But Lysenko's charlatanism was well known even among Stalin's courtiers.
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Courtiers have been recently working to ease the Queen s workload.
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Courtiers returning from France preferred libertine heroes and neo-classical styles.
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But were French courtiers any more sexually audacious than anyone else?
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Trump's latest rumble has prompted courtiers to run to his aid.
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She looked like a young Renaissance prince consulting with his courtiers.
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Unlike courtiers in a Jacobean tragedy, they risk neither execution nor banishment.
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Every room crawled with courtiers, the very last people I wanted encounter.
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Donald Trump, by contrast, relies on courtiers who whisper in his ears.
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If the president is a king, then the press are his courtiers.
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In his head, Castro was already the equal of kings and courtiers.
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Courtiers, who come and go, repeatedly reassure him that he is winning.
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Courtiers would wear or hold these crests at enthronements, legal proceedings, funerals.
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"Politics is about what divides us," says one of Queen Elizabeth's former courtiers.
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Courtiers and officials wore spotless white uniforms and prostrated themselves before their monarch.
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The courtiers all knew it, but it took a child to say it.
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"The courtiers did everything they could to keep the smell at bay," she says.
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Courtiers reinstated archaic traditions, such as a requirement that commoners prostrate themselves before royals.
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At his office in the military headquarters, courtiers, advisers and waiters swarmed around him.
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Swamped by courtiers in panniers and lace-cuffed sleeves, it's pure 18th-century excess.
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Elizabeth regularly hit the road, taking hundreds of courtiers, servants and carts with her.
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Either way, royal courtiers have woken up to some consequences of the Brexit vote.
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This enabled her and courtiers to side-step her being known as Princess of Wales.
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Royalty had valuable embellished ones; Queen Elizabeth I used them to flirt with her courtiers.
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Her more recent video work focuses on the tombs of Chinese emperors and their courtiers.
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After the execution of Catherine Howard, most courtiers would not give their daughters up for consideration.
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And she went to one of the courtiers and said, 'Can we open up that, please?
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What defines all these "courtiers" is an insistence that loyalty to Mr Trump must be unconditional.
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The courtiers of the Communist Party have lost little of the ancient art of feigned deference.
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Fawning courtiers orbiting a king and his consort: that is no way to run a country.
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That is a difficult characteristic to root out, he said, since ministers tend to like courtiers.
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Day by day, you watch this charlatan and his strange, enabling family and his sycophantic courtiers.
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These courtiers are much concerned with religious rituals, and some of them are monks and nuns.
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The courtiers, as if waiting in antechambers, occupy whichever half of the space the monarchs aren't occupying.
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It is best seen as a set of proposals put together by businessmen courtiers for their king.
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For example, different kinds of Jewish courtiers can arrive at the court of a non-Jewish character.
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Courtiers gained Elizabeth's favour through exploits of land and sea, to the consternation of the old nobility.
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Eight members of Mr. Varone's dance company, dressed in black, portrayed various courtiers, witches and drunken sailors.
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His satire was laced with "forsooths,'' "lyres,'' "nobles and peasants,'' "courtiers,'' "verilys" and other Old English touches.
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Well, they have been acting like the courtiers in the old story about the emperor's new clothes.
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Prominent evangelical leaders, rather than challenging the president to become a man of integrity, have become courtiers.
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And in centuries past, they were events attended by courtiers, political officials and even the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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In the Nixon-Kissinger years, Holbrooke insinuated himself into the Georgetown set of FDR's and JFK's former courtiers.
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Some argue, in the aggrieved tones of courtiers, that to question Warrior dominance is a sign of impoverishment.
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Queen Elizabeth's favorite son, Prince Andrew, has found himself up against one of Her Majesty's most important courtiers.
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French courtiers twirl and toss flags like oversized cheerleaders, dancing in front of L.E.D.-generated stained-glass windows.
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Elizabethan courtiers thought so, taking the impulse to such extremes that it became a parody of good health.
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For a time, courtiers lived one version of the American Dream: home and business combined under the same roof.
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The courtiers dance an upscale version of a Bohemian folk dance (a Wheeldon invention) in honor of Polixenes' home.
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"It is best seen as a set of proposals put together by businessmen courtiers for their king," they write.
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Whether this production is another connect-the-dots allegory hardly matters; "Hamlet" is political however you dress the courtiers.
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This is also the in the story where she hung out with the band Phoenix, who were dressed as courtiers.
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With his silvery horseshoe mustache and marble-handled walking cane, he called to mind a king presiding over his courtiers.
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Or, more narrowly, to the flatterers, courtiers and women who flitter like moths around the incandescent bulb of his personality.
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Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi, 34, had breached a code of conduct for courtiers and was disloyal to the king, the statement said.
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The courtiers form factions and fight with each other, destabilizing both the high office and the state it should be governing.
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They are courtiers in search of a king, so they will leap to applaud any tiny "presidential" gesture that Trump makes.
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But when Judge Kavanaugh appeared, they were his loyal courtiers, apologizing profusely and raging about the "unethical sham" Democrats were perpetrating.
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"Courtiers are understood to have discreetly removed newspapers from the breakfast room at Balmoral to spare Andrew any embarrassment," she said.
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Sineenat had breached a code of conduct for courtiers and was "disloyal to the king", a two-page palace statement said.
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Challengers to the will's validity contend that a cabal of courtiers took advantage of a fading monarch to manipulate the endgame.
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Politicians and courtiers, who could sense the growing resentment, pushed the royals to take further action -- and a ceremonial funeral was planned.
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Sovereigns, courtiers and unruly royal children are cast in unforgiving light as Tinniswood, in some cases quite literally, airs their dirty laundry.
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Her obstacles — sometimes co-opted as pawns — include the beautiful Poppea; the noble, lovelorn general Otho; and a couple of bumbling courtiers.
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And who would know best where to find such a man: our own clergy or the Roman courtiers who elevated Archbishop McCarrick?
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Her courtiers are interested in perfumes, dream interpretation, poetry, music, and gardens; snobbish aesthetes, they are fascinated by male and female beauty.
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Male courtiers in 18th-century Europe wore it, and as Yi points out, cosmetics are already popular among men in South Korea.
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"We have records of words spoken at court because there were lots of ears — spies, ambassadors, courtiers, ladies in waiting and servants — listening."
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If you've ever wanted to feel like you're in a medieval or Renaissance legend of kings, queens, and courtiers, this is your chance.
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Surrounded by courtiers and servants most of her days and by a large family, Queen Elizabeth prefers nothing better than escaping, says Morgan.
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Indeed, to be at court was to be constantly on display, and fashion was one of the few ways courtiers could express themselves.
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This storied writer-director-actor and Casanova turned househusband showed up unannounced and had attendees gather around him in the lounge, like courtiers.
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With 30 minutes left on my parking ticket, I marched into the courtiers of shawarma royalty: Castle Shawarma, Shawarma Palace, New Shawarma King.
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Henry's courtiers may well have feared that if they didn't make a conspicuous display of loyalty, the king might turn on them next.
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Yet the glowing contemporary accounts owed much to Saladin's tame and prolific propagandists—courtiers, chroniclers and muftis who were rewarded handsomely for their efforts.
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The densely researched web of pictures and catalogues, receipts, translations and letters, court proceedings and handbills, painters, courtiers and players is at times confusing.
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And that goes double for royal marriages — in some cases, nobles and high ranking courtiers were actually invited to watch the couple have sex.
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This is not merely an orthodoxy of the opposition; his panicked courtiers have been leaking word of it from his first weeks in office.
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Each queen is, to some degree, a pawn, manipulated by opportunistic courtiers and politicians who proclaim loyalty to the sovereigns they seek to undermine.
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In his oeuvre we find decapitated courtiers, politicians, dandies, and a whole cast of other Victorian parodies, often fashioned in his indelible clashing Batiks.
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EVER since President Donald Trump entered the White House, his courtiers have been scrutinised for clues to their "true feelings" about the man they serve.
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EVER since President Donald Trump entered the White House, his courtiers have been scrutinised for clues to their true feelings about the man they serve.
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With each new elderly monarch, they say, favoured sons have indulged in self-aggrandisement, leaving courtiers to disguise their acquisitions as privatisations and economic reforms.
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"The atmosphere during the filming, even for the courtiers looking on, was 'Wow, this is the queen we might not have seen before,'" he said.
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Endless visions of horror, splendor and absurdity — chopped-off heads soaked in vodka and courtiers traveling with their own portable gardens, children roasted and eaten in pogroms and wedding palaces carved out of ice, courtiers made to dress as chickens and sit clucking for hours and carriages pulled by bears — crowd one another so closely that the sheer concentration of history can become overwhelming.
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Through rituals and ceremonies encased in gold, the courtiers strove tirelessly to restore the king to the heart of Thai Buddhism and make him semi-divine.
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Persuading Mr Trump, against the advice of other courtiers, to jettison the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement and the Paris climate accord were two of his successes.
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Despite his reluctance, Henry V ascends the throne and is forced to face a hostile France and courtiers counselling war as a panacea for civil discord.
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The stage floods with courtiers, villagers, pageboys, ladies-in-waiting, her royal parents and the four royal suitors, each of whom hopes to be Prince Right.
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Before her engagement to Prince William, Kate Middleton and her family were always too middle-class, rather than aristocratic, for those "courtiers" who briefed the newspapers.
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Quick plot summary: Two courtiers (Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone) vie for the favors, romantic and otherwise, of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) in 18th-century Britain.
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It turns out to be a representation of a scene in Mozart's "Don Giovanni," with the characters dressed in the style of seventh-century Japanese courtiers.
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There, King Henry IV (Ben Mendelsohn, making the showy most of a minor role) rules over the usual retinue of toadying courtiers while waging endless war.
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These include the "Courtiers in a Rose Garden" medieval tapestry, the Patio from the Castle of Vélez Blanco and a chamber resembling a Hogwarts common room.
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It was a 10-by-20-foot oil painting of an elaborately coifed and dressed 17th-century marquis and assorted courtiers entering the city of Jerusalem.
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She has been painted as the defiant Gloriana of Spenserian epic, uniting the land in religion and peace, and the mercurial crone lusting after her younger courtiers.
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On balance, Republicans are seeking to conserve very little; instead they have become the courtiers and court pastors of a man who delights in tearing things down.
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That he would create a secret team of enforcers further affirms that Mr. Khashoggi's killing was not some rogue operation by loyal courtiers against a nettlesome critic.
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And she's not wrong: Each day of entertaining Elizabeth I and her courtiers could cost as much as half a million pounds in today's money (or $609,000).
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Expect the King of Navarre, or one of his sonneteering courtiers, to deliver your beef brisket tacos, or the Princess of France to drop off your tabbouleh.
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As depicted on the hit Netflix series The Crown, whispering courtiers – along with Elizabeth's father King George VI – had reservations about Philip Mountbatten, a young, dashing naval officer.
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Courtiers in towering wigs battle boredom by throwing oranges at a naked man, while in the royal suite above, Anne stuffs her mouth with bright blue birthday cake.
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The ceremony involved multiple outfit changes, courtiers unveiling Naruhito on a 21-foot-high pavilion, and Japanese politicians raising their arms and shouting "Long life!" to the emperor.
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Courtiers and ladies (the members of the Met chorus, excellent as always) watch what's going on, even during intimate scenes between Elisabetta and Sara, or Roberto and Nottingham.
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Watching "The Crown," we desperately want Elizabeth to defy the courtiers and the advisers and her own mother, all of whom are determined to override Princess Margaret's wishes.
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Thailand has been on the list of courtiers where foreign investors are looking to invest but its investment process and regulations have made investors go elsewhere, Kobsak said.
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But many observers worry that an absolutist king and his courtiers are putting Thailand on course for a fresh round of protest—and the inevitable bloody put-down.■
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Courtiers swooped across the stage with open umbrellas, like a flock of blackbirds; when they stopped and turned, the Queen was suddenly revealed among them, facing her prisoner.
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The 145 guests also included members of the Corps diplomatique, regional dignitaries, and courtiers along with select representatives from the royal household as well as the parents' personal friends.
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He went to great lengths to ensure victory and appeared shell-shocked by the result, presumably because his unctuous courtiers did not make clear the jeopardy he was in.
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He presses to be made a British prince to elevate his position above that of his "eight-year-old son" and to "shut [courtiers] up and demand their respect".
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Just as the courtiers of Louis IV hungered for some nod from their king, so the White House press corps longs for the president to give them exclusive interviews.
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In later books, Camelot's courtiers all agreed that her willingness to travel to Texas pointed to marital bonds strengthened by the death of Patrick, a newborn son, in August.
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Her reconstruction was not quite as opulent, but it was a sumptuous personal pleasure ground, intended to signify the strength of the family and its immense retinue of courtiers.
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On the day that Democrats proposed two articles of impeachment against him, the President and his courtiers laid down a fresh fog to obscure the evidence that incriminates him.
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Young tenors and basses can launch their careers in a myriad of smaller roles as courtiers, soldiers, watchmen and servants, while female singers have much fewer roles available to them.
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His story of dreamy lovers split apart by scheming courtiers is also a protest against rulers, like the unseen duke, whose riches are wrung from the blood of their people.
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He impersonates Diana to woo Calisto in what appears to be a lesbian fling; the real Diana enjoys courtiers of her own, most notably the humble shepherd Endimione, who wins her.
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All have solo opportunities, but it's the two (Molly Lieber and Heather Olson) who dominate and ordain, and the three (Hadar Ahuvia, Sarah Iguchi, Meg Weeks) who are courtiers or attendants.
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Many had long worried that the "Queen of Elections", as she was nicknamed in her early political years, had surrounded herself with courtiers: mainly yes-men who had advised her father.
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During this weird Oval Office summit, Elvis Presley (the beloved) trash-talked the Beatles as un-American and Richard M. Nixon (the other guy) handed out souvenirs to the King's courtiers.
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Many arrived from Kastoria, near the Albanian border, where the fur trade dates to the Middle Ages, when the city supplied the ermine pelts that lined the robes of Byzantine courtiers.
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The Silver Lion Grand Jury prize was awarded to Yorgos Lanthimos for "The Favourite," starring Olivia Colman as the mercurial monarch Queen Anne, opposite Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone as courtiers.
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In one announcement, two palace officials, identified as bedroom guards, were fired for "extremely evil misconduct" and "adultery," which it said was a violation of a code of conduct for courtiers.
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Can "The Crown" really handle the story of their dead mother -- a story already regularly manipulated for political kicks by courtiers and culture warriors -- with any vestige of its usual class?
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A countertenor and chorus sing an "ode to the King," in which Nureyev (a look-alike, charismatic Vladislav Lantratov, with excellent Nureyev hair) appears as Louis XIV, flanked by adoring courtiers.
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Given that Mr Xi and many other leaders are "princelings" (sons of the first generation of Communist leaders), they also seem like the swearing of fealty to the king by medieval courtiers.
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The film's attempt to portray the Queen as more politically enlightened than her courtiers is kindly but unconvincing, and many of the actors bark and behave as if participating in a spoof.
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Mantel is clearly familiar with the poetry of Thomas Wyatt, and with 'The Devonshire Manuscript,' a multi-authored collection of love poems scribbled by courtiers of Anne Boleyn in a single manuscript.
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The subjects are equerries and clerks, courtiers and grooms of the stool (an office that, in its original incarnation, was responsible for keeping the sovereign company during his or her bowel movements).
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Imitations were once prized by nobles, from the palaces of imperial China to Versailles, where Louis XIV's courtiers are believed to have sought silken blossoms for the tops of their bed canopies.
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Basil was from humble origins, and after making his way to Constantinople for an opportunity to better his circumstances, he found himself working as stable master for one of the Emperor's courtiers.
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She long relied on courtiers, mainly yes-men who had advised her father, but they are now trickling away—and three of her close aides have been indicted for corruption and related offences.
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Seduced by its vast oil wealth, and impressed with American-educated ministers speaking perfect English, they find to their dismay that the palace and its robed courtiers still call almost all the shots.
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When Polonius agrees with Hamlet each time the young prince changes the animal he sees (a camel, a weasel, a whale), Hamlet realizes that even his most trusted courtiers aren't to be trusted.
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During the 1930s and 1940's, individual cabin camp and cottage court owners, known as "courtiers," dominated the roadside haven trade (with the exception of Lee Torrance and his fledgling Alamo Courts chain).
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And then, when he failed to consummate the marriage (with courtiers peering on), Henry's side claimed that she was unattractive to him – thereby masking the possibility that he was infertile at this point.
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Wolff isn't the little boy who finally blurted it out — he's the little boy who sat in the Emperor's palace for months and got his courtiers to admit to his nudity on tape.
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When we explored Hamlet's laments and feelings of imprisonment at being watched by his friends, family and courtiers, my students' discussions took a turn for the meta as we recognized our own imprisonment.
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As in The Crown, courtiers were wary of Elizabeth's children taking on Philip's chosen last name of Mountbatten as they feared that this gave too much weight to the Mountbatten family over the Windsors.
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Courtiers and royal guards are ordered to recite from memory the "Ratchasawat" or basic code of conduct for those entering royal service rooted in the old absolutist court of King Rama VI (225-20173).
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Camilla was someone who he had first considered marrying in the early 1970s but who royal courtiers had considered unacceptable while she was not keen on taking on the role herself at the time.
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The parliamentary party is dominated by courtiers to Tony Blair or Gordon Brown who have spent their lives in politics (such as Ms Cooper) and members of political dynasties (like Stephen Kinnock and Hilary Benn).
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Still, for all the furor over Ms. Patel's clash with Mr. Rutnam, Mr. Stanley said the bigger danger was the tendency of civil servants to function as "courtiers," appeasing their ministers rather than challenging them.
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On the battlefield, the habit of patching up ripped garments with scraps of looted silk may have been the inspiration for stay-at-home courtiers to prance fraudulently about in their own tailor-slashed doublets.
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Of course, any Strangelovian thing could happen when Little Rocket Man and the Dotard actually get together, given that both Dear Leaders live in bizarro fantasy worlds with fawning courtiers, where lying and cheating abounds.
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"But make no mistake: We are talking about the rising and falling fortunes of courtiers who, with flattery and whispers and flowery professions of fealty, serve the unpredictable whims of their liege lord," Robinson added.
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In one scene she appears as a snooping maid as Henry is chaperoned by his "top gentleman" to wife Anne of Cleves's bedchamber, where courtiers will literally watch to see if the marriage can be consummated.
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Yet Markle's turmoil does not seem to be in the thoughts of those armchair courtiers, who stepped up their criticism Friday at the news that she asked Prince Charles to walk with her down the aisle.
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What is refreshing, too, is that -- unlike his parents -- he has fallen in love and become engaged with little signs of interference from the Queen or other senior members of the royal family and their courtiers.
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U.S.-born journalist Catherine Mayer wrote in a 2015 biography that his passions had caused disquiet at Buckingham Palace and with the queen herself, with royal courtiers fearing Charles would pursue a radical style of monarchy.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, one of Mr. Trump's most eager courtiers among foreign leaders, congratulated him on his "historic victory in the midterm election" — an election in which Democrats seized control of the House.
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Following a memorial service commemorating Prince Henrik's life on Monday night, the royal family hosted a palace reception for some 200 friends and courtiers — where they were joined by the prince's three dachshunds, Nelly, Tilla and Helike.
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Pence, Tillerson and Mattis leave behind them a chaotic, Tim Burton-esque Camelot: a king who tried to run before he could walk and graceless courtiers who make a mockery of themselves, their roles and the monarch.
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There is an argument underway on the right over whether Trump is being led astray by his courtiers or is working in sync with them on an agenda that they lack the skill and public support to pass.
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To keep up an aesthetic of a divine mysticism, not far from the ancient idea of the divine right of kings, British courtiers have generally exerted power to keep as much mystery around the royals' lives as possible.
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"While we cannot rule out the possibility of political negotiations leading to unexpected outcomes, we think it is unnecessary to worry about recession as various fiscal and monetary stimulus should support the economy of the two courtiers," he said.
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At the sound of a gong, two courtiers bowed deeply and drew back the curtains to reveal Naruhito standing in front of a simple throne, surrounded by three sacred treasures — a mirror, a sword, and a jewel, Reuters reported.
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Courtiers afraid of a power struggle conspired to keep the news secret for weeks as his body was taken back to Istanbul (his heart may have remained, literally, in Hungary), and his son was able to claim the throne.
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A wonderfully vivid and graceful Mayan relief from 736 A.D. depicts a bejeweled King Pakal I seated cross-legged; leaning to his right, he hands a stingray-spine blood-letter to his grandson, while two masked courtiers look on.
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In the monarch and the President's wake, Trump's West Wing courtiers, such as Kellyanne Conway, Sarah Sanders and Stephen Miller, marveled at treasures that included an 18th-century map of New York and pictures of St Andrews, the home of golf.
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Its intentionally hyperbolic, breathless text presented details like the fact that Obama "woke up late … and went for a haircut with his pal Marty Nesbitt" the way an ancient monarch's courtiers used to examine his every sigh for divine omens.
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Ms. Iguchi, one of the three courtiers, her feet apart in a ballet fourth position, sustains a huge backbend — the curve of her spine is wonderful — but meanwhile her feet keep treading ground beneath her, sending big ripples through her body.
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Mr. Enrigue finds a way to incorporate documents from the mid 15th century and (apocryphal?) 21st-century email exchanges with an editor, and writes one chapter as a kind of playlet whose actors are Pope Pius IV and two courtiers.
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There's pleasure in watching Abigail, Sarah (Rachel Weisz), and other courtiers jockey for influence, but there's tragedy, too, in Olivia Colman's Queen Anne—ostensibly the most powerful person in the land, but in reality a woman trapped in a gilded cage.
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Even the Emperor was testing the waters, gauging just how much he and his advisors and courtiers could get away with, especially with regard to the ultra-secret Death Star Project, which is central to the events depicted in Catalyst.
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If the national stereotyping isn't quite as bad as I feared in these novels, it's only because their reliance on stock character types overwhelms the their impulse to cast characters as treacherous Chinese courtiers, oafish German merchants, and noble, tragic samurai.
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The lame explanation from Mr. Trump's courtiers, that he needed to look tough for his meeting with Kim Jong-un, made matters worse by implying that he felt he needed to publicly kick friends aside to impress a murderous dictator.
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The movie adheres to that template, delivering the usual scoundrels (Finn Wittrock as a lover), courtiers (Jessie Buckley as a minder) and facile psychology, sometimes with a #MeToo spin, most overtly in the scene of Mayer touching the young Judy's chest.
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She impressed guests as she was introduced to hundreds of courtiers and palace workers at another annual bash at Windsor Castle on December 11 — in some of the same state apartments where she and Harry will hold their wedding reception on May 19.
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She impressed guests as she was introduced to hundreds of courtiers and palace workers at another annual bash at Windsor Castle on December 11 — in some of the same state apartments where she and Harry will hold their wedding reception on May 19.
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A public parade was postponed until next month to allow the government to devote attention to the typhoon clean-up, while Tuesday's weather forced the palace to scale back the number of courtiers in ancient robes taking part in the courtyard ceremony.
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The twisty mischief of the plot — court intrigue in the palace of Queen Anne overlaid with sexual treachery among the her courtiers — is crisply handled, but what lands this movie on the list are its many moments of scenic and thespian audacity.
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Meaning, in this case, that little about his rhetorical excess, his penchant for lies and insults or the seaminess of his courtiers was hidden from voters on the campaign trail in 2016, in an election that by the Constitution's standards Trump legitimately won.
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Published to coincide with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012, Sally Bedell Smith's biography taps a host of public sources, plus friends and former courtiers who dish up intimate tidbits "all too often about horses and corgis," wrote our reviewer, Alan Riding.
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It was not just the elephants and courtiers who were forced to prostrate themselves: days before the coronation the palace released images of the king getting married for the fourth time, in which his new wife, a former stewardess, grovelled before the unsmiling groom.
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He said it rang in his ears as "will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest," paraphrasing a quote attributed to English King Henry II that courtiers took to mean he wanted the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket murdered in the year 1170.
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A service to put Princess Diana's spirit to rest at Sandringham, family members' opinions on fellow royals, what courtiers really thought of historical royal moments and the personalities behind some of the House of Windsor's recent past are unveiled in a revealing new book.
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When she dances for the courtiers who have turned up during a hunt, a sustained balance in arabesque becomes an expression of sheer joy, her final circle of chainés — quick whirling turns done in a circle — a thrilling expression of an uncontainable inner vitality.
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Hughes's blow-by-blow accounts of bowel movements, menstruation, menopause, pores and salivary glands shouldn't be mistaken for celebrity gossip or scatological humor — though it takes guts, so to speak, to depict courtiers fat-shaming one another and guesstimating who had missed a period.
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This surreal scene, which has some of the courtiers disrobing to become live images of the naked Saint Sebastian paintings projected on the walls, suggests something of what "Nureyev" could be if Mr. Serebrennikov and Mr. Possokhov stripped away the work's more literal sections.
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That's where various courtiers make bids for her attention, or, failing that, the attention of the woman who has her ear: Lady Sarah, the Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz), who may not sit on the throne but who's made herself the functional day-to-day leader.
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The blood-red wall of Queen Elizabeth's court is a stark contrast with the white-costumed courtiers and creepy, cavorting jesters; the martyr's red of Mary's dress as she ascends to her death is a splash of color in the suitably gloomy sets of the final scene.
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With only £1.3 million for her budget, Crombie's job description included everything from designing the piles of beautiful cookies that adorn handcrafted side tables, to creating spaces for the film's most unsung heroes: Queen Anne's 17 pet rabbits, and her courtiers' team of competitive duck athletes.
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Most victorious candidates, arriving in the White House from ordinary political life, could not help but be reminded of their transformed circumstances by their sudden elevation to a mansion with palacelike servants and security, a plane at constant readiness, and downstairs a retinue of courtiers and advisers.
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To put it mildly, it can be hard to attain the unalloyed truth from a president who has long boasted of gaming the press, or from competing courtiers who often wield insider anecdotes as sword and shield in their efforts to protect themselves and bloody their rivals.
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But their closeness sparked racism and jealousy among the court and other members of the Queen's family — and ultimately, just hours after Victoria was buried in 1901, a group of senior royals and courtiers came to his home and ordered that all his letters from the monarch be destroyed.
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The tacit narratives of both pictures are compelling in a way that recalls the long-lapsed convention of painted portraiture as courtly ceremony, exalting kings and courtiers—this was the forte of Velázquez, whose duties to Philip IV happened to occasion some of the greatest paintings ever made.
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Sally Bedell Smith, respected biographer of both the Queen and Charles, points out there is a process under the various Regency acts outlining a very specific process: It requires the determination by family, senior courtiers and civil servants that the monarch is unable to carry out her duties.
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"BANZAI" CHEERS, 21-GUN SALUTE At the sound of a gong in the Matsu-no-Ma, or Hall of Pine, the most prestigious room in the palace, two courtiers bowed deeply and drew back purple curtains on the "Takamikura" - a 6.5-metre (19453 feet) high pavilion that weighs about 8 tonnes.
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In five paintings on paper, which make use of wonky, half-mastered western perspective, we see Xiaoding borne through the Forbidden City on a palanquin adorned with peacock feathers; courtiers and servants have packed the gardens and pavilions, and everyone is preparing for the court's new calculus of power and prestige.
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While the modern process is lengthy, complicated and involves everyone from family members to senior courtiers and civil servants, it has historically provided an easy way for the British government to continue working should the monarch fall ill, go mad or set out on an overseas war (generally against the French).
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In February Mike Pence, the vice-president, reassured Eurocrats that America was not bent on destroying the EU. European officials, after visits to Washington, express optimism that some of Mr Trump's more outlandish courtiers, such as Peter Navarro, a trade adviser who thinks America's deficits threaten its security, have lost the president's ear.
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While I cannot say that I personally identify with the Queen of France, who wakes to a crowd of courtiers ready to dress her in her choice of silks for the day, I can absolutely sympathize with the angst that comes from being a teenage girl searching for her place in the world.
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But hear me out, because, as the House of Windsor burns, and as recriminations ricochet from Instagram to the tabloids, with courtiers and conference calls and competing tales of who knew what when, there's the kernel of something that might be worth pulling out of the dumpster fire and reinventing as our own.
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At one point during the Capulet ball in Act I, after Juliette is introduced to Pâris, the young count her father wishes her to wed, she sings the light, waltzing "Je veux vivre" to a group of ogling young courtiers, explaining that she is too young and full of life to settle down.
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It's not a coincidence that court members generally savored their annual visits: Protocol was greatly relaxed, the stables and forest were right out the back door, and a tradition of voluptuary delights — hunting for boar and deer, lovemaking, comfortable rooms — must have made it more of a true home for the king and his courtiers.
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In the opening remarks that Comey had prepared for the committee, he described the door in the Oval Office, "next to the grandfather clock," cracking open, and his catching a glimpse of Reince Priebus, the chief of staff, with a clutch of people in line behind him, like courtiers in a Renaissance painting, waiting for an audience.
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Then there's the work of the York, England-based Matty Bovan, whose Hope and Fear collection featured unnerving sculptural forms — like oversize collars and inverted hoop skirts that alluded to dystopian courtiers — swathed in nostalgic Liberty fabrics that didn't so much conform to the body as they did create a protective shield sitting loosely around it.
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I was not surprised that Her Ladyship's courtiers were petty, that their anti-Catholicism was in full flower behind presumed computer security, that the queen bee herself sensed that her message was failing on the hustings, that the DNC chairwoman had her thumb on the Clinton scale and even that debate questions were provided ahead of time to Clinton.
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He also wrote letters, hundreds of them, to all his contacts in the power elite — ministers, courtiers, salon leaders and fellow philosophers, working from the top down and manipulating the media of his day so skillfully that he created a tidal wave of public opinion, which would ultimately lead to the recognition of rights for Protestants in 1787, nine years after he died.
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These armchair courtiers have weighed in over her father, Thomas Markle, and the uncertainty over whether he was going to give her away; about her lack of a maid of honor to help marshal her 10 young bridesmaids and page boys; and, in the latest bout of pre-wedding interference, her decision that Prince Charles will accompany her down the aisle, rather than her mother, Doria Ragland.
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Ross Douthat In the longstanding liberal narrative about Bill Clinton and his scandals, the one pushed by Clinton courtiers and ratified in media coverage of his post-presidency, our 42nd president was only guilty of being a horndog, his affairs were nobody's business but his family's, and oral sex with Monica Lewinsky was a small thing that should never have put his presidency in peril.
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But rather than take the approach of many other opera companies — which routinely use makeup and costumes to transform their singers and choruses into the Egyptian soldiers of "Aida," the Chinese courtiers of "Turandot" or the Japanese geishas of "Madama Butterfly" — Peter Hinton, the director of "Louis Riel," opted for something different: a silent chorus, made up of Métis and indigenous performers in modern clothes.
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Traders brought cloves north from Southeast Asia to Han dynasty China, where courtiers were not allowed to speak to the emperor unless their breath had been purified by cloves (known as "chicken-tongue spice"); and to arid Arabia, where in the 212s cloves were excavated, still intact, from a ceramic pot in a house dating back to 2000 B.C. in the Babylonian city of Terqa in modern Syria.
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