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‘She won’t go quietly, that’s the problem. I’ll fight until the end’. Diana in 1995.
And she was hunted and finally chased to her death. The end came just two years later, in 1997.
Now her daughter-in-law is persecuted all over again, for speaking.
We have learned nothing.

Williams appears frequently on radio and TV as a presenter and expert, specialising in social, constitutional and royal history. She commented extensively on the 2011 Royal Wedding and appears often on BBC Breakfast, ... She covered the Queen's Address to Parliament on BBC One in 2012 and the Queen's Speech for BBC Parliament...

Williams and her partner, publisher Marcus Gipps, have a daughter.

Victor Gollancz Ltd (/ɡəˈlænts/) was a major British book publishing house of the twentieth century and continues to publish science fiction and fantasy titles as an imprint of Orion Publishing Group. It was founded in 1927 by Victor Gollancz..

Parent company: Hachette Livre; CEO: Arnaud NOURRY https://find-and-update.company-informa ... pointments

Nourry is a French business executive, current CEO of Hachette Livre and Lagardère Publishing .. Beginning in 1986 as a consulting engineer at the Computer and Systems Company, a subsidiary of the Banking Company , he was then a consultant at Mensia Conseil from 1988 to 1990

In 1949, with the launch of the Marshall Plan, UFEFE merged with the Banque Française d'Acacceptance and in 1950 the Union Française de Banques (UFB) was born. In addition to the initial shareholders, Worms , Crédit du Nord and Union des Mines , Crédit Lyonnais , Société Générale , Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas and Banque de l'Indochine are among others .

The bastards behind it are: Hachette Book Group; Harper Collins

Hachette belongs to Lagardère Group, A french company that has sold off anything with names anyone would recognize. The rest of it is a bunch of Eurotrash babbling nonsense..

Wiley and Sons and Penguin Random House are the pricks trying to get it shut down...Penguin Random House is owned by Bertelsmann. Thomas Rabe oversees Bertelmenns and he started out with the EU in some long winded financial directorate commissioned officer position..Penguin publishing is the poisoned well. They are Crown Publishing which has 14 publishing houses.

Little, Brown Book Group is a UK publishing company. Since 2006 Little, Brown Book Group has been owned by Hachette UK, a subsidiary of Hachette Livre. The company was sold to Hachette UK by Time Warner who owned Little, Brown UK and USA.

Little, Brown was established in Boston by Charles Little and James Brown in 1837, and was bought by Time Inc in 1968. Little, Brown became part of the Time Warner Book Group when Time merged with Warner Communications in 1989. Little, Brown USA bought what became Little, Brown Book Group UK in 1992.

Macdonald and Futura was founded in 1938 and Futura was founded in 1973. The Macdonald Futura publishing company was sold to Little, Brown USA in 1992 and the imprint changed to Little, Brown. The paperback imprint then became Warner, and since 2006, Sphere.

Sphere was founded in 1967 by the International Thomson Organisation, sold to Penguin in 1986, then sold to Robert Maxwell in 1989. In 1992 it was acquired by Little, Brown USA at which time the commercial paperback list was changed to Warner. In 2006 the name reverted to Sphere.

..In 2012, Little, Brown acquired and published Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling's first novel for adults, The Casual Vacancy and, in 2013, Rowling's foray into crime fiction, The Cuckoo's Calling published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

Arnaud Lagardère , born on March 18 , 1961in Boulogne-Billancourt ( Hauts-de-Seine ), is a French entrepreneur , current manager of the Lagardère group . He is the only son of Jean-Luc Lagardère , former president of Matra and Hachette , and of Corinne Levasseur. He is the manager and general partner of Lagardère SCA, the holding company of the Lagardère group.

..Arnaud Lagardère is a general partner and manager of Lagardère SCA 7 , of which he is the sole owner on board through the holding company Lagardère Capital & Management and shares in Qatar Investment Authority ..

In addition to these mandates, Arnaud Lagardère was director and chairman of the Société de gestion de l'Aéronautique, de la Défense et de l'Espace ( Sogeade-Gérance ) from 2007 to 2013, member of the Board of Directors of EADS NV from 2003 to 2013, and member of the Strategic Council for Information Technologies from 2004 to 2007, a body placed under the Prime Minister.

The original Sphere Books was launched in 1966 by Thomson Corporation.[1] Sphere was sold to Pearson PLC in 1985 and became part of Penguin.[2] The name was retired in 1990.

In 1976, Sphere paid $225,000 for the British publishing rights from Ballantine Books for the novelisation of a forthcoming science fiction film, Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker by George Lucas (ghostwritten by Alan Dean Foster). The book, like the film Star Wars released the following year, was an enormous success and sold out its initial print run...he occult writer Dennis Wheatley edited a series of books published under the umbrella title of The Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult,[6] which included titles such as Dracula by Bram Stoker, Moonchild by Aleister Crowley, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Anthony John Valerian Cheetham (born 12 April 1943) is an English book publisher, responsible for establishing several of the UK's major publishing houses, including Century (now an imprint of Penguin Random House UK), Orion, Quercus and Head of Zeus.

A luncheon held for Hell's Angels president 'Buttons' at the Trattoria Terrazza in Soho, 16th September 1971. From left to right, publisher William Bloom, Jamie Mandelkau - the author of 'Buttons: The Making of a President', Buttons, and publisher Anthony Cheetham.

More about La Trattoria Terrazza, the most fashionable restaurant in Swinging Sixties London. ..

Franco Lagattolla and Mario Cassandro opened La Trattoria Terrazza in 1959. It very quickly became the fashionable haunt of artists, writers, models, film directors, actors, photographers and society hangers-on. In 1962, the London Daily Sketch ran a feature which noted that on one certain night, between 6.30 and midnight, the following people ate at La Terrazza: Ingrid Bergman, Leslie Caron, Danny Kaye, David Niven, Gregory Peck, Laurence Harvey, Sammy Davis Jnr, Michael Caine, Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, David Bailey and Jean Shrimpton. They forgot to include Ari Onnassis. This is astonishing when you discover just how small La Terrazza actually was at that time. Len Deighton, immortalised the restaurant in his spy novel, The Ipcress File: 'In London with a beautiful girl,' Deighton wrote in 1961, 'you must show her to Mario at La Terrazza.'

..in 1960, the cartoonist and designer, Enzo Apicella, re-designed the downstairs space to create the Positano Room: a cool, white, spare space; a modernist re-interpretation of the rustic. In came green-tiled floors, roughly plastered white walls, multi-coloured down-light spots over each table, arched ceilings, modernist rush-seated armchairs, and rustic lobster pots. Apicella went on to re-design many famous restaurants, including San Lorenzo and the Pizza Express chain.

..I'm trying to work out exactly why La Terrazza was so successful, and I think, after much thought, there are at least two reasons. The innovative food, and Mario's considerable charm...

In Group commissioned by Jocelyn Stevens on 12th July 1967. Back row (left to right) Lady Anne Tennant, Graham Hill, Mario Cassandro, Eduardo Paolozzi, The Marquess of Queensbury, Ronnie Corbett and John Mortimer, centre row (left to right) Charles Clore, The Marquess of Bath, Cecil Beaton, William Hill, Anthony Burgess, Sir Roy Harrod and Osbert Lancaster, front row (left to right) The Bishop of London, Joan Plowright, David Milinaric, A J Ayer, Reginald Maudling and Jonathan Miller. (Photo by Lichfield Archive via Getty Images)

PizzaExpress: New Generation Pizzeria - Launch Party

Designer Ab Rogers, Pizzaexpress founder Peter Boizot and Enzo Apicella attend the launch of the 'New Generation' PizzaExpress at PizzaExpress on October 20, 2010 in Richmond, England. (Photo by Nick Harvey/WireImage)

This is just an article share of recent news, relevant to Epstein/Maxwell and co. https://archive.is/GVmJ7 ..

Pizza Express founder Peter Boizot has passed away at his home in Peterborough. His sister Clementine Allen confirmed her brother and former Peterborough United Football Club owner, 89, had died. The entrepreneur opened his first Pizza Express in Soho in 1965 and has been widely credited for introducing pizza to the masses and revolutionising the casual-dining experience.

.. In 1969, Peter started PizzaExpress Jazz Club, with the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Amy Winehouse starring there. Ever since, music has been at the heart of the dining experience ...Amy Winehouse celebrated her 26th birthday with dinner in Pizza Express in Marylebone in 2009

In 1997 he bought the ailing Peterborough United Football Club and invested £5 million into its resurrection... Boizot began collecting art from an early age and incorporated art into many of his ventures. At PizzaExpress and the jazz clubs he commissioned pop artists such as Sir Peter Blake, Eduardo Paolozzi and Enzo Apicella to fill the walls of the establishments.

In December 2016, as the United Kingdom football sexual abuse scandal [dubbed PIZZAGATE] expanded, it was revealed that alleged abuser Bob Higgins worked as a youth coach at Peterborough from May 1995 to April 1996...On 5 July 2017, Higgins was charged with 65 counts of indecent assault. The offences were alleged to have taken place in the 1980s and 1990s and to have involved 23 alleged victims...

..On 27 January 2017, it was reported that a second former Peterborough coach had been arrested; Michael Sean ‘Kit’ Carson, 73, academy director at Peterborough from 1993 to 2001 (overlapping with Bob Higgins for almost a year) was held in Cambridge on suspicion of indecency with children and indecent assault.. The alleged offences all involved boys under 16, and were said to have occurred from 1978 to 2009.. Carson, 75, was killed when the car he was driving crashed into a tree near Bottisham in Cambridgeshire on 7 January 2019, the day his trial was due to start at Peterborough Crown Court; no other vehicle was involved.[27] An inquest into his death was opened on 22 January, when it was confirmed Carson died from a traumatic brain injury. Pending further investigations, the inquest was adjourned.[28][29] In September 2019, an inquest concluded Carson had taken his own life.

Sir Jocelyn Edward Greville Stevens, CVO (14 February 1932 – 9 October 2014) was the publisher of Queen magazine and a London newspaper executive..

He built a career in journalism and publishing.[1][9] In 1957 he bought the British high society publication The Queen,[7] which he revamped, renaming it Queen and hiring Beatrix Miller as editor.[10][11] He hired Mark Boxer as art director and Antony Armstrong-Jones, future husband of Princess Margaret, as photographer

In the 1960s he provided financial backing for the first British pirate radio station Radio Caroline.[13] In the 1960s–1970s he was named as managing director of the Evening Standard and Daily Express newspapers.[1] A British newspaper obituary observed that, in the course of his newspaper career, Stevens "revelled in his image as a posh bully, living up, or down, to Private Eye's nickname for him: 'Piranha teeth.'"

Stevens was Rector of the Royal College of Art from 1984 to 1992[4] and then Chairman of English Heritage from 1992 to 2000.[7][9][14] In 1992 he was awarded a CVO for his part in curating the Sovereign Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and he was knighted in 1996.

Financial backing for the venture came from six investors, including John Sheffield, chairman of Norcross, Carl "Jimmy" Ross of Ross Foods, and Jocelyn Stevens of Queen magazine, with which Radio Caroline shared its first office.[7] O'Rahilly named the station after Caroline Kennedy, daughter of U.S. president John F. Kennedy.

Ray Teret (1941–) - Former Radio Caroline DJ and friend of Jimmy Savile, he was convicted in 2014 of seven counts of rape and 11 counts of indecent assault during the 1960s and 1970s against girls as young as 12. He was jailed for 25 years.

In the early 1960s, Teret met Jimmy Savile after winning the Savile-run singing contest at the Palace Theatre in Manchester.[4] The two men later shared a flat on Great Clowes Street in Broughton, Salford,[4] with Teret becoming Savile's support DJ, assistant and chauffeur...

Teret joined Radio Caroline North in the mid-1960s, where he became known as "Ugli" Ray Teret. His theme music was "Jungle Fever" by the Tornados, and he also used "The Ugly Bug Ball" by Burl Ives. After leaving Radio Caroline North in 1966, two years before it closed down, Teret worked in a series of DJ- and media-related work, mainly on Piccadilly Radio in Manchester and Signal Radio in Stoke-on-Trent

A former BBC Radio 1 DJ who was friends with Jimmy Savile has been jailed for possessing indecent images of children after police raided his private yacht. As reported by our sister site PlymouthLive, former Parliamentary candidate Michael Willis, 74, was caught with nearly 500 vile pictures on his computer equipment.

Willis, who went under the stage name Steve Merike when he was a disc jockey, was a BBC Radio One DJ in the 1970s. He was also a DJ on the famous pirate station Radio Caroline.

Michael Chow – known as M – reflects on five decades of turning dining into an art, and working with Basquiat, Warhol, and Allen Jones

..At the age of 13, everything changed when M was sent to boarding school in London. ..He studied at St. Martins and went on to paint for a decade before the market forces made it apparent that it was not receptive to a Chinese artist. Once again, M turned to art to guide the way, launching the very first Mr Chow in Knightsbridge in February 1968.

From the very outset, Mr Chow was not just a restaurant – it was theatre: a stage for pleasure, passion, and intrigue, where Italian waiters served fine Chinese cuisine to sophisticated clientele and artworks by Allen Jones, Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield, David Hockney, and Jim Dine became an integral part of the experience. He established three restaurants in London before setting a course to conquer America.

Over the past half-century, M has opened restaurants in Beverly Hills, New York, Miami, and Las Vegas, always bringing glamour and theatre to the dining experience. ..

Featuring works by Helmut Newton, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Kenny Scharf, Francesco Clemente, and Ed Ruscha, just to name a few, the book reveals the significant role Mr Chow has played in the art world over five decades.

“This was in the 50s, and in the 60s, it started to bear fruit. In 1959, Mario Cassandro and Franco Lagattolla, who had been the headwaiters at the Savoy Hotel, started a restaurant in Soho called Trattoria Terrazza. It was a tiny little thing with a basement and everyone went there. That was the beginning of the British cultural revolution in the restaurant world.

“Alvaro (Maccioni) started there as the busboy and later became the manager. He became very successful and was very charming – then he opened his own restaurant (Alvaro’s) on the King’s Road. At that time it was the hottest restaurant on the King’s Road, while Mario and Franco were expanding to Mayfair.

Winston Churchill at the Savoy Hotel for the Other Club https://files.catbox.moe/b1buo3.jpg

Churchill following Aristotle Onassis from the Savoy into a car https://files.catbox.moe/zu170e.jpg

As could be expected with the Casablanca-esque cross-section of wartime guests, there were often spies about the Savoy, but all of the known ones were friendly.

Dusko Popov, a Serbian agent codenamed Tricycle, became a full-time resident. Partly thanks to his powers of seduction, he was one of the inspirations for Ian Fleming’s James Bond. Even Bond’s code number was based on the detail that, when Popov needed advice, he would call his uncle in Belgrade and the number he needed to remember was 26-007.

Fleming thought it had a ring to it. Popov was welcomed to Britain by an MI5 chauffeur, who took him from an airfield straight to the Savoy. He was met in the lobby by Major Thomas Robertson, who specialised in double agents. In his tartan trousers, Robertson looked, Popov thought, ‘like Hollywood’s concept of a dashing British military type’.

..Claude Dansey, assistant chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service, was an altogether more sober spook. He often took his lunch at the Grill before finding somewhere more secluded to interview potential recruits. One, James Langley, was told to ‘go to the front hall of the Savoy and make himself known to a man with a folded copy of The Times under his arm and a red carnation in his lapel’ and this was Dansey.

After the war, hostile takeovers, in which owners were forcibly, often secretly, bought out, became a feature of the economy. Trouble had started for The D'Oyly Carte family in 1953 when Sir Charles Clore and Harold Samuel purchased millions of pounds of shares in separate attempts to gain a controlling interest of the hotel. ..Charles Forte, who had made most of his wealth from Travelodge, a no-frills chain of motels with attached restaurants and petrol stations, would prove the most obsessive in a long line of suitors. His bid to take over was a big-money drama that ran on and off for fifteen years and cost at least £1 million (£2.4m) in legal fees on the Savoy side alone. Ultimately, he was successful.