that is now Mr. Samson's principal residence, according to prosecutors.
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Now, it seems the couple is trading in their private country estate to head West, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Meghan will spend Christmas with the royal family next week when she joins them at Sandringham, the Queen's country estate.
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In 2002 he admitted smoking cannabis and getting drunk when underage in a pub near the royal family's country estate.
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The news sends the staff of the titular country estate into a tizzy, making sure every surface is spit-shined.
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They have been employed at the country estate of the Austeur family, ostensibly to care for the family's four sons.
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He was found with a gunshot to his chest in a country estate in southern Spain, a police official said.
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The Defense and National Rehabilitation Centre is located on a country estate near Loughborough, Nottinghamshire, about an hour north of London.
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Unlike Downton, however, this show's family lived in a townhouse in the Belgravia neighborhood of London rather than on a country estate.
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The royal family actually follows the tradition of opening presents on Christmas Eve after they've gathered at the Queen's country estate, Sandringham.
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To raise funds, old-money foundations need only come into existence to quietly open the comely wallets of the country-estate set.
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Mr Trump revealed that senior Taliban leaders had been due to meet him on Sunday at Camp David, the president's country estate.
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" Standing next to May at Chequers, the prime minister&aposs official country estate, Trump acknowledged that his remarks were "politically not necessarily correct.
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She has a country estate nearby, and until his death last year, her father owned a small restaurant in the quiet country commune.
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On a rainy day in 1857, at Fontainebleau, the royal country estate, Empress Eugénie asked the author Prosper Mérimée to concoct an entertainment.
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Last year, the Queen and Philip suffered from heavy colds leading them to put off their trip to Sandringham, their country estate in Norfolk.
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Three years later in September of 1905, Rilke took a job as Rodin's assistant and lived with him full-time on his country estate.
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Hosted by his brother, Prince Harry, at a country estate, the party included Will's close friends James Meade, Thomas van Straubenzee, and Guy Pelly.
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The celebration took place at a private chapel on Ivar's country estate in Devon in front of a small group of family and friends.
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Queen Elizabeth II was unable to join the royal family at her traditional Christmas morning services near their country estate outside of Norwich, England.
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Trump will meet the Queen at Windsor and will head to Chequers — the Prime Minister's country estate in Buckinghamshire — for bilateral talks with May.
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Annabelle enjoyed a privileged upbringing, dividing her time between the family's country estate, Chiltern House, in the Chilterns, northwest of London, and West London.
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The two leaders appeared to be emphasizing unity at a news conference at the prime minister's country estate, after the president said of Mrs.
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The third example comes later in the movie, when Bourne is holed up at a country estate with Marie and her brother and his family.
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Just in the past week, there was a break-in at the country estate of the vice president, which ended after an 2883-hour siege.
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The ongoing "Succession" world tour makes a stop this week at yet another lavish country estate, for two days of earnest haggling and phony congeniality.
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"It's a little bit like aristocratic families," Laudomia Pucci, who runs her family's archive (another part is housed at her country estate, outside Florence), says.
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The proprietor of the Anna Tasca Lanza Cooking School, on the family's country estate near Palermo, Ms. Lanza is passionate about preserving Sicily's traditional cuisine.
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Last year, the royal mom welcomed her family and close friends to stay for a long weekend at their house on Queen Elizabeth's country estate, Sandringham.
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Built by one of America's great fortunes — it was once the country estate of Cornelius Vanderbilt's granddaughter — it feels right out of an Edith Wharton novel.
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For years, the 170-acre, back-country estate of Charles A. Moore, an industrialist, explorer and sportsman, held an annual, daylong festival of Scottish highland games.
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When British aristocrat Charles Rogers died in August 2018, it was believed there was no heir to inherit his sprawling $183 million country estate in Cornwall, England.
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When the family spend New Year's Eve at the country estate of friends, as midnight approaches Cleo is ushered down a stairway to join the carousing servants.
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It was "astonishing" that Prince Philip walked away from a car crash near his country estate in Norfolk on Thursday with no major injury, according to eyewitnesses.
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Elizabeth Bennet (Lily James, of Downton Abbey and Disney's thoroughly awful live-action Cinderella) is the spirited second of five sisters on an impoverished English country estate.
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Read collectively, her memoirs form a shimmering, meditative, highly erudite "Sex and the Single Girl," by way of a thousand-acre English country estate and Oxford University.
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The country estate K Club, a member of Preferred Hotels & Resorts, is its own destination, set on 211 acres, about a 215-minute drive southwest of Dublin.
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In the early 1900s, the area was dominated by the financier Clarence Mackay's 648-acre country estate, four farms and a residential area known as Red Ground.
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It's essentially a murder mystery set at a country estate, but in tone and humor it closer to novelist Evelyn Waugh in one of his most misanthropic moods.
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Investigators are also looking into renovations paid for by construction companies of a country estate and a beachfront apartment, properties that they contend the former president has controlled.
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Her brother's country estate, where nearly all of the drama takes place, is a hive of shifting loyalty, jealousy and desire, dominated by Irina's grand and difficult personality.
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The couple will also be absent from the royal Christmas at Sandringham House, the queen's country estate in Norfolk, England, as they are spending the holidays in Canada.
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The play opens in a nursery once inhabited by Lyubov Andreevna, an aristocrat who's returning to her family's country estate, which is on the brink of being sold.
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Previously, the mom of three split her time between the English country estate and her home in Southern California (where she raised her older daughters from a previous marriage).
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Sessions for the album primarily took place in May 1971 at Ascot Sound Studios, a custom-built facility installed at Tittenhurt Park, the couple's sprawling country estate outside London.
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Another sister of Agnelli's, Countess Cristiana Brandolini D'Adda, had, in fact, been one of Mongiardino's first major clients, in 943 at Vistorta, her storied country estate in the Veneto.
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He spent the war years in England, living with other evacuated children at Waddesdon Manor, the Buckinghamshire country estate of James de Rothschild, a scion of the banking family.
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May, who hosted Mr. Trump at a dinner on Thursday and was meeting with him at the country estate Chequers on Friday, showed no sign of planning a confrontation.
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When the family spend New Year's Eve at the country estate of friends, as midnight approaches Cleo is ushered down a stairway to a basement to join the carousing servants.
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The two couples will be able to toast one another this season as they are all spending Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at the Queen's beloved country estate, Sandringham House.
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The couple are raising the kids between their country estate outside London, Los Angeles and their Lake Como villa in Italy, which will serve as home base for the summer.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, meeting at a country estate in the southern region of Andalusia, advocated a "fair distribution" of migrants for EU nations.
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On a bright afternoon in October, Louis-Dreyfus visited the collection, which is housed in a former car dealership in Mount Kisco, New York, where William had his country estate.
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In May 2012, the American ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, accompanied a senior White House official to a meeting with Vladimir V. Putin at the then-president-elect's country estate.
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She and I reminisced about the show's finest episode — the seventh of the first season, which was an effervescent standalone short film set during a fundraiser at an opulent country estate.
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Lord Ivar Mountbatten, cousin to Queen Elizabeth, will wed James Coyle at a private chapel on his country estate in Devon this summer, marking the royal family's first-ever gay marriage.
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I board a shuttle to Reithalle Wenkenhof, an 18th-century country estate, to attend a Rolex cocktail party with several style editors wearing Euro-chic suits as tight as sausage casings.
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When the fêted actress Irina Arkadina (Annette Bening), on whose country estate the tale is set, admits, "I never think about the future," is it blitheness that compels her, or fear?
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Meyer; her Hamburg-born husband, Carl; and their two children — had just bought Shortgrove, a country estate in Essex that completed the Meyers' real-estate portfolio and complemented their aristocratic aspirations.
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It currently lists hundreds of verified properties around the world, with prices ranging from $80 for a private room in Miami to $1000+ per night for a country estate in Ireland.
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The movie, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday, tells the story of Joao Fernandes, who owns a massive country estate on the southern bank of the River Tagus.
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When Maddie gets the opportunity to style a member of the British royal family over Christmas, she invites her mom to come with her and stay in the Queen's country estate.
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Think of Lord Byron and the Grand Tour, spending a few months visiting Greece and southern Italy, seeing the sights and picking up the odd bit of statuary for one's country estate.
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Just outside the pretty village of Valldemossa, stop to explore Son Moragues, a finca, or country estate, founded in the 14th century that was once home to Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria.
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While the Farm's style of décor is Southern Plantation home meets French country estate, with worn wood, heavy drapes, and leather bound classics lining the shelves, the Mountain's is decidedly more modern.
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Holed up for much of the past week at his country estate outside Moscow, Mr. Putin left it to Mr. Sobyanin to order the city's 13 million residents to stay at home.
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OXFORD, England — From the comfort of his country estate in Oxford, a distant relative of the Russian literary giant Tolstoy says he has the perfect solution for what ails the United States.
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The vast aristocratic country estate, generally open to the public, is made up of areas dedicated to both leisure and industry, which at one time engaged in profitable and experimental agricultural activity.
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Clarkson isn't the only country star with impressive Tennessee digs: Tim McGraw and Faith Hill have owned various properties there, and exes Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton recently sold their own country estate.
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The piece also evokes another kind of excess, resembling a lavish playhouse that a Gilded Age millionaire with a Fifth Avenue mansion might have had built on a country estate for his children.
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After Ms. von Bernuth introduced Mr. Esterly to Gibbons's work, she became a cook at a country estate near Eastbourne, on the south coast of England, where a cottage came with the job.
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LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II, who has been battling a cold for more than a week, missed a New Year's Day church service at her country estate in Sandringham, Buckingham Palace said on Sunday.
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He looked effortlessly dapper as he settled into a sofa beside a fireplace in the drawing room, which looked like a den in a viscount's country estate with its oil portraits and crystal chandelier.
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KANILAI, Gambia (Reuters) - In a warehouse on the sprawling country estate of Gambia's exiled former leader, Yahya Jammeh, silver platters pile up beside dusty crates of empty champagne bottles with labels commemorating his 1994 coup.
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LONDON — For the first time in nearly 30 years, Queen Elizabeth II failed to attend a Christmas Day church service near her English country estate because of what Buckingham Palace described as a persistent cold.
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Given Cowan's fascination with the bohemian life — when he's not traveling, he lives in a country estate outside Birmingham, England — perhaps it's no surprise that he kept returning to Thailand and eating pad kra pao.
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Robotics company Boston Dynamics just released a new video of its robot, Atlas, going for a nice jog in what looks like a beautiful country estate — and it'll either blow your mind or freak you out.
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When V and I visited her other grandparents, at their country estate outside the city, they showed me the little paintings by Renoir and Cézanne in their living room and served us stale store-bought cookies.
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The new trailer (above) teases a quirky take on the classic material, which follows an aging actress named Irina Arkadina (Bening), who visits her brother, Pjotr, and son, Konstantin (Billy Howle) on a secluded country estate.
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Today, it feels like the terrace of a grand country estate, with Knoll chairs and tables beside vibrant flower beds, a trellis with heat lamps for the chill, and cascading water drowning out the urban din.
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Soon after becoming president, it emerged that millions of dollars of public money had been spent on upgrades to Zuma's sprawling country estate, including a swimming pool that one minister justified as a fire-fighting resource.
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MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish banker whose brushes with the law and extravagant hunting trips came to symbolize the excesses of the country's economic boom has been found dead on a country estate, a family member said on Wednesday.
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Although Philip, 97, was uninjured after overturning his Land Rover on Thursday following a collision with a Kia near the royal family's country estate in Norfolk, Emma Fairweather, who was sitting in the passenger seat, broke her wrist.
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If you expect the rest of the film to be set on a country estate, with a drooping doctor and an elderly nurse who knits, prepare to be disappointed, for this Vanya belongs to the state security service.
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Before the Isto É report, prosecutors said this week that they were investigating Mr. da Silva on suspicions that construction companies paid for renovations of a country estate and beachfront apartment, potentially tying him to the Petrobras scandal.
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Meanwhile, more than an hour outside of town, her husband was sequestered in a meeting at May's country estate, busy finding how to be best at maintaining his relationship with his British counterpart, and, more broadly, the United Kingdom.
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On a slightly out-of-control episode of Waypoints, Rob has been watching Ordeal by Innocence and enjoying a fresh take on a classic mystery genre: Which posh asshole is murdering other rich dirtbags on an English country estate?
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The 110-room mansion is testament to power and wealth, with its winding marble staircases and large Renaissance-style fireplaces built for Florence Adele Vanderbilt and her husband, Hamilton McKown Twombly, as a country estate in the late 1800s.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 68%Synopsis: Based on renowned Russian writer Anton Chekhov's play of the same name, "The Seagull" takes place at a lavish country estate, as a family gather there and contend with a series of unrequited love affairs.
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Amanda Feilding, Countess of Wemyss and March, also known as Lady Neidpath, sits cross-legged on a bench on a tiny island at the center of an artificial pond in her English country estate, a 15-minute drive outside of Oxford.
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It takes the Trenchards three days to get to their country estate in Somerset by carriage, but another character can reach the northern city of Manchester, an even longer trip, in only five and a half hours on the new railroad.
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The pièce de résistance is a splendid sendup of Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall and a reluctant babysitter to Prince George at her country estate, where she tutors the future king in how to drive a tractor — and drown kittens.
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Much of the President's visit to the UK will occur outside of London, people familiar with the planning say, including a meeting with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle and bilateral talks with May at the prime minister's country estate Chequers.
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His mother, Charlotte, had two children by a first marriage—one of them went on to manage personnel at Highgrove, Prince Charles's country estate—before marrying J. Watcyn Lewis, with whom she had Damian and, two years later, another son.
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Philip, 97, walked away uninjured after overturning his Land Rover following a collision with a Kia near the royal family's country estate in Norfolk on Thursday, while 46-year-old Emma Fairweather, who was sitting in the passenger seat, broke her wrist.
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The family's idyllic country estate, and the warm reception Chris receives -- including from Rose's mom (Catherine Keener), a therapist who offers to use hypnosis to help him kick his smoking habit -- initially comes across as welcoming, if perhaps trying a bit too hard.
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An autopsy found Blesa, who ran the ill-fated Madrid-based savings bank Caja Madrid from 1996 to 2010, took his own life on a country estate in the southern province of Cordoba, the Andalucian authorities said in a statement on Thursday.
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The Telegraph reports that the Queen has been privately helping care for two dogs owned by the late gamekeeper at her country estate — something of a reversal for the 90-year-old monarch, who had previously vowed not to take on more dogs.
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How we got here: Over the weekend at Chequers, the prime minister's country estate, May and her Cabinet agreed on a plan that would see the U.K. maintain close economic ties with the EU in what would amount to a "soft" Brexit.
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But June being left at some elaborate country estate, while Nick is dragged off by the state and everything at the Waterford house is going to hell, makes for a compelling "next week on" tease even before we get the actual one.
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Harry was portrayed as a royal wild child and playboy prince, and in 20113 he admitted smoking cannabis and getting drunk when underage in a pub near the royal family's country estate amid suggestions he had fallen in with a bad crowd.
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And he was not afraid to live accordingly, in numerous lavishly appointed homes across the globe, including a Paris apartment, a Vermont country estate, a Monte Carlo mansion, and a posh villa in Hamburg that he put on the market for $11.65 million last year.
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The visit wrapped up before President Trump and May&aposs news conference at her official country estate, where he denied ever criticizing the prime minister — not long after a British tabloid published an interview that included his biting criticism of aspects of her leadership.
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"George and Amal are very hands-on parents," says the family source of the Clooney's, who are raising the kids between their country estate outside London, Los Angeles and their Lake Como villa in Italy, which will serve as home base for the summer.
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The advisers are skeptical, and no wonder; Julie's family is posh, with a comfortable country estate and plenty of money to support her as she studies, even though her mother (Swinton, one of Hogg's oldest friends) encourages her to "keep a ledger" of her expenditures.
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The artworks at this country estate about two hours southwest of London belonged to a private collection until the mid-20th century, when the family who owned them turned over much of their home and art collection to the public to ease inheritance taxes.
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"George and Amal are very hands-on parents," says the family source of the Clooney's, who are raising the kids between their country estate outside London, Los Angeles and their Lake Como villa in Italy, which will serve as home base for the summer.
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The 4,000-acre country estate has been in the hands of the Wallop family for five centuries, and includes an 11-bedroom house, billiard and cinema rooms, tennis court, heated swimming pool and croquet lawn as well as formal gardens and vast open lands.
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He grew up speaking at least four languages, and, although his family belonged to the Polish gentry—and still owned a country estate in Lithuania, where he spent the happiest days of his childhood—they were, like most of their class at the time, quite poor.
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The French-born, New York-based artist was noted for her forthright treatment of issues of the body and the mind; and in a series of little-known etchings now on view at the gallery-cum-country estate, she fuses the human body with botanical elements.
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Accompanying a piano refrain uncannily reminiscent of Jewel's "Foolish Games", the cursive opening titles set against the sight of a secluded country estate suggest a tongue planted firmly in cheek (though it is planted upon a great range of orifices over the course of the film).
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His anti-corruption video showing the extravagance of Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev's vast country estate has had more than 26 million views on YouTube since its publication in March 2017 and prompted thousands of his supporters to take to the streets in cities around the country last June.
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Equine descendants of the famed stud include champions such as Seabiscuit and Man o' War, and a print of the 18th-century horse hangs in the paneled dining room of a grand country estate, once owned by the earl, which lies just outside the village of Godolphin Cross.
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Isabella's bachelorette party is a week at her parent's Tuscan farmhouse, and the wedding itself is at a sprawling country estate that you can only get to via two trains and a $55 taxi, so you have no option but to blow $278 on a hotel room for the night.
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Attendees to the show were greeted at the estate's entrance in proper royal fashion, with 80 broodingly handsome butlers decked out in full suits with tails: And if you're not entering a country estate to the tune of 60 trumpeters, now you know you've been doing it wrong this whole time.
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United paid $2.4 million to settle with the S.E.C. Last March, after pleading guilty to a felony of pressuring United executives, Mr. Samson, a former New Jersey attorney general, paid a $100,000 fine and was ordered to one year's confinement, which he is spending in that South Carolina country estate.
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Manhattan has decamped to Mars, meaning, essentially, that people know that God is real and that he no longer cares.) Some of the most delightful moments are the droll, creepy interludes with the dotty Veidt (Jeremy Irons), isolated on a country estate where he experiments with and on his retainers.
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International Real Estate 11 Photos View Slide Show ' A WOODED ESTATE NEAR THE BEACH IN LA BARRA $24 MILLION This sprawling house built in 2500 is part of a 2011-acre country estate, or finca, in La Barra, a quiet beach community a few miles east of Punta del Este, in southeastern Uruguay.
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When their flighty charge takes off for a weekend at a country estate, the sleuths find themselves in a manor house mystery amusingly fitted out with chilly aristocrats, their family art collections (the Gainsborough and the Reynolds are quality goods, but "the Pre-Raphaelites are vulgar and virtually unsaleable") and their hereditary ghosts.
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In recent days, the campaign has been marked by a break-in at the vice president's country estate, the killing and apparent torture of a senior election official, and reports of plans to rig the vote for President Uhuru Kenyatta and stage an armed raid on one of the opposition's tallying centers.
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Prosecutors are examining whether OAS and Odebrecht — two construction companies that profited enormously from government contracts under both Mr. da Silva's and Ms. Rousseff — may have gotten special consideration for government contracts by renovating properties intended to be used by the former president and his family, including a country estate and a beachfront apartment.
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As reported by Ernesto Londoño and Santi Carneri in The Times, Ms. Roa, a criminal lawyer in Paraguay, and some other organizers, most of them women, decided that enough was enough when a senator who admitted to using public funds to pay employees at his country estate, José María Ibañez, survived a vote of impeachment.
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Osborn, who once expressed his opposition to the extension of the Westchester Parkway near his country estate because it would bring thousands of "East Side Jews" to the area, presided over the American Museum of Natural History for 25 years, and made that institution the beating heart of the combined eugenics and anti-immigration movement.
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Mallory Catlett's "This Was the End," produced by Restless NYC and Mabou Mines at the Mabou Mines Theater in Manhattan, is a foxed love letter to Chekhov's 1898 play "Uncle Vanya," which opens with a bunch of characters stranded on a country estate and leaves most of them there, four acts later, a little older, no wiser, conclusively mired.
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The Baron de Pontalba, enraged when he learned that his daughter-in-law's dowry was to be paid in installments and foiled in his 20-year attempt to seize her property, burst into her bedroom at the family's country estate in France in 1834, took out a pistol and shot her three times in the chest.
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The unflashy Mr Hammond kept the gimmickry to a minimum, relenting only to bung £7.6m towards the restoration of a stately home that he said had inspired the country estate of Pemberley in "Pride and Prejudice" (the small community of people who follow both Jane Austen and British fiscal policy immediately pointed out that Chatsworth House, 30 miles south, has a better claim).
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A riff on the classic "murder at a sprawling country estate" story, the movie features a cast of accomplished UK and American actors — including Helen Mirren, Richard E. Grant, Stephen Fry, Clive Owen, Emily Watson, Kelly Macdonald, and Ryan Phillippe — playing 1930s rich folks and servants, gathered for a weekend of dining and hunting that gets interrupted by their host's suspicious death.
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Her impersonations of some notable grande dames are so spot on, you'll wonder if you're seeing straight: Judi Dench as a shoplifting delinquent who clogs hotel toilets; Maggie Smith auditioning for a role in a James Bond film; and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall and a reluctant babysitter to Prince George, at her country estate, where she tutors the future king in how to drive a tractor — and drown kittens.
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International Real Estate 0113 Photos View Slide Show ' A COUNTRY ESTATE IN ANDALUSIA $4.12 MILLION (3.5 MILLION EUROS) This 19th-century house, which sits on 8.7 acres of olive groves outside of Seville, had been abandoned for more than 50 years and had fallen into disrepair, but over the past seven years has been restored and renovated, with new roofs, floors, plumbing, electrical wiring, windows and terraces, said Adrian Day, who owns the property with his partner, Mark Florko.
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The Black Sea Cable assets were controlled by a rotating cast of offshore companies that led back to the Yanukovych network, including, at various times, Milltown Corporate Services and two other companies well known to law enforcement officials, Monohold A.G. and Intrahold A.G. Those two companies won inflated contracts with a state-run agricultural company, and also acquired a business center in Kiev with a helicopter pad on the roof that would ease Mr. Yanukovych's commute from his country estate to the presidential offices.
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Satirizing societal and religious codes, the five movies include three Buñuel classics: "Diary of a Chambermaid" (1964), with Jeanne Moreau as a maid surrounded by — and manipulating — lechers in a country estate; "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" (1972), an Oscar-winning absurdist confection about upper-class couples whose attempts to have a meal together are continually interrupted; and "That Obscure Object of Desire" (1977), Buñuel's last film, in which Fernando Rey plays a gentleman obsessed with a young dancer, who is played by two women to reflect her many moods.
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